Join the Rebellion!

[JenRN]

We got so tired of the crap that was being passed off as television programing, we turned off the tube 6 years ago. No cable, no satelite, no boardcast. We sold our house in the Central Valley of California and moved to the Sierra Nevada mountains. We had to go without TV for 6 months while our new house was being put up. We got so used to not having it that we decided not to rehook it up (our 12 year old son's idea). So now, 6 years later we remain TV-free.
Benefits- lots more free time for more important things (car projects); no stupid commercials; no stupid reality shows; no stupid game shows; no stupid soap operas; no time-wasting, making your brain in to paste in front of the idiot-box.

Waste your spare time on the internet instead! YOUTUBE

Join the rebellion today! Turn it off and trash the TV.

[scorp]

Haven't watched TV for about 7 years.. (not counting lost, which I mostly downloaded anyway..)

[Captain Cadillac]

Ahh, Northern half of California you say?

[Eric Mc]

American TV was always rubbish.

Unfortunately British TV is rapidly ataining those same standards.

Howevee, there is still good stuff to be seen over here - you just have to search harder to find it.

[JenRN]

We get NetFlix via the internet and tend to watch the BBC the most, when I do want to look at something. Love TopGears! First season of Ballykissangel was good. Love the older stuff- Are You Being Served; Keeping Up Appearances.

Eric Mc said:

American TV was always rubbish.

Unfortunately British TV is rapidly ataining those same standards.

Howevee, there is still good stuff to be seen over here - you just have to search harder to find it.

[JenRN]

Yes, the "right-wing" enclave of the "left-coast".

Captain Cadillac said:

Ahh, Northern half of California you say?

[KaraK]

JenRN said:

We get NetFlix via the internet and tend to watch the BBC the most, when I do want to look at something. Love TopGears! First season of Ballykissangel was good. Love the older stuff- Are You Being Served; Keeping Up Appearances.

Eric Mc said:

American TV was always rubbish.

Unfortunately British TV is rapidly ataining those same standards.

Howevee, there is still good stuff to be seen over here - you just have to search harder to find it.

The thing is you havent "got rid of TV" ... you are merely watching the same content it via a different medium. Not that there is anything wrong with that - but its hardly a "Rebellion" or something is it?

[jammy_basturd]

I was just thinking the same thing. You haven't really got rid of TV, you've just gone to TV on demand, just a few years before it's ready through TV channels.

[Eric Mc]

It's already available here - I use it all the time.

[T89 Callan]

Sounds good.

Now when do we get the machine guns?

[JenRN]

No commercials; the choice is all mine, not the networks; my time is mine, not theirs.

KaraK said:

JenRN said:

We get NetFlix via the internet and tend to watch the BBC the most, when I do want to look at something. Love TopGears! First season of Ballykissangel was good. Love the older stuff- Are You Being Served; Keeping Up Appearances.

Eric Mc said:

American TV was always rubbish.

Unfortunately British TV is rapidly ataining those same standards.

Howevee, there is still good stuff to be seen over here - you just have to search harder to find it.

The thing is you havent "got rid of TV" ... you are merely watching the same content it via a different medium. Not that there is anything wrong with that - but its hardly a "Rebellion" or something is it?

[JenRN]

TV on demand steals time also, and there are still all those annoying commercials and commercially produced "news" programs. Even with Tevo, a person is chained to the TV. We watch an occassional movie on netflix, or an episode of TopGears. My time is my choice, not a networks. You really see how idiotic programing has become when you stop watching it for a while and then see a TV show while at someone elses's house. All that fake reality shows, and people are so sucked into them.

jammy_basturd said:

I was just thinking the same thing. You haven't really got rid of TV, you've just gone to TV on demand, just a few years before it's ready through TV channels.

[Captain Cadillac]

JenRN said:

Yes, the "right-wing" enclave of the "left-coast".

Captain Cadillac said:

Ahh, Northern half of California you say?

Should we point out that aside from the Bay area that California generally is a quite conservative state? Nah... what fun would that be?

[Dare2Fail]

JenRN said:

No commercials; the choice is all mine, not the networks; my time is mine, not theirs.

KaraK said:

JenRN said:

We get NetFlix via the internet and tend to watch the BBC the most, when I do want to look at something. Love TopGears! First season of Ballykissangel was good. Love the older stuff- Are You Being Served; Keeping Up Appearances.

Eric Mc said:

American TV was always rubbish.

Unfortunately British TV is rapidly ataining those same standards.

Howevee, there is still good stuff to be seen over here - you just have to search harder to find it.

The thing is you havent "got rid of TV" ... you are merely watching the same content it via a different medium. Not that there is anything wrong with that - but its hardly a "Rebellion" or something is it?

Yeah, but getting rid of TV would be never watching TV or anything that they produce. That means reading books instead of watching a TV. Not having a TV in your house etc.

You are still watching the TV companies content, just not as part of their regular viewing schedule.

You make a good point about the news, but I'd be curious to know if you get your news from other sources (newspaper, internet), or if you just don't bother with it?