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My Precious... Remote Control

In September during our family counsel, we (the parents) decided to disconnect our cable for 3 reasons:

1. Brutal violence over possession of the remote control. Dozens, maybe hundreds, of TV shows were missed because of "missing" batteries and "hidden" remotes. We might never have a chance to see those shows again. Could we have just walked up to the TV and turned it on with our finger? We will never know...
   
2. There was no second reason.
   
3. Inappropriate commercials.

Absence of cable does not mean absence of TV, however. Instead of watching TV shows, we have been spending hours, hours, hours on:

• DVD's
• special features
• movies with commentary
• deleted scenes
• outtakes
• re-watching movies in other languages, like Harry Potter in Spanish is funny
• netflix like crazy
• reading actual books, when we can't decide what movie to watch

There are still fights with the remote, so nothing was really solved was it?