| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 5:09:28 PM | I could probably live without it if I could find a newspaper that isn't liberal beyond belief and actually reports the news.
I will admit that I would be having withdrawals from my favorite tv shows, but would eventually get over it. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 5:19:52 PM | The consensus seems to be just about the same for everyone. We "can" do without the tv.
I could and sometimes..do without my tv's on..however..I like having it/them for times I "don't" have alternatives..or for emergency information. I work on my pc..so sometimes a break from it is also warranted. I had a cp (cell phone) for work..but..it got broken (ooops.. )..so..no more cp. I play cds..or listen to the radio (I use as an alternative for emergency info)..down low..but I also have neighbors and I know they don't always enjoy my choice of music (as I also don't always enjoy theirs.. )..so..I use the birds..crickets..and even the outside traffic for background "noise". Also..it saves on my electric bill.. !
OP..if you're having company and want to conversate..why would you have a tv on? That's just rude. It's easy to turn the tv off..most of them..come with a remote. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 5:44:10 PM | To paraphrase Bill Clinton, "It depends on how you define 'TV'". 
I don't own a TV as such, gave my old (80's vintage) one to a friend. I now have a computer with a big wide screen that can receive TV programs from satellite or locally through a VCR. There are 16 satellites with at least one channel on them (unscrambled, free, and legal), and around 300 channels in total. Most of them are in a language other than English, but there is still plenty to watch in English, and there is also a lot of music, the universal language.
That said, the dish is almost always pointed to AMC3, and the tuner usually set to the PBS HD channel. I have it on just about every day. I like Nature, Nova, Travels to the Edge, Austin City Limits, Great Performances, and many others.
I started building satellite TV systems in the early 80's, over time the dishes have gotten smaller and the picture quality better. Couldn't live without it. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 6:04:13 PM | | Yes, I could like without my TV, but you will have to ply my Computer out of my cold, dead hands (along with my coffee mug!) | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 7:12:14 PM | I could live without my TV. But I would sure miss it.
I especially like Law and Order and House. This time of year, the NFL playoffs are really fun for me to watch. I like to get the local news on TV and Jay Leno. I'm a political junkee as well, and as the Presidential campaign heats up, that is interesting.
Other than that, I turn in on mostly for the background noise. The History Channel is on most of the time, and sometimes something catches my attention...a topic I'm interested in.
As some have said, there's an awful lot out there to watch, and much of it I don't care that much about, but I would sure miss it if I didn't have it.
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/7/2008 9:41:55 PM | "dont you find its on all the time. you try and talk and there eye are on the screen"
I know where the off button is located and how to use it.
This thread reminds me of the "guns kill people, no people kill people" kind of thinking. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 2:40:10 AM | Well, I didn't actually mean to give it up. . . . I just moved a place there was no reception and no cable. By the time cable came, I was already used to renting videos, and then I moved here, without a decent video store closer than an hour and a half away. It's kind of just sat there unused and unhooked up for 12 years. Just now it's in the car, ready for my next trip to Sally. Along with the VCR.
We don't have cable here, or broadband. Cells don't work. I'm on dial-up: peeps have to email me to get off line if they want to talk to me, lol! Before a friend forced a computer on me in '03, I read a lot. I still read, a lot, but nearly all on line.
Did have cable and netflix for the time I lived in NYC. Got caught up on the Sopranos, Deadwood, and was getting addicted to The Wire. Maybe I'll get a DVD player. Netflix is super.
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Posted: 1/8/2008 3:14:59 AM | I could and do. It's been 3yrs now, most times I don't miss it, other times when I'm bored to death it would be nice to switch it on just to see what outrageous new shows are on.
I just recently watched the 1st season of House on dvd, I loved it, if there was ever a show that would make me get cable that would be it, BUT, a once a week show(I would guess thats when it's on) ISN'T enough for me to take on an extra bill(cable). It's not a nessity(?), so tv is waaaaaay down on the list of priorities. Besides, sitting down to watch an hour program and getting 45 mintues of commicals isn't my idea of watching tv. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 5:22:50 AM | | I just went without television for a few months and just found the home quieter and more peaceful without all that noise in the background. Also, I got much more housework done and a lot of other things that needed to be taken care of! However, there ARE some things I do like to see on t.v. so I did get cable back however, the t.v. is turned off way more than on in my home. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 5:47:03 AM | Who's taking my TV? No way Jose'. What would I do on Sundays when the football games are on! Get your hands off!! What would I do to get my kids out of there rooms from being on Instant messenger and Xbox? Watching a movie together is always fun. And just think without the history channel and the discovery channel. I would have to read again. Then comes out the reading glasses.
I am not really to much a TV person but at times its fun and we all have a good time together. My kids like American idol. If it wasn't on here they would be at a friends house or else where! | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/8/2008 6:11:15 AM |
I know where the off button is located and how to use it.
Yes, the problem with TV isn't the fact that there is s TV, rather it's how most people use it. I always turn the TV off if company is coming or I'm trying to talk with someone.
The TV I do watch, I actually plan to watch and make a point to actually sit and watch.
I don't like it when people have the TV on in the house just to have some noise. I'd much rather listen to music or the radio. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 6:17:59 AM | I'm saving my pennies for a flat screen HD big screen TV equipped with a remote. My next "read" is going to be the latest consumer reports, so I know which is the best one to buy.
I'm thinking of having surround sound installed so I can hear the planes roar behind me when I watch Top Gun. Or, a movie with heavy breathing in it, so I can pretend I have company.
I can change the channel to listen to soft dinner music when I have guests or I can dance to good ol' rock and roll, when doing my housework in the " all together".
