Thread: Anyone here not watch TV?

Funny I just cut the cable from the house due to finances. Its strictly antenna TV now. Since there is nothing on to watch I have become a more productive person. I do much more then just sit in front of the tube hour upon hour.

I will admit to occasionally watching broadcast TV (with a homemade digital antenna) but less than 1 hour per week. I refuse to pay the highway robbery rates for cable service. I do watch netflix if I have an evening that I feel like just putting my feet up but even that is less than once per week.

Interestingly and slightly offtopic (since someone brought up computer screens) this new tech (like the computer screens) allow the old crafts such as ours to continue because even though we are few and far between, we can meet online and form a large enough community for good things to happen.

Anyway, I do have a tv. Usually I just watch peripherally, but sometimes I like to watch series. Usually on sunday or saturday. During the week I watch the big bang theory and the news. In the weekend usually a movie, or some tv series like the mentalist, the borgias, etc. I do like the historical settings.

Related TV topic: Many, myself i included, refer to "news" in quotation. What passes for "news" today, in my opinion is not news. I'm old enough to know that the level humanity or the individual person is capable of achieving in regard to depravity is limitless. Knowing this to be true, hearing of some new unspeakably heinous act committed by someone far from where I live does nothing for me and is not news. I'm referring mainly to "news" about an individual's actions.

Chris L

I like TV and cell phones, i think someones head just exploded on the forum.

To make it worse, i read books on an electronic device.

Always had one, always watched it a lot. If you have children and your first language is not English, let them watch it plentiful (in English, with subtitles of course). It's how I got to a decent level of English early on.

Then last year, we finally got enough of these two thin white lines appearing on the middle of the screen, so we took it back to the shop. We got it on discount a year and half before, so obviously they no longer had the model, but we could pick from either a similar model or cash refund.

We went for the refund, thinking "we'll get one later". We didn't. About six months ago I bought a used projector, high quality and relatively cheap, we got netflix, my dad got me a nice stereo and speakers for my birthday January 2013, and that was that. We watch one/two movies a week, some documentaries on Finnish digital free tv. Finnish programming is truly awful.