You’re forgetting about OTA.
OTA isn’t cable.
Both are what is generically termed “TV”: ad-driven content selected by others.
I don’t have either.
For the uses you’re whining about, what you’re calling a “TV” is more properly called a “monitor”.
I _do_ have what is being used as nothing more than a monitor.
Alas, all the terms involved are used loosely enough to induce strife when someone insists on precise usage thereof.
And yes, I can be just as pedantic as you.
Here's what people mean when they say "kill your TV":
http://whole9life.com/2011/04/kill-your-tv/
http://www.turnoffyourtv.com/
Notice how the TV is always unplugged from power or outright destroyed for these. Nobody's watching DVDs of old movies in these "kill your TV". It's not pedantic, it's simply expecting people to mean what they say. Like I said to him, if he'd said "watch less TV", or "watch better TV" there'd be no issue. But he said "kill your TV" which for everybody else in the world means watch NONE, including classic movies on DVD.