The Internet comes on computers now.

Charlie Freak: Hey, if they have refrigerators, then they have nothing to whine about.

Or a computer.

/had a cable tuner card in my Mac desktop in 1995
//thought I was pretty cutting-edge back then
///off my lawn, etc etc

Nelson ratings are still relevant?

The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: The Internet comes on computers now.

WebTV was awful.

I was burglarized about 5 months ago. They got my 40' flat screen, my X-Box with 4 games, 2 guns and some $. I still haven't replaced the TV or X-Box, and I have no plans in the near future to do so. Maybe sometime next year, maybe not.


/guns were replaced
//alarm system and CCTV installed

Community is a great show.

/seriously

In for the Area Man Constantly Mentioning He Doesn't Own A Television thread.

I think the more plausible explanation is that they can no longer reliably track televisions based on viewing habits. Even so, the difference seems more like statistical noise than any sort of trend.

drakanious: The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves: The Internet comes on computers now.

WebTV was awful.

how about some FarkTv.

I'm a geek without a TV. Don't need it, I get plenty of entertainment online.

Helps that I live on my own I guess though, would be rough crowding a family around a PC screen.

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That TV has nipples like Milla Jovovich. NTTAWWT.

FarkinHostile: I was burglarized about 5 months ago. They got my 40' flat screen, my X-Box with 4 games, 2 guns and some $. I still haven't replaced the TV or X-Box, and I have no plans in the near future to do so. Maybe sometime next year, maybe not.


/guns were replaced
//alarm system and CCTV installed

You let someone rip off your firearms?

That ain't cool.

Netflix + 40"TV + PS3 = All I need.

/too poor for cable.
//rather spend my money on good food and woodworking tools.

Because so many are taking the hipster "I'm too good for TV, I just hulu everything."

Although TV has sucked in the past few years.

/boardwalk, walking dead, and Dexter being exceptions, of course.

im reading these post on a tv?
40" sony

I farking LOVE Community. Especially Annie's boobs.

I have a TV, but no cable. We watch movies and some content for Apple, Netflix, etc. Cable was no different than taking $80 (for basic service) out of my pocket and throwing straight into the trash. So we dropped it three years ago and never missed it.

Nielsen is going to have to rethink it's business model. TV, as we have known it is just about obsolete. All anyone needs these days is a display screen of the size of their choice and a laptop. With a good content supplier, they can watch what they want, when they want and usually without commercials. Nielsen can't track that the way they do now.

slc11082: Fade2black: Because so many are taking the hipster "I'm too good for TV, I just hulu everything."

Although TV has sucked in the past few years.

/boardwalk, walking dead, and Dexter being exceptions, of course.

Don't forget breaking bad.

I have a friend who played a topless prostitute on boardwalk. I saw her boobies.

DCBuck: Community is a great show.

/seriously

Yes. Suck it subby.

Damnit subby, Community is one of my favorite shows. I don't understand why people don't like it. I hope it gets picked up by FX.

/love Annie's Boobs too, love that little scamp.

How does it count if you only use your TV as an oversized monitor?

We have to change the definition of what people consider "TV." It is absolutely ass-backwards and ignores the last 20 years of advances in media and technology.

Most people think of the hardware and the method of transmission (ie, *only* broadcast or cable/sat, *not* internet) as one combined entity. Meanwhile, I have two high definition flat panels, XBox 360, Roku, Zune Video, Netflix, Amazon VoD, Hulu and access to dozens of other online video sources through the Roku...yet friends and family think that I don't have "TV."

natazha: How does it count if you only use your TV as an oversized monitor?

No. You don't count. Only the people that worship the Kardashians can have opinions here.

For the 30 minutes a week I watch Community, it's a TV. The rest of the time it's my XBox screen. Either way there's a 'Troy and Abed in the Morning' coffee mug nearby.

/don't Chang the channel

kapaso:

You let someone rip off your firearms?

That ain't cool.


Yup, got my bedside pieces when they tossed the bedroom. Left the body armor that was right next to them. Good thing they didn't check the basement where the safe is.

Totally not cool. Plus it was my teenaged next door neighbor and his friends. Yeah, cops got him but the merchandise was long gone by the time they searched his house. :(

Rude Turnip: We have to change the definition of what people consider "TV." It is absolutely ass-backwards and ignores the last 20 years of advances in media and technology.

