[jyl]

I agree the average show on TV (network plus cable) is pretty bad.

But there are a lot of shows and I have limited time for/interest in TV, so it works out that there is enough good programming to fill my roughly 3 hours/week of TV watching (4 hours/week during F1 and MotoGP season).

The trick is to use a DVR to record what you want to see, then watch it at your leisure, skipping the commercials of course.

I record some science/nature/history shows (Nat'l Geo, Science, History), some travel shows (Travel), some cooking shows (Food), F1 and MotoGP (Speed), and a couple old series in re-run (currently Quantum Leap, before that my daugher and I watched all the original Star Trek, etc). Wish I had Military channel but too cheap to pay for that package. The occasional movie. That is enough for me.

If TV was better, I might watch more. I'd like more foreign channels (Comcast doesn't offer much, here in Portland) and I wish more old series were available (stuff like Rockford Files, Wild Wild West, Twilight Zone, etc). Well, someday we'll have a real video on demand infrastructure, and you'll be able to watch anything you want, whenever you want. F-Troop would be good for that 3AM insomnia.