[quote]pinkponyz wrote:
No TV for me either… I spend too much time at the computer though, gotta do something about that.[/quote]
I actually find the internet more distracting than the tv. I’ve become too dependent on it and waste a lot more time on it than watching tv. I keep thinking about next semester to unhook my internet and only use it while at school. Probably won’t happen though.
no TV here. I’ll just watch movies or go online to Fox, ABC, etc
I have not had a TV in 7 or 8 years.
The strange thing is I actually make television for a living, and every one I work with is always asking have I seen xxx or that
or did you see what so and so did,
or have you seen what we did etc.
kmc
I have a tv and work for a cable company, so I get all of the movie channels for free, along with free internet. I’ll watch some tv on the weekends, maybe, but i’m usually on the computer or doing other stuff.
I don’t know how anyone can spend hours watching tv. It sucks up so much time.
[quote]eric_lacrosse wrote:
I got rid of it nearly a year ago.
People look at me in disbelief when they find out that I don’t have one. I’m kinda shocked at how much time others spend watching TV, and how much money they spend on cable, satellite dish, pay per view etc. Not to mention listening to their boring conversations about what they watched last night.
People ask me what I do like life isn’t worth living without a TV. Sitcoms make me want to slit my throat, I despise commercials, and movies put me to sleep. I don’t know what I do, but I don’t miss it that’s for sure.
I catch news on yahoo and have no trouble finding better use for $60 a month. I’d rather have a kick ass wireless stereo system, and in a few months I will.
Is anyone else put off by TV? What are your reasons, and what other than surfing the web occupies your time?[/quote]
You’d be better off getting rid of your computer.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
Excellent choice to dump tv!
I watch about 2 hours a week, if that.
My 16 year old son never watches tv. Amazing. He’s always too busy with making music or doing homework. He doesn’t even play video games, and never plays the X-Box we gave him for Christmas 2 years ago.[/quote]
That’s awesome. You should be very proud of him.
[quote]LIFTICVSMAXIMVS wrote:
You’d be better off getting rid of your computer.[/quote]
What do you mean? Better to have a TV than a computer, or you don’t like the idea of a wireless stereo?
I haven’t had one for the past 5 years or so. At first it was tough, but engineering in college doesn’t leave a lot of time for watching tv (or anything really).
But I wasted way too much time as a kid in Hawaii watching TV instead of doing other stuff, like learning to surf (which I’m still trying to rectify.) So that was a good reason for me to not ever get one after college.
Now if only I could quit the internet as well. Oh free porn and message boards, how much time you waste…
I have a t.v., but no cable. Not necessarily my choice haha but I can’t say I’m missing much. Actually no t.v. in the living room makes people talk to each other and is one less thing to be broken.
The only things I actually watch on cable are premiership football games.
Everything else is torrented through my laptop (though I do sling the picture onto the plasma in my bedroom most of the time.) Typically I have 20-30 hrs worth of programming on my hard drive and I watch an hr at night whilst eating my dinner when I get back from the gym.
My daughter watches Discovery kids and my wife watches crap Mexican tv.
TV has degenerated to the point that it is now probably the lowest form of entertainment that has ever existed. I turned mine off after the presidential primaries and haven’t looked back.
cable and net is included in my rent…so im watchin it til my eyes fall out. dirty jobs all day!
Don’t have a TV 4 years now. I download all the shows I’m interested in.
Not long ago, I went without TV for two years. I lived on my own and pretty much my whole life on a PC… downloaded everything I wanted and had interest in and bollocks to the rest. I watched many movies , so many.
I look back on those days with a bit of nostalgia, by myself I was and living in some good solitude. Making my way and being alone. I had a really good source for movies, he would tell me good ones, and I would watch… and they were always good. We would talk about them after. It was the same with music. He fed me good movies and good music and good writing and I thrived. Everything he showed me was something special. Like some diamond buried under a rock. I miss him to death.
Now I have TV and an XBOX and HD and channels and Netflix streaming and crap and crap and fucking crap, and a husband that is not him.
I haven’t had a tv in 6 years, and I don’t miss it.
Actually, I did miss it once. I love New Orleans, and during hurricane Katrina I almost bought one, just to see the coverage.
I’m just finishing my 3rd semester at music school, and in the first, I decided I’d rather be practicing than watching TV to pass the time.
18 months later, and I’m happy with my decision. I actually got a TV just to play various Nintendo generations when in serious need of lowered brain activity, but we don’t ‘watch’ it.
Removing yourself from television is one of the greatest things I’ve experienced. For several months we didn’t even have internet…a refreshing experience to be honest. Internet is still kind of a necessity, however.
[quote]eric_lacrosse wrote:
I got rid of it nearly a year ago.
People look at me in disbelief when they find out that I don’t have one. I’m kinda shocked at how much time others spend watching TV, and how much money they spend on cable, satellite dish, pay per view etc. Not to mention listening to their boring conversations about what they watched last night.
People ask me what I do like life isn’t worth living without a TV. Sitcoms make me want to slit my throat, I despise commercials, and movies put me to sleep. I don’t know what I do, but I don’t miss it that’s for sure.
I catch news on yahoo and have no trouble finding better use for $60 a month. I’d rather have a kick ass wireless stereo system, and in a few months I will.
Is anyone else put off by TV? What are your reasons, and what other than surfing the web occupies your time?[/quote]
I had not owned a TV – well never in my life till about a year ago. I bought one for my sons educational DVDs. That is pretty much all we use it for. It’s a nice plasma - and so once a month or so we get a good movie. But that is about all the TV watching that goes on around my house. Network TV and cable are garbage and big time wasters.
[quote]belligerent wrote:
TV has degenerated to the point that it is now probably the lowest form of entertainment that has ever existed. I turned mine off after the presidential primaries and haven’t looked back.[/quote]
oh wait, i actually turn it on to watch ultimate fighting
How do you watch Football? LOL… I don’t watch much tv with the exception of sports. There are a couple of shows I watch if I get the chance.
What?
No TV?
What’s all your furniture pointed at?