I have always been an avid reader, but it usually came in bursts. I would buy 4 or 5 books (hard-copy) read them within a month and then not touch a book for a few months at least.
Long story short, I bought an eBook reader a bit less than a year ago because I found a book that I wanted to read but was only available in epub format (unless I wanted pay about 200 bucks for a physical copy).
Well, these days I might as well not own a TV. Other than the occasional streaming show where I have a subscription I have read on average about 1.5 books per week.
My wife owns the TV (a few of them it seems). I thought about it: you can count on 1 hand the number of hours Iāve watch anything on TV in the last 10-15 years. They started losing me a long time ago. Actually, early 90ās I was fed up if I really think about it.
Are you using the phrase āwatch something on TVā the same way I am?
If I watch Star Trek DS9, Iām watching something on TV.
If I watch the Star Wars trilogy, Iām watching something on TV.
If I watch a documentary on WWI, Iām watching something on TV.
NOTE: you could not afford to pay me enough to watch any of this on my computer, tablet, or phone.
Or are you narrowly defining it as āsomething that is live or first aired on a broadcast, streaming, or cable channel since 2010ā?
There is little commonality between the two. Thatās like equating driving the Indy 500 with a trip to the store for groceries if you say āI donāt drive anymore.ā
When I watch TV, Iām watching a broadcast.
TV, short for Television, is a mass medium for sending moving pictures.
If Iām watching a movie via a streaming service, Iām watching a movie. It is still moving pictures, but not mass medium as individual viewers gets to select what to view.
But TV has also become synonymous with the TV receiver, so you are looking at the physical TV receiver, or watching the TV.
As I am forced to spend a lot of my spare time in hotels, because of my job, I have no issues with watching a movie on a PC or a pad.
If Iām watching the news on my pad, I consider myself to be watching TVā¦
Iāve been working hard over the past decade to make āTVā, films and games agnostic as to where they come from and what theyāre displayed on in my household. Iād almost consider Youtube (or the equivalents) to be TV these daysā¦ maybe bad cable TV but it has a similar episodic feel for a lot of the stuff I engage with?
The limiting factor is digital broadcast television. Iām going to try again, but Iāve never found a TV capture card for PC thatās any good at all (suggestions welcome! I have tried the Leadtek and WinTV options - theyāre visually disappointing compared to how my 2005 Sony Bravia decodes the signal!)
For most of my life it was just called āTVā; that mindless one-way device - it does the āthinkingā for you. Could describe YT, et. al. now-a-days I suppose. YT is getting to the point were the amount of time spent filtering it isnāt worth it.
I didnāt have a TV after the age of about 19 (lady friend wanting to watch something on the couch doesnāt count, for biological reasons). Like many after school saw me parked in front of the B&W tube. But I was a child then.
Early 90ās a co-worker seemed to take pity on me and gave me a 13" TV (for an extra CD player - music, most of it, is different, IMHO). I was a bit of minor joke in this regard at work
If Iād never gotten married I likely still wouldnāt have one. Hard to say.
