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.
Whenever I visit my parents the TV is on. They only have broadcast television, and ad breaks come on every 15 minutes and last 10 minutes. How can anyone watch a series episode or even worse, a movie like that is beyond me.
If you dont mind me asking, how old are you?
I grew up from 0 to mid-20s watching tv this way. As a child in the UK we had limited options, there were 4 (eventually) 5 analogue tv channels, which quite early on became something between 30 and 100 when we got “sky” tv (satellite) and that became somewhere close to 500 with some duplicates a bit later. But all of this was adverts every 10 to 15 minutes. Most programs ran in 30-minute blocks, including adverts. So either your show was 20 minutes with a break in the middle and the end to make it to 30, or it was 40 mins with a break every 10 minutes to make it to 1 hour. Breaks were about 5 mins each.
Generally this lead to channel hopping, you would watch fresh prince of bel air until the break, then swap to 5 minutes of a show that you dont need to follow like cow and chicken or a music channel and then swap back to fresh prince to catch the second half. As we got older, the breaks became a chance for talking or getting a drink or something.
Thats why i ask if you are young, because im 36 and i can remember tv being this way and not having an issue, but also feel like i couldnt go back to that way because its so much better now.
The issue is the big streaming services are all going that way and putting adverts before and even in between and in the middle of shows so soon i will be back to piracy :/ i guess.
Oh yeah, definitely. I do not watch TV unless maybe my country is playing a sport or whatever.
I stopped watching TV probably 20 odd years ago. 🏴☠️
I have entirely replaced tv with doom scrolling
Yay?
Well, TV rotted sometime in the 2000s. The History channel started running shit like Orange County Pawn Truckers and kinda took Discovery with it with Dirty Crab Busters, The Sci-Fi channel started playing wrestling, any fictional TV shows went gritty heartburn drama for 20 solid goddamn years, so I gave up.
I binged a few TV series, often years after they were made, first on DVD and then on Netflix. And as Netflix started losing content to the “It’s just not available anywhere anymore” hole or the “We’re making our own streaming service” hole, I preferred to just do without. So I do, and have for at least 10 years now.
The only time I see broadcast TV is if I’m in a hotel. I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched it in my own home, but it’s probably been around 15 years.
I mostly just watch YouTube. Man do I not ever miss TV.
Haven’t had TV in years. Cable news is pointless and biased. I already spend allmy time doing other things.
My wife and I will cuddle up most nights to continue q show we’re watching, we finish WWDITS (finale just aired) and move on to something else tonight
Though our “TV” is my local Plex instance running stuff I request through Overseerr rather than even the normal streaming platforms, so I have a much better experience than those provide
As for news and the like: YouTube, specific creators like the daily show or journalists I know have actual merit, and my local station through plexs live tv
Absolutely. I was tired of watching regurgitated bullshit. If your media is making me check my phone ever 5 minutes or less your media is garbage. I can go to an EDM show and listen from 5 to 8 hours of music and forget I even have a phone.
I haven’t watched TV since I was 14 or so. Just didn’t see a point when i could watch YouTube or download anime.
I never liked being told when to watch a certain show or have to deal with ad breaks, so as soon as I found out I could just Pirate things, I stopped watching normal tv, every so often if I’m at someone’s house or somewhere I’ll stare at it but mostly I haven’t watched tv in over 2 decades.
The internet tells me things going on in the world and my mate loves ranting about world news to me so I have my own news show.
American here, for sanity’s sake I’ve pretty much stopped consuming political news since the fucking election. I stopped seeing movies in theaters years ago, so there are a lot of good ones still new to me that I can stream without ads.
I’m 47 and never had a television. Computers, projector, tablets yes but never watched linear TV at my place.
I think we need to define TV.
Tv in the sense of broadcast stations and shows. Haven’t touched that since 2008, DVDs and Streaming has everything I want.
TV in the sense of a shared screen for everyone. Nah, still needed and can be better than ever thanks to streaming, both retail and… other sources (plex)
I think we need to define TV.
¿Is that like short form content for boomers with longer attention spans?
Nah, they usually don’t have that any more. From what I’m told it’s background noise for them to fall a sleep too. I’m also told they pay hundreds of dollars every month just to enjoy this.
I watch YouTube, and some shows on streaming apps, but traditional tv hasn’t existed for me since about 2008
