TV or not TV; that is the question

It's another one of these Pay Per Post deals, where I get paid a couple of bucks for blogging about something. In this case it's a site called TVchannelsfree.com, where you can watch tv online.

Now I haven't tried the site myself, but I am interested in learning more. The big digital TV switchover we were all subjected to some months back has been pretty much entirely a negative thing in our household. Now we're forced to get all of our TV from the one set in the house hooked up to cable, and because Time Warner's service is kind of crappy we lose the TV signal with some regularity. Even when the cable is "working", it often gets pixelated in the middle of a show or it'll black out for a minute or two. (This happened during the series finale of Battlestar Galactica. You would not believe the curses we hollered at Time Warner during that minute of downtime, when we had no idea when or if the signal would come back online.)

I often stay up for a while after my girlfriend goes to bed, and in the old days if I was watching a show in the bedroom and it got late, I would tuck her into bed and then finish watching the show in the living room. Well, gone are the days. Now I either have to keep her up another 20 minutes so I can finish a damn show, or just turn the darn TV off and go sulk in the living room. Time Warner does offer a solution, of course: we can hook up another feed in the living room, for a monthly fee. So, I can pay every month for the last 10 minutes of SNL that I used to see for free.

So, I am actually looking for a service like TVchannelsfree.com, something where I can just watch TV online, on an as-needed basis, without having to pay even more money cash to the dorkwads at Time Warner. It's possible I'll try the service soon. If so, I'll report back on the results.