All TV is bad?

[Travis Roy]

>>Don't bother with the TV. You're not missing anything. Really.

It's really sad when you have to dismiss an entire medium.

>>I turn my TV on every now and then just to remind myself what a waste of
>>bandwidth it is. I mean, if you have hundreds of channels and still
>>can't find anything to watch, that's saying a lot.
>>
> 

Cosidering how much content is on the internet, and how much of it I 
find useful, I think the percentage of useful to crap is much less on 
the internet then on TV.

\> I like many of the history and science stuff that gets on PBS,
> Discovery, History Channel, NGC.  There are HOWTO type things on the
> Food Channel, HGTV and Discovery.  Not everything is on the internet.

Well, with sites like tvtorrents.com it's possible to find good quality 
versions of your show on the internet. Of course the question of how 
legal that is or not. :)

> As far as finding it, maybe it's timing.  That's easily solved with
> (oblinux) Tivo or MythTV or one of the other DVR systems available.

I agree. Most of the shows I watch are on at times that I"m not around, 
the TiVo is great for that. Not only that, with thumbs up/down on the 
TiVo it's possible to find other shows that you woudlnt't think you 
like. Of course it takes a while for it to refine itself (the more data 
you give it, the better the results). A good example is we gave Good 
Eats a thumbs up, so it started recording every freakin' cooking show 
ever. So we thumbs down a lot of them, but because of giving Good Eats a 
thumbs up it recorded Gardening By The Yard. It's a gardening show with 
a bit of the Good Eats feel. It's a very good show.

But to dimiss an entire medium of information just doesn't seem right, 
you just have to find the right part of it for you. I hate probably 80% 
of what's on the radio, but "radio" doesn't suck. I enjoy the shows on 
NPR during the weekend.