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Editor, Times-Union:

I thought paid TV was to do away with commercials? Is this something like swallowing the disgrace of the gaming industry (lottery)?

After painfully learning to use a computer and paying for that education, getting away from commercial TV finally, however that cerebral devise (the computer) is given to those buy-messages (commercials). Starting out abbreviated enough, but will grow to 30 percent of your time in a few short years. No wonder the quiet debate of keeping the Internet free of cost was so hushed. Some folks must believe we're very much like the preverbal experiment of warming water with the swimming frog but on the path to a boil. Broadcast radio appears to be mostly popular music or talk shows.

If you read a good book, you may get flung into another world, not getting interrupted every so often, and having your mind toyed with, or maybe becoming predicable. Magazines of the typical variety though, are a profusion of static advertisements from beginning to end; soon forgetting the reason you bought it, perhaps as captioned on the front cover. When you do find the feature, it's most often obvious to anyone.

It makes me wonder what's the next really big thing beyond a computer. To be sure though, commerce is going to be there soon, probably preceding me. So I guess I get to buy another format like the cassette from the 78 RPM recordings, not speaking anything of that Beta thing.

Robert Snizek

Warsaw, via e-mail