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Here I sit back home in Maine after spending 8 months in Connecticut (August to May). I took my TV down with me and brought it back. I've just realized that it still is not hooked up. I guess I haven't really missed TV all that much. Is it really even worth watching anymore?
No. I haven't had cable tv in years but at my current location I can only get a few OTA stations and so I was forced ordered cable. What a waste of money!!! Nothing but commercials and the dumbest shows I have ever seen. Occasionally they will run a decent movie but when I compare the costs to Netflix cable is way out of line. I have a introductory special price that will run out just about the same time as the Super bowl. I will dump the cable then. IMO, the crap on cable isn't worth the money. Two OTA channels for free and Netflix works much better. We'd be better off watching the test pattern.
I once spent a couple of years in a place where I kept the TV in a spare room, with no chairs except one hard wooden kitchen chair. I watched only things that were worth enduring the uncomfortable seating arrangement. Saw Franco Harris' immaculate reception in that chair. And Dave Henderson's goal that won the first Canada-Russia hockey series. I don't remember anything else I saw there.
No, I'd say leave it unplugged. The target IQ has dropped considerably the last 20 years or so. The only thing I watch is the Weather Channel... because I like Heather. She's a great, ummm, meteorologist. Other than that, I hardly turn it on.
Not really. I don't have cable anymore. This is partially due to me hating the cable company and partly because I hardly watched anything back when I did have digital cable.
At first I did miss it just a little, but it didn't take too long to get over it. It kinda makes you wonder what else you could live without if you really had to.
If there is a tv series or movie you think you may like, you can get it on DVD or Blue Ray when it comes out. That's what I do.
In the 80's I loved tv as a kid....whether cartoons, wrestling, sports (baseball, remember this week in baseball?), movies, network shows (different strokes, alf, knight rider). Just about the whole tv universe.
TV has shrunk to about 2% of that quality now.
-Either stupid reality shows.
-Stupid ads, cialis, viagra, etc.
-"News" shows that are either celebrity obsessed, or propaganda pieces. Like 20/20. I'd rather spend that hour on the internet doing my own research instead of letting the great "John Stossel" tell me what I should know.
Once you're used to internet information, going back to pre packaged television information is not easy.
I feel like I'm losing out on real information everytime I watch tv. Because they aren't telling you the truth.
Every time Brad & Angie are on, or Jon & Kate plus 8, I feel like that minute has been used to shield you from much larger things going on. Multiply that over the months and years, and you're going to be lost and confused when real change does come.
But DVD's are great. Just got the 3 Stooges Volume 1-4. Great looking set. DVDs and video games are most of my entertainment.
... network shows (different strokes, alf, knight rider). Just about the whole tv universe.
TV has shrunk to about 2% of that quality now.
Sorry, but I have to laugh when someone mentions "Alf" and "quality" in the same sentence! And Knight Rider seemed good at the time, but have you tried watching it lately? It didn't stand the test of time.
Now WKRP in Cincinatti - that was quality television!
Here I sit back home in Maine after spending 8 months in Connecticut (August to May). I took my TV down with me and brought it back. I've just realized that it still is not hooked up. I guess I haven't really missed TV all that much. Is it really even worth watching anymore?
Nope! I would love to get rid of my TV, but my husband won't let me (sports)!
i did that. can you show me how to unplug this computer?
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Other than that, I hardly turn it on.
