How many of you don't have a TV

[Ichingcarpenter]

but get their news and media elsewhere?


I do appreciate those that inform us on the crap they see and have to listen to on TV


I don't have a star anymore so I can't put it in a poll like I would have wished.

My news normally arrives way before TV unless its a mass murder crazy.

I haven't had a TV for 5 years now but see TV shows and movies that I like when I want to.

So I guess the question is

TV.... yes

TV .... no

[arcane1]

1. Count me in. Ten years.

I'll watch a DVD now and then on my computer, and I stream things like the Daily Show, but all my news comes to me in readable format

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. So you never witnessed

the build up to the war in Iraq on the media propaganda which was so blatant?

'Mission accomplished" made me realize it was time to turn it off.

[arcane1]

10. Sadly, I did witness that. It was late 2003 when I cancelled my cable service.

Come to think of it, it may have been early 2004. I should change my response to "roughly ten years"

[arely staircase]

2. haven't had one in five years

but I'm thinking of getting one again.

[earthside]

7. Motion pictures.

We are living in a golden age for watching the motion picture arts.

HD televisions and superior sound systems have made movie watching an extraordinary experience.

Without distraction -- in my own home -- I am able to view silent movies from the 1920s; nouveau vague; film noir; art movies; Hollywood blockbusters.

Netflix, the public library and other sources make movies that just five or six years ago were difficult to find available to see with great quality.

And sometimes I even watch Rachel Maddow.

Television technology in 2013 is amazing ... I'm in awe of it.

[arely staircase]

13. yeah. the price of HD technology has come down to the point I can't justify not having

a large flat HD TV.

[Raksha]

73. That's good to know.

If I had just a little more income I might think about getting one.

[arely staircase]

74. you can get a ginormous used one at a pawn shop fo less than 300 bucks

Which is probably the route I will go. I will still probably watch little actual TV but will watch movies in a much grander fashion.

[silverweb]

3. No TV since 1/1/2007.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Haven't missed it once.

[randome]

4. Just canceled my DirecTV subscription.

Trying to save money for my daughters' college expenses. Anything we need, we download anyways.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. I was so happy with Direct TV

as compared to cable..... but those were years ago before the internet jumped 10 fold in speed and applications.

I had the first HD shows and channels in my neighborhood with Direct TV as compared to cable.

[Luminous Animal]

5. No tv. And so happy I don't.

[Ichingcarpenter]

19. All youtube commercials can now be cut out

which I have found annoying which was added in the last year or so. So imagine.. TV....no fucking commercials if you want.

Can't do that with TV.

[2naSalit]

8. No TeeVee

in my home(s) since 1980!! And I have no desire or intention to get one. If there's something I want to watch, I watch it online (don't do HULU either) or go to a friend's house where there is one and they are watching what I wanted to see.

[OKNancy]

9. You are probably going to get mostly people who don't have one, but I have three

One in the den, one in my (adult) daughter's room and one in the master.
Only the one in the den gets much use. I have it on MSNBC most of the day, but I love all the home decorating shows and sometimes I watch cooking shows.
I like some reality tv!! I like some tv dramas like The Blacklist, Person of Interest, and the Good Wife.
I like to watch sports too. It's been on football all weekend. It's fun!
Of course some of the PBS shows are outstanding. Too many to list.

I'm totally bourgeoisie and don't give a shit what anyone thinks. LOL

[Ichingcarpenter]

15. I watch all of those

except live sports.

If you know how to look and hook up... but it forces you to be the programmer on what you want to watch but that is something at my age I can do because what is time to a old fart like me?



You know when the shuttle use to broadcast live a bed ridden
invalid recorded everything they did because they did it live?

NASA doesn't do that anymore.

[loli phabay]

17. we have seven flatscreens, four in the bedrooms, one in living room, one in workroom, one in games r

Tend not to watch much tv but love amazon prime, netflix and xbox video.

[Walk away]

64. I am the only one in the house and I have 3 Flats and a grandma Sony....

that just won't die. Only the flat screens have cable boxes. I didn't buy them. They were gifts but...I am responsible for their care and feeding.

