I read. I just don’t enjoy television. I grew up pretty much without it, and it wasn’t available in most places I lived in the military, so I just read.

The only reason I got cable after I got out of the military was for news, and we know that there currently isn’t any news on television. Even then I worked nights for a long time, and there isn’t much to watch during the day.

My family keeps trying to rope me in, but I simply don’t enjoy the medium.

A DVD player makes television worthwhile. Stella is something of a TV addict; she comes home from work and collapses, exhausted, in front of a truly awful sitcom. But sometimes I can persuade her to watch a classic movie, or an episode from PBS Mystery (Poirot, Miss Marple, Dalgleish [Dalgliesh? even PBS can’t spell the name consistently on its web site, so I don’t know if it’s “ie” or “ei”], Morse, etc.) instead. DVD improves my evening if not hers. 😆

Never heard of them, so they must have come about since I left television behind.

I have a television and a VCR, but not a DVD player, and no connection to cable. The only time I see television is when I visit my Mother, so I’ll have to take your word for it.

I’m just as bad about movies. The last time I was in a theater was to see Lawrence of Arabia on a wide screen some time in the 1980s.

>_>