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Originally Posted by Charlatan
I am amazed at that nobody has said they sit down and channel surf. Perhaps the number of people watching programming online is more a reflection of the type of people who gravitate to an Internet forum like this than anything else. Regardless, how many of you that now stream or download or watch on DVD used to sit and watch live TV. How many used to channel surf?
Now that you are able to watch when you want to watch, have you freed up time for other things?
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check post #9. Back in the day I used to channel surf by pulling a chair up beside the set (the old Qazar with the works in the drawer!) and turn the dial between the stations during commercials.
Later on, my parents got a "remote" channel changer, that was a box attached to the tv with a long, long cord that was tucked under the broadloom so that the box was on the coffee table. The slider on the box changed the channels up and down the cable selection that Rogers had back in '77 or so. I perfected the art of channel surfing back then, much to my sibling's chagrin.
Now I am quite adept. Last night for example, I watched 1) the Leafs/Senators hockey game on HD Sportsnet (ch 502), The Commitments (Dublin blues band) on CHCH (ch11), Cake Boss on TLC (ch 34) & a movie on my Blueray (Star Trek). I had to start the movie because at one point in my surfing I hit the dreaded black hole: a commercial on all channels simultaneously. And I didn't want to catch any of the American Idle or the infommercial for the Big Boss Grill.
The surfing required 2 remote controls.