Thread: Anyone here not watch TV?

My wife and I listen to the radio most of the time. We watch some TV, but we are pretty selective. The worst thing I find now with these new flat screens is you can't put your new TV on top of your old one anymore.

We got rid of our Dish and got a Roku. We got tired of paying $50 for the 4-5 channels we watched. We just watched the last episode on netflix of Doc Martin. I love that show and hope they made or are making more

Aside from being a peripheral watcher when it is on and I am subjected to it where I happen to be, I have not turned on my home TV, or deliberately watched TV anywhere else in a few years.

We have an old analog TV with no digital converter box so no TV at all. We go to the public library and check out dvds to watch. Every Sunday we go to my parents and watch their huge flat screen with 1000 channels. I know it's a cliche, but so many channels and nothing to watch!

Originally Posted by MandoRob

I know it's a cliche, but so many channels and nothing to watch!

It's not a cliche, it's a fact.

Cheers.

The wife is a TV junkie, I myself can not stand it, it is nothing but a vacuum of the mind. Nothing lives in a vacuum. I would rather watch history documentaries on the net or old movies when there were real actors and actresses, and then there are the Rolling Stones and the Who on youtube! LOL

I can't imagine life without one.

There is one simple reason for this; sports.
For me to not be able to watch all my fav sports is simply unthinkable.

tv or computer screen makes not alot of difference , still sitting in front of a screen,, we will never be any other than that ,, you don't live in a cave anymore , the only difference will be how you choose , so find me one person other than third world with out modern utilitys other than that everyone watches a screen ,, and if your reading this ,you have one! but I do choose to not watch a lot of tv ,, football and old westerns tc

Originally Posted by tcrideshd

tv or computer screen makes not alot of difference , still sitting in front of a screen,, we will never be any other than that ,, you don't live in a cave anymore , the only difference will be how you choose , so find me one person other than third world with out modern utilitys other than that everyone watches a screen ,, and if your reading this ,you have one! but I do choose to not watch a lot of tv ,, football and old westerns tc

This is true but at least the computer screen, on forums anyhow, requires participation. I recall back in the 1970s when I would watch the new shows, mostly dramas, and then in the summer would come the reruns. Many times I would be watching a show, thinking I was seeing it for the first time, and then realize I had seen it before and forgotten most of it.

I use the computer for diversions, such as the forums, but I also use it for educational purposes, such as attempting to learn another language, studying topics of great interest to me. I also spend quite a bit of time reading books in the field I'm studying aside from the computer. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said, "If you love life don't waste time, because that is the stuff that life is made of."

There is a big difference between a TV and a computer.
On TV advertisements take 30% of the time. On a computer I am in control how I am going to watch the content. The idea that a TV network will demand my attention at X o'clock sharp is just not working for me and I am pretty sure the people it continues to works for are largely in the 'boomer' generation.