Following up on Dave's post about the demise of traditional broadcast television, I have noticed how TV has slowly crept back into my life. In 1991, I did burn my TV in my yard (metaphorically anyway -- I sold it). Though we own a television now, for a long time it was only hooked up to the DVD player. It's been remarkably beneficial to remove the "flip-on-the-tube" option from our lives.
Then the kids started destroying the DVDs. So I ripped the surviving DVDs to a big hard disk, hooked it up to an old Mac iBook connected to the TV, and taught the kids how to use FrontRow. Next comes Miro, subscribed to a couple yoga video podcast feeds. It's a (very) short jump from there to an Internet-delivered Tivo-like experience, with way more content than we could possibly sensibly consume.
Sixteen years ago it was easy to walk away from TV, and not have to make day-to-day decision about what to watch. Now that "TV equals Computer," I'm not really sure what to do.
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