| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/10/2008 3:50:42 PM | I had cable disconnected because my kids were spending too much time watching crap. So, we do have a TV, but it gets used for movies and games. I don't think they're missing much. Although I miss the history channel and BBC America.
Cheers!
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 1/10/2008 4:07:49 PM | | I suppose I could live without it, but I wouldn't want to. I have to admit being addicted to Ghost Hunters, but the main reason I have a TV is to watch movies. I LOVE movies! Now, could I live without a DVD player? No...cause there's nothing on TV to watch most of the time, even with cable, so ya gotta go somewheres else! | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 3/6/2008 7:03:04 AM | | Yes, I manage. Longest time 4 years, now again one year, but Iam often on my pc. I rather do things, than just watch tv. | |
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Posted: 3/6/2008 7:45:24 AM | I am living without a TV now, although my granddaughter does have one in her bedroom.
I'm a music person and I have my radio on all day. Even when I sleep--my radio is on 24/7. And I prefer getting my news
and the information I need from the Internet.
I used to watch my share of TV--specially the Discovery Chanel and those home improvement shows . I don't know what
happened really. I just gradually started to lose interest in them all and eventually I just stopped watching TV all together.
Now I can't even stand hearing it play in the background. But it often makes me feel like I'm left out of the loop at work -- I've
never watch an episode of Sex in the City, or Survivor, or Desperate Housewives or any of the other popular shows that many
of my co-workers like to talk about around the water cooler in the morning.
I've heard and know of them of course, and I used to try to keep up with who was playing in what but I just can't
keep up anymore. Oh well...to each their own I guess:)
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Posted: 3/6/2008 9:20:49 AM | Yes, I could make do without a TV. I love music - listening to it and also "tickling the ivories," so I could not live without music. I also enjoy drawing and painting, which I do with music on. Reading is another passion of mine, which requires no TV. So, other than watching football and hockey, and occasional news, the TV is rarely on. Oh, wait, I do have one guilty pleasure - it's called American Idol. (Yeah, put a big "L" on my forehead, I don't care.) So I do watch that, but I don't revolve my world around it. Even my daughter, who is 9, rarely watches TV -- I imagine that's because she grew up in a household that rarely had the TV on (her dad doesn't watch much either). So, in turn, she prefers music, dancing, reading and drawing over watching TV.  | |
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Posted: 3/6/2008 9:35:40 AM | Easily.
The 60s offered "family time" shows like Ponderosa, Cheyanne, Red Skelton, Dean Martin, Palidan, Rifleman, Rowdy Yates (lots of Westerns, huh). In fact, we were sometimes late for school because we wanted to watch as much of Leave it to Beaver as possible...and we ran all the way to the school yard.
In the 70s, my interest waned with Wild Wild West and LaughIn and the hayseed version of that show.
I cannot remember a show from the 80s, 90s, or past 8 years. It has been off for 8 or 9 months a stretch.
The uplifting element of human interaction has really gone down hill. I'm shocked by the content of most sitcoms if I tune in. News is no longer the Huntley Brinkley report-- even the local news is primarily flash and drama advertising (Will it snow/rain/shine tomorrow? Stay tuned for "what's coming next!") and repetitive sound bytes. How many animal husbandry rutting/eating/building can you watch without wondering why YOU aren't DOING something yourself, being a higher order animal.
Public TV offers some reprieve--BBC news gives me a more realistic news-based view of world events--but lots of reruns--same goes with cable--I can't justify paying for that service: I simply haven't found a program that warrants me scheduling it into my routine, so I may turn it on once or twice a year if I'm sick.
YouTube affords me the opportunity to view a MadTV Stewart/Ms. Swan or Carol Burnett skit, a SuperBowl Commercial, a panda or polar bear cub, or a sand/music creation.
I prefer books. Or live music--any classical piano. Or real life, nature over movies. | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 3/6/2008 9:53:09 AM | I have a lot of things in my life that I enjoy. Television is one of them.This doesn't mean I sit mesmerized for hours staring at a screen.I am mature enough to manage the entertainment in my life, hence with the advent of Tivo or in my case HD DVR ,I can control what I watch and most importantly when,also folks, it's nice speeding thru the ads.
Nah, not giving up my TV . | |
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Posted: 3/6/2008 12:12:18 PM | Yes, I already do. Rarely watch TV... I have not watched much TV since somewhere
in the 1980's. Does that tell you how old I am? I am very much into music. The
jukebox does not have to be turned on for me to hum a tune in my head.
I listen to music, mostly music from the old days. Most shows today are reality
TV, don't like those. However, I do use the DVD and watch movies purchased or
rented. No commercials... LOVE IT!
I stay away from NEWS... unless it's weather and I can get that on the internet
when I need to find if it is going to rain on a weekend I have chosen to go camping.
