>>Speaking of getting rid of poisons, I completely forgot... it must have been some 4-5 weeks ago: 5 years without TV. We cancelled the subscription only next january, when we noticed that nobody has turned the set on since end of october. Next year, when we returned home, we didn't even bother buying a set.
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>I cancelled all the cable channels a few years ago.
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>Except for PBS and occasional golf matches, I don't watch live TV

PBS (and NPR) are commercial stations by other means. The assortment of stuff they show is so very limited and narrow in scope.

Live TV? That doesn't exist anymore. It's delayed at least 15 seconds, and if anything really interesting happens you can be sure it will be cut out and covered by commercials. Or it's staged - the reading of the news may still be going live, but these aren't real news, and they are ready to jump in with alternate content if any unstaged piece of life intrudes. The only time I saw really live TV was some parts of 9/11 coverage and when a couple of tornadoes were playing in our wider neighborhood. Needless to say, these were also the only times when it ran without commercials. That's two days in ten years. The rest was thoroughly staged, censored, sterilized and put through the grinder.

>Basically my TV set is a machine for viewing DVD's and streaming movies and TV shows from Netfilx.

Do that on my monitors - the resolution is fine, the sound system just good enough, don't need any better than that.