Can you live without a TV ?

[bmg88201]

I eliminated TV’s from my home in 2010, it’s now been 13 years without a television set in my house. Guess what, life is pretty good without that appliance around. I just find other things to do. And now days it’s mostly all crap anyway. I glance at local news and weather online. Plus it has saved me a ton of money and I absolutely refuse to pay for tv service. What am I missing but politicians lying to me, the media lying to me, etc.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I almost never turn mine on any more. Sometimes to watch a movie.

 

[dodge man]

Let’s see, air, water, food, shelter and so the list goes, I don’t think TV is on it. Of course I could get by without but I don’t. Right now I’m watching Mecum Auctions since I’m into cars. I also like sports and old movies on TCM.

 

[tshep]

I feel the opposite about the cost.
Now that I can pay about a quarter to fifty cents a day to not wait through commercials, I will not watch them anymore. The minimal cost saves me time and the authors' ideas are so much better presented continuously.

 

[Oaktree]

I eliminated TV’s from my home in 2010, it’s now been 13 years without a television set in my house. Guess what, life is pretty good without that appliance around. I just find other things to do. And now days it’s mostly all crap anyway. I glance at local news and weather online. Plus it has saved me a ton of money and I absolutely refuse to pay for tv service. What am I missing but politicians lying to me, the media lying to me, etc.

Just the opposite for me. I never had a tv until my now-wife and I moved in together in the mid 00s. We don't watch a lot, but it's something to do in the evening. Lot of entertaining shows around if you have a Roku, and many of the channels are free to stream.

Don't forget that Newton Minnow declared tv a "vast wasteland" 60-odd years ago.

 

[kf4uda]

We stream so we watch what we want, when we want. We skip the “lying politicians” and such. We watch YouTube a lot. I am waiting for the TBN channel, Muhammad?

 

[YanmarFever]

We shot our TVs back in 79 and never looked back.

Free your mind, shoot your tv....

 

[Jstpssng]

In 2005 I bought my first new television. In 2009 everything went digital, so the only way I could continue to watch was if I paid for the service. That television has been in the shed since 2010... I doubt that it would work now.

Let's ask the question a bit differently... could you live without television if you didn't have internet service?

 

[HawkinsHollow]

We have a few streaming services; HBO Max, Disney+( I have an 11 yo), Hulu, Netflix. All shared with family members of course to keep the price down. We can get all the entertainment we need from that without commercials and network TV/news ********. All watched on an older projector on the wall.

 

[BravoXray]

Let’s see, air, water, food, shelter and so the list goes, I don’t think TV is on it. Of course I could get by without but I don’t. Right now I’m watching Mecum Auctions since I’m into cars. I also like sports and old movies on TCM.

I've been watching the auction on and off too.
Did you see the 1970 Cuda 440 Rapids Transit show car that sold for $2 million?
A 1970 (I think) Hemi Challenger also sold for a million.
Prices on most of the cars are out of sight.
A lot of really nice, but really expensive cars.
Must be a lot of well heeled people in Indy.

 

[Hay Dude]

TV Just to watch some sports.
Other than that I squint at my phone to watch or maybe a little “news”.
I really enjoy certain talk show hosts and simply listen to them, kinda like an AM radio.

 

[notaz3]

50+ years old and never had a TV, or paid for any kind of cable.

I do have a computer and high speed internet that I occasionally watch movies or shows on. Usually while I'm doing other things, like watching CSI and typing on a tractor forum.

 

[pmsmechanic]

We haven't had a TV since about 1997 or so. One of the best moves we ever made while raising teenage boys. An immediate benefit was about 30% less fighting/squabbling. Most of our evenings were spent sitting in the living room, all of us reading a book or something. Later on in life my boys thanked me for not raising them on TV.

 

[reb]

My wife is a TV addict. She is happy with all the free TV available, though. I occasionally watch the news in the evening, but much of what I prefer is on the web. I could live without a TV.

 

[ericm979]

I didn't have TV for many years and didn't miss it. But when I was in a room with a TV I found it captivating and had to position myself so I could not see it. Otherwise it would grab my attention. I think by not having a TV I'd lost the ability to ignore it.

Even now I can't stand watching things in real time where I can't skip the commercials.

 

[hiddentacocatneddih]

Introducing the most boomer thread ever.

 

[JasperFrank]

Over Air TV is a dead technology. It is odd that this ad based system, collapsed.

I don't watch TV any more, as it is too stupid.

We have Youtube and so many others to get a good content.

I am at a lost. at the franchising models that one must sign up for, in the streaming age. ]

Truth be known, I can see any thing, 24 hours after its been released, and even BEFORE the movie has been released as a pre-production. If it was a good movie, I go to the originator's site and give $5.

 

[tacticalturnip]

I could do without the television easy enough, but the rest of the family not so much. My crutch, admittedly, is my computer.

 

[TN8Man]

TV? The question should be Can you live without a smartphone?

The smartphone has replaced the TV as the mass distractor and propaganda dispenser. Just look at all the people walking around like zombies totally oblivious to their surroundings.

 

[Yander]

I used to watch a lot of television. I quit drinking a couple years ago realize that television, especially sports, was a trigger to drink. They kind of went hand in hand in my mind.

I went without the television for a long time. I sometimes go without it for days now. Even then, I don't really watch it that much anymore I could easily do without it.

Internet, YouTube channels and Facebook marketplace is another story