To ask if anyone dosent have a Television?

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Just wondered does everyone have a TV now and if you don't do you think your life is better for it?
What do you do instead?

I’d disagree, @JaninaDuszejko - and I’d have said anyone brought up in England associates ‘watching television’ with the obligation to have a TV licence.

I don’t own a TV ‘set’. No idea if there’s an aerial anywhere around the building. I take the greatest care not to even accidentally watch any live TV broadcast at home. Don’t have the iplayer app on any device. I pay, entirely independently of the BBC, for everything I stream. It feels very different to me.

I agree with @JaninaDuszejko It's still watching TV just in a different manner. At the end of the day there really is no difference between watching netflix on big screen or smaller pc screen at home. It's still watching Netflix, which in these times ecompasses the "watching tv".
I mean it's like I would get neigbours record things from live tv, then played it on dvd and claimed never to watch tv. Or watched movies on dvd.
It's motion pictures at home.

No Netflix or any other streaming service here.

The DVDs (some unopened) collect dust in a cupboard along with some ancient Disney VHS tapes.

Sky do a service where you can have ad free TV.

Not sure how the advertisers will feel about that.

You absolutely have to have a licence if you watch Iplayer

I don’t have a TV because I’m very very busy and enriched reading absolute bullshit on the internet for hours a day

(and i put trash on the laptop on netflix while I’m ironing)

I don't have a TV but I watch Netflix and stuff like that on my laptop.
On a typical evening, I do home stuff (cooking / cleaning...) whilst listening to a podcast, then a bit of Netflix, reading and working on learning a language.
And checking my phone of course 🙃

And I receive loads of very threatening post from TV Licensing. No one ever shown up. Ever.
They remind me of the Black Knight in the Monty Python.

We don’t have one. We do have several laptops/iPads between us all, and we watch stuff on Prime and YouTube.

Instead? Mumsnet, reading, work, listening to the radio/podcasts. Honestly by the time DS is in bed and I’ve tidied up the house/had a bath, it’s usually quite late anyway. Pre-DC, I went out more in the evenings (dance classes, language classes, Pilates etc), so that took up all my time.

I do miss it for the sports - I’d like to be able to watch the rugby or the tennis, and the Winter Olympics. Again, pre-DC we used to go to the pub to watch sports, but can’t really do that with a five year old (he gets bored).

Got one inthe autumn after lockdown as we were going out less. Until then we hadn't had one in years.