Category Archives: television

tv junkie

16 Friday Feb 2007

Posted by in life stuff, media, television

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How has this happened?

Last week I was a happily mal-adjusted internet & intensity junkie, still managing to squeeze in a few basically necessary RL activities here and there … but since I got the new Telefónica service it seems I’m suddenly also hooked on television!

How can this be? And more importantly – where will I find the time for this?

Well okay, I haven’t actually watched all that much TV since last Tuesday, but as I find out more about what is available to watch I find myself thinking about my day in a totally different way … as in, what will I be doing at 5pm today when House is on?

It’s crazy. For about the past 14 years I haven’t thought of my television set as anything other than a means to watch video/dvd films. But now there are actually programmes and films being shown in English!!! and it’s proving too tempting to ignore. f_bigeyes.gif

For example, last night Nog & I watched a couple of Simpsons episodes, which was quite fun (trust me, the Simpsons dubbed into Spanish seriously does not work). But then they put on Desperate Housewives – something I’d never seen before – and even though I wasn’t particularly enjoying it, I kept watching. Eep!

Perhaps the novelty will wear off? Maybe there is still hope? f_grovel.gif

a blessing in disguise

01 Thursday Feb 2007

Posted by in life stuff, media, rants, television

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To hell with Orange!

As you may recall in my posts about being offline and then getting re-connected, (with temporary dial-up), the internet connection at casa az has been a bit dodgy this past week or so.

So this morning I checked out some offers with Telefónica and found out that I can get high-speed ADSL (with free wifi router), free national calls (including 120 minutes of mobile calls per month) and a groovy-cool television offer. More than 60 channels, with the option to watch non-Spanish films and TV programmes in original version!!! f_somersault.gif

All for 45 euros a month!

And on top of that we get some sort of gift. Not sure if it’s 10 nights in a hotel or two round-trip plane tickets for somewhere in Europe.

Not sure when the change-over will happen. Apparently Telefónica will take care of cancelling the service with Orange but then I’ll probably have to wait 3-5 days for a guy to come over and hook up the TV thingy and bring the new router.

So all this nonsense with Orange has turned out to be a blessing in disguise. My friend Agustín has this same Telefónica package and he says it’s great, but we probably wouldn’t have changed servers if Orange hadn’t fucked up so badly. Anyhow, I’ll wait until the new service is up and running before I say ‘all’s well that ends well’, but it certainly sounds like a good deal. f_ok1.gif