You have to watch whats on, with little or no say as to what that is.
I think that statement sums up our difference in view and maybe we'll just have to agree to disagree. I don't believe you HAVE to watch what's on just because it's on. You can just turn the TV set off. Nobody is forcing you to watch the 99.9% garbage that's broadcast. Watching TV on the internet is just as bad as watching TV on TV to me. You get commercials with the internet streams too. And there is nothing inherently wrong with commercials, they are part of the deal that you accept when you turn on the TV. If you don't like it, then you can turn it off. Really, I think if people learned to press the off switch, they wouldn't be going to such lengths as to get rid of the TV altogether.