Watching television at home is a tradition in American homes. We watch enough television and waste enough time that we take away from other more important activities.

Watching television on the go is an interesting method. Instead of watching a half-hour or hour long show with commercials on the couch, you can download the episode to your mobile device for viewing later.

Depending on the source of the video, you can watch a few minutes at a time, with or without commercials. Without commercials, an hour long episode is just over forty minutes long. Eating lunch? Turn on the iTouch or video iPod and start watching. Waiting at the doctors office? There’s another couple of minutes to watch.

It is amazing how much time we waste when waiting for things throughout the day. Forty minutes is just a slice of the waiting time we waste.

This isn’t an excuse to watch television while driving during commute hours (there’s a lot of wasted time there). Your eyes should be on the road, not on activities inside the car.

There are issues with watching episodes on the go. Unless you download the video at home, you probably need a data plan for your mobile device. If it doesn’t have unlimited data, you could be looking at an expensive first-time luxury.

If data isn’t a problem, there’s the tolerance and patience that is required to watch a two inch screen for long periods of time. It isn’t like the 42 inch television at home. If there are words at the bottom of the video, good luck trying to read them.

After watching television on the mobile all day, go home and read a book instead. Increasing the number of hours you watch television won’t help much.