From Salon.com:In France, you can get super-fast DSL, unlimited phone service and 100 TV channels for a mere $38 a month
My cable bill savings alone would pay for two one-way tickets plus freight for the hounds, cat and poultry.I bit the bullet last month to prepare for a potential upcoming budget squeeze: I downsized my cable access to basic TV (plus cable modem, of course, which meant not quite basic TV). We tend to watch an hour of TV a night, with a cup of tea (or a pint of ice cream, depending on the day … ) just before bed — the dogs like the wind-down time. I need my Medium fix and John can’t go without a week of Veronica Mars. We were big Carnivale and Deadwood fans once upon a time, too. And we live and die for special events, like PBS’ piece on Dylan and for our weekly on demand movie. We no longer have unlimited access to those 900 channels as members of Platinum Digital, and we’ve now lost the basics. Our cable went out altogether a couple of weeks ago (cable guy is coming on Saturday!), and we’ve being making do with the visual equivalent of a well-scratched vinyl record. Oh, for crying out loud — me and my archaic terms — sorry for the obscure reference kids:
From Wikipedia:The record, in one format or another, was the dominant musical format for seventy years. It overtook the phonograph cylinder in the first quarter of the century, and was ultimately surplanted in the late 1980s by digital media and audio tapes. Considering that many of the audio formats had a heyday lasting only a few years - such as the 8 track - the durability of the record is amazing.By 1988 digital media such as the compact disc surpassed the gramophone record in popularity, but gramophone records continue to be made (although in very limited quantities) into the 21st century, particularly for DJs doing live remixes and for local acts recording on small regional labels.
