Posted on 01/07/2018 6:03:13 PM PST by marktwain
“Nw that is something worth wachng! “
Especially on a Samsung 75” qled!
Every channel has advertising. Even pay-tv channels have advertising. Even paid premium channels have advertising for revisionist history on Anita Hill and Dan Rather global warming and every other bit of nonsense.
Been watching TB since 1954 and boy are my eyes tired.
TV has enriched and entertained my life, provided news when major stories hit like the JFK assassination, moon landing and so on. The Desert Storm daily briefings captured my attention and I watched the Watergate hearings in the house because I worked nights. Some great sports, comedy, music, plays, dramas, historical re-enactments.
My wife and I are RE brokers and we watch some HGTV together and discuss scenarios.
I have had DirectV for 20 years. If I could get HGTV without it I might reconfigure. It amazes me that people brag about not watching tv. I tape a lot and watch a lot less, but I always have options. Why have a phone, computer, indoor plumbing, a car, electricity and no TV. If you can’t control or have some discipline then perhaps you shouldn’t have a TV.
Stopped watching during the Bush years.
When My Three Sons, Leave It To Beaver, The Andy Griffith Show, Father Knows Best, and Sugarfoot went off the air. I did watch all of ToolTime after it was in syndicated reruns per my Dad’s recommendation. My then-little kids loved it, too.
However, with the rise of Netflix and Amazon and the kids growing up and
moving out, things have changed. I’ve watched a lot of the multi-season TV shows like Suits, Homeland, 24, The Americans, Longmire, The Man in the High Castle, Hell on Wheels, John Adams, House of Cards, and Damages (virtually all recommended by FReepers).
So, I had a 30 year gap from about 1967 to 1996 or so.
The whole notion of “linear tv” has been turned on it’s head, so you need to define what you mean by “watching tv.” Do you mean watching the flat screen or small screen when I want and the content that I want to see (one hour per day). Or do you mean sitting down at an appointed time to watch a first-run show with commercials (never)?
Tape and fast forward through the commercials and the low points.
Assuming you still visit them, would pick up a cheap $10 universal TV remote from Lowes and program it for their TV's. Works for the TV's at my gym.
That said: Define "Stop watching TV"
Anything that is on the device, such as FX series like Justified and The Americans How about Netflix, etc?
Stopped anything network a couple years ago, even Fox over 12 years ago. Total MSM stop after the NFL debacle last year. DVR'd even that earlier to skip the idiot commentary and commercials.
I like to watch ID Channel.
Movies on netflix or Amazon sometimes.
That’s about it.
As far as news channels go, those are pointless. They don;t do news.
Most of them do lies, Fox does some opinion. Neither lies or opinion are news or relevant. Total waste of time, and it’s annoying to listen to.
Gorilla Channel! Wasn’t that the best ever? I remember when I used to watch it 17 hours per day. Some days I was I was so engrossed I had my nose four inches away from the screen! I sure do miss that channel.
His or betamax?
1998
I should add that when we moved to the Intermountain region of the Rocky Mountains, I we brought the wife’s TV. I hoped to see some really good shows in this new area. When I turned on the TV, we saw, Watergate Hearings and more Watergate hearings.
I worked odd hours so did not miss seeing any shows.
Again, I still prefer movies to series shows.
I would never turn it on in the daytime except for a major event or sporting event I care about. However, in the evening when I’m tired I will watch something to let my brain turn off a little. And sometimes the whole family will be interested, or a few, and we will enjoy the togetherness of watching something. And of course it is a boon when you are sick, in pain, or have Alzheimer’s like my mom, so she gets to watch it every night.
Tv is magical if you are housebound caring for old and young; you can learn and keep up and be entertained. It has its place. I’m glad we have it.
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I almost never have mine on. I work in a nursing home and occasionally walk into a room with the TV on and am appalled. I can’t believe people watch this garbage, much less believe it’s the real world. Sadly, because of this gulability it is becoming the real world. We have a certain group of our employees who seem to think that the more their lives resemble the Jerry Springer show the more normal they are.
2010 and never looked back.
Vhs or betamax. (Tape)
Does anyone else remember when half time in college football games showed the bands performing? It was always entertaining.
Now they show ads and talking heads.
When they took off the Gorilla Channel.
We have stopped watching certain shows but we still watch TV in general.
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