anyone else not watch tv?

in the 1950's the picture quality wasn't as good as today.i think that was oneof the reasons i liked t.v. back then.i felt i was experiencing a great invention.the picture quality has gotten so good it is easy to take it for granted.also back then the people working in television production had worked in other mediums such as radio,films,stage and vaudeville where they learned their craft very well.

 

U lern how BLEEPED up da wyrld is to! n how u cant do BLEEP abot it!

TV doesn't teach me what I want to learn - the above statement being a testament to this!

I like to be engaged in things, not fed bullshit without the ability to question those dishing it out.

I posted earlier today about a world where zeitgeist and similar movies are the "mainstream"... where there is a station called "love" and it doesn't show porn...

Here I consider... what would MY perception of the world be like had I never of even heard the word "television". Would, then, as I paused to consider it... the phrase "eat my shorts" EVER had of entered into my mind? Would I even be able to fathom zombies? What would then my fears be? What could I have been thinking in each moment I was being fed someone elses unquestionable thoughts on the toob?

Once upon a time I spent more time in front of the TV than I did under the sun... I really hate that in that time I considered myself "normal"... I hate that many people now choose to receive more light from a screen than the light that drives our very existence...

I would have not considered this, not have made this post... and not have grown in the direction I have as a result.... not if I was now melting my mind away into infomercial land....

 

Here pretty soon I won't have any tv because of the change to digital. Doesn't bother me. Probably a good thing. My friends at work all look at me like i am crazy when I tell them I won't have tv. That is reason enough not to have one. I don't want to be a slave to it like them.
I have a 19 inch and my brother is going to give me a 36 inch tv. I have a few movies but what I usually use it for is playing mario kart 64. Love that game. the 36 will make multiplayer much more fun.

 

There's nothing wrong with tv. You just have to be selective.

 

I don't understand why people pay so much for cable. There is only a couple of really good channels and the rest is shit. i used to have it and it cost me about $80 dollars a month and most of the time I would just flip around trying to find something to watch. I guess now they have the in demand and the DVR so you can watch your shows pretty much anythime you want. Still not worth it in my opinion.

 

I don't watch much TV my damn self.

 

I watch natgeo and history a lot, that's about it... sometimes truTV. Cable is garbage these days... I pass shows flippin around and sometimes you can't help but think, "who the hell is actually watching that right now? How does that sustain itself?"

 

I hate television. I'm cynical enough as it is, I don't need that shit to make it worse. I'm not a violent person, but I tell ya, television makes me wanna go on a murderous rampage. I don't understand how so many people are so hopelessly attached to television. There's just nothing there. Maybe thats the point - if you fill your head with lots of nothing you don't have to seriously consider your own or the world's problems. Ironic because by doing so you contribute significantly to the problem.


It makes me sad when I go out in public and 50% of the conversations I hear around me are about what happened or what will happen in some shitty TV show (another 40% is about sports, and another 9% about various other shit that doesn't matter). Who fucking cares? The show has no bearing on reality. If your brain was a stomach watching television would be like eating Styrofoam.

 

I worked at a food court on campus the last four years. There was a big screen television in the corner of the dining area. I was usually the guy who had to clean up after people in the dining room, and I always had to do the most work at the tables surrounding the TV because the people who sat there were by far the rudest and most careless, leaving all of their trash and trays and plenty of spills all over the place. The TV was ALWAYS set to ESPN as well. On the rare occasion that somebody changed the channel to CNN or some other news channel (you know, the ones that at least pretend to provide some kind of useful or meaningful content) some douche bag would always change it back to ESPN within 5 minutes.

I just don't understand how somebody could be so obsessed with something as trivial as sports. I mean, its one thing to actually go see a game in person where its actually an event, something to do, but to be so intensely interested in what some guy on the screen has to say about what he thinks about sports teams and fill your head with statistics and favorite teams - why? All I can think is it must be an identity thing. If you don't have any natural talents or thoughts to call your own you have to latch onto something from outside, and its easy to do that with sports.

I don't mean to offend any casual sports fans. There's nothing wrong with that interest, and even with watching ESPN occasionally I suppose; but I see too many people around here who have no lives outside of school/work besides thinking about and discussing sports. Not surprisingly, these people seem to be incredibly shallow.

*end rant*

 

bit torrents !!

 

I don't watch "the tube" anymore. I think it was about six years ago that I began to have a passionate distaste for it.

I will watch the occasional film (I like art cinemas, haha), but I'm pretty much out of the loop on pop movie culture too. I took a history of American film class that was cool.

 

I watch a select few shows, and otherwise I don't even turn my TV on. Mostly have my iTunes on nonstop

 

The Internet is the new TV. Don't be fooled into thinking the Internet and the TV are something different.

 

I don't watch any by myself, but sometimes I'll watch a show or two with my boyfriend. He turned me on to a few good ones.

 

got rid of tv about a year ago.... should have done it sooner.... no regrets as i now realise that i was right to chuck it out.... for me, it was a mind-dumbing contraption. if there's something in particular i want to watch, i can get a dvd or look it up on the internet rather than the intrusive nature of a tv on.... the choices were limited..... and the advertising... god, it was relentless...

so.... no, i don't miss it at all

 

There are some pretty big differences though. What about the input of ourselves?

 

It is therefore a Interactive TV ... unless you are using your computer for some kind of computer science programming ...then you are most likely using the computer for its entertainment purposes e.g this forum; the news; listening to music; watching videos; reading books ... which is all entertainment

 

It is therefore a very different thing. Yes, 90% may be entertainment, but it's the changes in how a part of this entertainment is brought to us (by us, for example) and made (also by us). Also, just because it is mainly used for entertainment doesn't mean the other things are irrelevant. Internet changed our media a lot already. It's clearly something else. The use for it in the future may make it the new tv, but then it's still not the same thing at all.

 

you seem to be under the delusion that the future you talk about is something that is going to happen somewhere in the next few years .. 10 years .. 20 years .. when actually its happening right now .. but yes ... you are completely correct when you say there is a difference between the TV and a "Interactive Tv"(Internet)

... The Interactive TV is 100 times more damaging than the TV could ever dream of being.

 

That is a different issue. Damaging for what?