What is the point of TV?

Question

Why? All people over do is sit in front of it for hours on end watching pictures that move, what is really the point? Even though there may be nothing at all on, why do we always watch?

Answer 1

We watch it because it's become an integrated part of our culture and is one of the greatest forms of mass-media and communication available to us today

Answer 2

Entertainment, movies, information, sports, news, the colors, the sounds, the deranged insanity of it all.

Answer 3

The point of tv is this... as Winston found out in George Orwells' "1984" TVs cheif responsibility is to Watch You. For years the tvs have been conditioning us to watch them, but like in 1984 TVs have now become flat screen interactive TVs that we can hang on the wall. One of the cheif reasons why they are eliminating anolog TV in favor of a digital signal is because digital signals permit two way communication, and that since the chips are small enough now a camerca can be engineered into the TV without being too obvious. Thus a real live BIG BROTHER is looming in the not too distant future.

Answer 4

I leave it on for background noise. Rarely do I ever sit down to actually watch it.