via: shanghaiist - china advancing in the global "trash tv wars"
i have three tv sets in two living places, two equipped with dvd players and one with a satellite dish. my wife and i are not big fan of entertainment shows, like what shanghaiist says, most of them are trash and appeal to teenagers or housewives/senior citizens, my wife occasionally watch a few tv dramas of documentary nature. both of us watch a lot of news and interviews. don't laugh at us because we still watch the cctv "news", we watch it in a special way so we could find the useful information. we once wanted to buy a set-top box but later gave up because of teh poor and unstable quality of the programs. sometimes i watch the cnbc news and the tonight show but find they are just too far away from my life here.
in recent years, i see a tv set more like a liability of a quality life and proposed a "no-tv day" every week. and my wife thinks that it might be a good idea to move the tv set from the bedroom to the bathroom, but it seems the tv set is too big for our bathroom.
we have a few friends who also moved tv sets from their bedrooms and hoped to instead spend more time with their family members. i know they failed because every time i log on to the MSN messenger, they come to say hello to me.
a mini tv that i can put on my office desk or in the bathroom is in my wishlist of new years shopping, but not sure i can find a good one that is not too expensive.