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Bye, bye TV
« on: Aug 30th, 2007, 10:58am » |
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This time tomorrow Timo and I preparing ourselves for a change: Finland is headed to digital TV age, but we're not.
Yup, you heard it correctly. We don't have a digibox or digital TV, so that means that at 4am on Saturday morning our TVs are useless pieces of furniture.
If our house would have cable access, then we'd be able to watch TV normally until the end of this year. But because it doesn't... It's bye bye to TV. 
We're planning to have a tiny party to celebrate this change. 
I'm thinking pizza, popcorn and nachos. 
We are going to stay as late as we can and watch the last programs. Too bad nothing good is on... 
Luckily most Finnish programs are crap and all good shows can be downloaded.
More time to reading, whoo!
Soon TVless,
Sanna
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #1 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 11:02am » |
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You won't be missing much.
It's actually quite liberating when you turn the idiot box off.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #2 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 11:14am » |
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After the summer, it's not a big deal. Nothing good is on.
We'll be missing another Big Brother, Single Mum Wants a Hubby, Farmer Wants a Wife... 
And Talent Finland. It's US and UK versions were funny as hell, but I'm guessing that the Finnish one would be a let down after those.
But, because our national daily papers looove to cover each and every reality show at length, I won't be missing a thing. Heck, I didn't even need to watch a minute of the previous two Big Brothers nor Farmer Wants a Wife to know everything I needed (and far too much more) thanks to the tabloids.
Latest Big Brother begun this week and tabloids are filled with "shocking" stories about the contestants.
I won't be missing any of those. I might miss some great nature programs, documentaries and concerts, but I'll live.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #3 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 11:19am » |
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It's not a bad thing. We don't miss it.
We disconnected from broadcast, network, cable, etc., about twelve years ago--when El appeared to be more interested in zombifying herself in front of the tube than anything else. Much whining and thrashing about ensued, but it didn't last long. Poor kid was forced to read books, and draw and paint, and run around outside.
Now she's positively snobbish about the whole thing: "We don't watch television at OUR house...."
We do have a good-sized digital flatscreen with a home theater system, but we use it to watch movies. We enjoy watching films, including bygone classics and cultural icons, as well as new releases. (Ellen and I are action-film junkies, but EJ seems to like chick flicks for some incomprehensible reason.)
Heck with the offerings of the networks. There isn't really anything on that I want to see. Most of the time, the shows and sitcoms bite. I can get more and better news and analysis from the 'net--instead of the daily onslaught of death and celebrity angst that the soap-sellers on the tube are pushing.
Phooey.
Good luck, and enjoy the view--losing the TV is no loss at all.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #4 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 11:39am » |
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I would be lost with out my "Discovery Channel" , " Speed Channel" , "History Channel" , "Weather Channel" , and " Local News Channel" Terry
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #5 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 12:30pm » |
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Amen to that, I think the tv in my bedroom is permantly stuck on that channel now, it hasn't been changed in a long time!
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #6 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 12:58pm » |
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We have rabbit antenna, I can watch news and CSI and HOUSE and my soaps in spanish.
My daughter gets PBS all week and a few hours of Nick jr on saturday but we have lots of movies.
Discovery can be replace with PBS, they have great documentals and concerts. PLus there is alwasy internet, I love reading in the internet.
Sanna you will have a lot more time to talk to your best supporter
or do whatever else you can think of
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #7 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 1:05pm » |
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George, I can relate. We have been without a telivision for 15 years. Our whole family was glued to the tv and we did nothing but sit there and vegitate in front of it. Nothing got done around the house. People would complaine if anyone dared talk. We listen to Packer games on the radio now. We played board games with the kids, did outside activities with them, and really enjoyed the liberation that we got without having one in our home. Our kids were diagnosed ADHD. When they stopped watching hyper cartoons and other things their ADHD went away. It was amazing.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #8 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 1:42pm » |
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Good GOD! How will you know what to BUY? How will you know what to THINK? How will you know what new maladies you can cure with a new pill? For cryin' out loud, you'll actually have to, uh, er, what was it again... think!