Most people think of the hardware and the method of transmission (ie, *only* broadcast or cable/sat, *not* internet) as one combined entity. Meanwhile, I have two high definition flat panels, XBox 360, Roku, Zune Video, Netflix, Amazon VoD, Hulu and access to dozens of other online video sources through the Roku...yet friends and family think that I don't have "TV."

You probably don't have food either, unless you have a big mac and a can of Alpo on the side.

FarkinHostile 2011-12-01 02:25:27 PM
I was burglarized about 5 months ago. They got my 40' flat screen, my X-Box with 4 games, 2 guns and some $. I still haven't replaced the TV or X-Box, and I have no plans in the near future to do so. Maybe sometime next year, maybe not.


/guns were replaced
//alarm system and CCTV installed

You should probably consider taking that money and buying a gun safe.

FarkinHostile: I was burglarized about 5 months ago. They got my 40' flat screen, my X-Box with 4 games, 2 guns and some $. I still haven't replaced the TV or X-Box, and I have no plans in the near future to do so. Maybe sometime next year, maybe not.


/guns were replaced
//alarm system and CCTV installed

1) Law abiding citizen buys guns
2) Careless citizen allows criminals to get guns
3) "The gun laws don't work! Criminals are still getting guns! We need more guns to feel safe!"
4) Go to step 1

Scoot951: I'm a geek without a TV. Don't need it, I get plenty of entertainment online.

Helps that I live on my own I guess though, would be rough crowding a family around a PC screen.


Many years ago (too many) when I was a bachelor I had an old 19" Intergraph monitor on my coffee table. I ended up using it way more than my TV, and once I got a TV tuner and ran my cable through it I never used my TV again.

These days I'm a married guy. The only reason I still have a TV or cable service at all, since I've long thrown both of those old CRT's away, is because of my wife. I've got HTPC's hooked up to all of our TV's and have two fileservers for our house with a combined total of almost 5 terrabytes of media on them. Wifey uses them for sure - usually to play some TV episodes of one of the shows she likes in the background while she cooks - but when she just wants to relax on the couch after a long day she insists on having cable channels to surf.

But if it wasn't for the wife I'd have internet access and that's all.

I have a buddy who was even worse than me back when he was a bachelor. He didn't have a TV, he didn't have cable.... he had a PC in his livingroom he used for all his media and it was a Linux box with a command line interface. When he started dating his now wife, he left her at his house one day when he went to work. She was kinda frustrated when he got home... for obvious reasons. He bought a TV and had cable installed within days.

Can we PLEASE get some Allison Brie pictures up in this motha!!!

delysid25: Can we PLEASE get some Allison Brie pictures up in this motha!!!

Yes. Yes, you may.
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Quick instructions.

mongbiohazard: Scoot951: I'm a geek without a TV. Don't need it, I get plenty of entertainment online.

Helps that I live on my own I guess though, would be rough crowding a family around a PC screen.


Many years ago (too many) when I was a bachelor I had an old 19" Intergraph monitor on my coffee table. I ended up using it way more than my TV, and once I got a TV tuner and ran my cable through it I never used my TV again.

These days I'm a married guy. The only reason I still have a TV or cable service at all, since I've long thrown both of those old CRT's away, is because of my wife. I've got HTPC's hooked up to all of our TV's and have two fileservers for our house with a combined total of almost 5 terrabytes of media on them. Wifey uses them for sure - usually to play some TV episodes of one of the shows she likes in the background while she cooks - but when she just wants to relax on the couch after a long day she insists on having cable channels to surf.

But if it wasn't for the wife I'd have internet access and that's all.

I have a buddy who was even worse than me back when he was a bachelor. He didn't have a TV, he didn't have cable.... he had a PC in his livingroom he used for all his media and it was a Linux box with a command line interface. When he started dating his now wife, he left her at his house one day when he went to work. She was kinda frustrated when he got home... for obvious reasons. He bought a TV and had cable installed within days.

My wife loves the HTPC setups I have. Sage extender on the living room TV, and a PC on my basement TV...although I'm still the one who has to download and manage the files.

