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[lethargic_man]

What is your attitude to your evenings, after work?

• I like to relax in front of the TV.
• I like to hang out with friends
• There's always so much to do, and so little time to do it in!
• A mixture of the above
• Something else

Would you be surprised to know the answer for me is the third of these?

Comments

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Not at all. You need an upgrade. Come to think of it, so do I.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Upgrade of what, exactly? Evening length?

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Ability to do stuff in given span of time.

[galliana.livejournal.com]

A mixture of the above, and no, I would not.

:)

Who's got the time?

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I am certain that there is good stuff on TV. But it would never occur to me to shift around the important and interesting things in my life just to watch a television programme.

Besides, I get all of David Attenborough's stuff on DVD and view it at leisure.

Re: Who's got the time?

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I haven't had an in-use television since I had to move somewhere, two years ago, where my landlord didn't let me put the television in the kitchen. Since 95% of the TV I watched was when I was making and eating supper (which was potentially movable to fit when interesting programmes were on), I was not prepared to pay for a licence for the remaining 5% of the time alone, so put the TV away.

At first I missed it, but by the time I moved out of there, I was used to living without. More recently, there have been the odd programmes I regretted not having been able to see, and I've also thought back on good programmes I had seen in previous years, and I had been thinking of getting a licence and a Freeview box.

But OTOH I'm not sure I'd be prepared to set aside the time in my life once again for watching the thing.

The licensing system doesn't really allow for people whose watching of TV is rather sporadic...

Re: Who's got the time?

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

I just had 4 channels and there was nothing worth to watch when I had a TV a year ago at another place. I stopped watching because I TV license ran out. Then I had no TV. When I got this Laptop I was able to watch everything on DVD. Can't you watch just DVD with your TV. You might get all the programs you missed on DVD. There are several online rentals. Easycinema is for occacional watchers. You buy 4 or 10 credits each £1.99 and use it in 90 days or if you a regular watcher CD wow. I guess you haven't got time everyday so the first option might be good. There certainly lots of other providers.

Re: Who's got the time?

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

I just had 4 channels and there was nothing worth to watch when I had a TV a year ago at another place.

That's why I'm insisting on getting a Freeview box if I get a TV licence: five channels ain't enough to justify a licence.

When I got this Laptop I was able to watch everything on DVD. Can't you watch just DVD with your TV.

Possibly, but I have no DVD player.

Re: Who's got the time?

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

What I am saying is if you get a DVD player and not the buying a license and a free view it is much cheaper.

Re: Who's got the time?

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

...but you don't get to watch TV programmes! And a licence isn't all that much, when you have an income. It may sound a lot to you, but it is something I can afford. (As for a Freeview box, at down to £50 or less, I'd imagine they're probably a similar amount to a DVD player.)

BTW, it occurred to me last night: does your DVD rental place have Yojimbo or Hidden Fortress? They're a couple of Kurosawa films I'd like to see that the civic library does not have. (The former is the source of A Fistful of Dollars, the latter the conceptual source of Star Wars.)

Re: Who's got the time?

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

I will look for you. I am fighting with the silly easy cinema online rental. They are cheating me. They normally despatched a series for one credit and now they charge for every single one. I could have get it like that from CD-wow where you pay monthly.