I love to watch while I'm on the internet. It's a little bit of an addiction.

[cherokeeprogressive]

87. Five flat-screens.

No apologies here. A 60" in the Living Room, 36" in each bedroom except the Master which has a 40 something, and a 50" in the Game Room.

Believe it or not, we don't watch a whole lot of TV unless it's sports, documentaries, or movies, but I feel my visitors, and we have many, should have their choice.

NASCAR's bitchin' on 60" 1080p with surround and a sub-woofer.

For special occasions like Super Bowl parties or World Cup finals, we have a 1080p projector that will put an astonishing picture on a 100" screen.

[loli phabay]

94. sir you are a connoisseur.

[ScreamingMeemie]

77. The Blacklist is my new Best Thing EVAH!

[DesertFlower]

79. i have 5 -- 1 in my bedroom,

1 in the living room, 1 in my late husband's room, 1 in my exercise room and 1 in the guest room. if i spent more time in the kitchen i'd have 1 there too. as soon as i wake up in the morning i hit the remote. same thing before i go to sleep.

i don't care what anyone thinks either. i like tv.

even years ago when we vacationed in puerto rico we had the tv on even though we didn't speak the language. wherever we vacationed as soon as we got to our room the first thing hubby did was make sure the tv was working.

[canoeist52]

12. Four years for us.

Life is way more peaceful without it. Programming, and particularly advertizing, is very jarring and disturbing to watch when I'm in a waiting room, now. It's much easier to see the lies and agenda when it's not pounding into our heads daily.
And when we go out to eat, we deliberately choose restaurants with no TV in the dining area.

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. I saw advirtising

At a friend's TV and boy it was like going away from a bad drug and seeing it for what it is.

[rdharma]

14. I have NO cable TV connection. Don't need it even though I've got two fairly large flat screen TVs.

They are really nice. I keep them in storage in my basement. If I find they are taking up excess space, they may go to VCR and TV heaven.

Everything I need, I get on my computer and the "internets"........ without the needless mind-numbing BS and expense for worthless that worthless cable crap!

[SheilaT]

18. Five years plus no TV.

It started more or less as an experiment. I'd moved halfway across the country after divorce, didn't want to spend the money on a TV or on cable/satellite, whatever. I do have the internet, so I get to watch as much TV type things as I want.

And whenever there is some sort of breaking news, I find that the local TV stations invariably go to live streaming coverage, so I don't miss important stories. And sometimes those local stations are far more interesting than the national network is.

The very, very best part is that I see very few commercials. Least of all the political ones, unless someone like Rachel Maddow shows them as part of her show.

Because of no commercials I'm oddly out of touch with all sorts of consumer things. I was in Target a couple of weeks ago and looking at the electronics, and was quite fascinated by what is out there. On the other hand, seeing so few ads exhorting me to buy makes it very easy to live within my budget.

[ohheckyeah]

20. Yes...

I have three.

[LuvNewcastle]

21. I have a tv, but I don't have cable.

I use rabbit ears and it picks up all the networks plus a few oddball stations and I pay nothing. I only watch tv during prime time, and only when something I like is on. I'll watch a little tv news, but I only watch it to critique it. It's fun to watch the news from the angle of seeing what they leave out and how they cover the little bit they do report. My favorite tv shows are Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune. The rest is mostly shit, and I'd be sick if I paid somebody for the privilege of watching it. I don't think people should pay for tv, period.

[Ichingcarpenter]

22. When was the last time

you bought a newspaper or news magazine?

my record is about 6 years now It was before I cut the TV link.

[LuvNewcastle]

24. I don't even remember the last time I bought one of those things.

My guess is about 7 or 8 years. I guess I'll buy again when they start printing something I find valuable. That's right, probably never.

[madinmaryland]

23. Hmm. Another "I don't have a TV, so I am far superior to everyone else" thread. meh.

[ileus]

25. and we only shop at whole foods.

Next up how we don't do Christmas...

[Ichingcarpenter]

31. No we think

its important to celebrate and give thanks on the shortest day of the year when the sun sets at 3 in the afternoon.

