Of course, one option is to put an excercise machine (bike, walker, whatever but not a rower) in front of the TV. Your hands will be free to hold the remote, and you can flick through channels whilst excercising. It's what I do with the computer, but it gets awkward trying to type into Mudchat whilst doing 10 miles at 15mph in high gear.

I get distracted and do more than I'm supposed to.....

We only have terrestrial TV, no cable company will hook us up (it's an address thing - apparently we live in an area with a lot of defaulters so they have a blanket No policy now)and I won't have a hideous dish on the house. We're investigating Digital, and if that works we will probably try for one of the history channels, Choice, Children's channel and Sci Fi. Then I can spend hours not watching those too.

LTS