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.
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.
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.
What TV?
I run a Jellyfin server for my family. I used to have regular shows to put up, new things, new seasons, new hot shit.
There’s nothing, lol. The only thing I even remotely have to look forward to is Severance. I keep up with anime releases season to season but that’s its own thing.
Yeah, DanDaDan, we know, awesome show.
But Hollywood is fucking broke. I add ten indie horror flicks for every one Hollywood release. The days of Stranger Things are over.
I still watch live sports on TV. Aside from that it’s exclusively our Plex server.
Gave up watching broadcast TV a couple of years ago. I have a decent enough laptop running Pop!_OS, an internet connection, and a 32" monotor. I can find what I want/need with that.
I had a good run with: YTCh.xyz
Some of the content seems to repeat if you watch it enough. I really like it as a concept though. This is something I miss. Just. Getting to watch something fun on the side and learn or listen to it.
Yeah like 10 years ago. I watch a lot of YouTube, listen to podcasts and watch films on my phone.
The last one seems weird but if I watch things on a TV or monitor I’ll be glued to my phone still, so watching on the phone means I give it my all.
watching on the phone means I give it my all.
That’s why I have Second Phone, an obsolete model but it has one of my favorite games on it.
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 can’t even remember the last time I watched regular, broadcast TV and not shows via streaming or videos on YouTube.
I remember how I used to enjoy channel surfing with cable for hours on end. But that was because I would often land on the History Channel which was showing something about … history, or some other interesting channel. Now I try it once in a while while riding my exercycle and it’s just an absolute wasteland with nothing interesting on. How is it possible to have literally 1000+ channels without anything worth watching? Even the Food Channel has become worthless - now it’s just hours of the “Pioneer Woman”, a nasty creature who only has a cooking show because she’s married to one of the richest men and largest landowners in Oklahoma.
I stopped watching over 15 years ago. Don’t miss linear tv a single bit
Like regular TV? Ditched that when it went to digital and our TV didn’t work, never watched much though.
Netflix and stuff? Streaming? One or two nights a week. We are watching Arcane now, just finished Preacher. I go very slowly through these, husband watches an hour of “TV” every night to relax, but I have to get away from screens before bed to relax.
What “almost”?
My wife still watches some television. I stopped altogether several years ago. I do like YouTube though, which I suppose scratches the same itch.
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.
