{"id":1869,"date":"2009-03-04T11:13:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T17:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamesanityblog.com\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2009-03-04T11:13:22","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T17:13:22","slug":"a-childhood-without-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/a-childhood-without-television\/","title":{"rendered":"A Childhood without Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hybrid\"Another computer? Another computer. See that tiny thing to the right? That’s the Dell Studio Hybrid. That’s a tiny PC. And buying one is going to save me over $1000 a year.\u00a0 I have a big screen LCD in my living room and my basement office. During my long heart attack recovery (also known as 2008) I spent most of my time gaming downstairs. Computer gaming, Xbox 360 gaming, watching TV (Hulu.com), watching movies and reading the Internet. Cable TV became something Linda would have on upstairs, but I realized, almost everything she watched could be seen on the Internet. I have so many computers and online devices, I have a nice Wifi Network, and I’m paying for Road Runner Turbo. “Linda,” I said gently (such things must be handled gently). “How about we cancel cable TV?”<\/p>\n

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It took months but finally she agreed. She suddenly agreed. Just as the cable bill was going to be paid. We turned in the cable box that day. So I had to find – rather than build – a computer or face the prospect of two kids and a wife with a banged-up knee going entertainment-less for several weeks. Linda also added the caveat that the computer I get for the upstairs TV be “good looking.”<\/p>\n

We’ve now spent two weeks with our Dell Studio Hybrid and there’s a lot to recommend. The PC is about the size of a portable hard drive from 2003. It’s tiny! Has all the ports needed and is HDMI all the way. Linda missing flipping around or just having the TV “on” – but my kids now live in an “on-demand” world. Mom and dad navigate, but there are all kinds of videos for them to watch (safesearch is on). Spongebob at Nick.com, Hannah Montana at Disney, NBC and FOX on Hulu.com, cooking shows, Rachel Maddow, movies, Netflix On Demand, etc., If we need a laugh, we have hamsters and giggling babies on YouTube.<\/p>\n

This is the future, I think. It can only improve. We’re digital frontiersmen here – I hear this is how College kids are living these days. My kids will grow up without television telling them what’s on when and how they can view it. Going back won’t be hard. It’s kind of exciting. Only one problem, what am I going to do about Football next year?<\/p>\n

Know any other TV\/Movie Internet options? Feel free to post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another computer? Another computer. See that tiny thing to the right? That’s the Dell Studio Hybrid. That’s a tiny PC. And buying one is going to save me over $1000 a year.\u00a0 I have a big screen LCD in my living room and my basement office. During my long heart attack recovery (also known as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}