Could you quit watching TV?

It's sort of my job to watch TV so I'd have to go with a "no."

I guess I could, but I don't particularly want to. I like watching shows, sports, checking the news out, and a little bit of the political talking heads.

and since I almost never listen to music, no tv would lead to an extremely quiet life

Haven't been a regular TV viewer for years, and I don't have cable. The last series I deliberately made a point to watch was Enterprise, none since. But I do have DVDs, and I watch video at YouTube and various other sites, so you'd have to define what "TV" is in this day and age. If you mean sitting down in front of the big set and letting some network decide what entertainment I should be viewing at a specific time of their choice, no.

Not a chance.

I do not consider that "watching TV." Others may differ, of course, but to me that's not watching TV just as going to the movies isn't watching TV.

What about watching Tivo. Is that really different than watching DVD's of TV Shows?

I watch most things Tivoed.

And No I love my TV, I hope it didn't hear you make comments about leaving her. I could never see quiting.

No way. Cheap fun entertainment - and without it I wouldn't have anything to say to half the poeple in my office!

That's a good question. I don't know if I'm prepared to split those hairs. I'll come back later if I think I can muster up a reasonable argument (but I doubt I can).

The only broadcast TV I watch when it's on the air is sporting events. Everything else I watch later on DVDs (even if it means I burned a divx disk with 8 or 9 episodes of a series on it).

I could quit watching fictional television shows in a heartbeat. I don't see how I would get by without informative shows, news, and sports.

Internet, Jay. Except sports, which require the immediacy of live broadcast.

IF you go to a bar to watch Sports on TV, that is like going to the theater, hence exempt.

I think we can find work-arounds for you Jay. You might have to give up your nightly reruns of Gilmore Girls though.

I personally do still follow the network schedules. I don't tivo, and while I occasionally tape a show on a VCR (for myself or others-too many others ) , i generally know when the shows are on and watch them at night on that night.

I do watch some cable but my wife watches almost exclusively network shows, except if the cable show involves a true life murder.

We bought some tv dvd sets but find them sitting there gathering dust.

and my eyes hurt enough as it is from the computer, i can't imagine watching a whole tv show on it.

Years ago, I would have said "No", but I pretty much quit buying comics, so anything is possible.

Quit television?

Screw you for even asking.

Rob lives in the 1980s. Tape a show? I haven't even had a VCR for 4 years now. We have a Netflix subscription, and I watch loads of their free on-demand movies and TV shows on my computer. Unless you have a very small screen and poor speakers, it's perfectly enjoyable. I've made it through half of the first series of 30 Rock, Amazing Stories, and the Office, plus several full-length feature films. And all of my tv programming from BBC and US stations is watched via some form of time-shifting, without commercials. I can watch a "two hour" show in 80 minutes.

I could, though I have no plans to do so. I mainly watch Discovery Channel and TCM programs. M.K. and I watch "Amazing Race" together, and were regular "Lost" viewers for a while. M.K. watches a good deal more than I do, and I will stay in the room and read during the program and might semi pay attention.

Just surfing the net, (home or work) my eyes bother me. I have a dvd/vcr like many people I know I don't personally know too many people who have tivo. Just the way it its.

I'd rather laugh at you for watching the BBC. I bet ya more Americans still use a VCR for taping than watch the BBC

and I like commercials. Gives time to talk about the show, get a snack, or channel surf to news or sports

With streaming MLB games on my computer, and the glory of bittorrent, I could give it a go. As long as wathcing TV shows on teh puter is 'legal'. But in principle, the answer is no fucking way. Having the TV on is often just white noise in the background.

I bet you'd find that if you set your monitor refresh rate to 85 Hz or higher, your eyestrain would go away.
We don't even own any videotapes anymore, except for a bunch of kids movies. They have a combo vcr/dvd player in their room, with no actual TV capability, only the Wii and movies, so we know what they are doing.

I'm sure you're right, but I'll take Spooks, Life on Mars, and other BBC dramas over any of the crap reality TV shows that so many of my fellow Americans seem to fawn over!

That's called the "pause button". I can take a break on my own terms, not when they decide.

Amen.

With the exception of American Idol, because that what they play on TV in heaven.