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Hi ashockley – good to hear from you. I used to have my TV on all the time because it was just some company I suppose. But I’d just ‘do a Patrick’ as kc described.
Last August the analogue signal was switched off in the UK and I’d procrastinated about getting a digital TV. So, suddenly one day I had no TV – just a snowy screen. I watched that in disbelief for a while but no, they’d switched off the signal (they had given plenty of warning, but the ADD kicked in and it didn’t register as a reality).
My house is a wreck at the moment so I thought I’d wait a few weeks until I’d done the renovations before getting my new TV. No point if it might get damaged/dusty or whatever.
That was last August – renovations are still not done and still no TV. I thought that the incentive of a new TV might motivate me to get on with it..but no!
I can honestly say I thought I’d go stir crazy but I haven’t. I don’t miss it at all. If anything, my sanity has improved. I do watch DVDs on the computer and I enjoy a good film….and I play on the internet more….but I am not constantly bombarded with c**p all evening now.
Ipsofacto – UK TV is going the same way. They now give a summary of the programme after every ad break. I thought it was dumbing down in action, but someone said because people channel hop they have to do the recap for those joining the programme. It is screamingly awful!
Also, I am not bombarded by negative soaps (they’re not uplifting in the UK at all – if there’s not family conflict, incest, murder or some tragedy then it’s not a UK soap) and I am also not bombarded by constant news programmes. That’s good because I find the state of the world and what we are doing to it and to each other depressing.
So I give a big thumbs up for not having a TV. I never had enough self control to switch it off once it was on, and I’d always switch it on when I ate dinner, so then on it stayed.
TV is a waste of one’s life unless you can limit it. On saying that, if circumstances changed and I wasn’t able to be active then I would definately want one for the company! It’s a double edged sword.
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