Are you kidding? Is there any functionality on a TV that an even marginally functional computer couldn't provide twice over?
Poll: TV vs PC: which couldn't you live without?
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Under your rules, I'm allowed to keep my TV so long as my computer uses it at some point as a screen, or my PS3 is plugged into it. So I'll keep both then, thank you.
The rules you've set up state that a TV tuner can be connected to a PC, making a television utterly redundant as it has no extra functionality over a PC. There's no point to the poll then, as the PC fulfils both roles.
However, if you discount the possibility of TV tuners, or even video streaming (which is how I watch most of my TV - yay for iplayer/4OD!), I'll still take the PC over the TV. I can always attach a games console to the monitor, and I read a lot, so TV programmes aren't needed for entertainment.
However, if you discount the possibility of TV tuners, or even video streaming (which is how I watch most of my TV - yay for iplayer/4OD!), I'll still take the PC over the TV. I can always attach a games console to the monitor, and I read a lot, so TV programmes aren't needed for entertainment.
Loling at people not reading the text.
I don't actually watch TV 99.98% of the time, so the choice is kind of obvious :/
I don't actually watch TV 99.98% of the time, so the choice is kind of obvious :/
hmm, maybe this is a self-selecting poll... considering it is conducted in a WEB forum.
Anyhoo, I wonder how much longer TV has really got? Will it go the way of radio, only really listened to by old people.
I mean there is already a statistically significant number of homes tht don't have a phone land lain and never intend on getting one. You need an TV licence that costs £150 ($220) per year to own a functional TV in the UK, TV stations and ad agencies should be VERY worried if an entire generation is moving away from TV.
I suppose, if you had a kid would you all still not bother with a TV (never mind about PC forfeiture)?
Anyhoo, I wonder how much longer TV has really got? Will it go the way of radio, only really listened to by old people.
I mean there is already a statistically significant number of homes tht don't have a phone land lain and never intend on getting one. You need an TV licence that costs £150 ($220) per year to own a functional TV in the UK, TV stations and ad agencies should be VERY worried if an entire generation is moving away from TV.
I suppose, if you had a kid would you all still not bother with a TV (never mind about PC forfeiture)?
hmm well considering anything i do want to watch immediately gets put on the pc somewhere on some website, im good to go, so no the tv is highly not needed at all anymore, i seriously doubt i will get cable of any kind when i do buy a tv, ill probably just hook it up to my tower and play on there, forget paying for channels.
When I signed up for internet, I didnt even want cable. But, my cable provider pretty much forces because if you buy internet alone, you have to pay an extra $10 a month fee of some sort, which would add up to the same amount as if i had cable. I have Hulu, torrents, and Youtube. I could definately live without tv.