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Monday, September 5, 2011

Who needs Dish?

A few months ago we got tired of paying over $80 a month for Dish tv, so we cancelled.  (No more Turner Classic Movies....)

We bought an indoor antenna for each of our TV sets and now, for free, we get excellent reception on ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, BYU, and some others, including some Spanish language channels just in case we may want to learn a fourth language (after English, French, and Rabbit Talk).

I have also discovered SeeOn TV, which shows current (2011) movies on my computer.

I have also found that the library has DVDs you can check out for a week ---as many as you want!!
So I've been engrossed in some interesting foreign movies.  For instance:
"Cave of the Yellow Dog" --fascinating story of Mongolian family's daily life.
"Story of the Weeping Camel" --another about a Mongolian family's struggle to get a mother camel to accept her new born.  Would you believe playing a three-string instrument helps?
"Water" --about the plight of children in India who are married off while in their childhood. When their husbands die they are forced to live as beggars on the street, forbidden to re-marry.  True story.
"Cyrano de Bergerac" --with Gerard Depardieu.  Probably the definitive version of this great love story.
"Up the Yangtze", which Denny loaned us.  One family's struggle for survival as the rising river covers their home and farm land when the big dam is built.
Several others whose titles escape me, including a few French romantic comedies, with great views of Paris and other parts of France.


All in all, it's worth saving almost $1,000 a year.  (Okay, except for sports fans.)
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4 comments:

  1. Joey/Denny/EmmaSeptember 5, 2011 at 5:18 PM

    Yippee, you're back to blogging! Looking forward to more scintillating posts, with lovely Mt. Emily overseeing your remarks.

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  2. JulieSeptember 5, 2011 at 6:59 PM

    Ahhhh, home, sweet home.

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  3. AndreaSeptember 5, 2011 at 7:20 PM

    So glad you are back! Those sound like some great movies. Thanks for sharing, Grandpa

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  4. AmySeptember 5, 2011 at 7:26 PM

    Yea! I'm so glad you're back! I love to brag that my grandpa has a blog. Thanks for the movie reviews. Dave really wants to drop our Direct TV and this post won't help my case to keep it. We rent a lot of movies from the library too. If there's a movie we want to see we'll put it on hold there and then it's a fun surprise when it's finally arrived. Did you know you can put movies on hold? We check out a lot of new releases that way.

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