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   Starbugaboo wrote:   
   > Peter Chant wrote:   
   >> Lister wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> However, Dan Maudsley, of What Mobile magazine, said: "It's difficult   
   >>> to see why people will pay quite large sums for TV programmes on   
   >>> cards, when in a couple of years you will probably have a choice of   
   >>> BBC channels on your phone anyway."   
   >> Or have them on DVD in my front room now!   
   >>   
   >> Really, I've got postage stamps almost as large as my mobile screen.   
   >> Pete   
   >   
   > Yeah, I don't get the big deal about being able to watch television   
   > shows on an iPod or mobile screen... it's too tiny! Aren't we supposed   
   > to be buying gigantic High-def televisions now? This seems to be a step   
   > in the wrong direction.   
   >   
      
   It's one redeeming feature is that it will force people to use their   
   imagination's more.  Lets face it, you would have to!    
      
   They could be good on long train/bus/plane trips I guess.  Still, I   
   would rather have a good book.   
      
   There were all these adds on late night TV (here in oz) a while back to   
   download the Paris Hilton video.  What a waste of money that would be.   
   I reckon a lot of people must have more dollar-pounds than sense.   
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