I don’t see the point of television these days, especially if you have easy access to internet. I have almost no clue of what’s happening in the world except the big global stuff, nevermind my country. We’re getting poorer, less jobs, yadayada… I bet that’s what’s going on in the news.
And I don’t watch media, I rather watch clips of movies I grew up with on YouTube.
You mean broadcast TV? Yes.
But TV is just another part of the internet now.
I still watch scripted, episodic, video content and get my news, local; national; and world, from the internet.
Same here. I’ve never watched broadcast or cable TV since I moved out of the college apartments. But I’ve gone in and out of watching shows, whether they were normal tv shows on dvd, YT series, streaming, or shows from 🏴☠️. And I’ve always got my news from the internet or local papers when they still existed.
Actual TV? Hell fucking no.
TV Shows? Sure, I’ll #yaRrr it from the 🏴☠️’Bay and watch it. No Netflixes or crazy subscriptions, I’m broke, lmfao.
Although, I haven’t found any thing new in the past few months, so I just watch youtube videos and sometimes download old TV shows / Movies I watched for nostalgia, and maybe catch some minor details I missed.
Here’s a new one for you. It’s by Tina fey, it’s called Girls5Eva
I haven’t been able to watch broadcast TV in decades. The commercials were making me physically ill. Too much flash flash between them with sudden volume changes.
As for news, it’s easier and faster to read, plus I can deep dive on anything interesting. For everything else, there’s streaming or piracy.
The dynamic range wars totally rat fucked music but for some reason Television never even attempted to catch the Ads. The volume swings are fucking nauseating. But any show worth watching will still have a DVD release.
TV ad volume is an intentional problem. They went all out to stop auto volume controls from being put into TV’s.
I’m trying to watch Earth Abides for free and I’m getting gutfucked with popup ads. How do you do it?
How are you still browsing the internet without an adblocker?
My phone is the usual culprit… on desktop I use uBlock Origin
If you’re on Android, then Firefox can indeed have uBlock Origin there too
Not my kinda show, but I’d just take a sub to mgm for a month if I really liked the show. Otherwise it’s a trip to the torrent farm. Honestly I really have to want to see a show for it to be worth dealing with the bay. There’s just way too much for free, or already on a cheap stream, to keep me distracted.
I stopped watching linear tv 13 years ago, but my Plex library is not what I’d call small lol.
Same!! :). My kids grew up without commercials or news. We’ve never missed any of them. On the contrary. When they are over at friends, if the tv is on, they get annoyed with all the interruptions and just don’t want to watch any.
same. last I new was at 1400 movies and 8k hours of television.
TV is hot garbage riddled with ads. So yeah, I no longer watch, ca. since 20 years.
This is the majority of young people. I’ve never paid for cable TV.
I’m middle aged and have only had cable for one six month period in my life.
My next goal is to kick streaming. So far, I’m down to only having one or two services at a time.
The TV is used as the device it is: A giant monitor for YouTube. Nothing else.
Not watched it in 20 years.
Any time I’m somewhere else and a TV is on, it seems worse. Adverts seem to be mostly “waste money on scams” and “borrow money in scams”. The content has gone beyond even the cheapest reality TV nonsense.
I can’t believe they even film some of that crap, let alone broadcast it.
It’s hundreds of channels of adverts, with gaps between them filled as cheaply as possible. Doesn’t seem to be any more actual good content than we had when there was only 4 channels.
I can’t believe they even film some of that crap, let alone broadcast it.
It gets even worse. There are people who actually watch it. And not just a few.
I don’t watch TV, not even streaming.
I stopped watching TV a few years ago. It wasn’t a conscious choice. I just didn’t find it interesting.
I do still follow current events. There are much better sources of information than TV news.
Occasionally I go to senior citizens homes and watch their broadcast TV. It’s like going back in time, and I don’t like it.
Zoomer here, I grew up without cable/tv access. The only thing plugged to the black rectangle was my Wii and the other consoles I got. When it (tv) was available, I didn’t see the appeal at all, I had internet access already.
I got my own place a decade ago, I don’t have a TV, never had.
I just don’t see the point, it just feels restrictive.
I am considering getting a projector though…
Drag has a TV for xbox and plex. It’s never been connected to broadcast
You can still read news, no need to be uninformed.
I don’t even have access, it would cost me extra. And the content is cancerous and riddled with ads, I see it every time when visiting my dad. For news there are news websites and the big news corps have their program online anyway.
