I'm giving serious thought to ending my Sunday Ticket subscription. It's gotten more and more expensive. I really don't care about all the other games. This year counting the two Seattle games televised locally, the Sunday, Monday and Thursday games and a number of high profile matchups, there were probably close to half the games available for free. And I find that watching every single play of every game has started to become overkill in terms of maintaining a serene perspective. They can win or lose without my eyeballs recording each microsecond. And in the end, it really doesn't matter. No matter what happened in the regular season, if it isn't carried over into playoff success, then the season will have been a disappointment. And the playoff games are free, so if they do get in, Sunday Ticket doesn't even give me the small mercy of avoiding local ads.

I'd love to explore Internet options, but in Canada we live under oppressive protectionist telecommunications rules. Much Internet stuff isn't available. Even ESPN video clips 'are not permitted in your region.' so I may just take myself out of the loop and become a more casual observer. I can afford the Sunday Ticket stuff, but don't feel I should automatically throw money into regular season games when the end results carry no emotional payoff. There are plenty of hilite packages I can look at the next day, and the NFL station is part of my cable setup ( though only in crappy low definition.)

Reading some of the comments about TV made me realize how little I actually watch. Sports, Turner movies, a small smattering of other stuff. And I have a huge DVD collection of movies and all the old TV series I enjoyed in the past. More than i'll ever be able to find the time to watch. But I have a big screen, and like hi-def. I don't know if I'm comfortable with streaming content. I watch some Netflix but the quality of picture isn't the greatest. And the options available in Canada for many other sources is limited. I think I'm caught in no man's land. I like the physical hardware of TV and projector technology because of the quality of picture. And I like having physical content, like Bluray and DVD. And I can't really get into digital books much, other than convenience of space saving. The tactile feel is such a huge part of the process. But I do appreciate the utility of digital formats. I've been an archivist/collector my whole life, from Dinky toys as a kid to a bunch of stuff today. I'm not sure I'll be comfortable In an all digital world, where the tangible becomes the virtual.

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