TeeVee, Money and Time

Why You Too Should Cancel Cable? and I’m unplugging my TV?

I’ve talked about TV in the past. The problem with TV is that it is too convenient. You turn it on, and its there. As i mentioned earlier, there are only two shows that i want to watch (currently): Battlestar Galactica and Lost. Another way to say it, those are the only shows that i would be disappointed if i missed them.

I still don’t have cable, and still have no plans to get it. Actually, i am about 100 times more likely to buy a terrestrial HDTV receiver. The only thing slowing me down there is figuring out the best antenna set-up. Perhaps if i turned off the TV i could figure that out and get a plan together…interesting how that works. The main push for that is just better reception of the channels we get now (Channel 4 — PBS — is always fuzzy; long wave lengths, etc.).

There are lots of things in our house that don’t get done, yet don’t take that much time. Some nights i am tired. Seven o’clock rolls around and i just want to veg til bedtime. But if you factor in 3 hours per night, five nights a week = 15 hours … times 4.2 weeks per month = 63 hours.

Wow. That’s a lot of time.