Thread: Anyone here not watch TV?

Pixelfixed gave me an idea with his recent post asking about anyone who doesn't have a cell phone. My variation:

How many here do not watch TV?

Or, on the opposite end, I'd like to hear from anyone who thinks the idea of not watching TV is crazy talk.

I haven't for about seven years now. To be specific, I mean that I don't watch network or cable. No news either. We have Netflix and that's it which I rarely watch.

I know people who have literally spent a large part of their adult lives sitting in front of the TV and these are people that are now well past retirement age.

I was never a big TV watcher (too much to do) but I feel my quality of life in the last seven years is far better without regular TV viewing than with it.

I believe most Americans are literally addicted to TV and could not go a week without withdrawal.

ChrisL

I don't watch TV. I've never owned one.

Have not had TV since 1992. Decided I was not ABOUT to pay $85 a month to argue with kids to turn that off an do something. NOPE.

Don't watch regular TV...haven't for at least 15 years. My two exceptions are baseball and football games, otherwise, If I want to watch something I'll plug in a VCR or DVD and watch a movie. News I get online...

Regular TV will rot your brain. At least that is MHO...

I only watch a couple of "new" shows/series. Lately I have been watching more re-runs of old westerns from the 60's. Far better than 99% of whats currently being made.

I used to watch some comedy shows about 15 years back. Now my TV is my computer screen.

I don't. I'm a TV junkie, so when I travel I watch all the crap on the hotel TVs, but I fully recognize that it's pure crap so at home I have no TV (actually I do somewhere in the attic, just because nobody wants a TV set so old).

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.