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.

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • Lolseas@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Not sure what you meant

        I think you just have type out every combination

        Using your example, keep trying

        • A Bug’s Life
        • A Bugs Life
        • A Bug-s Life
        • A_Bug’s_Life
        • A_Bugs_Life
        • A_Bug-s_Life

        If you don’t find it, someone might have not uploaded it. How popular is it?

        I don’t think those matter anyways, for example “Steins;Gate” is the official name, but when I input the search term “Steins Gate” the official title with the ; shows up too.

        You might be on the wrong _Bay site

        official site ends with .org btw

        the🏴‍☠️bay[DOT]org

        replace [DOT] with an actual dot

        and the word 🏴‍☠️ is singular, not plual, so don’t add an “s” for no reason.

        • Lolseas@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          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.

          • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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            4 months ago

            That’s not the real site, and it doesn’t redirect to the real site either, look at the url on the top of the browser bar… that stays the same, the logo is copied from the real one, its just a fake mirror, and probably doesn’t show up everything as it would on the real site.

            • Lolseas@lemmy.world
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              4 months ago

              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.

  • DelightfullyDivisive@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 months ago

      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.

  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • metaStatic@kbin.earth
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      4 months ago

      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.

      • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        TV ad volume is an intentional problem. They went all out to stop auto volume controls from being put into TV’s.

        • metaStatic@kbin.earth
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          4 months ago

          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.

    • stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I’m trying to watch Earth Abides for free and I’m getting gutfucked with popup ads. How do you do it?

      • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        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.

  • Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I have. If there something that is really good I wait to hear about it from word of mouth then totally find a “legitimate” source for it.

  • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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

    • Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      4 months ago

      Here’s what I don’t get, who are these marathons for? People who don’t understand what streaming is? Do the only people left with cable use it as the world’s most expensive white noise machine?

      • quixotic120@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s to fill dead air. I would bet the overwhelming majority of cable subscriptions are people who just watch sports. That’s why it’s such a nightmare to pay to watch sports online, it’s the last draw to actually purchase a cable package and for a lot of people it actually is worth the insane $120 a month or whatever bullshit they charge.

        An ever shrinking minority are extremely tech illiterate people who actually watch that content and refuse to adapt from the system they learned in 1996 but those people are literally dying out.

        But the channels realize the majority of cable subscribers don’t actually give a shit about watching cable. So they don’t bother with the expense of churning out content, instead going with endlessly regurgitating syndicated shit.

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Haven’t had an aggregate antenna connected to my TV for… 17 years.

    Haven’t missed a single thing of worth. Can pick and choose from the net

  • fin@sh.itjust.works
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been living completely without TV until recently, but after finding out that things on TV is worthless, I stopped watching it.

    I’m surprised many of you still watch TVs. Maybe the quality of contents is different between countries. In my country, TV sucks.

  • FeloniousPunk@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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.