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.
Haven’t watched TV in so long that when I invited friends over to watch the last Super Bowl, we had to scramble to find a streaming service that had it because I forgot TVs need an antenna to get the actual channels and we don’t have one.
There’s plenty of news if you want to be informed, but TV news is not it.
I stopped watching TV at 18 when I moved out of my parents house and never bought TV myself, I never will
TV sucks. You mean I can only watch what someone else decides I can watch at that point in time? And they expect me to give them money to be my virtual babysitter? No thanks, bro.
Several years ago, yeah. Though I do still watch series and movies. And games. But broadcast tv, no
Pretty close. I still watch local news most of the time but the ps4 gets more workout
Haven’t watched tv for 10 years. Because I come from China and there are nothing except propaganda on tv.
I spend more time looking for something to watch than actually watching TV.
Yuuup stopped watching TV when I moved out. Didn’t even own a TV for a few years till I got one for a PS4. Now I just have a computer hooked up to it for yt and anime.
I can’t stand commercials, and don’t get how anyone watches normal TV when you can just watch full episodes of anything you want online.
I have whole house ad blocking as well with pi hole
I have a plex server that I flip to random shows that I rarely pay attention to. For the most part tv is just background noise.
me, the last time i watched tv (actual tv!! like cable and stuff) was when i was 16 and now i’m 21, it’s been a long time, we do have a tv in the house but most of the time we only watch netflix or stuff like that. it’s fine tho, i would rather watch youtube or just watch series from my laptop!!
oh wait nevermind actually my mom and i watch cable tv sometimes because they have most of the halmark christmas movies there so umm we have been watching them, it’s things like these that makes tv worth it sort of!!!
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.
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?
That’s similar to my timing. I never made a decision to stop watching TV, but when I was in college between studying, playing around on the internet, computer games, reading books, and everything else that goes on in college I had better things to do so my TV watching time eventually dwindled down to pretty much nothing. When I left home in 2005, I didn’t have a TV to bring with me and I soon realized that I didn’t even care.
With not having a TV habit, when the streaming services came to be I never became interested in them.
Now whenever I end up seeing traditional television at a friends house or whatever, I don’t know how anyone can stand it.
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 am older than you, but not by much. I too remember channel surfing, which I guess was the equivalent of scrolling through your phone. Frequent ad breaks were not really a thing in my country until early 2000s, when private TV stations began to take hold, and by then I had already switched to PC gaming as a primary source of entertainment. I’ve done everything I can to banish unwanted advertising from my life, the only one I cand stand is Steam sales, but only because I can get hours of etertainment for a symbolic price.
