I'm gonna miss network TV

[kelownagirl]

Me three. I stopped watching TV about 2-3 years ago and don't miss it at all. And I had many favourite shows. It was hard the first few months but then, once the new shows started and I had no clue what I was "missing" it didn't bother me at all.

[msincredible]

TV-free for 4 years now.

[AnnieBikes]

Nine years next month for me!! Do we sound like AA for TV?!!

When my two younger sons decided to do a 6 week cross country bike-camp-kayak trip, I discontinued the cable TV. When they returned, we did not seem to notice. I thought it would be hard, though I did not watch much anyway. It was a bit of withdrawal for them but they are now gone and I am fine without. I get calls from the Cable company weekly asking if I want "the bundle" and they CANNOT believe that we have no TV service. We did get one channel but that is over now! They even tried to tack on an extra $10 fee because all we get is internet!! I threatened to change service and they backed down. Now I am fighting with them over a "contract" like a cell phone or they will raise my internet only rate to some ungodly amount like 59.99 a month...and it doesn't cost them anything for me to have internet...just the line maintenance which hasn't been a problem!

You can go cold turkey. The computer has all you want for TV anyway....Hulu, I hear, is quite good and free!

[TsPoet]

Not a member of AA TV here.
You can get your TV still, you just need a converter box.

[AnnieBikes]

No, thank you. No TV for me!

[uforgot]

I have a tv but I don't watch it. As a matter of fact, I used it at school about a month ago and still haven't hooked it back up yet. It isn't a conscious choice for me, I'm just really not interested in anything on there.

[RolliePollie]

Not a member of AA TV here.
You can get your TV still, you just need a converter box.

Unfortunately, I live too far away from the transmitters for a converter box to work. The signal strength has gone down and they're transmitting on UHF instead of VHF now (I might have that backwards) and those signals don't make it this far. I think it's interesting that they didn't really advertise this fact...they just said get a converter box and you'll be fine. But that's not necessarily true depending on where you live!!!

Thanks everyone, for your support. I think I can make it without TV. I'm just in the midst of withdrawals right now. With the support of AA for TV, I will probably be a success story. Now...if only my dial-up internet would speed up so I could watch TV that way...

[emily_in_nc]

We live in the boonies, kinda, and were surprised to see how many digital stations we can now scan on our one digital TV (a little 15" one). We do have a rather large antenna in our attic, which we bought when we first moved here and didn't have satellite. Our larger TV is old and does not do digital. We have satellite TV now so really don't need access to the local channels separately, but during a big storm, it can come in handy on rare occasions if something extra good is on.

I know most people here are rather anti-TV, but there are some real pearls among the rubbish -- Lost and House come to mind, for starters. And the TdF! But certainly to each her own. So much of it can be watched online anyway these days.

[salsabike]

Some of us, even if we don't watch TV much, are still not anti-TV. And there is some excellent stuff on there, like The Closer and Saving Grace.