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.

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.

This is the majority of young people. I've never paid for cable TV.

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.

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.

You can still read news, no need to be uninformed.

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 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 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.

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.

Definitely, TV is useless.

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.

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.

I don't watch TV, not even streaming.

My wife and I will cuddle up most nights to continue q show we're watching, we finish WWDITS (finale just aired) and move on to something else tonight

Though our "TV" is my local Plex instance running stuff I request through Overseerr rather than even the normal streaming platforms, so I have a much better experience than those provide

As for news and the like: YouTube, specific creators like the daily show or journalists I know have actual merit, and my local station through plexs live tv

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 watch YouTube, and some shows on streaming apps, but traditional tv hasn’t existed for me since about 2008

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.

Oh yeah, definitely. I do not watch TV unless maybe my country is playing a sport or whatever.

I stopped watching TV probably 20 odd years ago. 🏴‍☠️

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 haven't watched TV since I was 14 or so. Just didn't see a point when i could watch YouTube or download anime.

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

I can't even remember the last time I watched regular, broadcast TV and not shows via streaming or videos on YouTube.

Your public library has a ton of content for free. Music, tv, film, print… honestly, what more do you need? Just throwing that out there.

What "almost"?

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

I watch the morning news with my hubs, then pretty much play video games. RPGs to be precise.

I’d much rather be part of my entertainment than merely a spectator.

I haven’t had access to cable since like 2003 when I lived with my parents. I, like many others here, pirate a bunch of stuff (plus some physical media for independent media and stuff I want to support)

That said I recently got an iptv subscription bc my partner got into sports and the available options are either stupid, prohibitively expensive, or both. NBA streaming package is not crazy at $10/mo but it has a blackout for your local team, so you can’t watch games of your team, forcing you to a cable provider if you follow them. Anything for local sports is minimum like $60 a month and often double that. absurd. Iptv is super piracy but it’s like $70/yr for all the games of all the teams of all the sports plus all the channels of all the countries plus a huge library of content.

I watched tv for like a day with it and it was insane how terrible it was. Most networks just marathon random episodes of mid shows with obnoxious ad breaks. So it’s like comedy central- 6 hours of family guy, 3 hours of american dad, 4 hours of south park, 3 bad movies, 6 more hours of family guy, 4 hours of infomercials, repeat. Maybe there’s like one episode of new content every few days, and it’s something low effort like the daily show. Or another network like hln that literally just shows forensic files and informercials 24/7.

The news is toxic bullshit. Hyper focus on rage bait and propping up anything that gets ratings (which is basically trump and elon nonsense).

It’s insane. It’s just streaming networks where you can’t pick what you watch. They realized people like binge watching and leaned into that, hard. The advantage they had is creating new content but there’s none of that the overwhelming majority of the time. They’ve given up and are propped up solely by sports

I will say some of the other countries have decent programming at least. Tbs from Japan has some good shit (although you have to speak Japanese of course). They tend to have better news too

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.