Yes... there is black box in my living room, and I do go to sleep with the TV on to
drown out all the noises that may tend to want to wake me up in the mornings, like
the neighbor chopping wood or cutting the grass.
The new stuff congress is pulling now will not affect me any. There are people it
will affect. Mostly people who live in remote areas, and less advantaged people
who cannot afford cable or satelite. | |
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Posted: 3/6/2008 12:29:24 PM | | I've gone without tv many times although I have 2 right now. I have to admit I love DVR that way I can record whatever I want to and watch whenever I want to and skip through all the commercials if there are any. I only turn on the tv late at night because it helps me quit thinking about everything else so that I can get to sleep easier without my mind racing from one thing to another. I never watch tv news because I can get a much more detailed and accurate account of everything going on in the world online, but I had quit watching it years earlier before I had the internet because tv news was too negative and depressing and definitely didn't help me get to sleep at night. | |
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Posted: 3/6/2008 12:45:37 PM | | I dont think I watch alot of TV. Closer, Saving Grace, Law and Order. Except on a lazy day, I will sit and watch movies. My kids couldnt go without a TV in the house. It's a sad day at our house when the cable goes out. | |
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Posted: 3/6/2008 12:50:07 PM | Yep, no problem. I haven't had one for a couple years......well, I HAVE one but it's not hooked up to cable....only watch the occassional movie on it....
I do NOT miss regular TV. I used to think I was rare, but I am meeting more people like me.
TV bores the heck out of me..not enough on to hold my attention....
Blessings,
She | |
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| could you live without your tv
Posted: 3/6/2008 1:05:06 PM | Sure I could live without the TV but why would I want to? 
There are a lot of other things worse than TV. Now if I had a "hot" date, the TV would be the last thing from my mind 
I mostly watch the news and once in awhile a movie. Keeps me from  too much  | |
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Posted: 3/6/2008 5:50:00 PM | My grandson was surprised when he thought that I'd been watching Nickelodeon channel since when he turned on my TV that's what channel it was on. He was even more surprised to learn that is was exactly where he'd left it when he'd visited 3 WEEKS before that.
I can remember at age 6, my mother would "punish" me by making me sit and watch TV. I'd have much rather been reading a book or playing with my dolls. So, a resounding YES, I could easily live without TV. | |
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Posted: 3/6/2008 5:56:27 PM | No way. Gotta have the news at all hours. I've got a tv in every room and the garage too. Hey, the world is ending and it's live on cable.
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Posted: 3/6/2008 9:47:42 PM | | When I first moved to a new home, I put the TV into the closet. And there it sat. I enjoyed the beauty of walking in the uncut woods near my home(way out in the country, on a mountain) and when we were snowed in, I hooked the TV back up. I didn't like having it on anymore. I think everybody should get rid of theirs. Or at least put it into it's rightful place. Not the living room that's for sure. It should be an option not a daily alternative to living your own life instead of the fake one of an actor for a day. | |
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Posted: 3/7/2008 6:48:53 AM | Here's a horrible thought about TV.
Imagine that at your death, you meet a celestial host who guides you into a small room to watch a full length video of your life, moment by moment as you lived it.
You immediately realize that you will be watching yourself watching years of television--just your face and whatever stupid expression you had on it during all those wasted hours.
There must be greater punishments, but this one is high on the list.
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Posted: 3/7/2008 7:08:32 AM | Sure I could live without it but why would I want to??? I enjoy watching movies, sports, news and good dramas, with the occassional reality show thrown in...LOL
Now can all the people who can live without TV live without their computer and these forums??? | |
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Posted: 3/7/2008 8:28:14 AM | "Now can all the people who can live without TV live without their computer and these forums???"
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh haa ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhha ahha haaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thems' fightin words!!
Blessings,
She | |
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Posted: 3/7/2008 9:47:00 AM | I can certainly live without my TV, but the bigger question here is can my TV live without me ?? Poor little thing ... all by itself way over in the corner, no one to play with it, its face covered in static dust, no one to twist it’s little knobs, no one to stimulate it with the remote, no one to experience the wealth of worldly information it offers freely to me each day. I only watch to try to help.
Yes, I could live without my TV, but I’d never say it loud enough for it to hear – poor neglected thing.
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Posted: 3/7/2008 10:00:19 AM |
No way. Gotta have the news at all hours. I've got a tv in every room and the garage too. Hey, the world is ending and it's live on cable.
 My kind of guy!Can we throw in the odd action movie or chick-flick, once in awhile?
Actually, I like TV so I can hear another voice in the house. Otherwise, the voices only talk to me, in my head. | |
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Posted: 3/7/2008 10:14:43 AM | Oh yes, gotta have a break from news every now and then. I'm kind of a sucker for movies like The Upside of Anger, About a Boy, Must Love Dogs, etc. And funny ones like Bad Santa.
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