View Poll Results: Should I get rid of my TV?

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  • Get rid of it

    21 29.58%
  • Best keep it, just in case

    18 25.35%
  • I don't have a TV and I don't miss it at all

    14 19.72%
  • I don't have a TV, but I do miss it sometimes

    2 2.82%
  • I would love to get rid of it, but the wife would kill me!

    7 9.86%
  • I do have a TV and wouldn't be without one

    13 18.31%
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  1. #91
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    I've heard of people converting vintage TV sets into fish tanks. Doing that with current flat screens might be a bit cruel though.
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  2. #92
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    still on my agenda.. hardly use it for live broadcasts.
    I really enjoy life without one Grant, nothing really to miss as I'm not a football fan but do enjoy Rugby, as I'm in Wales I'm not alone. There's a good pub 5 mins walk away with a big screen to watch Ireland (goes down a treat me shouting for them!)

    Without a TV you can arrange your lounge around your Hi-Fi too
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    Love the tv really,just watching the proms and the recent series on building London's sewers was incredibly interesting
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  4. #94
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    I'm not adverse to watching some TV. There are some very interesting programmes on BBC4.

    When I bought my house, I deliberately put the TV in a different room from the lounge as that is where the hi fi is. Also I didn't wan't to fall into the habit of switching on the TV when I came home from work and spend the rest of the evening aimlessly 'channel hopping'.

    So now I ring the programmes I want to watch in the Radio Times, and when they are on go upstairs to watch, and then when the programme has finished switch the TV off and come downstairs and listen to some music.
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    Wouldn't get rid of tv just not use the aerial Ive got my Apple TV Amazon prime and stuff Ive got on hard drives plus all my DVDs
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post

    When I bought my house, I deliberately put the TV in a different room from the lounge as that is where the hi fi is. Also I didn't wan't to fall into the habit of switching on the TV when I came home from work and spend the rest of the evening aimlessly 'channel hopping'.
    I've never done that. I think my early exposure to many hours of shite TV when I was a nipper meant that I never wanted or needed to watch much TV. In fact, for most of the time between leaving school and buying my first flat, I was TV-less, so that's about a decade's worth of television that passed me by. Then, when I had children of my own, they tended to occupy the room the TV was in, leaving me to listen to music in peace. Now, I watch maybe a couple of hours of 'normal' TV a week, plus a film or two on Amazon Prime (most recently 'The Shining').

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    I do have a "TV" at home in the shape of LED panel with the tuner built-in, but I do not use it for watching TV. I use it to display content streamed from "Apple TV" box, which again would not be actual TV, but films and music I own on iTunes, Amazon or You Tube plus my own films and photographs. I also use my "TV" LED panel combined with blu-ray player. I haven't been watching TV at home for over two years now and I rarely miss it. But I do listen to the radio, which I found way better, in a sense of content choice, quality and presentation, than TV. So yes, get rid of your TV now and free your mind.

  8. #98
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    Quote Originally Posted by Barry View Post
    So now I ring the programmes I want to watch in the Radio Times, and when they are on go upstairs to watch, and then when the programme has finished switch the TV off and come downstairs and listen to some music.
    Lol - that's *so* very you, Barry, and quaintly old-fashioned!

    If you had a modern flat-screen smart TV, with a channel guide, you wouldn't need a Radio Times to show you what was on TV (plus set certain programmes to be recorded if necessary), and the programme information is right up-to-date, unlike anything in printed format, which is often quickly outdated - and just think how more environmentally friendly the saving in all that wasted paper would be!

    Anyway, since installing my home-cinema system, I'd now never be without a TV, as aside from the host of programmes Del and I like to watch, it also acts as the hub for our watching of movies/DVDs and Blurays, and doubles as a screen for displaying both Internet content, and music content on my hard-drives, or when listening to music on Spotify or Tidal.

    Like you however, as you know, I have the TV in a different room from my main hi-fi system, simply because for maximum enjoyment I believe in keeping both things separate, especially as I use a dedicated AV amplifier and speakers for movies.

    In the wintertime especially, the TV/home-cinema and music system downstairs in our lounge is a valuable addition to our home, and essential to while away the long, dark nights, so I wouldn't be without it!

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  9. #99
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    The plight of becoming non selective TV watcher is something to avoid IMO; it wastes time and results in adverse personal psychological programming.

    There are some good things on, on BBC4 for example, but my having the TV in the centre of the Hi-Fi is deliberate, the intent to have effectively a media centre which allows; Surfing the web, (lectures articles, general education, and I gather, many radio stations), Emailing from 10' with a large screen, streaming films from various bought services, and also streaming music form various bought services.

    I have not yet decided the configuration which will best provide these, but it seems an Apple TV, or more likely, a Mac mini + wireless keyboard will be the solution. I do not want trailing HDMI leads to be unplugged every day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pharos View Post
    ... but it seems an Apple TV, or more likely, a Mac mini + wireless keyboard will be the solution.
    I have both but would definitely recommend the Mac Mini above Apple TV which would really need an iPad to achieve all the functions you seek but would still be less than ideal.

    Also, having tried all manner of wired and wireless peripheral combinations with Macs for more than twenty years, I would absolutely recommend a Logitech bluetooth keyboard and mouse above wireless (the best I have ever encountered). I would definitely avoid any keyboard or mouse from Apple themselves - I have always found them vastly over-priced, limited in functions, of poor quality and totally unreliable.

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