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #9 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 2:39pm » |
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Congrats Sanna. TV sucks.
I watch virtually no TV at all. Since I have been away from it for quite a while now, it really shocks me at how ridiculous it is when I do see it.
You will be smarter for it, I promise!!!
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #10 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 5:50pm » |
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Me too, haven't watched TV in many months.
Libraries have about 30 years compiled non-fiction videos of history that rent for free, which will probably not be transferred to discs. I've watched many several hundreds of hours of very good tapes available, perusing every library in the county, especially if interested in any wars and any kind of history. Don't discard the VCR yet.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #11 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 7:55pm » |
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I don't know what I'd do without erectile dysfunction infomercials, hours and hours of prison tours, and the latest cable "news" of the latest Hollywood dim bulbs. 
Quote:We're planning to have a tiny party to celebrate this change.
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Don't tell anybody but when I was a little kid, tv was so rare that people had tv cocktail parties inviting the neighbors to see the latest the Dumont TV network had to offer.
Come to think of it; if I didn't have a cable bill, I would have been able to go to Richmond.
Might be worth a try next time
Should be fun kid
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #12 on: Aug 30th, 2007, 9:47pm » |
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Charlie...Stop!!!
Sanna, Im glad you're celebrating...have fun, it's a good cause for a party! 
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #13 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 12:38am » |
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on Aug 30th, 2007, 11:39am, gore2424 wrote:| I would be lost with out my "Discovery Channel" , " Speed Channel" , "History Channel" , "Weather Channel" , and " Local News Channel" Terry |
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SPEED CHANNEL !!!!!!!!!! Big block Chevys, nitro methane...makee big a hoss powa Oh yeah!!!
Reality Tv shows lower I.Q. Celebs have oatmeal for a brain.
I don't care if Paris Hilton does finally successfully lobby daddy for a new brain.
The money would be better put to use studying alpaca poo as an alternative fuel source, or sending underprivileged kids to school to learn to dance the Macharena.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #14 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 2:57am » |
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I'm an avid reader and we live right next to the biggest library in the city. I'm there all the time, looking for books and reading magazines. Thank God for Finland's brilliant libraries! They're wonderful.
Timo has a lot of great movies on dvds (and I lots of chick flicks and Silence of the Lambs ) we're planning to watch within time. We just got Little Miss Sunshine, which we both love.
Fubar, luckily here in Finland we've been able to buy, think and act ourselves for years. Besides, I've been watching so little amount of TV during the past few years that giving it up is a natural addition. My current fave shows are House (the 1st series ended months ago and no idea when second starts in here) and Men in Trees (the 1st series will end next week).
Finland lacks its own brilliant dramas and sitcoms, which is unfortunate. Many "exciting new shows" in here are, in fact, those US shows which have run like 1 series back in there... And then they're heavily marketed in here. I'm fed up with that.
Those who will have their TVs will get to see also our edition of Deal or No Deal, Dexter (it started last night), Weeds' second series (I did enjoy some of the first episodes) and Heroes (one of my friends is already a fan of that). Our Public Service Broadcaster YLE made a deal with HBO, so that brings some new shows as well.
I grew up watching little TV. As I kid I played with my best friend, spent hours outside and read zillion books per year. I do recall loving Cosby Show and watching episodes of The Golden Girls and some kiddies programs, but that's it. There was always so much more to do.
And boy, did we play board games and baseball and basket ball! And hide and seek. And showball wars during the winter... Fun!
This digital age is a challenge for our networks, though. YLE, the public service broadcaster, will lose lots of revenue, because at least 13 000 households have decided not to get a TV permit (which finances YLE's programming). Not to meantion, the networks have spent lots of money to create their digital channels and most folks either stick to the few they've had until now or decide, like us, not to get the digi box or digital TV at all.
