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11-20-2008, 10:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Charlotte, NC | | | Could you live without TV?
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How would it affect you if you couldn't turn your TV on for 30 days? Would you be able to live without it? Would you feel isolated and uninformed or would it set you free? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI |
11-20-2008, 10:37 AM
|  | *******er Emeritus(does anyone remember that? No?) | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Houston, Texas | | | I need a TV, if only to play video games.
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11-20-2008, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Hancock, MD | | | I rarely ever watch TV. I just don't find it interesting anymore. I'll watch football, and sometimes catch an episode of PINKS but other than that I find it boring and repetitive.
Now if I could only pry myself away from the internet I could probably go out and get something done.
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11-20-2008, 10:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Delhi, India | | | totally! in fact i do live without a TV
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11-20-2008, 10:40 AM
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Lark in the Morning Instructional Videos; Audix Microphones | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Santa Cruz Mtns, California | | | Haven't had TV for over 20 years. I don't miss it.
More time to practice and play music, and I like it that way.
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11-20-2008, 10:41 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: wolcott ct. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by TheoFly How would it affect you if you couldn't turn your TV on for 30 days? Would you be able to live without it? Would you feel isolated and uninformed or would it set you free? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTN3s2iVKKI | No. TV, me like
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11-20-2008, 10:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Madison, NJ | | | By living without TV, do you mean a television, or some sort of cable service?
I could live without cable, but I could not live without a television.
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11-20-2008, 10:46 AM
|  | TalkBass' resident Bongo + Cowbell player | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Bucaramanga, Colombia, South A | | | I hardly watch TV nowadays, but I couldn't conceive life without it when I was a kid/teenager. |
11-20-2008, 10:49 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Richmond, Virginia | | | I could live without a personal TV... I don't know if I could live without TV anywhere, ever. |
11-20-2008, 10:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by HollowBassman I rarely ever watch TV. I just don't find it interesting anymore. I'll watch football, and sometimes catch an episode of PINKS but other than that I find it boring and repetitive.
Now if I could only pry myself away from the internet I could probably go out and get something done. | Yeah, football would be the only tough thing to give up. Perhaps some of the cool educational channels as well.
What's PINKS?
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11-20-2008, 10:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | I love TV. I watch every day. It relaxes me. Yeah, there's a lot of crap on, but there are a few good shows, too. |
11-20-2008, 10:57 AM
|  | (((o))) Moderator | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Antwerp, Belgium | | | The only thing I watch on tv are series like BSG and The Sopranos and the occasional sport event. |
11-20-2008, 10:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Edinburgh & Dundee, Scotland | | I dont have a TV, if only I could cut out useless net surfing tho 
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11-20-2008, 11:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan | | | I don't watch a lot of TV, but I do like my video games. |
11-20-2008, 11:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: California | | | This is a subject on which I could write a long article.
Every serious researcher I've read says TV is unhealthy, exploitative and generally pernicious on a tremendously wide variety of criteria. The only disagreement seems to be how bad and in which ways.
The amount of effort spent on researching how to persuade and manipulate viewers largely against their wills is staggering, as are the mind-numbing results.
I have a TV and sometimes automatically tape a single quiz show so I can watch the week's eight minutes of actual daily play all at once. Other than that, I rarely have it on. Sometimes I find that there will be a rare program worth watching and I do, but not usually -- perhaps once every couple of months.
What I tell people is that if you go without TV for a couple of months and watch it again, you'd probably throw up.
When I accidentally see TV somewhere after not watching it for a couple of months, I'm amazed at how stupid, intrusive and offensive it is to me. Absolutely sickening -- literally, not for the disgusting programming, but for the aggressive use of visual and auditory "events" to calculatedly overstimulate the viewer's system.
I read.
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11-20-2008, 11:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Yuma, Az | | | I don't watch TV at all now that there's shows on teh intarwebz. I wait until the whole season is posted and have a marathon.
Yeah, I could do without TV, but my kids wouldn't like it at all, and they're loud.
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11-20-2008, 11:03 AM
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Endorsing Artist: see profile | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: toms_river.nj.us | | First off, I own a 32" TV AND I have had cable modem service since 2001 that includes me having to pay for basic cable.
That said, I have not watched broadcast TV in a decade. The wife and I choose not to. We read, listen to music, surf and play video games to relax. I will admit in the last year, I've started following a couple shows via network websites.
Once TV lets you watch what you want when you want, we might consider it. Until then, we will just catch the odd show online at our convenience.
As far as news goes... I generally read about stuff 12 to 36 hours before mainstream TV news covers it.
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11-20-2008, 11:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: London UK | | | Could I live without TV. Let me ask my 46" LCD TV and Xbox. No, it says I could not.
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11-20-2008, 11:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Edwardsville, IL | | | Watch Free Speech TV, LINK TV....and Democracy Now! Otherwise, kill your TV and all of it's dumb-down-lowest-common-denominator programing. Make some music instead.
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11-20-2008, 11:15 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | | i turned my tv off in September and have not looked back. now no radio or music for a month i could not do.
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