[Ichingcarpenter]

26. no i'm econimically strapped.

so my opinions are not as superior to yours

I just asked a question and you make into an economic X factor.

[madinmaryland]

43. Yes, I understand that from your post...

I also know that the ones that I described typically take over these threads with their holier than thou attitudes, which does appear to be happening.

I suppose I should not suggest that I enjoy watching sports on a Sunday afternoon, either. We would see more heads explode here!!

[Ichingcarpenter]

48. good for you

the PGA and the NFL are some of the greatest great organizations you could hope for watching to see what happened.

After I get my new stadium.

[Paladin]

36. +1,000,000. It's always that way.

For the record, we have several TV's. We have a cable service. We are retired. We enjoy ourselves. Deal with it.

[mike_c]

41. it's like being an ex-smoker....

For a short time you miss it, often a lot. Then when the craving passes, you swing the other way, find it gross and unsettling, an intrusion into your daily life. Eventually, it just becomes something you once did, but have zero desire to do again. Are ex-smokers "superior" to smokers? I'm an ex-smoker, my partner smokes. I prefer not smoking. And I prefer not having a noisy box spewing media culture into my home.

That doesn't make me "superior," although it certainly does make me happier than I would be otherwise. Occasionally I watch television in hotels and such, maybe once every two or three years. I can never take more than a few minutes of commercial programming, just like the taste of tobacco smoke makes me sick now. I used to crave it. Now it repels me. TV is the same way.

Perhaps before you condemn folks who find themselves happier without television, you might try it for a year or two. Long enough to clear the craving out, so you can reconsider from a different perspective. You might find yourself in exactly the same position that I'm in, utterly appalled by what most Americans find "entertaining" (if its dominance of commercial programming is any indication of what American TV watchers actually want, of course).

[Paladin]

55. Point, meet overwhelming confirmation.

Take the rest of evening off. You deserve it......

[Egalitarian Thug]

82. No one but you brought up anything even remotely like what you represented.

You owe the thread an apology, but more importantly, you should probably question why you responded the way you did.

[madinmaryland]

84. I appreciate your response to my post. But it has been very interesting to

watch the responses espousing their hatred of the teevee boogeyman.

[riderinthestorm]

27. 25 years without a tv. Too rural for cable and satellite was too expensive

Limped along with PBS programs when the kids were very young but the reception was never reliable.

I can afford it now but have zero desire.

[malaise]

28. TV

Yes

Just got back my star two weeks ago.

[Ichingcarpenter]

38. I love your reports to us on what's TV doing

You are a window to the truth.

[malaise]

52. LOL

Someone has to watch

[mike_c]

29. no TV here for 20+ years....

Celebrity high jinks become pretty meaningless when you have little clue who any of the current media celebrities are, LOL. Actually, I guess they start out pretty meaningless anyway.

I disconnected the TV cable and got rid of the squawking box in the early 1990s, but hadn't been a regular viewer for ten years before that.

[Ichingcarpenter]

58. Ah..... that's why

you are not a mainstream poster unlike myself on DU.....we need to get you an idiot box or the one eyed monster as our parents told us it was ......in those exact words.

[johnp3907]

30. No TV.

If I'm in an environment where there's a TV on (waiting rooms, other people's houses, etc) something in the back of my brain whispers through clenched teeth: "turnitoffturnitoffturnitoffturnitoff....." I get a daily paper--take it to work and read it on my breakfast break, and though I love my paper I don't get too upset if I drop it or leave it on a table. I would be upset if one of those things happened with some electronic device.

[FarCenter]

32. I have a TV, but I depend on the internet for news

How else do you get news from reliable sources like France24, BBC, Guardian, Deutsche Welle, Der Spiegel, Daily Yomiuri, People's Daily, RIA Novosti, AlJazeera, Times of India, Dawn, etc.?

[Ichingcarpenter]

33. I used to go to the library

from a child to a mid life adult to read that much and more.

Now i'm able to read archives that were never available from universities and other research sources for ither free or a nominal fee.

