On 2009-02-17, Pete C. > wrote:

> expense. I canceled cable TV last year and haven't missed it. Broadcast
> TV is 99.99% crap and cable TV is 99.95% crap, in either case you are
> better off actually getting off the couch and doing something.

Amen, Pete.

I'll admit to being a child of the tv age. I am drawn to it like a moth to
a flame. I even sometimes wonder if it's not latent instinct, the
electronic equivelent of the primordial campfire our cave ancestors once
huddled around. Regardless, I can, and have, gone without tv for years at a
time. It IS a different life, of that there can be no doubt.

I don't think I'd miss it too much. The current content is soooo bad! I
went back to tv a few yrs back cuz I got a great deal on TCM and am an old
movie buff. Now that I've seen most of them about 5 times and contemporary
movies totally suck, I see no further use for tv. Worse, commercials have
creeped up to the point where they are at least 1/3 of total content, or
about 10min out of every 30mins of programming. It's become insufferable.
It's unbelievable people pay $40-70 mo for this crap.

nb