Comments on: Kill Your Television

By: Stan Marsh

Stan Marsh — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:52:18 +0000

I could go without Cable Television except for one little thing; the History Channel. I think the channel and all its affiliates are very informative and fun to watch. Now if everything was a la carte, then I would only have about 5 channels… wow that would be sweet.

By: Greg Whitescarver

Greg Whitescarver — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 20:49:15 +0000

I also haven’t owned a TV for years. I still see television sometimes; a friend will rent 24 on DVD or throw a Super Bowl party. On the whole, though, skipping TV has been a huge improvement in my quality of life. At those rare moments when I’m home with nothing to do, I usually do something healthy and/or useful like cleaning, exercising, reinstalling Linux, or (god forbid) sleeping.

Anyway: go with it. You won’t regret it.

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By: Nick O'Grady

Nick O'Grady — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:24:09 +0000

300 channels…still nothing on. For news there’s the internet, for tv shows and movies, there is iTunes and your laptop…the great merger of devices is on, getting personal…and things like the iPhone are only going to make it more obsolete. It won’t be today, it won’t be tomorrow..but as content becomes personal…the dictatorship of timing and controling shows will soon be at an end…and I can’t wait.

By: Constance Reader

Constance Reader — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:06:35 +0000

I don’t play video games and if I want watch movies in “HiDef”, I go to a movie theater. I’ve watched movie trailers in HiDef and seen friends’ HD TV — I can’t tell the difference.

I should add this caveat: I have a 20″ iMac with a Harmon-Kardon speaker system, so it’s not as if I’m sacrificing screen size or audio.

Another admission: I don’t watch YouTube, either.

By: Danno

Danno — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:52:07 +0000

But how can you play video games without a TV? Or watch movies in Hi Def? Or watch YouTube videos… no, wait, scratch that last one.

By: Constance Reader

Constance Reader — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:22:03 +0000

Welcome to the revolution! September will start my sixth year without a television. I haven’t missed it a bit. If there’s anything I really want to see, I pull it off of the iTunes music store or get the DVDs from Netflix. It usually doesn’t live up to the hype, though. I figure a couple of bucks for an episode of the iTMS is a small price to pay to learn what I’m “missing”.

Getting rid of the TV was the best thing I ever did. It was financially rough at first — the cable company had not yet unbundled high speed internet from cable TV for pricing purchases, so I had to pay for a cable TV setup that didn’t exist. The look on the poor tech’s face when he showed up to install the cable box along with the cable modem was priceless. But after a couple of years they unbundled, so it’s all good.

By: theSalmonFarm Blog » Blog Archive » The simple(er) life

theSalmonFarm Blog » Blog Archive » The simple(er) life — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:58:24 +0000

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