The Fact of Television

Q1: Cavell states that television is addictive and some parents strictly limit the amount of television that their children watch. He compares television to using marijuana and says that "no adult worried about its effects would make it available to their children, even on a strictly limited basis." If television were posed to be more of a habit than an addiction (for instance, having the habit of watching a movie before bed or the habit of watching tv for six hours on Saturdays) would watching small/limited amounts be as harmful as Cavell makes it out to be?

Q2: Cavell discusses that showing a film on television after the full public screening is like a reproduction and/or reduction of the film. The reasons he states are because the television is smaller, the room is not otherwise dark and the image is less gripping. However, nowadays there are many distractions at the movie theaters with cell phones and rude teenagers which makes a film "less gripping." My family has a movie theatre style TV room down stairs at our house where black curtains keep the light out even during the middle of the day and a large TV takes up nearly half of the wall. If my family, as the audience, were to watch a movie showed on TV down in this room would it compare to a public screening or would it be considered as a reduced or reproduced version?