Hooray! Sixty-five years ago, on 2 October 1951, was the first official Dutch television broadcast of the start. The unit seems to be since then, it is impossible to think from the Dutch living room.
Herman got you (34) and Evelien Matthijssen (35) see, however, differently: they both have the tv out the door and done, and thus are among the 3 percent of the Dutch households that no televisieabonnement (more). “If you’re not watching tv, you get the chance to focus your attention on what you really like, such as friends and family,” says Herman.
Gathering
In the United States, it is a trend that is already some time to play: consumers who are aware of their subscription and unsubscribe, because they are with the current online offer see everything, or because a life without television them more rest for him.
Green Evelien, as she herself mentions on her blog, sees that spending time with the family back at the heart of comes to now tv is not a central place occupies in the living room. “We have no tv, not only to our consumption of electricity is to reduce, but also simply because it gives us more peace of mind. You have more attention for each other."
“For me, the tv is not an important contribution to life,” adds Herman. “It acts more as a kind of padding and distractions. This is my background in buddhist studies and aikido instructor was also decisive for my choice.”
Content
From the most recent research from Telecompaper shows that Dutch consumers an average of 38 percent of their daily viewing time to devote to old-fashioned (linear) watching television. The rest of the daily portion goes to the online viewing of video content, primarily through internet video services like Netflix, YouTube, NLziet and Videoland.
In total, we spend approximately 287 minutes per day watching video content (almost five hours). Less and less of this time goes into the traditional look (110 minutes).
“Our three children are without television grew up,” says Evelyn. “At a younger age, they spoke with admiration about grandpa and grandma, because “who have a tv”. Then I told them that is not grandpa and grandma is the exception, but we do."
Liberation
However, Herman and Evelyn is not the feeling of missing something. “Although I have certain programs can’t say, missing me nothing,” says Herman. “Important events I hear through social media and there is always the possibility of broadcasting to look back at my laptop. I do, on average, one time in the week."
Evelyn: “A life without tv makes me feel like a liberation. I live rather my own life than to look at the life of another."
do you Want to know how the first official television broadcast of the NTS looks like? Watch the video below:
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