Episode 339: Watching Too Much TV?

 

• Scenario 1: Claude wants his twins to stop watching so much TV in his Dolby Atmos equipped home theater with a 110” Micro LED Samsung display. His wife suggests giving his twins the Samsung OLED tablets instead. Do you think this is an appropriate replacement for the twins' TV viewing?

• Scenario 2: Evelyn has 10 sources of passive income, that allows her to focus on doing what she wants in life. For the past 20 years she has consumed the entire Netflix library, but wants to be more productive in her life. She decided that a chatbot powered by AI could help her after telling it the details of her life. The chatbot suggested she watch the entire Prime Video library over the next 5 years, by keeping the content playing 24/7. Should she follow the chatbot’s advice, or would this be watching too much TV?

• Scenario 3: Pia is ghostwriting a screenplay as a favor to a family friend. The friend wants to make a scary film about time traveling ghosts with Pixar style animation. Pia decided to binge every Pixar film ever made and watch every version of Dr. Who, as research for the screenplay she’s writing. Should Pia conduct her research in another way or is she watching too much TV?