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It’s been over 20 years since I last paid for cable TV. I’m frankly shocked it’s made it this long, but I guess they can milk the boomers for another decade or two. Certainly seems to be working for the GOP anyway.
Most of my steaming services are threatening ads now, it’s absolutely no difference.
I guess I’m dusting off the ol’ pirate hat.
Arrrr me laddies !!
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Ten here, for the same reason. It was weird calling tech support when my internet went down and they’d say ‘Does your television still work?’ Bitch, I dunno, it’s not even connected to anything, I use streaming.
The funniest was when satellite television companies showed up at my door to pitch me, obviously based on lists of competitors’ customers they’d purchased. ‘We’re x dollars cheaper with less downtime.’ ‘Okay, but I don’t use the cable service, just the internet and I stream everything.’ ‘Oh… uh we’ll give you DVR for free.’ Bitch, do you know what streaming is? I don’t have to manage recording and saving shit that still has advertisements. Your model is dead, stop trying to sell me its corpse.
“Is your typewriter still working?”
pssssh I can’t hear you. pssh
Please speak clearly into the cone on the wall.
psssssshh
My mom loves TV and for some reason really enjoys commercials. I can’t explain it. There must be some inaudible frequency in commercials that’s repuslive to me, but appetitive to her.
It’s alright. They’re fucking over internet subscribers just as if we still had a cable TV package.
The day they try to bandwidth cap or piecemeal my internet service, I am becoming a Japanese terrorist
Coming up to 16 years since I cut the cord and hardly anyone I know that is younger has cable. It’s internet and then streaming.
My father when he passed in 2013 was paying $160/mth for old HD cable for his old 35" RCA tube set before I bought him a LCD TV that required a upgrade to modern HD channels. He didn’t have internet with that either. So while they were scamming him for this old 480p HD packages he wasn’t alone I’m sure.
I will say at new year’s I was at someone’s place that only had internet and for the group of us he brought out a HD Amazon antenna to watch the ball drop at midnight on local broadcast TV.
The amount of commercials was jarring. I’m not looking forward to when they bring those to streaming services that are currently hemorrhaging billions.
I watched Fargo last week via broadcast. 5 min to 5 min of commercial time. It’s insane.
I would watch about 16 minutes before giving up.
In the old days flow TV was max 25-30% ads, how can people live with 50% ads? At that rate it will be “Find the content” so in a few years with 90% ads watching a 45 minute show would take 7.5 hours.
Remember when broadcast TV showed commercials on the 15 minute mark, 2-3 at a time for 30 minutes each, maybe more between shows? Commercials seemed like a reasonable tradeoff, plus were predictable so you could fit it in with other things. They dug their own grave, making commercials more intrusive, harder to skip, more frequent. …. Pepperidge Farms remembers
The problem is that OTT services are going to the adv model too. They expect that we pay a minimum subscription cost and watch advertising…this is crazy
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I’d subscribe if there were anything worth watching. Occupational reality shows on every channel. Streaming has gotten so bad lately that I don’t think we’re going to have a culture in the future just people setting themselves on fire for TikTok clout
Why would I pay $120-140 for cable every month and be forced to watch tons of ads when. I can pay <$20 for Hulu or NFLX a month and watch none?
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I’d pay for cable for the one/two (please God, two) months my team is in the playoffs.
I think it will become that … cable TV will just become a live event channel for people … sports, concerts, public events.
They’ll stop using it to broadcast TV shows of any kind, including news programs because all of that can be streamed on the internet using modern systems and devices … why maintain old cable networks if people can just watch your programming when they want.
There are methods to watch to games live online, for free.
Yeah but not at the same quality. And my preferred game is hockey where high quality really makes a difference.
