Television
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The Television is a buy mode object. The video game system is compatible with any TV set, if placed close enough.
Different styles exist, but they all function the same.
- Motives: Watching television increases a Sims Fun motive. Seating in front of the television allows a Sim to also regain Comfort. Several Sims can watch television together and improve their relationship while gaining Social.
- Skills: A Sim can use a television to "Work Out" if there is sufficient space in front of the set. Watching The Yummy Channel increases the cooking skill. Repairing a television set will increase the mechanical skill but there is a chance of electrocution as with all electronic devices.
- Hobbies: With FreeTime the television can be used to build enthusiasm in the Cuisine, Sports, Film and Literature, Music and Dance, Science, Tinkering, and Fitness hobbies. With a video game system it can also build Games enthusiasm.
Channels
The Sims:
- Cartoons
- Action
- Romance
- Horror
- Superstar: (available only with a satellite dish)
- Sports
- News
- Entertainment
- Animals
The Sims 2:
- Sims Broadcasting Network (SBN): Local Channel mainly for Adults
- KidzTube: Children's Channel for Kids
- SimStation Dance: Music Channel for Teens
- The Yummy Channel: Cooking - Sims can gain cooking skill from watching.
- SimStation Sports Channel mainly for Young Adults
- The Weather Station: Gives a pop-up message forecasting the weather for the upcoming hours, although sometimes the weatherman is in a funny mood and will utter something completely unrelated instead...
- No new TV channels per se but a new movies on-demand service.
- With Ikea: Home Stuff comes the cubby TV, and with the cubby TV comes two new commercials and one new mini program: one commercial for the colonial shower/bath, another pizza commercial featuring the Pleasant family, and a mini program featuring a man getting abducted by aliens.
The Sims 3:
The number of channels depend on the television
Basic (Old Timey Tele)
- KidZ Zone
- Romantic Rendezvous
- Sports Universe
Basic Plus (Channel Troller 27" Deluxe TV)
- Terror TV
- World Action
- Cookin' Cable
Premium (ÜberVison Panoramic from Landgraab Industries)
- Fracas Fishing
- Halls of History
- Got Garden
High Definition (36" HiFi Plasmondo TV from Landgraab Industries / WallVuu Standard TV)
- Super Shopping Network