Well, I used to watch TV quite a bit in the 70's, and I didn't feel that I was getting hooked....but I never actually owned a TV, I just happened to be living in places where there was one.

So when I moved, I stopped watching.

But the main reason I choose not to watch it is simply the commercial interruptions. I can't stand that. I don't want to put up with it. I'd rather read a book, read the paper, or go on the computer.

If there was a TV show I really liked (and there have been a few), I would wait for it to come out later on DVD and I'd rent it, and watch it without the ads. That is how much I hate advertising. It's like a series of obnoxious and uninvited strangers bursting suddenly into your presence in your own home every 5 or 6 minutes and haranguing you with a frantic sales pitch about something you neither need nor want. How long would you put up with that if it were happening in real 3-D life? Why should you put up with it from an electronic box?