Interesting article on how the average home now has more television sets than people living in it. As someone who hasn’t had cable for the past 4 years, I just don’t get it.

It’s odd because I love technology such as computers and iPods, but television and cell phones bug the heck out of me. I think a quote from Steve Jobs sums it up, in that television is a passive activity while computers are interactive. So we have just one television which is off most of the time, only used to watch the occasional DVD or to play a video game.

Television seems to be entertainment where you wait for a conclusion that never arrives. There’s always another commercial, another episode, and another hour wasted flipping channels. It seems like there’s never much good on and the act of watching TV is actually the act of scanning through the hundreds of channels in search of something half-way decent.

I do watch a few television shows but actually prefer them on DVD. That way, I can burn through an entire season in a weekend without commercials.

So it’s a bit disturbing to realize that some houses have a TV in every room, including the kitchen, bedrooms, and now bathrooms. I guess there are even TVs in cars, in case you get bored of talking on the cell phone while driving and want to be entertained while causing accidents. One typical excuse is that everyone wants to watch a different show so every family member has to have their own TV. No wonder there are so many cable channels. Maybe someday there will be a different network for every person.

Is there some technology I don’t know about; some sort of sensor that determines what show you’re watching in one room, so when you walk into the next, it flips the channel for you? If not, someone should get working on it.

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