[friend_and_foe]

Well personally, and this might not be an option for you, I just don't have a TV. I have a laptop for development and a phone, that's it.

I used to have my desktop and big monitor and a studio apartment where my entertainment center doubled as my desk, it was alright. The monitor wasn't a huge screen, but honestly I don't like huge screens. Even had an Xbox hooked into it for the last couple years of game playing, I don't really game anymore. So I didn't have a TV but I kind of did.

Now I don't really watch much, every now and then me and the wife feel like a movie, so we just watch one on my phone in bed together. Neither one of us has had a TV at least as long as we have known each other.

A TV is a lifestyle choice, you really don't need one, everyone feels like a house is incomplete without it but it's not true.