actually, I'm growing tired of television. I grew up listening to the radio and reading. I once saw a great presentation by the man who invented the PET (positron emission tomography). He showed images of the brain while listening to audio and contrasted those images with images of the brain watching, i.e. television.

the images while listening showed the brain lit up like a 1000 watt light bulb, while the images of the brain while watching television were almost completely dark. the point being is that the brain tends to shut down while watching television but listening to an audio source activates the neurons.

there is a reason television is known as "the idiot box".