Oh. I just stopped watching TV as soon as I left home, because I didn't like the constant obnoxious advertising. This was before Netflix really took off, and I find that I can enjoy that content in short bursts, but eventually my body has just got to move, and off it goes again.
It's really weird visiting relatives houses now, where the norm is to have the TV on all the time. Like... how do you have a conversation over the noise?
Same, since leaving for uni I've not had a TV. My mum keeps the TV on all the time for company or something, which is very annoying when you call up and its blaring out in the background. She doesn't turn it down for video calls either.
Now that I've got my own kids we still don't have a TV. We've just a few laptops so streaming shows can be watched wherever.
>Now that I've got my own kids we still don't have a TV. We've just a few laptops so streaming shows can be watched wherever.
The problem with this is that laptops are a terrible way of watching a streaming show (or anything else) if you're more than 1 person. A large-screen TV is much nicer to sit in front of when you have a couple or group watching the same thing.
But these days it's getting really hard to know what people mean by "watching TV" or "owning a TV". Do they mean watching over-the-air broadcasts with ads? Or do they mean using a large screen as a glorified monitor, connected to the internet for streaming shows or for watching pre-downloaded movies? The use-cases are quite different.
> The problem with this is that laptops are a terrible way of watching a streaming show (or anything else) if you're more than 1 person
Well, I'd agree but my wife and kids don't seem to care. They'll all huddle around a 14" laptop while I'll be like "we could at least use my large monitor?"
It's really weird visiting relatives houses now, where the norm is to have the TV on all the time. Like... how do you have a conversation over the noise?