Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: TV in the common house - scheduling

[Tim Hunter (timhunter100]

At DurhamCoho we have a media room with one of those big "smart" TVs,
cable, internet, a Blu-ray player, and several hundred DVDs. It is possible
to reserve the media room for special events. For example we have "movie
night" almost every Saturday. Also a group has occasionally reserved the
room to watch a presidential campaign debate or sporting event. If the
media room is not reserved it's "first come, first served."

On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:33 PM, Elizabeth Magill <pastorlizm [at] gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> we have tv in the common house (big projector and screen). It has cable
> and amazon prime or something like that.
>
> You can use it anytime, and it isn't locked, but you have to sign up for
> the cable tuner if you are watching cable, and go to where the tuner is
> stored.
>
> What actually happens is almost all movies, but also big games and
> political stuff. We have seen all the debates this time around.
>
> Our living room is used quite often (several times a week) for movies.
>
> I believe that many people, like me, don't have cable in our homes, so go
> to the common house when we want it.
>
> -Liz
> (The Rev.) Elizabeth M. Magill
> www.ecclesiaministriesmission.org
> www.mosaic-commons.org
> 508-450-0431
>
>
>
>
> On Oct 27, 2015, at 9:42 PM, fergyb2 via Cohousing-L <
> cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >     Here at Swans Market there's a TV (with no antenna or cable hook up)
> which is kept in a locked cabinet and used occasionally to watch Movies on
> in the great room of the Common House.  We did once turn it on for election
> coverage during dinner the night Barack Obama was first elected but that
> was a special case.  People watch TV in each others houses when there is
> something special on they want to watch.  We also had a small one in the
> exercise room for watching fitness tapes but it eventually got stolen and
> was never replaced. The problem with broadcast TV is it hijacks the Common
> areas so they can't comfortably be used in all the other myriad ways we use
> them.  We put the Movie night's on the main Calendar but occasional
> spontaneous movie watching occurs when there is nothing else scheduled in
> that space.
> >            Bonnie Fergusson
> >            Swans Market Cohousing
> >            Oakland, CA
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Oct 27, 2015, at 2:41 PM, Tiffany Lee Brown <magdalen23 [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> The community I hung out at when I was a kid kept the TV in a small
> room in
> >> the upstairs of the common house, so it wasn't visible from the living
> >> room, dining area, or kitchen. It wasn't on a schedule, but you really
> had
> >> to go out of your way to watch. Keeping a TV packed away (ideal) or
> hidden
> >> in a far room up the stairs makes it so that bringing out the TV is a
> big
> >> deal and kind of a pain in the tush. To me that seems wise!
> >>
> >>
> >> tiffany
> >> wannabe future co-houser
> >>
> >> tiffany lee brown
> >> editor, plazm | current & back issues: www.plazm.com
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Chris ScottHanson <
> cscotthanson [at] mac.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> We are thinking about putting a TV in our common house (cable TV came
> with
> >>> our central business high speed internet connection) for special
> events,
> >>> etc.   We’re talking about only allowing it to be used per a previously
> >>> approved schedule, which would be reviewed and approved periodically
> by the
> >>> "TV committee".  The idea is to avoid temptation to just go in there
> and
> >>> channel surf, etc.
> >>>
> >>> What is your experience in your community?
> >>>
> >>> Do you have a TV, a scheduling system, or what?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Thanks,
> >>>
> >>> Chris ScottHanson
> >>> Fifth Street Commons <http://fifthstreetcommons.com/>
> >>> 130 Fifth Street, C101
> >>> Langley, WA 98260
> >>>
> >>> (206) 601-7802
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> (I’ld love to watch Madam Secretary with a group of friends on Sunday
> >>> evening, instead of by myself at home.)
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