Plus you can now get it translated free...... wow.

[FarCenter]

37. Yes, the translation is great for sites like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that aren't in English

[Art_from_Ark]

101. Sometimes with those free translations, you get what you pay for

Like this, um, "translation" of the Japanese song "Sayonara":

You can see small I 'm done already
I will want to hug you unintentionally

"I have to leave this alone because I do not cry "
I fall tears to flow the cheek of you

"We 's free" I said so at some point
Do not even think of thing including today though

White winter outside soon goodbye goodbye goodbye
It was love only you only you as it certainly

Love is you instead of me I sad
You may sleep in the chest of someone today

The road when nobody was looking because I shy
Cold day to be able to walk Soi more liked you

White winter outside soon goodbye goodbye goodbye
It was love only you only you as it certainly

White winter outside soon goodbye goodbye goodbye
It was love only you only you as it certainly

White winter outside soon goodbye goodbye goodbye
It was love only you only you as it certainly

Outside Become a snow soon rain today

[CFLDem]

34. TV is my master n/t

[tabasco]

60. I believe it.

Well-programmed.

[5X]

35. Almost no tv...

only a 7 inch that gets over the air pbs and not much else. I can get more, but that is all I watch.

[madokie]

39. Our tv is used mostly for sports

my wife watches a few programs. We watch the local news but nothing on the national or world stage.

I get my 'news' as such from the internet

[Warren DeMontague]

40. TV? Pah! I don't even use computers!

I don't believe in them.

[Warren DeMontague]

42. Serious answer: we watch tv sometimes, just not the "Newz"

Occasionally, big events- like Presidential elections, we'll tune in for those.

But honestly I ditched Cable TV so-called News in 2004. Just couldn't take the bullshit anymore, plus it seemed like every time I turned CNN on Don Imus was sitting there looking like some kind of undead creature, and my cat would urinate on the couch from fear.

[Ichingcarpenter]

44. Don Imus?

I thought he was on MSNBC?

What an ass at 6 in the morning followed by morning Joke.....

God my stomach got ulcers then.

[Warren DeMontague]

45. Yeah, you're right.

Like I said, it was 10 years ago. I can be forgiven if my memory is hazy, right?

Anyway I do specifically remember that it was CNN's coverage of the 2004 election season that put me over the edge.

[Sanity Claws]

46. No tv for about five years

When signals turned digital, I let my little tv give up the ghost.
Since then, I've watched some things on line, like The Daily Show and The Colbert Report.
I do NOT miss television news. The biases are so obvious that I can't stomach what they are trying to sell me. I just won't watch it.

[tammywammy]

47. I have three.

One in my bedroom, one in the living room and one in my study.

I'm actually about to purchase a new flat screen for my living room. I'm contemplating getting rid of cable and going with a Rouk.

I don't get my news from tv, except local stuff.

[Ichingcarpenter]

49. My budget is very limited

I do remember that it used to cost me for now what I can afford for food a month.

I'm not ragging on those that afford it, I just asked those that either chose not to.

I love Malise's posts in the morning on morning joe and other crap she sees on TV plus others.......


Its still important they we have watcher....but in the sense of

'WATCHERS''
not viewers.

I just think times are really accelerating and cable and normal TV is hurting and that revolution is going the way of the print setters in my time.

No wonder governments want to control the internet.

[tammywammy]

57. All my tvs have been given to me.

This would be the first tv I've ever purchased. I'll donate the tvs I'm getting rid of to charity. I don't watch most primetime shows, though I am a fan of The Big Bang Theory. I watch a lot of movies, documentaries and NatGeo stuff mostly off Netflix and Amazon Prime which is why I'm thinking of doing cable altogether and getting the Rouk. Frankly as a full-time worker and a grad student I don't get a lot of time to watch tv, and when I do I enjoy it as relaxing.

I didn't say there's anything wrong with not having a tv.

[kiva]

88. Love my roku.

I've been close to 2 years cut from cable - instead I have Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon Prime (which I have before cutting the cable. So, I pay about the same as I'd pay for the most basic cable, but have most of what I want to see.