Who said " I didn't know how to live"?
My relationship with my TV is a little like my relationship with MEN. Can't live with 'em. Can't live without 'em. Can't shoot 'em. Well, on second thought, Elvis did...shoot up TV's, that is. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 11:30:06 AM |
I can remember when my family first got a TV back in the50's. It was a family activity back then. We would all sit down and watch Ed Sullivan on a Sunday night. We would watch Archie Bunker and Goldie Hawn and Red Skelton and Jackie Gleason. I can still remember the thrill of seeing the Olympics for the first time on TV.
Friendly, thanks for the trip down memory lane, that's what I grew up with as well. Now, I mainly watch TV if I am alone. I don't want many of the "prime" shows usually movies, baseball (in season) and I love the Crime & History channel, I full admit I am addicted to the Meerkat Manor on Animal Planet and Jeopardy. I have no issue with leaving it behind to go out in the real world though, go on dates, go to the movie theater or a live ball game (even if it is alone). Funny, how people get so shocked when they think a female will go places alone, I have even traveled alone. Not sure why people that is weird. Anyway, I don't think I would ever live completely without a TV. Kind of like once you have lived with a washer and dryer in your home you never want to go back to a life of having to drive to a Laundromat. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 1:06:19 PM | Prefer radio or music to the TV - these days the telly just dumbs down to the lowest common denominator, gives no credit for intelligence.
The latest trend I spotted is to be found in documentaries .. after the ad break , they then spend the next minute reviewing what they told you in the previous segment - two minutes ago .... like I can't (or am not sufficiently interested to ) remember what happened two minutes ago .... !!!  | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 1:16:50 PM | Phoebe48 wrote:
I'm saving my pennies for a flat screen HD big screen TV equipped with a remote.
You might want to check out front projectors. At this moment I am watching "The Matrix" on a 7 foot screen in my living room, complete with surround sound for a very theater-like experience (before I burned out my subwoofer I would get complaints from my neighbors in the houses next to me). My projector is on a shelf near the ceiling above my couch, but they can be mounted right on the ceiling. You can get a good front projector for a fraction of the price of a big screen tv and can have a much bigger picture (measured in feet, not inches, and the size is determined by how far away the projector is away from the screen, which can be just a light colored wall).
I have had people who have been blown away when they see a movie on my 7 foot screen because they don't expect a picture so big. Even though my projector is not HD (it is extended definition, or dvd quality, which places it between regular tv and HD) a high def signal on it looks great. Movies look great as well as sporting events and there is nothing like watching a National Geographic show of something like the Grand Canyon with an aerial view on a huge screen. Right below my screen I have a widescreen 30" hdtv for casual viewing. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/8/2008 2:12:00 PM | I have a very good friend who has the TV turned on 24 hours a day.
He never turns it off... even if he's not home. 
I, on the other hand, can go days without turning mine on.
I check out TV Guide Online... if a new 'House' is on, I'll watch it.
Or a good movie. And a few of the other shows.
No big deal if I miss them, though.
Good music system... much more important in my life.
Books... ditto. Love to read.
Computer... far outweighs TV for entertainment.
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Posted: 1/8/2008 3:07:30 PM | | Its more that my television caanot live without me~I taped the screen with a big piece of tape just to quiet it........ felt guilty later and let the thing drone on again endlessly. It NEVER shuts up! | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 3:07:47 PM | msg. 43 krimiariver:
At this moment I am watching " The Matrix" on a 7 foot screen in my livingroom.
So, are you trying to tell me that SIZE .........DOES matter?..........( blushing)
My projector is on a shelf near the ceiling above my couch, but they can be mounted right on the ceiling.
Does that mean I have to lay down to watch TV? And, my company does too? If this is true then I might as well start buying mattresses, install them wall to wall and throw out the rest of my stuff.
Come to think of it, there'd be less I'd have to dust. Not a bad idea. Thanks for the tip. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 3:18:18 PM | Phoebe48 wrote:
Does that mean I have to lay down to watch TV?
Nope, the projector is up high and out of the way and is not taking up room the way a big tv would. The screen is on the opposite wall and when not being used is covered by a large tapestry. Simple and works like a million bucks. Plus, I can save lots of money by watching movies at home with a theater-like experience without have all the annoying aspects of going to the movies and it's also great for dates. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 4:45:46 PM | | I would rather live without TV, then to be the one that tells my kids That's me and here's my son For me not a big stretch I am always forgetting to turn it on anyways. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 4:46:22 PM | | One of the many stories of family history is how my mom & dad won a TV on a quiz show at the Indiana State fair in 1949. It was a 10" table model, and we were the only ones in our tiny little town to have one. I remember family friends coming over to watch on Sunday night. (Sid Ceasar?) Our house was also very small, and they would line up in the kitchen chairs to watch this little screen. My children laugh when I explain how TV didn't operate 24 hours a day, and my brother & I would watch the "test pattern" until the cartoon show came on at 4:00 or so. I fell in love with TV back then, and I still love it. | |
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Posted: 1/8/2008 4:47:19 PM | I have a TV but it's only because I haven't decided what to do with it. When people come over, they sometimes grab the remote and turn it on - and say "what is that smell?" and I answer "its dust burning in the TV." I've been testing to see if I can go without turning it on and I've not had the impulse for some six weeks now - last time I did, there was crap on so I turned it off and read a book.
Last night, though, I accidentally picked up the remote and tried to dial one of my friends with it... that didn't work. Maybe that was a sign that its time to put the TV on Craigs List | |
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