Who even watches TV anymore?

[Daedius]

a good chunk of the u.s. and austrailia has very restrictive data caps. the u.s. is actually going backwards in regards to quality of internet providers.

Curious that. I live in Ireland, and I've got unlimited data usage on my 4G mobile broadband [tops at 55mbps though, in comparison to fixed line 200mb-1GB connections which I wish I could get... but alas I live in the countryside, so mobile is the best I can get].

[breadisfunny]

Curious that. I live in Ireland, and I've got unlimited data usage on my 4G mobile broadband [tops at 55mbps though, in comparison to fixed line 200mb-1GB connections which I wish I could get... but alas I live in the countryside, so mobile is the best I can get].

the u.s. even has data caps on mobile.

[Ratboy]

I get free cable TV in my apartment (included in the rent and I can't remove it) and I've watched it 2 times in over a year and a half. Any of the TV shows I watch are streamed online.

[Cerus]

Millions still watch TV. Personally I do not watch it a lot to the extent of being a couch potato, but there are still some shows I like to watch and I have my favorite channels. What irks me is I am paying for a ton of channels I never watch. Would be nice if we could pay so much for each channel than the stupid package deals which most suck. Would be the most fair system.

That's called a la carte and will probably never happen. And it's not really the providers doing either - it's the networks who refuse to let their seldom watched channel go extinct when nobody buys it.

Everyone would buy the popular channels and the rest would be left to rot. It's also a way for the providers to milk more money since they put the popular channels in higher priced packages.

Capitalism at its finest.

[Aeula]

Grandma and my dad use it to watch their shows. Though dad only watches BBC and ITV, whereas grandma prefers Syfy and anything with crime dramas etc...

I personally don't bother much with TV and neither does my mother.

[Dsonsion]

Yup, TV is garbage, but I love to watch the Latin American televangelist channels. There's good, unintended comedy contained there.

[Random010203]

a good chunk of the u.s. and austrailia has very restrictive data caps. the u.s. is actually going backwards in regards to quality of internet providers.

Which are businesses just being greedy. Data transfer rates have no impact on company overhead unless it directly affects the infrastructures limitations. I have been with some small service providers which don't even cap your data.

[anaxie]

I havn't watched TV in over 8 years.

with things like Putlocker available I watch everything from my Command Center.

Paying for Cable
Paying for premium channels
having a TV for whatever the fuck reason
having a blue ray player
having DVR
sitting through commercials.

It's all a waste. its a relic.

I will never own a Television again.

[Sky High]

I don't watch "cable TV" that's for damn sure. netflix, Amazon prime, and youtube have rendered me completely unable to tolerate commercial breaks. and since all of those are on my PS4 I still have plenty of use for my set.

[Daws001]

I cut the cord like 3 or 4 years ago and now my tv viewing consists of Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes. I just watch the show I want. No more channel surfing or commercials or waiting for a particular time for the show to come on. Good times.

[Sierra85]

people download shows alot more than they let on. tv is dieing just like newspapers.

it is a brave new world of entertainment and the ad companies cannot catch up.

[Ol Scratch]

Who even watches TV anymore?

Considering it's a golden age of television, with plenty of shows written with such a high standard of quality as to be superior to most films, I do.

It's particularly perplexing since even you, yourself, admit that you still watch television. It doesn't fucking matter if you do it on Netflix, DVD, or even through piracy, they're still television shows made for television. Which you undoubtedly watch on a television/monitor. So whatever elitist attitude you have is just... amazingly idiotic by every standard of the term.

[Al Gorefiend]

Old people I guess. I haven't had cable in years. AT&T tries to bundle it with their Internet service and I specifically ask for whatever package doesn't include cable.

[Elim Garak]

Considering it's a golden age of television, with plenty of shows written with such a high standard of quality as to be superior to most films, I do.

It's particularly perplexing since even you, yourself, admit that you still watch television. It doesn't fucking matter if you do it on Netflix, DVD, or even through piracy, they're still television shows made for television. Which you undoubtedly watch on a television/monitor. So whatever elitist attitude you have is just... amazingly idiotic by every standard of the term.

Watching TV and watching TV Series is not the same. Watching TV series on TV is not the same as watching it online. Anyone who tried both would know that.

[Al Gorefiend]

Considering it's a golden age of television, with plenty of shows written with such a high standard of quality as to be superior to most films, I do.

All 12 hospital dramas, 20 criminal dramas, 50 "laugh-out-loud" low budget comedies with a laugh track pre-recorded in. No niche television stations keep up with their regularly scheduled programs of the 90s and 00s (animal planet has hillbilly mudders wtf)

So there's what? Walking Dead? I mean if you're into that show okay, what else?

[Immitis]

people download shows alot more than they let on. tv is dieing just like newspapers.

it is a brave new world of entertainment and the ad companies cannot catch up.

how is tv dying if cable subscriptions still going up?

stop listening to the internet echo chamber, most people still buy tv

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Watching TV and watching TV Series is not the same. Watching TV series on TV is not the same as watching it online. Anyone who tried both would know that.

i have a dvr, havent watched live tv in years except for doctor who and occasionally walking dead, its the same thing except it takes a couple seconds to skip commercials

[Elim Garak]

i have a dvr, havent watched live tv in years except for doctor who and occasionally walking dead, its the same thing except it takes a couple seconds to skip commercials

And a dvr, seems like completely different experience, apart from the moments you watch the actual show. I don't know about you, but even skip-able commercials are outrageous by their mere presence. Watching online is a godsend.

[Ol Scratch]

Watching TV and watching TV Series is not the same. Watching TV series on TV is not the same as watching it online. Anyone who tried both would know that.

And you'd be wrong, and just as ignorant as the original poster. You're still watching television. It doesn't matter if you're watching it live or not, you're fucking watching television.

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So there's what? Walking Dead? I mean if you're into that show okay, what else?

Just from the last few years, and purely off the top of my head:

Walking Dead
Game of Thrones
Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Better Call Saul
The Americans
Mr. Robot
Fargo
Justified
Jessica Jones
Daredevil
Orange is the New Black
Empire
Parks and Recreation
Archer
House of Cards
Silicon Valley
Sherlock
Transparent
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
and The League

Just to name a few. And yes, they're all television shows. No matter how much you want to claim otherwise in some cases just so you can be an elitist prick.

[Ol Scratch]

Unless we want to call all episodic visual media "television," which seems exceedingly silly, it seems like a worthwhile distinction to differentiate between the presentation style of television, which a fixed and rigid schedule, versus things like Netflix or torrenting.

You can do whatever you want. You'll still be wrong, but that never stopped you before.

(Still totally respect you and your opinion, by the way.)

[Santti]

I don't even own a TV. Don't really need it.