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A TV is not calling you to chat every 15 minutes, or even talking anything important work-related to distract your focus. It's just noise, the same as working l

• dijit 7y ago
  An aside, but an important distinction is that a TV is definitely not something that is going to interact with you, it's just background, it will not change it's behaviour without specific defined inputs (remote control); It cannot affect you either except for the changing of light in the room and it's fully controllable without impacting anyone else. It's the difference between sitting next to a busker in the street for 8hrs per day and listening to recorded music on your phone.. in that it's a _huge_ difference.