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.
My wife still watches some television. I stopped altogether several years ago. I do like YouTube though, which I suppose scratches the same itch.
I stopped watching over 15 years ago. Don’t miss linear tv a single bit
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.
What “almost”?
I never watched it growing up. I do watch a lot of Youtube though
I was raised by the tv growing up. my youtube usage these days is mostly scrolling with a smirk and watching very little.
closest thing I’ve gotten to watching tv is this: I got one of those smart tvs that you can load apps on, and it had tubi on there, so I’ll throw it on every now and again while cooking or cleaning, but even then it’s just background noise and mostly Mystery Science Theater 3000. Sometimes I’ll look at the other channels but the only thing that really interests is old 90s classics or this one sports channel that shows unconventional sports like jai-alai or footvolly or whatever
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.
I think I watched about half of the US presidential debate, and just enough of the election to have a handle on the result. That’s all the normal TV I’ve watched in years. Not including netflix or other streaming programs.
Haven’t stopped but I watch very little TV, whether on terrestrial or Internet. Listen to way more music and radio these days.
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
Then what does your furniture look at?
other furniture
I technically owned a TV till 1996. Since then, all TV’s were girlfriend’s TV’s.
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.
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.
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.
