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Yeah I'd love to see a "package" where I could pick the half dozen stations that I actually watch and not have to pay for an entire news package to get discovery channel. Gimme showcase, discovery, A&E, CBC and... whoever has the rights to Formula 1 this year I'd be set for all my viewing needs.

Besides it's easier to just buy seasons of shows than to deal with a pvr and skipping commercials, I think it'd be cheaper long term anyway, I don't "Watch" the news as I've already read about it by the time it hits the evening news let alone the daily news papers...

I have been considering Netflix to get at some shows that they don't show on cable, I'm just hesitant with my bandwidth limits as "Streaming" video seems to burn 1GB per hour depending on the quality, watching a few shows a week and still doing my podcast downloads... I'd be afraid of bumping the limits and getting all kinds of overage charges. It would allow me to wipe the cable contract... Just sucks the seasons of shows I "REally want" are $60 a season new... I could deal with $20 a season to buy all the shows I enjoy but you start getting up to the price of cable for the month and... not so much.

They are 'big' on bundling services though, the more they get you buying from them instead of their competition...

My boyfriend and I heavily used Netflix streaming for over a year and never had any overage problems with our cable company. Unless you have a specified cap, you'll probably be fine. I know that a lot of US companies have an undeclared upper limit in the 100GB range, but we never hit it.

That's really odd Lyr, I've never had that problem with a Widescreen TV. Well, except for my parent's huge *** widescreen downstairs that someone gave them because it's so big and they wanted to get rid of it. But with any of the more recent ones, you shouldn't be having that problem. Do you still have the manual? Maybe something got messed up with the settings.

I believe orignally, for the standard 4:3 (1:33:1) ratio television screens, this was done so you could see the film in it's original state as opposed to pan and scan in which they will focus on the main part of the scene (actors or important settings), crop the sides and pan the shot left or right even though there would be no panning in the original filming. By doing this, they can zoom in on pan and scan and fill the screen. Most cable TV movies are in this format. Many movie fans, producers, etc., etc., hate this format because it can cut a large portion from the original filming. To the point they haev to cut out an actor that may be talking with another actor.

When they go with the original filming ratio, or use anamorphic widescreen, if you or they changed the ratio to fill widescreen or normal 4:3 tv screens and kept the width normal, things will get distorted (mainly people) and look fatter or shorter which can ruin a good movie. However, because eyeballs can trick your brain, you can watch a few movies this way and ultimately it will look normal very quickly.

A good example: Watch Lord of the Rings (any part), in letterbox widescreen and then watch the same version in pan and scan 4:3 ratio on widescreen. It literally cuts out a third or more of the filming, which includes most of the landscaping which IMO, made those films.



Edited, Jan 30th 2012 6:43pm by Seculartwo

Yeah that is really bizarre. If you only have that problem with you satellite tv, maybe try calling customer service and see if they can help you.

I am female and 60, with health issues, but the thought of farming 5+hours a day through boredom - never in a million years ^^

I have my 85s I do dailies on, my 'special' 85 hunter I do achieves on, and now my first horde char, a 42 hunter so I can try different zones and quest chains.

Maybe your mother should have a look at the options in the game rather than spend 5+ hours a day working to support your game play ^^

I can't exactly blame this person for thinking that; I've heard others imply the same.

It is a mutually beneficial arrangement -- with her health problems, she cannot really be doing anything physical. This limits her to watching TV, doing things like painting, or playing games. With her lack of coordination, she is restricted to either console games (which she's not the best at, unless it is something like the older J-RPGs) or computer games, ones that allow her to play with one hand.

However, in WoW, to actually play Endgame or PvP, you need to have good reaction times, awareness, and the ability to use the keyboard and mouse simultaneously, which she can't really do.

This leaves farming, doing old reps, solo questing, or pet/mount hunting. She already has most (at least 90%) of all the achievements she can get solo, the General, Reputation, Exploration, and Profession tabs of her achievements on her main character are almost filled in entirely, and we're picking off holidays one by one this year (I do her PvP achievements for her, even though I kinda suck at PvP myself lol).

Some of the dungeons (the ones you can run solo) she has done as well.

So she really doesn't have much she can do. She enjoys playing WoW, she just can't do the endgame/PvP stuff. Now, as I mentioned before, I'm hoping Pet Battles actually make it into the game, and I hope they keep them as turn-based style. This would hopefully give her something new to do.

I don't really "use" her; I help her by doing her PvP/Endgame stuff when I can, she helps me by assisting with material farming and other similar things I don't have time to do because I have a fulltime job.

In the end, we both end up enjoying WoW a lot more than we would if we didn't help each other.

There's a Your Mom joke in here, somewhere, I can feel it.

This is true. When I heal I just use my right hand playing whack-a-mole and can easily move at that point with my mouse as my hand is already on it. And of course, the stuff that wont kill you (mace fire from Rag for example), you can dispel and heal through in event you can't, don't or won't move in time as a healer. The only issue I'd see from reading the posts above, is the reaction time issue. As a healer, I think we need faster reaction times than anyone. This is situational though, in a raid setting, having 2 or 4 back up healers can fix this; or be a tank healer as it's less reaction time from my experience.

Edited, Feb 4th 2012 9:49am by Seculartwo

Yeah I find healing to be really stressful. Heroics not so much, but raid healing stresses me out. But one of the other females in my guild finds dps stressful and enjoys tanking much more. I guess it just depends on your personality.

Back during Wrath, she'd start getting nervous and all "wtf is the healer doing!?" anytime her health dipped below 75% when she took a hit or two and I'd explain to her "Um, they have to keep me (tank) alive first! You're not gonna die, it'll be okay!" and then she'll say "I better not die!"

I doubt she'd be good for the healer job, because of how quick she is to start getting nervous. I don't start thinking "oh crap I'm gonna die" until I see health dropping to I dunno 30% or less, at least, depending on situation and even _I_ get the "omgheartattack" sensation when trying to heal later levels. Only it isn't about health, it is about me looking up at my mana meter and seeing it drop steadily while the boss's HP isn't dropping so fast.

IMO, basically Blizz went from "Chain-spam fast heal until end of fight, don't miss a second or tank will die!" to "conserve mana and pray you don't run out until you're well-geared!"

Not much difference IMO. Still just as stressful.

Maybe they'll get it right in MoP...

Except it's more like they went to "Chain-spam biggest heal until end of fight or the tank will die!" in heroics and "Chain-spam AOE heal until you run out of mana, or phase 2 starts, then stand around doing nothing while you regenerate mana."

I've healed heroics on a Paladin, Shaman and Druid and while I still haven't tried the Priest, healing heroics, so far, has been all about using your biggest heal and then hoping the boss/trash dies before you run out of mana. Except when you play a Druid it's also "Why is my big heal a small heal, what's this, I don't even...?!" Once your gear improves, you can spam your big heal without worrying about your mana, but you still better spam it.

As for raids, I've only pulled my Shaman through those in Cataclysm and even that has been limited to LFR Dragon Soul and some Firelands trash. In both cases, though, it was all about spamming that AOE heal until OOM or win. In Dragon Soul you get some breathers between phases which allows you to regenerate your mana.

I don't know, the current system seems kind of cool if people didn't drop so fast. They wanted to move away from spike damage, which is why healers run out of mana in ten seconds flat if they spam their biggest heals and why small heals take for freaking ever to cast, but they never moved away from spike damage, so it's now all about spamming your biggest heal until win.

The only difference between now and WotLK is that healers need better gear before venturing into heroics. And raids better bring some mana batteries. Being a Shaman, I'm a mana battery.