Do you guys watch TV?

[nanogenesis]

We've got a CRT 32" or 30" since I don't know maybe a long time, but people say its back from when I shifted into this city & was young (that means 1999 maybe?) I have no f'cking clue, but its VERY old.

 

I used to have a 14" CRT monitor from 1999, and I changed that last year. After getting an LCD LED 22" + using digital vibrance via nvidia panel at 100%, I just don't know what I did in those previous years with a CRT monitor. I mean there's such a BIG difference!

 

Recently my dad got a 42" TV and let me tell you it looks CRAP in front of digital vibrance in my monitor (atleast to my eyes)

So to sum it up, I gave up watching the TV because it looks crap.

[Kamen Rider Kuuga]

I honestly can't see the difference between HD and SD; I actually miss the old CRT I was using for almost a year (which then died about 3 months ago) because my LCD monitor died.

 

Actually looked clearer to me, that CRT. A little picky to set up right, but that's a small price to pay. Especially since the HD LCD monitor lasted about a year, while that monitor lasted atleast a decade.

 

I still have my old TV that I got over a decade ago as well; it's been retired to use with my SNES and N64, so it lives a life of leisure while the young, hotshot but ultimately useless HD TV sits there and gets mostly ignored as it spews out white noise while I shoot things in New Vegas.

[johneb]

I watch Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead when they're available.

Otherwise I'm usually playing "change the channel" quite a bit.

Watch DVDs. Just bought the first season of Game of Thrones and I was far more than pleasantly surprised.

I thought it was awesome...but now I MUST have season two.

[icecold29]

Have some fond memories of silly shows, used to watch a lot as kids but have been 15 years since, I left my parents house for education and then for job, never felt the need since then... Always been audio books and pc for me... as i do not listen to music...

[AgentChicken]

I personally don't watch tv, i watch youtube video's more often than tv

[quasimodo75]

I don´t own a TV. Life is too short to waste it by getting brain dead in front of it.

[Kamen Rider Kuuga]

You're too busy getting brain dead in front of a computer.

[thesapien]

Was someone offended?

 

Yeah, I think it's more correct to say it's all in HOW you do something, not WHAT. Many people do seem to veg out in front of their tubes while others are stimulated, provoked, excited, angered, made skeptical, etc.

 

Just consider that no one would know what the Earth looked like from space had it not been for pictures and videos, for example. We take things like this for granted now.

 

An aside: I hate book snobs. I mean, I was a huge book reader, myself, before the internet took off. Even while in school, I'd still go to the bookstore to read more stuff that wasn't in any of my classes. But books are no more interactive and actually far inferior to multimedia in terms of information to be exposed to. Current tech in multimedia and/or even gaming engines can give you everything a book can (by actually having virtual books or using text) while also giving you sounds and images that books cannot. I ask book snobs, what's so superior about being told everything to think using text? Is posting in a forum superior in communication than talking over a phone or using a video phone?

 

Yeah, I still love books and am playing devil's advocate against book snobs just because they deserve it.

[ElvenScoundrel]

TV is so full of shit, I don't even bother turning it on, except for when I wanna play vidya. If any good series are airing, I'll just watch 'em online or download 'em instead.

[ElvenScoundrel]

Was someone offended?

 

Yeah' date=' I think it's more correct to say it's all in HOW you do something, not WHAT. Many people do seem to veg out in front of their tubes while others are stimulated, provoked, excited, angered, made skeptical, etc.

 

Just consider that no one would know what the Earth looked like from space had it not been for pictures and videos, for example. We take things like this for granted now.

 

An aside: I hate book snobs. I mean, I was a huge book reader, myself, before the internet took off. Even while in school, I'd still go to the bookstore to read more stuff that wasn't in any of my classes. But books are no more interactive and actually far inferior to multimedia in terms of information to be exposed to. Current tech in multimedia and/or even gaming engines can give you everything a book can (by actually having virtual books or using text) while also giving you sounds and images that books cannot. I ask book snobs, what's so superior about being told everything to think using text? Is posting in a forum superior in communication than talking over a phone or using a video phone?

 

Yeah, I still love books and am playing devil's advocate against book snobs just because they deserve it.

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As a book worm/lover, I think it's because words are not a visual thing. What I mean by this is that you don't have pictures, you have your mind to visualize what's happening in that particular scene, and that gets the brain flowing. You see what's happening from your point of view, which might or might not differ from another person. Images don't allow you to visualize the scene because it's already rendered for you, which IMHO isn't as immersive. Plus, reading in a quiet place can be very soothing, books smell awesome, and they feel great in your hands.

[thesapien]

Yes, and I particularly love old books in my hands.

 

But I do still think a lot of people over-rate the process of reading compared to other things we do. None of our perceptions are merely passive. Visualization isn't a simple thing, no matter if the source of information is from a monitor with flashing dots or a page with marks on it. You still have to interpret the information and render or imagine what is happening. There's also the amount of information to process at a time that can grow very quickly with multi-media which could have words on the screen while also making pictures and don't forget the audio. Spoken words are actually full of more information to be interpreted and rendered than written words. And other sounds and MUSIC! But if you think less is better, so that you're imagining it all on your own with less input, then perhaps we should emphasize that writing, not reading, is actually the hardest in this respect. So if you say reading immerses you more, then how's about no input at all? Wait, would you not be immersed most if you were actually living it with all of your 5 senses? Yes, I'm playing with you and am not really agreeing or disagreeing, unless you're a book snob who firmly believes in just the one way of looking at it!

[Kamen Rider Kuuga]

BOKZ R TEH DUM U NERDZ I PLY ON TEH XBOX LIFE N I DUN NED NO BOKZ!!!!!!!!!1111111111111111111

 

So there, my argument CANNOT be refuted!

[thesapien]

And there's the epic win experience that comes from interactive gaming!

 

Can't really compare a game like Dirt3 to shows, movies, or books... Simulations can really work those reflexes/reactions times and up some mad skillz, yo.

[Kamen Rider Kuuga]

Really, I read plenty of books. In game books, anyway. I loves me some in game lore in book form.

 

Take Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna for example; if you just run through it and don't bother reading anything, the game doesn't tell you how the Lost Queen came to be, or how the cat and lizard people arose. But if you take your time to explore and find the lore, you learn their background, the laments of the writers for making them, for losing control and the way their creations rose to form their own "societies".

 

So yeah; I read quite a bit, just in actual games. Because most of the games I play are story based, and the best come with little tidbits of background in books you can go out of your way to find and enjoy.

 

And any book snob can kiss my ass.

[thesapien]

Ah, yeah, that's also what I think is so great about the gaming platform. It can include all types of previous mediums for information, like books, right inside the game. So anything a book can do, so can a game, plus more!