I can't decide... - Page 3

{OF}Blong · 02-26-2007, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by {OF}Eaglerapids

Sure, you can play it Blong but not at HD resolutions, correct?

My problem is that I have a hair up my butt over the cable companies. I think we all screwed up big time. TV used to be free and you had to watch ads. Now, in my opinion, the way the cable companies keep raising prices, it's expensive as hell, and we STILL have to watch ads! Oh yeah, if you want to get rid of the ads you can get HBO and pay even more, jeeez. On top of that, if I pay $80 or $90 a month I can get 2,000 channels or whatever, and watch only the Speed Channel, the one I really want. Sure I can get the basic package....and not get a single channel that I would be willing to pay a little bit for. It irks me no end.
When my cable bill hit the $70 mark last year, for nothing more than to get the least package that offered the Speed Channel, I'd had it. I took the box and all down to the people and said this was it. When the girl asked me why, I told her. "Well, do you want one of our discounts for 6 months?", she said. That did it. Hey, if they can give discounts for 6 months, they sure as hell can just offer the service for a reasonable price without making a guy go down there and do a little freakin dance every 6 months for their amusement. Grrrrrrrr, can you tell this is a sore point?:-)

So far my one man boycott hasn't done a damn thing to remedy the situation that I can tell, but I haven't given up either:-).

I was talking about stuff you dl like movie trailers

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{OF}Eaglerapids · 03-04-2007, 07:40 PM

Well, this news of the Penryn really confuse the matter. Intel is kinda saying some current mobos will support it and maybe some won't. If I knew which mobos did, I could buy an E6300 now relatively cheaply, o/c the heck out of it, and then go Penryn early next year, just in time for DirectX10 games to start showing up. On top of that I've read of some great price drops Intel is planning in the next month. This would make for a great upgrade path, especially not having to change the mobo. Which I think means I could get an OEM copy of XP with my new system, upgrade to Vista at some point ...with an OEM copy and keep it because the mobo stays the same.
Nah, can't happen, it just makes to much sense.....