r/antitelevision • u/evanlee01 • Sep 27 '24
Haven't watched TV in probably a decade
It's not like I've been trying to avoid it, but I've just had no reason to pay for cable tv when 99% of the things I consume are on my computer.
I will say, I do miss the way TV was before the 2010s. Reality TV hadn't completely overtaken every channel, although it was certainly getting there. MTV still SOMETIMES played music. It was legitimately a decent way to consume modern pop culture, depending on what you watched of course.
From what I hear, it's now all just slop. Also the forced switch to digital was just entirely unnecessary.
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u/Kunst72 Nov 15 '24
It was around the time of the digital transition that I decided to stop watching TV. I just didn't consider worth my money or time to upgrade.
Many years later I got a deal on a cheap TV. I took it because I was curious to see how over the air broadcasting had changed. There are more channels than before but very little that seemed to be worth watching. I rarely even turn it on anymore. When you go a long time without it your perspective changes. I can't even stand to have it on anymore.