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.
Stopped watching TV as a teenager, it’s too passive for me so i prefer just watching the shows and movies i care about or game.
The only thing i like about TV is having it run in the background to keep me company but as you can imagine i don’t have any contract with the provider so it’s usually just yt or twitch
Stopped watching TV when I left home in 2006. People are still watching fucking television? Crazy with how many different types of screens we have in our face everyday anyway, who needs TV?
I’m so old that I can watch reruns of a series that I’ve already watched and laugh at the same jokes because I forgot the episode.
Also, it’s not the healthiest habit, but TV numbs the mind so that I can forget about my problems long enough to fall asleep.
I’m turning into my dad. I remember waking up early to get to school and seeing my dad sleeping in his recliner with sportsline on very low volume. Now I use TV to get to sleep, too.
I haven’t watched broadcast television or paid for service since about 2010. It was quite jarring watching cable news when in a hotel and just how little detail they give about anything while padding every story out with fluff so heavily. It was kind of insulting how they’d tease an upcoming story before every commercial break, except every time it would be the story right before the next break and somehow feel not even worth teasing once they gave you more than the teaser. Is this realy how people get their news? I can get a much better handle on local and world events in 30 minutes of reading a few news sources in the web than the fluff cable news gave me
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.
I have entirely replaced tv with doom scrolling
Yay?
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. 🏴☠️
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.
Even then it’s just the 24/7 forensics files channel
Haven’t had TV in years. Cable news is pointless and biased. I already spend allmy time doing other things.
I mostly just watch YouTube. Man do I not ever miss TV.
At least 7 years ago. Cable company tried giving me a free setup with Internet and I refused
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
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.
Depends what you consider TV, if you’re talking broadcast 15 years since I’ve had it.
For a long time I only watched movies on a streaming service. Not even YT type stuff. But I’ve recently become addicted to YT.
