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Not nearly enough. I keep trying to empty my DVR so I can record something else I find interesting.
How does it affect relationships? Well, if the two of you aren't interested in the same types of shows, someone loses out. Even if you have two TV's, and can watch your individual shows separately--you both lose out.
Now, if you both really enjoy a show, it can be an entertaining time.
I think we are a much more balanced group than I was expecting to find. Maybe, as one poster said, it's because we are internet people, not TV people.
I pretty much gave up TV several years ago. I still watch DVD's and check out the news/weather. Once in a while there's a show I really want to see. Maybe an old movie or two.
I used to be a TV junkie. If I was awake, the tube was on. I lived in rural MN where there wasn't much to do and winter lasted more than half the year. The other half of the year was lost in a cloud of biting insects. The TV was just mindless entertainment that became a bad habit. Eventually I felt I wasn't accomplishing much with my time off and started resenting my TV habit.
Then I moved to NV and suddenly had lots of things to do, warm weather, and no bugs. Somehow the TV was just never turned on. I just had better things to do. I live in a city where there are lots of people and activities. Real life was a lot more fun than mindless days and nights on the couch with the TV. People are much more fun than TV. I'd rather go out and do something than watch another night of reruns. I was surprised when I stopped to think about it that weeks had gone by and the TV had never been turned on.
I'm glad I rejoined the real world. It's been a good change for me.
I stopped watching television a little more than two years ago, and I have yet to miss it. I just couldn't stand the advertisements any longer, and by that point I was only watching a couple of shows which were always reruns anyway. I do use the internet fairly often, but I even get bored with it pretty easily sometimes. Ending my television days was the best thing I ever did for myself, and I have no intention of taking it up again. I do have a TV with a DVD player to watch movies occasionally, though. I love old movies.
CD is my TV. I don't have time for both the net and TV. I'm here too much, tho.
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That's my one guilty pleasure.
