How has it changed?
Within days of getting a hard-drive recorder, my TV watching dropped by 90%. I was no longer going to 'miss' things. Now I had them on 'tape', everything else I could do became more interesting or important. I 'had' the programs there for when I wanted to watch them .. and that never happened.
I cancelled my cable account and maxed out my internet speed. Anything I want to watch, I can download ... and I forget to do that too.
Incidentally, whilst thinking of myself as 'sophisticated' when It comes to watching adverts, i had been TOTALLY 'blindesided' by the TV channels' SELF-Advertising
"Sci Fi has got a GREAT CHISTMAS in store for you with more SEASON PREMIERES than in any other year" etc ... I actually bought into that excitement. I look back and shudder. It was a baby's dummy/comforter for any strands of loneliness I might have had in the dark of the night when nobody can here me going "Hmmm I'm a bit lonely"
