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mareep
Dec 26, 2009

We had cable hooked up recently after about a year without it, and when the first commercial hit, it was absolutely appalling to me. When you go that long successfully avoiding almost all commercials, it's horrendously jarring to suddenly have five minute waves of people barking about stupid products directly into your living room. I can't stand it and since having it hooked up we've only used it to watch sports on occasion.

Another fun fact we recently discovered is that they've started (well, no idea when) speeding up TV shows and movies by an almost imperceptible amount to cram in more commercial time. We only noticed when we started watching a movie on cable that we had on blu ray and decided (because of the commercials!) to just put in the blu ray, and my boyfriend noticing that the background music sounded slightly off on the TV version.

Long story short TV is terrible garbage, jump ship now.

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