No vote because I don't poll to strangers but modern TVs make great PC monitors.

Television is not what it used to be during the 50s and 60s with its many test patterns and the national anthems played before the stations went off the air. Back in the day I used to count the number of channels that each city got!?

I don't have a television but I still watch shows/movies on the computer

I stopped around 2007 and no longer even own a tv. I watch shows/movies on my Kindle.

I watch Golf channel and other golf tournaments on TV. The Fox News Channel is the source of in-depth news analyses.

i am disabled. i spend a lot of time on the edge of my bed, on this laptop, or in bed, sleeping, or in the kitchen cooking as fast i can so i can get off my feet. thrice a week i go to adult daycare, mostly because if i don't go, my guy, who has alzheimer's, won't go, and he needs it. i also have tinnitus, and need some sound to drown that out. at the daycare i am the vj and i keep the music going, which most of the others really enjoy and appreciate. when i get home, i want my msnbc so i can know what's going on and what it means, and my science channel, and my pbs, and my doctor who and murphy brown and it looks as if new amsterdam is also going to be worthy my time, not to mention the old movies i have always loved, and sometimes even shows i loved in the past. i don't watch any old crap. except for the two shows i just mentioned, i am pretty much network-free, but i can't afford a streaming service. so cable, expensive enough, it is. i like what i like and i learn a lot, and i supplement that with other sources too. tv can be a big brainwashing influence. my brain is way too dirty to be washed successfully.

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I didn't vote because it's not an all or nothing thing. But to me the question is just like the women who say they don't need a man. You can rationalize anything you want. But given the wide amount of things that television can provide, knowledge, education, entertainment etc., to say you don't need tv is to say you don't need knowledge, education or entertainment. You may not care what's going on in the world or you may use newspapers or computers instead. You may have alternatives for your knowledge, education and entertainment but most of the people that I run into who don't have a tv think it's a bad influence on their kids etc. To me that's total BS. That's like saying having access to society is a bad influence.

I haven't had cable in over 20 years, and I can go days without even turning the telly on. If I do watch, and it's not Netflix/Hulu/other streaming, it's comedic news or sports. Rarely US, which makes things even more difficult.

Haven't owned a tv in a long time.

Ok here's the thing.. I could...but for one thing.. and that is the News. I am a news, current affairs, and documentary fiend. For those reasons it's hard to let go..?☹

Life is hard enough....but life without Dr. Who and The Big Bang Theory would be unbearable! LOL and whatever would I do without "Ancient Aliens"!!!!!!!!!! I also enjoy the news and nature/travel programming on channels such as Nat Geo. I also enjoy TCM because I love movies from the 40s, 50s, and 60s. That said....I DVR everything and fast forward through all the commercials...and I watch my shows when I have time. The exception being the news which I watch live morning and evening when I can.

I detest television. I've not had one in ten years.

I moved to a new place in April. Vowed not to take my "box" tv's and other handed down, old or damaged/not working items. I have no tv in my room or in the living room. I don't miss it at all. Watching tv is unproductive and has too many commercials to brainwash people to believe they need/must have a particular product or service. I watch FREE movies on Amazon PrIme, videos on YOUTUBE, an

I use netflix and youtube for all of my entertainment needs

I have the TV on almost all the time -- but almost never on channels with commercials. I have all the premium channels and watch movies, documentaries, and series such as GOT and Westworld. I'm always also doing something else -- reading, knitting, on the computer, etc. I have Roku, also but I've done something to it so that It's not working now so I can't binge shows on Netflix.

Most of what we watch is via the net. Amazon, and network stuff. We rarely watch in realtime.

We have 7 screens in the house. The wife and i, can cook, work in our offices, do stuff in the art room, the familiy room, basement: laundry, lie on the bed,.. all while watching/listening to the same show. No restrictions on our time.

Only one screen? Sitting in one spot not able to do anything else. Silly. waste of lifetime.

Ours is basically a theater. We use it to watch dvds. No cable, satellite, or antenna.