Is it worth it to have a TV in my dorm room?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>If you're having a cable input to your TV, you're not downloading anything through the school's network. You're simply taking a feed from the cable input to your hard drive.</p>

<p>Cornell has a 2GB/month bandwidth limit (i think its per month). Anything over you get charged for. TiVoing the stuff wont affect the bandwidth. And 2000MB of mp3s would be like 400 songs a month...</p>

<p>Also according to cornell, of those going over bandwidth limits, only 6% of their file transfers were from off-network filesharing (about 30 songs based on 2000MB). Theres an article about the free Napster file sharing on the campus on the front page of <a href="http://www.cornell.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.cornell.edu&lt;/a>. The fatal flaw with the service is it doesn't support ipods, the most popular mp3 player out there, especially among yuppie, preppy, young adults... :P</p>

<p>polter: do the rentals cost anything, or are they free?</p>

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<p>Ohh...I see what you mean, using that weird program thats out now. I thought you meant like pseudo-TiVoing using BitTorrent and an RSS feed. But don't only a few of the dorms offer cable?</p>

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<p>WHAT?! Cornell only has cable in two of its dorms? I dont know if I could go there without television</p>

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<p>townhouses have cable too. so if you request townhouses, you're garaunteed to be able to get cable.</p>

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<p>court, mews, townhouses, and maybe some program houses, right?</p>

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<p>pretty sure you can pay to have cable wired in your room (i live in the gothics, and i had that option this year, but kinda expensive...) dunno what the policy is up there on north</p>

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<p>One of the best things about college is giving up television for four years.</p>

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<p>but what about all the shows I've been watching for years...I couldn't deal.</p>

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<p>Ohhh I think we can find OTHER ways to amuse ourselves.</p>

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<p>Haha gotta love nicky and her innuendos..</p>

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<p>Huh? What innuendo??</p>

<p>Get your mind out of the gutter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>

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<p>Good thing I don't really watch TV :)...I think I might just bring one for DVDs, because I can't live without Old School/Road Trip/Eurotrip</p>

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<p>Haha speaking of Old School, check this out about Duke:</p>

<p><a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=2&u=/ap/old_school_party%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&e=2&u=/ap/old_school_party&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>HAHAHAHAHAH That is tooooo funny</p>

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<p>Amazing what a free ipod can do to a person.</p>