I’m not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.
WHY WON’T YOU LOOK AT ME??? I LEFT YOU A BANANA IN THE MICROWAVE!!!
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foodandart@lemmy.zip 20 hours agoI cut the cable TV cord in 1999. For whatever movies/TV we’ve wanted to watch, we’ve just gone to our public library to get DVDs and later on, streamed stuff.
uBO in all the browsers as well.
If you make a concerted effort, you can de-TV the household and it takes little time to find ways pick up on watching the things you like - w/o commercial interruption… I could not imagine watching an evening of broadcast TV.
Given that the average show is now 40 minutes long - thats an hour of commercials between the 3 primetime hours of 8 and 11 pm.
I’m not going to waste an hour every night looking at things I do not want or need in my life.
Fuck that shit.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
foodandart@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
YOU! YOU are the one that left the frigging banana in the microwave w/o telling me?
The fucking thing rotted and became a fruit fly farm… When I went to heat my leftovers, last Friday… I released the swarm o’doom!
BASTARD! I curse theeeEeeEe for eternity!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
that was for op? sorry, i thought it was a gun.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 13 hours ago
You implicitely mentioned the internet, but I want to make it explicit:
I haven’t had a need for linear TV for over 20 years. News and entertainment, much better to have a choice both in time and content.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
wait they’re 40 now? i could have sworn we has 22s and 52s. fuck.
foodandart@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
Yup! Pull down a torrent of a current season broadcast TV show and check out how long it isn’t.
52 minutes was the length of shows in the 60s and 70’s. This is why it’s almost impossible to see uncut episodes of the original Star Trek on a cable channel, let alone a broadcast one…
It was already all but impossible to find when I cut the cord in '99.
Looking at the commercial TV cable channels - I have the first 8 seasons of The Walking Dead… they run from 43 to 51 minutes in length (though the longer ones appeared in the 8th season (?) - was that when the channels started overlaying ads during the credit rolls? I know that’s a thing.)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
huh i always thought they just sped the broadcast up 10% or so. almost imperceptible unless you’ve got good pitch.