Do you really watch TV and is it worth it to get one?

[azsnowman]

The only time I watch a LOT of tv is during the winter, like NOW....with it being in the SINGLE digits ALREADY (that's with the wind chill mind you!) there's NOT much else to do...I can't STAND reading.

As far as HDTV goes....personally, I don't care....gimme plain ol' tv and I'm happy.

I watch a LOT of news, documentaries and of course "CSI's"....Las Vegas and New York....I HATE CSI Miami Her-a-she-o is such a dipstick

[angelwing]

Thank you senorpepr Maybe by July I'll get a TV (for our birthdays)so we can watch the next world series in color, maybe by then digital TV will have more kinks worked out

[Tstormwatcher]

I love HD, big difference from regular or even digital if you have your set and dvr set correctly as said before. With that said, I hardly ever watch the network channels. I prefer documentaries and such.

[azskyman]

Two different questions, really.

If you have not missed TV, and you can move through life without it...you are truly a better person than me. I probably don't NEED a TV either, but I do NEED a computer with a cable (or high speed) connection. As someone fascinated by news and weather, television remains my conduit of choice to watch the world unfold in real time. In full color. In 5.1 surround sound.

Fifty years ago when I was growing up, I suspect there were just about the same number of killings, wars, bombings, cheating husbands and wives, lost medical patients, saved medical patients, lost trials, crooked lawyers, plane crashes, car accidents, thieves, liars, and prostitutes on television every week as there is in 2006. It was called entertainment then. But it was wrapped around titles like Gunsmoke, Ben Casey, Naked City, Dragnet, and even The Lone Ranger.

Those same themes are called entertainment today.

But what has changed is that while the world may have been described as being rated R back then, it was played back to the viewers as PG. Today we've come to realize that the world may well be rated an X, but it is most often played back to us as R on a good day.

I too have an HDTV, and the technical difference between it and digital or standard TV is dramatic.

And the big screen brings that crazy world of ours right into the family room in so much more detail!

Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke would have had C.S.I. all over those bedsheets at the brothel if anything had ever happened to one of her "clients" in this day and age! DNA is everywhere!!

As noted by senorpepr, HDTV will become the new standard broadcast format in the not-too-distant future. And by then, we will come to understand that the world is really XXX-rated, and even with all the gadgetry it will come with, the most important button on that whole remote will be the one that says OFF.

I admire you for the purity of your question. Hold out as long as you can.

Maybe buy a TV when your team is next in the World Series!

[angelwing]

By the time the Phillies ever get to the World Series, I think HDTV will probaly go the way of the dodo bird

I did get MLBTV 2 years ago for the hubby after he was out of the hospital, maybe I'll just do that again, if there's a good world series next year can always buy the game afterwards for $3.95 (we got the whole Sox/Yankee AL championship series this way, shoulda done it this past season too, oh well)

[kevin]

There are some good things on tv, but they are rare in my opinion. Some shows are nice and catchy, but I put on the tv to go to sleep. I generally watch PBS, History Channel, Animal Channel, Travel Channel, or Comedy Central. Almost everything else out there seems like mindless nonsense.

They even have a show about picking boxes with numbers on them. Ridiculous if you ask me.

[JenBayles]

Just a quick note of our own experience: We looked at a gazillion options from ED (enhanced def) HD (high def), plasma screen, LCD, to rear tube projection. We ended up buying a Zenith ED plasma screen at hundreds less than comparable HD screens of any kind. In short, and ED plasma screen looks just as good as any HD screen that is plasma, LCD or tube. Don't know if it's just the Zenith that is that way, but there it is - something else to consider while shopping!