Battle Of The Boxes

February, 1999

Satellite subscribers understand the rush you get the first time you power up a 200-channel television system. With the press of a button, it's TV nirvana. Seven HBOs. Forty-two movie channels. More sports than your office pool can afford. Playboy TV around the clock. But reality hits before you can say "Night Calls at ten." Little things like your job, dinner with friends, the golf league--life, basically--make it impossible to enjoy all the programming you're paying for. And even if...