For myself, I really don't like the new TVs or TV in general. The HD screens are too contrastive for my taste and sometimes make me dizzy as most are not set up correct. I like the soft look of the CRT, kind of like film has that look.
I admit love watching things on my tablets, without that cheap all look alike ugly, wide flat screen in the house. And I can take it anywhere in the house. I don't need stereo sound, and all the gimmicks, not all are but, some are.
We we have a beautiful home and it looks so much nicer with no TV, I guess you can hide them, however we go to other people's nice houses and that TV ruins the looks, and it is always on! Sometimes I just turn it off if it is a party or something. It becomes the centerpiece of the home. TVs are for dens not living rooms.
The day cable TV with 1000 channels that you have no interest in, yet pay for, and you watch just a few, dies, is when I pop open a bottle of champagne. I'm mean really who here watches the knitting channel? If there is one but, I would not bet against It. Not to mention the awful cable news programs. I hope the switch to an internet system will push the poorly produced no talent shows so far back in the sweeps, no one will watch.
Here is what we have a TV for, to crank it up loud to make crooks think we are home and go next door, when we come home it is shut off fourth with. Netflix business model is changing how all this works,and I can watch all the things I like, like old movies. Plus you can watch them several times to catch the details. Without paying for another service for that.
Over the years I have covered over 20 Oscars and Emmy award shows, and most of us who do that, never watch TV, we read the trades, and there are so many stars of these dumb reality shows, none of us even know who they are, the editors deal with that. I am going to retire from this work, as is it very hard on you, however, it is a hell of a lot of fun. Plus the fashion is fantastic!
Maybe that is why at home we do other things. There was a time when TV was great, I will admit that.
It will all be on the internet, no cable, no Sat dishes, and this wil be sooner than you think. Weather the production values are better, don't count on that, but you can take the dish down soon, and clip the cable wire, as things will go wireless. No more searching thru endless shows you must. Go thru to find something, or the satellite list which goes on and on.
Even worse, and I speak for myself, I never liked going to the movie theater, the last movie I went to was Titanic. Although on Oscar night at an after party James Cameron, let me hold his Oscar, that was nice.
Today, there are so many more things to do television is becoming a relic of what it used to be.