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From: larry@ihuxf.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: How do you plan viewing of cable TV??
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Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 12:46:20 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  2 12:46:20 1983
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	Cable TV is just being installed at the apartment complex where I
live.  Being the video junkie that I am, I can hardly wait to get the three
movie channels (HBO, Cinimax, and Showtime) plus all the other assorted
goodies.  The question I have is:  How to does one figure out WHEN to watch
all these programs???

	At first I sat down with the cable guide and a yellow high-lighter and
started marking the movies that I wanted to see on the day-by-day schedule. 
This turned out to be rather time consuming and not very accurate, as I had to
keep flipping around thru the movie descriptions to if "Not Over" (for
example) was one of the movies I did want to see.

	My next approach was to start at the movie descriptions (which gives
the DAY it plays but not time) and then the time slot in the day-by-day
listings.  Perhaps because I was already tired, this didn't seem to good
either, as it was hard to scan thru the days listing of movies and try to spot
all occurances of the name I wanted.

	Does anybody have any suggestions?  I do have a VCR so I can
``time-warp'' and watch some of the movies at a different time, but surely
there must be some intellegent way of figuring out what day to watch a list of
movies (that is why tape a movie at 4am if it plays the next day at 7pm 
--or-- what if it never plays at a reasonable time, then I MUST record it)

	Am I being to much of a fanatic about this?  Do most people just sit
down and look at what's playing TONITE and then make their decision??

-----

	Speaking of cable, I've initially taken all three of the movie
channels, if you now have cable, which do you take??  Why?   So far the three
all seem to have *about* the same movies, but having all three would seem to
maximize the chance of viewing at a ``good'' time (not to mention one more
channnel to watch and one less chance of a boring nite of tv!)
-- 


		Larry Marek
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