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I stopped watching over 15 years ago. Don't miss linear tv a single bit

Actual TV? Hell fucking no.

TV Shows? Sure, I'll #yaRrr it from the 🏴‍☠️'Bay and watch it. No Netflixes or crazy subscriptions, I'm broke, lmfao.

Although, I haven't found any thing new in the past few months, so I just watch youtube videos and sometimes download old TV shows / Movies I watched for nostalgia, and maybe catch some minor details I missed.

Definitely, TV is useless.

What "almost"?

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 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.

I still watch live sports on TV. Aside from that it’s exclusively our Plex server.

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.

I stopped watching linear tv 13 years ago, but my Plex library is not what I'd call small lol.

I never watched it growing up. I do watch a lot of Youtube though

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.

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.

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.

Haven't watched TV in 15 years. I've wanted my media on a TV though.

My wife still watches some television. I stopped altogether several years ago. I do like YouTube though, which I suppose scratches the same itch.

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.

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.

The TV is used as the device it is: A giant monitor for YouTube. Nothing else.

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

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.

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.

Yep that's me!

I watch The Chase with my mum when I go to see my her. TV is so thoroughly removed from my life that it makes that special occasion all the more enjoyable.

I don't watch TV, not even streaming.

I got my own place a decade ago, I don't have a TV, never had.

I just don't see the point, it just feels restrictive.

I am considering getting a projector though...

I haven’t watched regular tv in 15-20 years, with the occasional exception if I’m in a hotel. Mostly just stuck to streaming platforms in the last ten years, however my attention span for those has dwindled and I also just don’t really have the time or mental energy to watch much. I probably watch 1 movie per month, with one or two shows here and there. As a result, I’ve just cancelled almost all of my streaming packages.

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 stopped watching TV a few years ago. It wasn't a conscious choice. I just didn't find it interesting.

I do still follow current events. There are much better sources of information than TV news.

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.