Bye bye dial-up.
Posted by: Tony Lockhart on 01 September 2013
I can't believe that anyone with the option of broadband would stick with dial up, especially as it's more expensive.
Tony
Some people still have black and white TVs...
steve
I know 2 people who aint even got a TV.
One guy who lives alone prefers listening to the radio.
And a family who decided to get rid of their TV when their kids started school, so that it was not a distraction when doing schoolwork.
Mista h
My wife and I stopped watching TV many years ago. It was not a premeditated decision but rather a situation that evolved as a result of us having limited viewing time and preferring to spend that time watching our own choice of material on VHS as it was then. We have a set but it is used only for watching DVD's and is not even connected to an aerial.
We would not like to be without broadband but if it became financially necessary to dispense with it then I'm sure we would still get by. We know people who live perfectly happily without a computer and have no desire at all to get one. Some people still live happily without central heating or double glazing. I grew up in a home without central heating or double glazing long before the days of the internet and when a home computer meant a Sinclair ZX Spectrum. Only three TV channels. For most of those years not even a telephone. Life was good and there was certainly no sense of having to do without anything.
Things move on of course and we get used to the conveniences and luxuries of modern life. But to keep things in perspective we should remember that they are luxuries, not essentials, although advertising would have you believe the opposite.
Peter
Gupta
i presume you still have to buy a TV licence !!!
Mista H
mista h,
No licence required to own a TV set. A licence is only required if you view material live, ie. as it is being broadcast. This can easily be confirmed if you visit the TV Licensing website, where it is stated very clearly. They simply sent us a form to fill out declaring that we did not watch live TV despite owning a TV set and that was the end of it.
Peter