The main difference is you have to deliberately watch TV - when you turn the set on, nothing happens until you choose a show, then once the show is over it stops (except Hulu)...so no thoughtless watching.

[Warpy]

50. I didn't have a TV for a lot of years in the late 60s

and I've tended to gravitate toward evening and night shifts, which accomplished about the same thing. The TV only came in handy during periods of poverty, when I'd catch up on what people had been talking about.

I didn't get a satellite hookup until 2006, when I got my corneal transplant and couldn't see very well at all. I'd seen cable TV only when I visited my parents or other people who had it.

These days, it's set on geeky or arty fare and about the only time I actually watch the monster is when foreign or silent films with subtitles are on and worth seeing.

Televised news, either cable or broadcast, had proven itself utterly useless and I turned it off for the last time in 2004. If it's important, I'll see a video on You Tube. And it's true, you get news much more quickly online and generally from on scene observers. You just have to filter the rumor mill extensively.

[TBF]

51. TV for sports only -

at least that is my feeling about it.

My husband and children love the TV and watch all kinds of things. I will turn it on for tennis, football, and an occasional movie. I get all my news from various sites on the Internet and haven't watched a TV "news" show for probably 20 years or more.

[Ichingcarpenter]

54. Are your TVs hooked to the internet as well?

That is the wave of the future or should I say the now.

I think its a question of how well the US is keeping up with what is going on with the rest of the planet.

Its not leading because of monopolies.

[TBF]

76. I don't know -

I know we have direct tv and I know we have internet. My guess is that the newest tv probably has that capability.

[wercal]

53. I've got a TV but its over the air

No cable, sat, etc. Reading some of the posts in this thread, I'm under the impression that some people aren't aware that it is possible to get cable, without paying for cable, etc.

I pay nothing, and can watch sports or whatever mindless diversion entertains me.

I will say that eliminating the 24 hr cable news from my life was liberating. And now, whenever I'm in a place that has it on, I really can't stand to be around it.

I went a year without TV once. I really didn't miss it, and hardly noticed its absence. However, this was pre-internet, and sometimes I felt like Rip Van Winkle, being completely out of touch with current pop culture.

TV is also very good for getting local news...which is often much more important to your daily life than national news. The good old ten o'clock news.

[Ichingcarpenter]

56. Don't disagree

I put up some of first antennas to catch local HD programs which congress at one time said they must do when going over to digital.


yes the local is missing from my experience......

I miss our local
Ron Burgundy.
and I mean that with the joke within the joke.

'Stay Classy San Diego''

I knew some our local tv personnel
and they did a good job and got paid shit and we loved them for it.

[riderinthestorm]

59. I'm so rural I use a Verizon wifi hotspot and even that's sketchy service.

Since I'm on limited gigs I can't afford to stream.

When there's a storm there's still days I have no service

[Ichingcarpenter]

63. the lack of good bandwidth

in the US is a ripoff that suppose to happen years ago by the telecons who were paid through tax breaks and deals but
screwed america
when we all knew that was the future and they did nothing.

Bill Moyers did a great investigative report on that years ago

Then most of the western/modern world bi past us by leaps and bounds and the cable and telecons here got billions for doing nothing and rural america still suffers.

It was suppose to be like FDR's electrification of rural areas but with the internet.

That's from the 90s when we had the lead.

[fizzgig]

62. we have a converter box

comcast expanded what they offer for free, so we get a pretty good selection of channels.

we watch the local news some nights, but i'm usually home too late to catch it.

[2banon]

70. me too, don't pay a dime for that shite. Over the Air

signals work for the most part with my small HD flatscreen, radio shack indoor antenna.

[wercal]

96. I've got an amplified indoor antenna

Get 14 stations. Haven't paid for tv in nine years. I miss some stuff....but not enough to pay for it.

[Le Taz Hot]

61. I have a TV but no TV service

except for Netflix and what I can find online. Don't miss it not even a little bit and it's saving me $80.00 a month.

