On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:42 AM, P. <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 29, 10:32 am, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: >> But unless I was playing some kind of word game, I would find it odd to say >> that I have stopped watching television. I watch quite a bit of television, >> its just that I can watch it when and where it is most convenient. > > I think there was a misunderstanding, especially if the OP does not > live in > the States (or in any other country with advanced streaming/ > downloading > options offered to the viewers). In the rest of the world (i.e. > Europe), > "watching TV" almost always means "sit on the couch, get the TV- > control > and zap between channels" as the network programmers are still in > charge of "average home entertainment".
The OP (on rereading I see his name is Scott) said he watches movies and TV shows on Netflix, which puts him in the US. The point we all seem to be getting at is trying to figure out what the phrase "watching TV" means. My definition is watching programs made for television using any platform. I see the logic of limiting the act of watching TV to watching programming on a TV set, whether over-the-air, cable, or satellite, at the time it's broadcast. But that has become arcane as it has been superseded by watching prerecorded programming going back tot he VCR. It makes no sense to me to consider watching programs recorded by the viewer as anything but watching TV. If I watch a CFL game streaming on ESPN3, I consider it watching a game on TV and not on my computer even though that's the platform I'm using. In Scott's statement that he gave up watching TV and has found more productive ways to use his time, that's an issue of personal time management that has little to do with my definition of TV watching, especially as he says he watches shows on Netflix. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
