"Refuses to buy a TV even though -snipped- is on."
Forgetting about Netflix on your pc are you? In fact, watching shows on a specific channel as opposed to via an on demand service such as Netflix is actually a worse experience. Because I watch things when the TV channel decides, as opposed to when I want to watch things.
I have a TV. I haven't switched the channel off of my ps3 once. Everything I could ever want to watch is on there.