If you had to live without one....

If you had to give up one of them

  • TV

    Votes: 35 87.5%

  • INTERNET

    Votes: 5 12.5%
  • Total voters
    40
TRUE. I still cant get over how DTV blows cable away. Internet would be hard for me to do without. I remember back when it caught on. I wanted nothing to do with it or a computer. LOL. I started with WEB TV! Remember that??

My habits are after work 12-12:30PM, I chill with some TV. Internet, mostly in the mornings. BOTH on the weekends. More TV in the winter of course. Still *issed i cant get my damn verizon e-mail.
 
That's a no-brainer. TV for sure. I usually just channel surf anyways when its on. Now the internet? Funny how twenty years ago I didn't even know what it was, lol! Now it's a MUST have.
 
TV... Hands down


The biggest thing for me would be missing sports but some I actually prefer listening to on the radio. I could do without the rest.

I have been playing with a Roku (internet streaming TV and stuff). It is very good and you can get quite a bit of "TV" via the internet for free or much cheaper than normal. I have been testing it to possible do away with TV by choice and to save money.


There are also some other "internet TV" options out there. Roku, Google Chromecast, Google Nexus, Sling Apple TV,BlueRay players, Amazon Fire TV (Great if you have and use Amazon prime as TV stuff is included in your member ship)


 
I dropped broadcast TV 3 years ago and stream everything though my Apple TV via the internet. I don't miss it one bit.
 
TV. Most of the time I can view videos through YouTube or the like to keep me entertained. Most times I'll have my TV on in the background for some light while I'm using my tablet.
 
Angus said:
I dropped broadcast TV 3 years ago and stream everything though my Apple TV via the internet. I don't miss it one bit.
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I have debated on doing this. We have DirecTV and my contract is up this month. $120 a month for hardly anything I care to watch is just stupid to me. I only watch sports which I can stream. The fiancé is the one that would probably lose her mind. She is all about some of those "murder" shows. I have also debated going with Sling TV since it pretty much covers the only channels we really watch.
 
i love both but like someone said you can get tv shows on the internet. I hardly watch live tv other than sports everything is DVR or on demand or streaming.
 
XxBoostinxX said:
I have debated on doing this. We have DirecTV and my contract is up this month. $120 a month for hardly anything I care to watch is just stupid to me. I only watch sports which I can stream. The fiancé is the one that would probably lose her mind. She is all about some of those "murder" shows. I have also debated going with Sling TV since it pretty much covers the only channels we really watch.
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Go for it man!!! I had the hardest time cutting the my TV strings but once I did, I've never looked back. My wife loves those "murder" shows too (whats up that btw?) but thankfully Netflix has a huge selection of them. Gives her plenty to watch while I'm out in the garage detailing :)
 
Angus said:
Go for it man!!! I had the hardest time cutting the my TV strings but once I did, I've never looked back. My wife loves those "murder" shows too (whats up that btw?) but thankfully Netflix has a huge selection of them. Gives her plenty to watch while I'm out in the garage detailing :)
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I just might. I have until the middle of the month to decide. Only thing I don't know about is watching NFL football. I guess I could get a digital antenna.

No idea why these women like those murder shows? They might be telling us something! I joke with mine all the time how she is plotting to kill me in my sleep. Lol
 
TV hands down, already gave that up a while ago. Internet is much more of a necessity, i don't follow/watch sports, commercials drive me insane, cable services are ridiculously priced nowadays. I only have some cable TV because it came with my internet package and when i tried to remove the TV portion of it, they told me it would actually make my monthly bill go up (don't know what the logic behind that is).

I got my PS3/4 , Roku and Bluray Player for streaming ,and 90% of the time when i'm watching something, it's a Movie.
 
I dropped watching TV (cable television) 13 years ago.
Any shows I want to watch can be found online or purchase from DVD/Blu-Ray
 
tv
internet is way better anyways

and without internet how would I browse how to accumulate/use my ACC rewards points?
 
Got to have TV. The wife is crazy about her novellas and I have to watch my NFL, MLB, NBA, and car shows and auctions. Really just glad I don't have to give up either.
 
TV, but it's close.

I get by just fine with Netflix when I go on my show/movie kicks but for the most part I'm not a big TV person. Internet is a little harder to go without though. Anymore it makes bills a little harder to pay, I'd have to stop ordering everything and actually find stores, wouldn't be as easy to price shop, no more Netflix. Only hard part about giving up TV would be giving up my baseball games thanks to MLB's ludicrous blackout restrictions.

Funny thing is... I say all this and, maybe because it was due to the other circumstances, but I did just fine without both. As a matter of fact, it's kind of refreshing not feeling like you're always attached to something (cell phone), you can say "I don't know" and not have to immediately google it, and it inspires you to pick up a good book - or maybe even a bad one. Movies are great, but books definitely work the mind a little more.
 
Got to have Internet. I could do without TV since I could probably find all my shows and movies on the internet anyway.
 
I haven't turned on the TV for about 3 years. Like a dummy, I kept paying for cable in case I decided to turn it on. Finally, I canceled my cable and brought the boxes back last summer.

So, my TVs aren't even hooked up to anything - I would imagine if I turned one on now there is just snow.

Reality TV put the final nail in the coffin for me. I still watch programs on You Tube.

The major bummer when I canceled my cable was I lost access to he Turner Classic Movie app. But, there are a lot of old movies on You Tube.

I don't even have flat screen TVs. I have those old TVs from like the 1990s that weigh a zillion pounds. When I move to my new house, I prolly get cable and one really nice TV just to satisfy the GF.
 
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