life without a tv

[tdarko]

i just got home from living down at the border of mexico for a little while and before that i lived with a host family in new haven, connecticut.

i know i know, there is perfectly good cable in both of these places but my host family did not have a tv in my room and since i got home late and woke up late usually i never spent anytime in the family room to watch tv. while living in south texas, i was in an apartment but we decided since we weren't home that often that we would skip out on getting cable in the apt, plus i had already been without a tv and was fine with it.

i get back today and i still didn't turn the tv on. i have no desire to watch tv, basically i just used my computer and then put in a dvd. i was never a tv junkie but i did watch it and now i don't even want the thing on.

my question is this: is tv an addiction?

b/c everyone i know plans their schedules around different programs (mostly reality shows) even if they will be aired a million times all day.

who can't live without a tv and why? i am fairly certain i am alone on this but i just wanted to know who all admits to being addicted (nothing wrong with that).

[Dynasty]

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[Jules22]

if it wasnt for televised sports, i could easily go w/o it.

[nothumb]

I haven't had cable in six years or so. I still watch baseball but I just go to the bar. There are a few other things I like to watch that I may try to catch, but being forced to leave the house in order to do so is a very good thing. It means I don't just come home and mindlessly throw on the TV. I'll probably never pay for cable again, especially with how much it costs now.

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[CanKid]

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I'm the same, I only use my TV for dvds. I rent all seasons I want to see (24, The Sheild, etc).

[sam h]

TV sucks. Only sports are worthwhile, and games are better watched in bars anyway.

[wonderwes]

TV is bad except for live sports. Tivo is good.

[Voltron87]

id miss sports and the daily show. other than that i dont watch tv. a bunch of my friends have on demand and i watch entourage there.

[Sponger15SB]

Whats with all the TV haters in this thread? Why hasn't the pro TV crowd spoken up?

I'd kill myself without TV.

[ononimo]

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Whats with all the TV haters in this thread? Why hasn't the pro TV crowd spoken up?

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because saying that TV sucks is so 1.4.

I think for some people tv is their best friend and SO.

polltard

[Python49]

i rarely watch tv... instead i just post on forums, talk on IM, and read websites... emails.. etc, computer is my addiction

[istewart]

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Whats with all the TV haters in this thread? Why hasn't the pro TV crowd spoken up?

I'd kill myself without TV.

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[TimM]

I never watch regular TV any more. Only DVD's and On Demand movies. I don't even like cable movies these days because I miss the pause and rewind features of On Demand. As for censored broadcast movies and lame shows, [censored] that [censored].

[tdarko]

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if it wasnt for televised sports, i could easily go w/o it.




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i will watch the good games or important games but i read the paper everyday so i get my info on there and if i want to catch stuff other than box scores i just get on the internet.

[IronDragon1]

I don't own a TV and have never felt better

Then again I have a hi-speed connection, satellite radio, plenty of DVDs and an abundance of bars to watch sports-and do other stuff obviously-so there's no shortage of entertainment options

If it weren't for those I'd be dying for a TV.

[turnipmonster]

tv is a huge waste of time, I quit in high school and have never regretted it for a second.

[bdk3clash]

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tv is a huge waste of time, I quit in high school and have never regretted it for a second.

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Nonetheless, I still ask you if you watch [insert random TV show here] every time I see you.

[Dantes]

saying you hate tv is probably the biggest bandwagony emo-douchey thing anyone can possibly say.

[MarkL444]

i have started to absolutely hate tv the past few years. it wastes so much time and effects the way you think. i still watch it occasionally for sports, but part of me wants to give it up entirely. i am actually moving to europe in two months, and there is no way in hell im buying a tv when i get there, so i guess i will be giving it up.

[MarkL444]

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saying you hate tv is probably the biggest bandwagony emo-douchey thing anyone can possibly say.

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the thing is, saying "i hate tv" is so general that it can be difficult to understand. what i hate the most about tv is the commercials. for i guess many reasons. they are manipulative and brainwashing mostly.

now, there are a lot of tv shows that i really like and even more shows that i hear about and think that they sound cool. but i still think i am better off spending my time doing other things than watching them.

[peachy]

I used to watch a few shows without missing them but in the past like 4 years i rarely watch TV...i just get to figity i guess...im sure if i started watching some show id get into it hahah but thats one of the reasons i dont watch any of those shows! It was a good thing though...when i went to Central America i wasnt bothered by the fact i had no tv...some of the people down there were freaking out...i was like whoa

[smokingrobot]

i am pretty much meh when it comes to TV. movies are another thing however.

i could care less about cable and such, but probably couldnt live w/o a dvd player.

[turnipmonster]

if you're responding to me I didn't say I hated it, I said it's a waste of time. I could care less how much tv other people watch.

[theghost]

AS most have said, it's a waste of time unless combined with some social activity (sports or tv poker with friends).

I usually check out some of the HBO lineup Sunday nights at the girlfriend's place with some takeout. Good times.

Cable internet at home but no cable TV.

Projector (http://store.infocus.com/escalate/store/DetailPage?group=homeProduct&pls=infocus&bc=infocu s&pc=SP-4805&tab=desc&clist=017080322b5b:0dbb50001403e0&re t=Projectors-Home+Theater&pls5catname=Projectors-Home+Theater&WT.mc_n=adwords-infocus-4805&WT.mc_t=PPC) for DVDs highly recommended. Way bigger than plasma (I have an 80" diagonal) and looks awesome even without a screen, projected on the wall (great color, crisp picture). Also 2 dimensional so it's flatter than any flatscreen tv and invisible when powered down; doesn't take over the room like a TV does.

I watch about 1 movie a week on average (at home).

[InchoateHand]

Just for movies. No cable. Don't miss it. When its there I watch it. When its not, I do something better, or at least not worse.

[tdarko]

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saying you hate tv is probably the biggest bandwagony emo-douchey thing anyone can possibly say.

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what is loving tv then?

[InchoateHand]

Wow man, you are so anti-that you are anti-anti super, hypercool totally awesome! I bet you wear white turtlenecks and smoke a bubble pipe backwards! What what! COOLDUDENESS.

[El Barto]

I have lived without cable TV for 17 years (since I moved out of my parents house). You are missing nothing. I live in the mountains with no reception of any broadcast stations either. I use my TV to watch videos and nothing else. I watch Cspan on my computer sometimes. TV is completely unnecessary these days.

BTW, other than Cspan, are there any networks that broadcast a streaming live feed on the internet? I would be interested in trying some of these out.

[BillNye]

I always liked TV...

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