My mum is one of the digi box people and what I hear she's been watching Conan! Late Night with Conan O'Brien is on SubTV, one of the cable channels our house doesn't have access in the analogue age and my childhood home didn't have cable ever, so I skipped all the nice influences from MTV and etc.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #15 on: Aug 31st, 2007, 8:32pm » |
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Sanna,
I can't understand a word you're typing. It's like you evolved and left us behind...
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #16 on: Sep 1st, 2007, 6:03am » |
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Good one, Fubar!
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #17 on: Sep 1st, 2007, 8:01am » |
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I remember those "parties" with the little TV light on and all the neighbor's over to watch a TV program (Saturday Night Hit Parade with Rosemary Clooney or some such) - awwww those were the days.....
You probably won't miss the TV and will get a lot more done. I just keep mine on for noise - couldn't even tell you what's on most of the time. Waste of money....
Maybe you'll start a trend and we'll all go back to rabbit ears and just watch the news (not that that's anything to watch any more).
Reading and thinking? Now there's a novel thought.... Do ya think (Charlie) that's why those of us over a certain age can actually do those things today - cause we didn't have TV growing up?
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #18 on: Sep 1st, 2007, 8:25am » |
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, iam sure you wont regret it. i threw mine out 22 years ago. the advertisers got me down, and only getting the news they wanted you to hear, the way they would have you hear it. the world service [radio], at least is heard by the world and so news reports are more responsible. andrew.
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« Reply #19 on: Sep 1st, 2007, 8:44pm » |
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Maybe you're right Barb. We watched tv from about 4:00 PM here when it came on. After the Buffalo, NY news at 11:30 there was usually some kind of sign off and of course the test pattern. Mom would actually knit, or read while my dad and I spent Friday night in the cellar developing black and white photographs or on dad's KN2TAX. Of course there was always the Lionel train that my dad bought more for himself than me. 
People fixed stuff back then too.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #20 on: Sep 2nd, 2007, 10:20am » |
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Ok, life without TV, day 2. We're doing fine.
Yesterday we turned the telly on to see what the screen looks like now. It was black with most channels but YLE1 announced that the digital age has begun and that from now on one must get a digibox, digital TV or digi transformer of some kind and phone number for Digita Oy, which will give assistance to those who need it (and what I hear, lots of folks DO need it).
And the change has not been complitely smooth one. Some households with digital TV or digibox still won't see anything because they'll need satellites or other kind of assistance, because there's not enough technical support networks yet. Makes you wonder why to choose to live in the middle of nowhere, right?
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #21 on: Sep 2nd, 2007, 11:15am » |
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We just downgraded from over 800 channels to a few hundred.
It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do
Maybe someday we will just have basic cable 
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Re: Bye, bye TV
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on Sep 2nd, 2007, 11:15am, E-Double wrote:| Maybe someday we will just have basic cable |
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Maybe someday you'll be forced to resort to caveman TV - a fireplace.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #23 on: Sep 2nd, 2007, 12:52pm » |
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on Sep 2nd, 2007, 10:20am, sandie99 wrote:| day 2. We're doing fine. |
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Just saying "no" to the changes might be an adjustment but you may find it to be a needless item when network price searching increases involving hoop-jumping has been intensively sought and decided (in your best interest, of course) from all the best brainstorming for improvement, and well-thought out ideas came up with only a clearer picture. They need more revenue and that is the regulated push. Like selling you huge speakers for a 200 square foot room and making it a requirement.
Besides, you're next to a huge library that's free, discover the difference then consider paying the charges involved in changes for service.
I know you like media and are particular in presentation and truth, Sanna, TV is not the only or best source if one were to happen to look elsewhere. It may tend to frustrate your looked-for standards anyway.
Just my opinion.
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Re: Bye, bye TV
« Reply #24 on: Sep 2nd, 2007, 1:06pm » |
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I bought a 52" HDTV.....its hooked up to a digital cable box and I never watch it.
Even when someone turns it on I walk right by it oblivious to whats on it.....LOL
Some days I wonder why the hell I pay $63 a month for cable TV
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