Felger Sounds Off on Internet Insanity

Not me. I want it all online!I don't pay for cable TV anymore. Too expensive ($60 to $80 to even over $100 per month??)
I pay for Netflix only. ($12 per month). And it has way more TV shows and movies than I will ever watch, and they're constantly updating and changing. And... that's the "crappy" Canadian version, too
No commercials. No need to worry about recording or remembering a show's time or anything. Everything instant, on demand.The downside? I don't get no sports.
But... if they move them online... then I'll see them just fine! And, without paying the stupid TV bill!Sounds wonderful to me. My TV came with Netflix installed on it.
I just bought my TV, pugged an Ethernet cable into it to connect it to my wifi modem (probably didn't even need the cable, if I wanted to go over the wifi) and that's it.Instead of connecting the TV to my cable-TV box with one cable (HDMI)... I connected the TV to my internet-box with one cable (Ethernet).Sounds exactly as complicated or "easy" to me. Ha ha, you're a fossil Face it. "The internet" is not a fad that's going to go away. Either move towards it, or get forced out.
TV didn't move towards it. They will soon be forced out by things like Netflix and such (pretty much already happening in Canada).
If sports doesn't move towards it, they will soon be forced out by other new online-sport-watching things.They make them easy on purpose... 'cause the masses use them, and the masses need it to be easy. This battle was already fought and lost.
The smart devices won.
People who use smart devices won.
They are so popular now, and so ingrained in "mass society" that the idea that you think you can impact "the market" by not buying one... is ludicrous.It's like you're complaining about not buying a car with power steering today. You'll show those manufacturers! They'll all bow down 'cause Percy isn't going to buy one of them new power-steering motor-cars!! Then they'll all go back to the good-old days!! Sorry guy, the battle's over already... smart phones and internet connectivity won.
It's only going to move forward (getting into wireless and more connectivity with more things) not backward.Next on the chopping block -> home computers.
Soon, we'll be "renting" our computers by buying a "virtual PC" from Rogers/Bell/Comcast/whoever-your-provider-is
...you get to choose the package you want (storage space, speed, number of accounts) and that's it... no more hardware in your house other than a generic box from the provider for connecting. You'll be able to access "your computer" from any internet connection anywhere... while paying the monthly fee, of course.Get on the wagon or get left behind!