Who Does Without TV?

[highway66blues]

Use public access.
Local libraries purdy much all have WiFi...or such other place I find free Wifi signal.

 

[Fading Fast]

Use public access.
Local libraries purdy much all have WiFi...or such other place I find free Wifi signal.

Good for your sir, would be nice not to get a monthly bill.

 

[Wells]

I have a TV, but I hate television, if you know what I mean.
I haven't watched cable or satellite for years now. "Channel surfing", I think, is the absolute worst pass time. Sit back and stare at commercials all day until your brain turns to mush. No thank you.
Movies or TV shows that I enjoy, I have on disc. Video games are slowly being weeded out of my life. (Yes, my avatar is from a video game, but he looks so great!)

 

[Stearmen]

I have a TV, but I hate television, if you know what I mean.
I haven't watched cable or satellite for years now. "Channel surfing", I think, is the absolute worst pass time. Sit back and stare at commercials all day until your brain turns to mush. No thank you.
Movies or TV shows that I enjoy, I have on disc. Video games are slowly being weeded out of my life. (Yes, my avatar is from a video game, but he looks so great!)

You no longer need to watch commercials these day! I refuse to watch any thing that I do not record. Then, I just fast forward it through said commercials. Bonus, I watch less then an hour of TV on any given day!

 

[highway66blues]

Yes, is VERY nice.
My fave shows and movies I have on an ext. hard drive.
Got more than 'nuff that I won't be repeat watchin' for a long while

 

[Bushman]

I own a TV, but my use of it is little. I don't watch much TV, as I prefer to Internet, or read. I watch less than a handful of television shows, and I can play DVD's on my computer, so I don't see the use of even connecting my VHS/DVD and Blu-Ray players.

 

[Wells]

You no longer need to watch commercials these day! I refuse to watch any thing that I do not record. Then, I just fast forward it through said commercials. Bonus, I watch less then an hour of TV on any given day!

Ah, yes. My mother was telling me about those. Nice to have that option. Though, I still avoid television. Nothing that truly grabs my attention and too much nonsense, haha!

 

[Paisley]

After years as a subscriber, I ended my Netflix subscription a few weeks ago. I enjoyed some terrific shows on it over the years--Firefly, The Dresden Files, Sanctuary, Death Note, and tons of classic movies--but they're focusing more on their own programs now, which generally don't interest me. Now I'm watching older shows and videos on Youtube. I'm enjoying Family (a drama from the mid-70s); oddly, I never noticed it in reruns over the years even though Kristy McNichol was the bee's knees when I was a kid. The show was a class act, something in short supply now.

 

[Fading Fast]

^^^ "Family" and "Eight is Enough" were "competing" family dramas back then - as always, trends take off and networks are only too happy to make copycat shows. Also, as you said, McNichol's had a pretty big generational following back then.

 

[LizzieMaine]

That's a show that completely dropped out of my memory -- but now that I think of it, I remember that it was considered rather controversial at the time for its "frankness," and was shown after 9pm in those days of the "family viewing hour" NAB code. It was a pretty bold show for its time, when families were still usually portrayed in a sticky-sweet manner, Norman Lear nonwithstanding.

 

[Harp]

I have a TV, but I hate television, if you know what I mean.

Not an owner, catch occasional bar/pub TV baseball, football, basketball, hockey. I started listening to sports radio in college-Notre Dame football and Chicago Cubs baseball.