91.   To receive digital programming a viewer must have an HDTV-ready television as well as a box that decodes digital signals.

92.   Today, the conventions have fewer hours on the networks, but viewers have plenty of other choices.

93.   TV viewers have the opportunity to win a car every night if they log onto the Web site and enter the correct hint of the day.

94.   TV honchos take great comfort in knowing viewers have short attention spans.

95.   Typically, though, they unspool in a linear fashion, and viewers have a limited ability to affect them.

96.   Viewers do not have to be told that this president was ruled by melancholy more than by his famous good humor.

97.   Viewers had to wait and sort it all out.

98.   Viewers have too many other things to focus on.

99.   Until then, most home-based viewers will have to peer through small bandwidth connections at what seem to be well-made productions.

100.   Viewers no longer have to lie there and take it.