[Ichingcarpenter]

71. I think the new media

has for the moment i technologically and sociologically outpaced the of controllers and their paradigms

I say in 5 years the net will never be as free as it was.

unless........Well
that's up to us.

[dixiegrrrrl]

65. No tv...gave it away about 5 years ago.

Could not stand the poor quality, the insipid yak ayk yak about nothing, nor having to pay huge bucks a month for very little return.

Everything I DO want to see turns up on the net sooner or later. On MY schedule.
Plus..NO commercials!!!!!

TV has jumped the shark, IMHO.

[NastyRiffraff]

66. No TV since West Wing went off the air

My TV broke in protest and haven't had one since.

I was in the hospital for a few days so I killed time by watching the TV there, and I remembered why I didn't miss the thing. So much stupidity coming out of a small screen!

[JI7]

67. i have a tv but don't look to it to become informed

as far as news goes. unless it's something like local weather or some other local matters .

[red dog 1]

68. TV yes....but no cable or satellite

I watch movies on dvd & taped TV shows every night;

My favorite place to get latest news is right here at DU.

I also go to Brad Blog, Daily Kos, Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Examiner.com. Now Public.com,
OpEdNews.com, RawStory.com, The Nation.com, Alternet.org, ThinkProgress.org..etc.

I do miss watching my SF Giants & 49ers games, as well as the Golden State Warriors, (who have a very good team this year)

I get news from both commercial and public radio, too ..especially NPR (Nice Polite Republicans)

[2banon]

69. TV without Cable, Dish Satellite. only airwaves

I can receive local news reports, or pbs. PBS Newshour is enough bullshit enough for my needs don't need to pay for more of the same. I'd like to get Al Jazeera America but I think I'd need to get a Roku which I'm considering for other reasons.

[Raksha]

72. I don't have one, but only because I can't afford cable

and the Internet is more important to me--indispensible, in fact. I figure I can watch video on my computer if I want to, but I can't post on DU without an Internet connection.

[Coyotl]

75. T-V = NO, absolutely NO, cultural poison.

In the jungle in Peru we survived just fine without so much as a newspaper, and we were much happier for the lack thereof. I admit I bought a newspaper once when I flew to the outside world and saw a headline reading, "War Ends, 70,000 Dead." It was just a minor skirmish in the Middle East!

[ScreamingMeemie]

78. TV? Yes! Addicted to television shows that many here would make fun of me for? Yes!

Love sports? Yes! Mad when I can't watch the Packers on Sunday? Yes!

[MineralMan]

80. Yes, we have a tv.

Flat screen LCD, bought on deep discount on sale. Over the air. We also have an android dongle that plugs into one of its HDMI ports. It has a wireless mouse/keyboard and connects to our WiFi network. That gives us access to any video feeds on the Internet, along with Netflix and Amazon streaming movies, etc.

We also have basic HD cable, which also provides our Internet access. We have the TV on maybe two hours a day, unless we want a movie. Today, though, I used the Android dongle to find a live video feed from the train accident. I use it with Hulu to watch some foreign broadcasts too, sometimes.

That is the new television, and we are just beginning to tap into everything that is available.

[Egalitarian Thug]

81. No TV, for so long I don't count it.

Much more time for important stuff. Completely ignorant of current American Consumer Culture.

[Yo_Mama]

83. No TV n/t

[hunter]

85. Have a TV. It's for playing movies. That's all. DVD, VCR.

Broadcast, cable, satellite, hell no.

And God Forbid, no TV news or "news-like" programs!!!

I don't even have Adobe Flash installed on my computer.

I go days and days without seeing any advertising or propaganda.

[last1standing]

86. I have two TVs but no cable or aerials.

I have each hooked to a mini-computer that has a wireless connection to my server where I mostly store copies of old brit-coms and movies. I also have Netflix and Amazon Prime.

I have no problem with those who watch TV but I've found there's so little on worth watching (for my tastes) that it didn't make sense to pay for it or to tie myself down to someone else's schedule. Do I wish there was less Duck Dynasty and more Arrested Development out there? Sure, but my tastes have never been popular.

