NEWS: Turn off your TV and have a Life

But anything worth watching comes out on DVD and you can watch it without ads, in 5.1 with a digitally enhanced picture...

I've always viewed TV as a very worthy medium. There are some stories that are right for film or perhaps a novel or even a play, but others are more suited to television. The way you get to grow with the characters and see true development, and in a sense live with them, is hard to do and I respect it when its done well. This is why reality tv is such shit, althought I've watched my fair share of it, it'll never be what a well written hourlong, or even a good sitcom, can be. I think that a lot of the problem stems from people thinking that the TV watching audience is dumb, which in a lot of cases is true. Take Arrested Development's horrible ratings for instance.

Watching DVD's is still watching TV, though, isn't it?

Technically yes... but like the TiVo continget DVDs only means you build your DVD watching into your life rather than building your life around a TV schedule.

Plus... I don't think advertisers would regard my DVD watching as a valid way for me to enjoy the entertainment they helped fund.

I don't think people have objections to the technology, it's the medium. It's also a lifestyle. I don't like having cable in my house because I lack the restraint to not be a passive schmuck when it's available. I'd rather spend my time being productive.

I see you guys' (your guys'? feh, language) point, obviously, but it seems pretty presumptuous for someone to dictate other people's viewing habits with a little zapper remote, which is what they are advocating.

I think it's fine if people feel that watching TV is a waste of their time; other people do many things that I would consider a waste of my own time, some even build unhealthy lifestyles around such activities, and I have no beef with them about using their time as they please... just don't try to preach to me what is an acceptable use of my own free time, or prepare to be drowned out by ATHF on full volume.

And if you decide to try to interfere with my tv watching indulgances from outside my window with one of those little zapper remotes, prepare to be greeted with the business end of a louisville slugger.

Oh Amen to that totally...

I mean if someone did that to me when I was watching DVDs I paid to watch and had planned to watch at a particular time I'd be hella mad. They can't tell from outside your window that you're watching mind rotting trash...

Or, what if you were playing a video game, a few X button presses from caning some bosses ass after several hours of intense battling and suddenly pfit... no picture. By the time you've switched back on all that hard work gone.

I think these remote people need to acknowledge that a TV isn't just for the broadcast.

casio did a watch that was a remote control

it was ace, any TV it could change, it was grate inschool

here it is

its was ace one person on volume one on channels

A television is showing an actual television picture of broadcast television in my bedroom AT THIS MOMENT. First time a television has been on in my house for two years...

So this Anti-TV propaganda seems to have backfired a bit.

I am gagging off the amount of dust I scraped from the set though.

Even if it was a broadcast, what's the difference? As long as you're not having a daily seizure due to Wapner withdrawl, I don't see what's so different about scheduling your day around going to a theater to see a movie at a certain time, and planning your day around getting to watch a certain tv show at the scheduled time? Is watching XXX 2: State of the Union really much more enlightening and intellectually stimulating than watching something on the History channel?

Instead of TV turn off week, I think there should just be a Boycott Crap week. Or even better, a Boycott Crap lifestyle. But I suppose that distinction is too nuanced for an email meme.

http://www.tvbgone.com/home.php

I love mine. It's great for bars when you don't want to watch figureskating, or to turn the TV off during kareoke

tv is more evil. i can't remember the last time i picked up a book and turned the page on a cliffhanger to be faced with 14 pages of adverts, and then a little repeat of the last few lines before the ads because they went on so long i forgot what i was reading,

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If you couldn't make it through that, you're watching too much television.

Hey, if they donate me some people to hang out with, I'll gladly turn off my TV.

They have to give me money to do stuff with too.

Time to start up a slow clap.

Hey, I have no idea what you said.

T.V. is anti-productive. It is nice to have it gone, but honestly there's a sick sort of comfort going back to it after a while. It's like "oh my sweet friend is visiting!". And it's hard not to miss the 3 good series on hbo that you have to pay an arm and a leg for.

My trashy sister got her cable shut off so all i heard for months was how life was terrible without tv and what she thought of all the new shitty movies on dvd. I praised the lord when she finally paid off that goddamn bill.

Bill Hicks, a dead comedian, once said that "TV is like taking black paint to the third eye".

Not really sure what that means.

I don't mind TV, but what I do find totally inane is people who talk about TV programs, or shit that characters on TV programs said, or repeat entire monologues from TV, because no matter how much inflection, gesture, or amateur acting ability those people use, it always ends up sounding flat and useless, usually generating a stock response or dry laughter from whoever's listening.

Christ, talking about the weather is more interesting than repeating whatever Jon Stewart had to say the night before.

I'm sick of no-content adbusters. It's all the rage in the latest trend of selling ideas instead of products. ...Adbusters greatest advertisment is disinformation.

Fuck those guys. Sorry. that wasn't PC. Fuck those monkeys and freedom-of-expression assasinating assholes.

God bless The Onion...

And my experiment yesterday worked beautifully. 20 minutes into The Lawnmower Man on BBC1 I was out like a light. Of course that could have been Pierce Brosnan...

Hahaha. That's brilliant. Go The Onion.