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On October 21, ComingSoon.net published an article about the show Dexter. One of Showtime’s most popular shows has just been renewed for two more 12-episode seasons. The show is currently in its third such season and is becoming more and more popular.

I am a very big fan of the show and am excited about the new seasons. I have yet to watch any of the third season because we don’t get Showtime via DISH. We could get the premier channel, but I am waiting for the current season to be released on iTunes. It will be just as, if not a little less, expensive to download the season judging from the prices of the current seasons in HD on iTunes. Even though I don’t think so, I could be wrong. It may have been cheaper to just get Showtime and cancel it from my service, but if I can just download the whole season for the same amount of money as I would give DISH and Showtime and give it to a company I actually respect (Apple) and Showtime, I’m okay with that.

My only hope is that Showtime will get with the program and put new seasons of shows on iTunes around the same time they show them on their network. I should do more research on the subject, but I don’t believe that iTunes takes more of a percentage per show than all the cable and satellite companies. To me, it seems to be in Showtime’s best interest to offer digital versions of their shows.

The first two seasons of Dexter are available on DVD and in HD on iTunes. I’m sure there are many other places you can get the show, like Amazon’s Video On Demand.

Recently, I’ve been watching a lot of TV shows. Shows like 30 Rock, Eureka, The Office. A whole heaping helping of shows that I’ve been told are good, but just haven’t watched for one reason or another.

Turns out that I really like them. So, I decided that instead of watching them on a TV or getting the DVDs from Netflix, I would just watch them on my HTPC. The first three seasons of The Office, I watched on Netflix’s Instant Player and the fourth, I watched on Hulu.com. The first season of 30 Rock, I watched on Netflix and bought and downloaded the second season from Amazon Unbox. I got the first season of Eureka from Amazon Unbox and am working on it as I type.

So, how many of you are slowly or even quickly moving to an Internet-based television experience?

If you could pay $2 per episode for all of the shows that you watch on a regular basis, would it be more expensive or cheaper than what you are paying now for cable or satellite service? What would you think about a system like that? Would HD be a must? Should HD content be more expensive or the same?

Personally, I would love a system like that and I think that it would be less expensive than what we are paying now for satellite, but truthishly, I haven’t crunched the numbers. I think that HD content should be the same price as standard def content. Nowadays, every major TV show is shot in HD and then conformed to the old SD standards, so there isn’t any extra work needed to produce HD. I think there is just this feeling of “privilege” that is surrounding and staining the true, blu potential of HD content.

Yep, that missing ‘e’ was intentional. That’s for you, Kody. ;)