I finally did it. I installed AOL on my laptop. I feel so... dirty.... I haven't had AOL for nearly a year now.
But it's OK! Really! I only installed it to get the high-quality video feeds. I can watch the national conventions--live--on my computer now, and it looks as good as TV. AOL is no longer an ISP; it's a content provider.
Seriously.
EDIT: Two other impressions: First off, they do seem to have taken care of one major problem I had with them before: They didn't try to claim all my file associations. That's good. They did have their other problems, like putting 8 new icons on my desktop and making me (by default) go through an extra step to have links and images enabled in my email, but these are minor issues and easily dealt with. The other major impression I had: Goodness this thing takes forever to install! I've had massive games that took less time to get off of the CD!
And the video works perfectly. Which was all I wanted in the first place. Now I can watch ABCNews "on demand." That's cool.
Posted by Blog Jones at July 26, 2004 11:02 PM
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