Do people still watch TV?

Off-Topic Movies, TV and Entertainment
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tv killed itself with prices and ads.

have not seen cable tv in ~10 years and i dont miss it one bit.

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Thank you. I first heard this on radio, watched the video on TV, and now can search Youtube for it.

not really.

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The future ls here baby!

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We only really watch the news on TV now a days.

We do watch a few shows:
Forged in Fire
Lovecraft Country
Mythbusters reruns (RiP Grant)

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Same. I got tired of paying over $300 a month just to watch things I could easily watch on streaming services and channels upon channels worth of “nothing good to watch”.

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I usually hav esome free news channels rolling off my roku tv while I work. Listen to congressional hearings and stuff. Usually turn the tv off or switch to the iheartradio channel when all the news is focused on someone who says ‘radical left’ twice every sentence, or certain haughty blondes start making things up.

I recently googled air times of deep space 9 and voyager and tried to watch the two series’ episodes in order of their air time to catch any cross-series references in real time. Also inserted the couple of stng movies that happened when ds9 and voyager were running and that was unexpectedly cool.
Felt like a super nerd thing to do, but was neat.

I also watch prime and netflix through my tv. I’ve seen the first 3-4 parts of jojo on netflix, and the first season of saiki-k. (My eyes are too bad to keep up with subtitles, so I have to wait for english dubs to watch more.) Am in the middle of rewatching burn notice now. I knocked down ‘humans’ in one weekend. Have seen ‘The Tourist’ and ‘Top Gun’ several times each in the past few weeks. “I may have a solution for you.” Good stuff.

Waiting for next seasons of star trek picard and discovery, but covid delayed them. (Picard could actually stop with the one season. It had a beginning middle and end, tied up lots of loose ends, picard solo’d 200 warbirds, saved the galaxy, and I won’t spoil the most insane best part.) I usually only watch one series at a time, and binge it. I don’t like waiting a week between episodes, but will wait the week between episodes for new star treks… I upgraded my cbs all access from basic to premium when they put a car commercial in the middle of a battle, so now I have no more car commercials in my space battles too.

Sometimes I’ll binge golden buzzer moments or best of all time american idol auditions and things like that.

Would like pure cgi warcraft movies that fill in the spaces between game cinematics and don’t try anythnig weird or live action or unrelated.

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if you’re watching youtube you’re watching tv. just because its on a different system doesn’t mean it’s different

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Yep I pay 185 USD monthly for my Directv. I’ve tried to get it lower but I can’t with the channels I watch, which is like 5 channels. I’ve considered canceling it many many times.

Its 10 dollars cheaper than my car payment.

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dusts off an old clock-radio and turns it on

fiddles with knobs, hears nothing but static

(mind you, I can probably count the number of times I’ve turned on my tv in the last year on one hand)

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Here you go. Convergence of TV, Movie, and Youtube here in the future!!! ‘And Biff reigns supreme…’

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I try to but its all crap to be honest.

Example A: The " History " Channel - ( plays american pickers about 24/7 )…

It’s not about history or education anymore with these channels its all about entertainment and thats why they are going down the hole.

Other channels are even worse and just play the same show over and over season after season because it maintains good numbers… It just is crap though even if the show is good.

I just wish we could bring back more educational shows and less repetitive entertainment shows that are re-broadcast-ed about 5 million times.

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Same here, friendo

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There are TV shows I watch on streaming services, but if you mean “TV” as in broadcast or cable TV, then no. I’m not subscribed to cable/satellite, because they’re pointless in the streaming age unless you’re a sports nut.

Out of curiosity, a 3-4 years ago I picked up a cheap digital TV antenna off of Amazon to see what I could pick up in my area. I had forgotten how bad the ads were… like holy cow, it’s bordering on old-god-madness inducing. How anybody puts up with that, or how I put up with it as a kid I’ll never know.

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I really haven’t watched much TV for a number of years. When I do, it’s usually sports, movies, or something like Netflix.

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Even radio is dead to me. Most stations are now wacky morning show… and commercials.

TV killed itself. no pricing for individual channels. no way im pay $60 a month to watch three channels. Well two since A&E killed live PD (idiots)

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Because my paranoia doesn’t allow me to not see and hear my surroundings :slight_smile:

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The History Channel is an absolute tragedy. When my family first got cable back around 2001 or so, I spent many afternoons watching reruns of the likes of Modern Marvels on it, which never failed to be interesting regardless of the subject. Fast forward a few years and it’s all Pawn Stars and and Ancient Aliens. SMH.

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I don’t envy the guys who have to clean those up afterward.

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This sounds like work. I hate work.