In fact, one can do even better with American TV than mentioned
by most posters if one has a VCR. Many of the better movies
are shown after midnight (ideal for hackers :-) and I have
collected about 10 films on tape during a period of about 3
months which I have simply not had time to watch. (this is in
addition to whatever films and shows I saw in realtime or soon
after they were broadcast).
When I lived in Denmark, my algorithm for whether it was worth
taping a film from TV was whether it had at least two stars in
Halliwel's film guide (scale of 0-4 stars). Now I don't even tape
all the three-star films.
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Jakob Nielsen, Bellcore MRE-2P370, 445 South St, Morristown, NJ 07962-1910, USA
nie...@bellcore.com, Tel. (201) 829-4731(w)/538-7254(h), Fax (201) 538-9093.