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.
You mean broadcast TV? Yes.
But TV is just another part of the internet now.
I still watch scripted, episodic, video content and get my news, local; national; and world, from the internet.
Same here. I’ve never watched broadcast or cable TV since I moved out of the college apartments. But I’ve gone in and out of watching shows, whether they were normal tv shows on dvd, YT series, streaming, or shows from 🏴☠️. And I’ve always got my news from the internet or local papers when they still existed.
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Here’s a new one for you. It’s by Tina fey, it’s called Girls5Eva
Soooo, question on searching the __Bay: Suppose the title of a movie or show has an apostrophe or hyphen. I get little to no search results if I write it out verbatim. What’s the trick? Example: A Bug’s Life
I’m convinced it’s something easy, I’m just ootl. Thanks in advance.
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Thanks. I’m referring to tpb.party which redirects to the .org. I prefer their .onion address but sometimes it’s offline. And hard to find. tpb.party sounded sketchy as hell, but it’s been working for me since finding it a few months ago.
I’ll have to get back to you irt what exact movie I was searching for, just that my output was No Search Results if I typed the title out verbatim.
Thanks! I’ll report back if it comes to mind again.
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Ugh. Missed that. I’ll caution my friends against it. It does serve up content, and I have successfully downloaded torrents from it. Strange but now my own sense of OPSEC is shit.
I am still new to Lemmy, thought world was the best instance. Guess I was wrong there, too. Thanks again! Such a helpful community.
I haven’t been able to watch broadcast TV in decades. The commercials were making me physically ill. Too much flash flash between them with sudden volume changes.
As for news, it’s easier and faster to read, plus I can deep dive on anything interesting. For everything else, there’s streaming or piracy.
The dynamic range wars totally rat fucked music but for some reason Television never even attempted to catch the Ads. The volume swings are fucking nauseating. But any show worth watching will still have a DVD release.
TV ad volume is an intentional problem. They went all out to stop auto volume controls from being put into TV’s.
it’s like they don’t want an audience at all. or you know they want an audience that will put up with the most egregious shit possible … probably why they pump out reality TV ad nauseam. Shit was good for a single season at best, once everyone knew what was up it stopped being reality and thus interesting.
I’m trying to watch Earth Abides for free and I’m getting gutfucked with popup ads. How do you do it?
How are you still browsing the internet without an adblocker?
My phone is the usual culprit… on desktop I use uBlock Origin
If you’re on Android, then Firefox can indeed have uBlock Origin there too
Not my kinda show, but I’d just take a sub to mgm for a month if I really liked the show. Otherwise it’s a trip to the torrent farm. Honestly I really have to want to see a show for it to be worth dealing with the bay. There’s just way too much for free, or already on a cheap stream, to keep me distracted.
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.
TV is hot garbage riddled with ads. So yeah, I no longer watch, ca. since 20 years.
I stopped watching linear tv 13 years ago, but my Plex library is not what I’d call small lol.
Same!! :). My kids grew up without commercials or news. We’ve never missed any of them. On the contrary. When they are over at friends, if the tv is on, they get annoyed with all the interruptions and just don’t want to watch any.
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The only time I see broadcast TV is if I’m in a hotel. I honestly can’t remember the last time I watched it in my own home, but it’s probably been around 15 years.
Even then it’s just the 24/7 forensics files channel
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 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.
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.
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 think we need to define TV.
¿Is that like short form content for boomers with longer attention spans?
Nah, they usually don’t have that any more. From what I’m told it’s background noise for them to fall a sleep too. I’m also told they pay hundreds of dollars every month just to enjoy this.
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.
It’s hilarious comparing the viewership of prime time TV programming to a random YouTube video or live stream made by a couple of people in their bedroom. Broadcast television is dead. It’s just a shambling zombie at this point, acting like it’s still relevant this far into the 21st Century
On purpose?
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.
It’s funny now that one of the lyrics in Weird Al’s “I Can’t Watch This” parody from 1990 is
I hooked up 80 channels, and each one stunk!
and 80 channels was supposed to be a ridiculously huge number.
I think we had 10 channels growing up in the 90s in Denver. I’m pretty sure 70 might have actually been the max, so the joke was that he connected more channels than we’re possible and it was still all crap.
Occasionally I go to senior citizens homes and watch their broadcast TV. It’s like going back in time, and I don’t like it.
The TV is used as the device it is: A giant monitor for YouTube. Nothing else.
I have entirely replaced tv with doom scrolling
Yay?
