NO TV!
I met someone at a Women's Council of Realtors event last week that during a discussion brought up that she does not own a TV! She does not have one in ANY room of her house!
I was interested...
Keith: Why don't you have one? I myself barely watch TV but to not have one at all is a bit drastic...
NO TV: Well, Keith - I noticed that in my old house I never watched it and I was paying for cable. I was spending my spare time (which otherwise would be spent zoned out in front of the TV) being productive - whether it was cleaning, organizing, creating, or connecting!
Keith: I am impressed! This is a lot of how I spend my spare tme but the background is filled with CNN and ESPN
NO TV: I see... well, when I moved into my new house I gave the TV to someone who would actually utilize it and as for CNN - I cannot stand to watch the negativity of the news today and for sports I go to a sports bar with TV's surrounding me!
---- This made me think and want to bring it to the table to discuss. What if you had NO TV in your life or your house? What would you be able to get done and or caught up on that you would otherwise be spending your time zoned out in front of the TV? Let's be honest here... most of everything that is on TV today that is mainstream is brain drain and brain rot for all ages!
I am interested to see your feedback on living with NO TV and what you could be doing positvely with your time.
Thanks, Keith Stonehouse
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You want the Truth? You can't handle the truth!
Every time I am watching TV and that's on, I find myself watching it. Same with Pulp Fiction, The Simpson's and Good Will Hunting.
BUT
I have noticed in the past 2 years I have spent significantly less time watching TV. Most of it has been replaced by work/being online. Although, as much as I would like to claim my time online is for work, I can't say that it is. Like now...Am I working?
I remember a few years back (prior to Drea) I didn't have cable. I think that was one of the best years of my life. Aside from making a wonderful impromptu babysitter when I have to get things done and adding clarity to the picture, Cable is kind of useless. So often when i am actually watching TV, I spend time flipping through the channels thinking "184 channels of nothing".
However, it would be very hard to not have cable plugged into the beautiful TV I have, so I don't think I will be dropping it anytime soon.
Interesting conversation starter, MR. Stonehouse. Now I am back to watch the 2nd half of the OSU game with my dad ;-)
I barely use mine but I think that I could get away with out having one. The only thing is that you can't get all the Red Wings games online. I don't feel like paying for Center Ice and I think there was an online version of that.
But some of the CBS series you can't get the full episodes online. You used too and I am certian that if you searched for them you could find them.
As it is... I only turn on my tv for about 3.5 hours for television shows and then just hockey games. I could live with listening to the games but it wouldn't be fun. I am more of a radio and newspaper person. That is where I get most of my news stories from if I want National news then I read the NY Times if I want local business then I read the Freep.
Like Terry, I'm online a lot during the day, sometimes working and sometimes not. But my radio is on NPR a lot too: Morning Edition, Diane Rheam, Day-to-Day, Talk of the Nation, All Things Considered. Who has time for TV (except for the News Hour, of course)? And more than time, who has the interest (except for Dancing with the Stars and the Rifleman, of course)?
I'm thankful that we have radio, but I think I may be one of those who wonders whether we wouldn't have been better off had TV -- and, by extension, the computer and Internet -- never been invented (except for Lucy, Margie, Ernie Kovacs, Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Miss Brooks, Red Skelton, etc. etc.)
I think I mean that, sort of.
Hmm. maybe I can't handle the truth. At least not the whole truth. But I think I can handle some of it. Oh, my head hurts!
Interesting to see quite a people in my same boat.. I mean "I Dont Watch TV"
I have a TV but The last time I turned on my TV (honestly) was on the evening of Election results. I pretty much use the TV only when I get a DVD to watch some nice movie.
Internet is my source pretty much for everything. NPR has been mentioned already.. that's a good source for my everyday news.
The info you get in through the TV are anyway very limited in perspective. I like to learn in a global level.
...anyway if at all I turn on my TV I know that all I will see for over 75% of the time is some drug /Pharmaceutical advertisement :o)
My TV-watching is limited to the weather report (remember that line in a Paul Simon song "I get all the news I need from the weather report" ?) I'd rather read a great book. I listen to WDET in my car. I play instrumental CDs while I'm working - strictly background music as lyrics tend to distract me from my tasks.
I could easily throw out the TV for anything but the occasional DVD!
I would be reading books all the time and get even less done that when I have the TV on!
My weakness is reading real books and because I can get lost in them I curtail how long and when I read. Because I work from home and am alone half the time, I turn on the TV sometimes just for company - don't really watch it - like to hear other voices once in awhile.
Could I live without it? Probably.
Very interesting thoughts and comments here - but, truth be told, I like my TV. There are a lot of programs I like to bounce around and catch pieces of when I have the time. Some are informative and educational, some entertaining, and some are junk. My two oldest sons and I were baffalded and yet very amused at a crazy show we stumbled on over the weekend called 'Man vs. Man Made'. A totally pointless show that I would never watch again - but we bonded and talked and laughed together for a half hour.
My work is video, and I get new ideas and techniques all the time from what I see. And sometimes if creatively stuck or frustrated, and old favorite movie can relax and revitalize me. I've watched parts of 'The Godfather' and 'Miller's Crossing' dozens of times, and seen new things in them every time. And yesterday I saw a great Hitchcock film I'd never heard of before.
Can I live without it? Sure. I could also live without music and books. But I prefer not to.
Like Judy, I can get totally lost in books - real books, not the e-versions. There is something wonderful about books printed on smooth, fine paper, something engaging (for me) in the choice of typeface, and the symmetry of page composition - - aspects of quality book publication that are forgotten or ignored in e-publishing.
This is such an interesting thread, and has gotten me questioning why I am paying a monthly fee for something I use so minimally...
Mark,
I completely understand your point of view. I guess we all can live without a lot of things if we need to.
Especially since you are in Video / production area I would even think that it is important to watch TV , just like how I sit and browes web sites and look out for latest technologies & ideas . So I think you have a valid point.
Mark by the way - I just emailed a link with tons of history related documentary video collection that I found online.
I try to avoid TV as much as possible. I can't stand it. I have one (actually I have 3) but I rarely turn them on, if I do it's to check the weather channel or have the news on in the background while I do something. As for any shows or whatever ... honestly, I've come to detest most, if not all, of that. Though sometimes I turn on the TV Guide channel in the kitchen and I end up watching some mind-numbing talentless show (which is usually about some OTHER show, equally mind-numbing), while at the same time reading on the bottom half of the screen all the other shows going on that I don't want to watch. It's pointless, really.
The Blue Hue is a mesmorizing machine. I prefer to not gaze at it. I would much rather fill my mind with positive material found in personal development and leadership books along with good old fashioned history books and autobiographical stories. To each his or her own.