X-Geek: 1) Law abiding citizen buys guns
2) Careless citizen allows criminals to get guns
3) "The gun laws don't work! Criminals are still getting guns! We need more guns to feel safe!"
4) Go to step 1

I like how you've turned it around so the law abiding citizen who committed no crime is now in the wrong.

/The solution to theft is not removing all items a thief would steal

Rude Turnip: We have to change the definition of what people consider "TV." It is absolutely ass-backwards and ignores the last 20 years of advances in media and technology.


I think they call it "appointment television" when you aren't streaming content at your whim.

I attempted to come up with some witty tagline, but failed.

machodonkeywrestler:

You should probably consider taking that money and buying a gun safe.


Uh, yeah, got one. That is where the SKS and other big stuff is kept. 2 were kept by the bed. What is the sense of having a gun for protection if it is locked in a safe? I have no kids, live alone, so the whole "Shoot a family member" thing is out the window. Since then I have taken measures to correct my security gaps. But lets not threadjack, I still don't have a TV.

Don't have cable, but we have a TV. Wr are looking at GoogleTV and AppleTV (or a used mini setup). Any experiences? We just watch our shows on the computer, or movies


/love that 7.1 Yamaha sound
//especially with GITS:2ndGig

ConConHead: Nelson ratings are still relevant?

Yes. Why would you think otherwise?

X-Geek: 1) Law abiding citizen buys guns
2) Careless citizen allows criminals to get guns
3) "The gun laws don't work! Criminals are still getting guns! We need more guns to feel safe!"
4) Go to step 1


It's funny, because the Police Lieutenant told me about how his guns were stolen from his safe in a break 10 years ago.

Careless because I don't have a dog. :(

Almet: My wife loves the HTPC setups I have. Sage extender on the living room TV, and a PC on my basement TV...although I'm still the one who has to download and manage the files.


It's a small price to pay though, isn't it?

And honestly, once you have an organized, coherent file structure in place it's not that hard to keep up. Another buddy of mine uses Media Portal, and he has some addon to it that means that Media Portal organizes and presents all the files to him through the PC interface all by itself. It automagically pulls up a synopsis for episodes of TV shows he has saved, it lets him search through his movie collection with keywords, genres and other filters.... It's very, very nice.

I just keep mine simple and we use Logitech Dinovo Mini keyboards and I have all my files meticulously organized in various easy-to-navigate file folders. I'll get around to trying my hand at Media Portal again at some point soon, but when I first tried it out about 2 years ago I was having a really hard time getting it to work properly.

Community is great and the episode "Physical Education" is the greatest...although the paintball western episodes are epic as well.

macross87: Don't have cable, but we have a TV. Wr are looking at GoogleTV and AppleTV (or a used mini setup). Any experiences? We just watch our shows on the computer, or movies


/love that 7.1 Yamaha sound
//especially with GITS:2ndGig

Unless you're already heavily invested in the Apple entertainment ecosystem for video programming, I would recommend Roku over AppleTV. I own both, btw. You'll get a ton more of video options, the big ones being Amazon Video on Demand, Hulu and (meh) Crackle. There are also lots of unofficial, so-called "private" channels you can set up to stream to a Roku box. The only thing that Apple TV can do over Roku is stream content purchased from Apple, Youtube and "flicking" videos from an iPhone/Pod to the Apple TV.

Plus, if you have an ElGato tuner hooked up to your PC, you can stream live OTA broadcast video to your Roku:
http://www.thenowhereman.com/roku/

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I attempted to come up with some witty tagline, but failed.


I... I... WOW.

So yeah, my buddy has been bugging me to watch Community for a while now. She's on it? Yeah, I guess I'll have to give it a try after all.

WOW.

I don't need TV. I have six 52" MitsuTronix Miasma monitors hooked up to GremTrak in parallel. I have every show ever made in any language on demand. Sure, it costs over $1k a month, but I've got money to burn, so FARK it.

First what does Nielsen count as 'owning a tv?' Do they mean only people that voluntary watch network tv or subscribe to cable/dish tv and deal with commercials? Do people that have lcd monitors hooked up to netflix count? Then they mean people with families or sheep, maybe people that watch sports.

Cable TV channels sold out by going to cheap reality shows and channeling nitch channels to the lowest common denominator for a few percentage points bumps. Short term profit means long term problems. I am looking at you nbc universal.