Who Needs TV? Not Me.

With the combination of being a full time college student, a college volleyball player, and a college kid hoping to have SOME social life, it's difficult to sit down and take an hour to watch my desired TV shows. In high school it was so easy with the luxury of DVR...if I was busy, it was easy to just record the show and watch it some other time when I wasn't busy. Well, here at Dowling, I am always busy, so I have literally watched zero shows since I have been in New York. Sure, it's been a little difficult not watching Gossip Girl every week, but I grew to accept that since we had practice every single night until late, I'd have to get over it. Wow, was I wrong. While doing some aimless web surfing on our weekend off from volleyball, I stumbled across sites where you can watch episodes online! For some people, this is old news. But for me, it seemed to temporarily fix all my problems. In a few hours, I was able to catch up on every episode of 3 shows that I haven't seen in about 2 months. I loved it, and TV is becoming less and less of a factor for me, so I wonder if this transition is affecting other people as well. I mean, I'm sure I'm not the only busy college student in Long Island who can't afford DVR...well scratch that, Long Island kids probably can. But what is becoming of TV? If it's this difficult to arrange watching show times, are people going to stick with their computers instead of buying TV's? Sure, I was against the conversion of books and computers, but I'm actually in full support of TV episodes and movies being played online. In browsing some of my fellow bloggers on the web, I came across a blog that also promotes online television and even takes the promotion a step further. This blog, http://www.tvchannelsfree.com/blog/2009/10/free-tv-shows-online/, discusses the numerous benefits of watching television online and helped to further convince me that online television is the next big thing.