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.
Welcome to the club. I used to watch tv only because my ex wanted to. I would fall asleep anyways. Movies are boring. Rather make shit and have more fun building stuff. Making art building electronics kind of thing.
I have a good working flat screen from like early 2000s somewhere. I also have a couple broken TVs I want to fix for fun. Once I fix my big tv I plan to use it as a display monitor.
That being said I do have these two stacked 32 inch monitors. Only use them for like 15 minutes a day of YouTube.
i haven’t owned a television since 2006
yeah, we still have a TV package but I havent had a TV in my office where I spend most of my awake off-time, there’s nothing worth watching anymore for me, just awful programming , news, sports, and PPV/Inferior on demand services.
I dont even use netflix anymore, I rage-quit after falling for that tyson paul bait and switch scam. the only “TV” I watch anymore is like streams of 15 year old adult cartoons like the Boondocks and South Park. and whatevers on my buddy’s Plex server. almost entirely old stuff more than 5 years old.
watching the news is just brain rot. you can get informed by 10 mins of scrolling current events on many different websites… if you feel the need to be informed.
You can still read news, no need to be uninformed.
I’ve been an avid news reader my whole life, and recently experimented with completely avoiding the political and mainstream news for the past six months (I still read tech, science and entertainment news)…
At least for me, life has been at 99% less stressful. Anything truly important, someone I know will always tell me. I can’t see myself going back.
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.
Definitely, TV is useless.
I have YouTube TV and only use it for sports.
I’ll go one step further and say I haven’t watched a new, regular network television show in at least a decade. Who has time to watch 20-something episodes each season - with much of that time spent on fluff story lines that only exist so the show can fill a time slot for 22/23 weeks a year?
Here’s a great example: Lost.
At the time it was amazing. But there was also a lot of unnecessary BS in there because, frankly, they needed to fill time. If you go and look, almost all of the top rated episodes for the series were the last handful of episodes at the end of the season.
Now imagine if they took that show and made 10/13 episode seasons out of it.
I think you could make the same case for most network TV shows. Even if they were amazing at 23 episodes, they’d be even better at 10 or 13.
A great example IMO is Friday Night Lights. Amazing show overall, but that first season was just too long. Then because of a variety of reasons, they moved to 13-15 episodes a season (instead of 23 in season one), and the show excelled.
Tbf, all the well written shows of the last decade only made 10-13 episodes per season. This was one of the major reasons for the writers strike since they only got paid per episode.
I use Jellyfin and watch DVD rips. I can get box sets cheap at goodwill. Haven’t paid for TV in 15+ years. Sometimes I’ll watch streaming on FreeTube.
Yep that’s me!
Haven’t watched TV in 15 years. I’ve wanted my media on a TV though.
TV is hot garbage riddled with ads. So yeah, I no longer watch, ca. since 20 years.
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.
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.
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.
On purpose?
I pretty much exclusively watch the local and sometimes national news. YouTube is where I go for most of my mindless content consumption.
