What's Sitting Under Your TV?

a vcd/dvd player but its also rarely used, we have a cable subscription for national geographic, discovery and lifestyle channel. other than that, i watch movies or other shows on my computer.

I know that feeling when you're sure you're the kiss of death to a show. I'm still in mourning for Northern Exposure.

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What's under my TV? The big one downstairs, which my husband and kids turn on once in a while, still has a DVD and a VCR. Very dusty. Not used much.

My TV, in the kitchen, isn't connected to cable, etc, but just to a DVD & VCR.

Stop laughing. Many of my favorite movies are not available on DVD or anywhere else. I might have odd tastes.

I only turn on my TV when I'm baking bread, and often not even then. I watch Glee online at 3 a.m. and there's really nothing else on TV that appeals.

Besides, every time I become obsessed with a show, it's canceled. I am the Kiss of Death for a show. (I miss you, Ugly Betty, Scrubs, and MASH.)

Also? Way too busy to just sit down and passively watch something. Too much of a multi-tasker.

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Happy to know what's in your casa, especially since your post on going streaming only is what got me started on this topic . . .

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In the living room we've got the DirecTV box (which I didn't even get until my fiance moved in and needed live sports), an Apple TV, a Wii (which I originally got mainly for streaming Netflix before the Apple TV would do Netflix) and the fiances Playstation 3. Upstairs we have another DirecTV box and the old fashioned DVD/VCR combo which I barely even use.

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I'll bet you find a way to give that DVR a workout.

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You may have just answered the stupid question I had for Terri.

Maybe it's just my antique eyesight, but I actually like watching things on my computer better than on my TV. I can see it better and in more detail.

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As in vinyl? My house is full of VHS tapes, cassette tapes, and vinyl albums for which there are no available players. Hope you have the player for that vinyl.

Virginia DeBolt, BlogHer Section Editor for Tech
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although I've got it almost 100% full of saved episodes of The Chicago Code.

Virginia DeBolt, BlogHer Section Editor for Tech
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but I don't understand how you're going to use the Roku without some sort of high speed internet. Do you use cable for that?

Virginia DeBolt, BlogHer Section Editor for Tech
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Virginia blogs at Web Teacher ( http://www.webteacher.ws/ ) and First 50 Words ( http://first50.wordpress.com ).

A DVR (woo! just got it, but aren't really using it very much), a Wii (not used for streaming, just games) and a computer hooked to our TV with a HDMI cable. We stream Netflix on the Blu-Ray player and watch other non-Netflix content on the computer that's attached to the TV. I really really love having a computer dedicated to streaming stuff to the TV. My husband uses it to surf the web sometimes, too and that's even MORE awesome. For a while, I was having blurry vision as a side effect of some medication and so I used the TV as a 55 inch monitor so I could continue working.

We dumped our cable several months ago and we're using a digital antenna and a Roku with Hulu and Netflix. I find it very frustrating that so many shows are "web only." We end up watching one or two shows a week streaming on the computer because we can't watch them any other way.

In general, though, I'm enjoying streaming and I really don't miss cable.

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I love having Shaw on Demand movies and TV shows at my finger tips. I never have to worry about missing my favorite HBO series.

But if you looked under my TV you would see a stack of albums. I can't part with them...

We rarely watch live TV anymore. We have a Tivo for shows that we can't get on HuluPlus through our Roku. We do still have the DVD player that doesn't get used too often, but as you point out is good for movies on Netflix that aren't available for streaming. We're about ready to cut the cable entirely and that will feel great! No more $60 a month cable bill. :)

for some things...but we don't seem to subscribe to that sort of thing even though I mention the specials every time one is on the radio or in the mail.

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point about people who don't have much free time for sitting in front of the TV. I think you might be one of those people.

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The only people who really watch any tv in my house are TW's mom and Elly (the youngest) who watches whatever her grandmother is watching.

TW's mom has no devices with which to stream, except of course the wii but she'd never figure out how to do that and it's not worth it for me to teach her.

So - we still have a cable box, a DVD/VCR combo + the wii.

Video's just not our thing - whether it's TV or movies. We just don't watch.

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