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I'm glad I never wasted a minute of my life watching those movies. But, I don't want to see her in anything unless its her bare *** in my kitchen cooking me eggs and wearing my shirt. Whoever auditioned that talentless hack should be dragged out the back door of the studio and kicked in the balls repeatedly until he's chewing on them like a wad of Big League gum.

Ugh. That means it's probably cut off on mine, too. It's not the first time it's happened. As if I didn't already hate American Idol enough.

Verizon FIOS. I've missed the previews the past couple of weeks (which I don't usually watch anyway), and it's cut off the end of one other episode that I can think of.

I have Comcast and it has cut off Fringe on multiple occasions. The worst one was when it cut off the last 10 minutes of an episode with the serial killer who was kidnapping girls.

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Edited, May 20th 2009 9:17pm by BoondockSaint

We don't have any type of DVR or TIVO, so I <3 Hulu.

Right answer. Hulu's made me too lazy to illegally download most shows. I was a sucker for Kings, which I realize is really probably a terrible, terrible, show, but I was still disjointed it got pushed out to June (or maybe canceled outright, we'll see, I guess) after five episodes. I can't really fathom having a DVR. I'm usually all in favor of purpose built devices, but it's so trivially easy and cheap to record video on a PC that I really don't get that one. To me it would be like buying an actual purpose built word processing machine that exclusively provided that one function.

Prison Break

The convenience of having the scheduling come right off the cable box makes it worth the relatively small price IMO. Obviously, that doesn't always work when a program overruns or gets shifted at the last minute, but you'll have the same problem trying to record using any other method as well. I've dorked around with hooking a PC to my cable feed and recording that way, and while it works, it's not really much of an improvement over the old days of setting your VCR. Buggy and cumbersome. TIVO is essentially just a box that does that for you, with all the same problems. And honestly, if you're paying for a TIVO, why not just use a DVR?

Pulling feeds off the net works pretty well, and that's clearly the direction to go. It's just not quite there yet. There are a host of technical and legal reasons why this is so, but I've never seen the same quality and performance off a straight network feed as I've seen of a dedicated cable feed. As long as that remains the case, I'm perfectly ok with paying a few bucks a month to use a DVR.