[ananda]

89. I have two tv's.

There are a few shows I like to tape and watch later,
and I use Netflix and Acorn for streaming.

I used to be a televidiot, but not any more.

I usually watch an average of two shows a day.

Now, if T-W raises their rates next summer, that might change
and I'll cancel the tv service and just keep the internet for
streaming.

We'll see.

[intheflow]

90. I have a tv to watch dvds on.

Which I get for free at the library. But got rid of cable almost 15 years ago, now. HATE the commercials, hated paying for 500 channels when I only watched maybe three, and didn't even watch those that often. Just a ridiculous expense for mindless pap.

[Egnever]

91. I have a 55 inch flat screen ...Monitor

Cut the cable years ago. Have a computer hooked up to it and do all of my viewing through the computer.

Have been doing that for about 10 years now. I am posting right now from my couch with a wireless keyboard and when i am done I will continue reading DU. Maybe later I will watch a movie.

Once in a while I will stream MSNBC but most of my news comes from LBN which is typically a day or two ahead of the mainstream news anyway.

[sakabatou]

92. I have a TV, but I mainly use it for entertainment, not news

[Skittles]

93. I have a TV, no cable

I watch Netflix for entertainment and my laptop for news

[rrneck]

95. I have a TV but I don't get televised content. nt

[donheld]

97. I have no TV.

I haven't watched for about 5 years.

[joeglow3]

98. Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television

CHAPEL HILL, NC–Area resident Jonathan Green does not own a television, a fact he repeatedly points out to friends, family, and coworkers–as well as to his mailman, neighborhood convenience-store clerks, and the man who cleans the hallways in his apartment building.

"I, personally, would rather spend my time doing something useful than watch television," Green told a random woman Monday at the Suds 'N' Duds Laundromat, noticing the establishment's wall-mounted TV. "I don't even own one."

According to Melinda Elkins, a coworker of Green's at The Frame Job, a Chapel Hill picture-frame shop, Green steers the conversation toward television whenever possible, just so he can mention not owning one.

"A few days ago, [store manager] Annette [Haig] was saying her new contacts were bothering her," Elkins said. "The second she said that, I knew Jonathan would pounce. He was like, 'I didn't know you had contacts, Annette. Are your eyes bad? That a shame. I'm really lucky to have almost perfect vision. I'm guessing it's because I don't watch TV. In fact, I don't even own one."



http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel,429/

[kentauros]

103. Thanks for the early morning, monitor-viewing laugh!

[Spider Jerusalem]

99. I have a TV

which is mostly used for watching films. I get my news elsewhere. I read. Newspapers and newsmagazines (online for the most part). I prefer the written word as a source of information; television viewing is essentially passive, reading is active, you engage with the material in a fundamentally different way. And print/online/whatever news has more depth and context than TV news, for the most part.

[TroglodyteScholar]

100. TV no n/t

[kentauros]

102. I absolutely DO have a television set.

It's a "small" 32" screen. I also have a 24" computer monitor. All too often in threads like these I'll see people admit to having no TV set, and yet they still seem to watch DVDs of their favorite shows and movies. Okay, then you do have a "TV", even if it's on a computer monitor.

[nolabels]

104. TV News?

What a concept

I have five or six large screens in the house but mostly they only get used for viewing movies, sports and Star Trek

[MadrasT]

105. Teevee with no "service" since November 2004.

I use it to watch DVDs but have no cable or satellite.

I can get NBC and CBS over the air with an antenna but I rarely bother.

Once in a blue moon I hook up the antenna and watching broadcast teevee (last time I did was to watch the 2012 presidential debates).

I do watch a lot of teevee shows on DVDs but don't see commercials, and I get my news on radio and the internet. What passes for teevee "news" these days is just sad.

[CBGLuthier]

106. If you have a computer and the internet you have a TV

TV is a 20th century concept. Welcome to the future and celebrate your 21st already.

[Nika]

107. I got rid of my TV IN 1995.

i just read, see an occasional movie or use the computer.

I've occasionally used Hulu.com ir Netflicks, but I don't currently.