Oh yeah, that’s why my TV hasn’t been on much lately. That was my thought last night when I shut off my TV. Ok, it was late night TV but that’s about all I watch now days anyway. I’ve already given up on prime time for the most part. There’s nearly nothing on.
This phenomenon of the TV mostly existing in an off state started about six weeks to a month before the elections. I used to turn on the TV, at least in the morning to catch the local news and weather. The problem was that to do that I had to suffer through myriad of political adds
that told me nothing about the candidates or issues except how they wanted me to vote, or the ads were just the way for the candidates to bicker back and forth over who was a worse choice. I got really tired of it and decided I could just look up the expected temperatures from my phone and then I’d be fine. And so off my cable box goes and off my TV stays most of the time.
To be fair there are a couple of programs I like. However, they are summer season programs and with the exception of a holiday special for one of them, well, they are done until next June. This leaves me with crime dramas, medical dramas, supposed reality TV, and silly games or contests. I’m not really into any of these. I occaisionally peruse the educational chanels and find something interesting to watch, or late night TV might have a Sci-Fi movie on that I like or have wanted to see. It really doesn’t happen that often. And it’s not like I’ve just got basic cable. Some of the chanels I do like to watch, even when there’sn noting on, are on the upper tier of service and so I pay the extra to get the extra chanels, only to have that much more to sift through before I turn off the TV and go find something else to do.
Given the uproar from the networks and studios about things like Hulu, Google TV, Apple TV, and just general content on the internet, I am not the only one that’s doing this. I have a friend that just got rid of her TV and VCR (I think). She donated it to an animal shelter so the animals could watch videos of Lassy or something like that. I’m not ready to go that far. There are some other things I use the TV for, like watching DVD’s that I’ve purchased, or old videos that I’ve had for ages, or playing console games, and I have a TV that I can plug the video from my computer into and have the computer in HiDef. So I keep my TV. It just spends a lot of time off.
So back to the networks and the studios. They are fighting the new media/mediums of entertainment because they are scared. They don’t have any new, good ideas for shows that appeal to the masses and more and more people are turning off the TV for viewing pleasure and turning on the console game or the computer to play or view their content there.
Yep, that’s why my TV is usually off. There’s just nothing good on.
Originally published at: suguayproductions.com/joomla which has been discontinued.
