Their affect on society is mostly opposite of positive. Looking at many of these athletes, they are far from being desirable role models. Some franchies, for example Oakland Raiders, foster attitudes of intolerance.

Professional Sports is a luxury that society can no longer afford. It has little to no value and is given way to much priority in these uncertain times we live in. For you fans out there, what has “your team” ever done for you for all the devoition you’ve given it?

Why pay for cable when you can buy the Buhl MediaPlay XMS and record all your shows online and transfer with a USB drive? No need for bulky hard drive transportation or messy computer to television hookup. Get the Buhl MediaPlay XMS digital presentation player for the price of one month of cable at http://www.alltecstores.com/store/p/39506-Buhl-Industries-MediaPlay-XMS-Digital-Presentation-Player.html for $114.95! Talk about extreme savings! That is over $1,000 a year!
The Buhl MediaPlay XMS is a completely portable presentation player that connects to any Plasma, LCD, Projector or regular TV and plays back your presentations, video, pictures and audio in HD (Up to 1080i Resolution).

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get a mac mini and hook it up to your tv, and youll begin to understand the possibilities. hulu isnt there yet, and 3 bucks a show sucks too. im most impressed with the independents out there video podcasting their own tv show basically.

we need to focus on the boxes we will all have hooked up to our tv. getting this right is so important if we really want to transition to newteevee. it needs to be all-purpose – to serve as a cable/sat box & handle services like itunes/netflix/amazon/hulu/youtube well & do bittorrent RSS to support the independent video podcasters. most of this is software, minimum hardware requirements really. keep the price as low as possible, and consumers will feel comfortable that the device will get them ALL the content they already get on computer, onto their nice big livingroom HDTV. for now, the hardware is too tied into the individual platform, and people dont want to feel tied down in such a changing media landscape.

but once a lot of people have such a device, the independent producers will have a real shot. a better revenue model than pay-per-show or advertising would help too.

DVR, ondemand, 50 channels of HD on my 40″ lcd. Can’t see watching stuff on my pc comparing.

The critical FOX and Comcast regional networks are dragging their feet on all technology improvements (many don’t even carry HD signals, let alone online). We’ll get their soon enough though.

The other stumbling blocks remain bandwidth and regulation. We just can’t stream enough HD on copper networks. On top of that, here in LA city limits for example, AT&T U-Verse rollout has been hampered by city/finance rules on how to handle non-cable TV services. Again, we’ll get there… but it’s premature to say no traditional TV service today and still be a full-fledged media consumer.

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