"I don't even own a TV"

I wonder if it's somewhat informed by the demographic information they already have about each specific show's viewership - probably not rocket science to bucket ads most likely to appeal to people binging Portlandia 24/7 versus [HUMOROUS COUNTER-EXAMPLE HERE]

in my life, the time i used to spend in front of the boob tube has basically just become screen time. so i don't have a TV, but i watch youtube or netflix on my laptop. try to limit that time, though, if i can. i really like and miss normal TV and enjoy watching it when my friends have the football game on.

Evan they may not know your name but that’s not the important part, the important part is your viewing history. I’m not sure about Samsung but many of these platforms also track what you do on the rest of the TV eg what searches you make, what streaming services you spend time on etc and all of that helps slot you into certain niches that they then sell to advertisers. PlutoTV is by some measures the fastest growing streaming service

"i don't even own a tv" shouldn't have in any way mapped to a statement along the lines of "i dont use a terrestrial service" it's tbh a really weird turn to take

I don't think it is a turn. The cliche is out of date. "I don't even own a TV" was about channel surfing, antennas, cable company boxes, the local news, passively watching shows you would never conceivably seek out. I once found myself transfixed by a wedding planning show when my rental unit had a cable box and I had a TV capture card in a computer. I half ass Had A TV

Now... well, ilx is kind of special. You might be able to post here on a 486. But if you're on the internet, you probably "have a TV" in the modern sense.

Our parents sold our TVs in the mid-70s. We went without for about 3-4 years, it was actually pretty glorious.

You missed the best seasons of Laverne & Shirley

I'm not sure "missed" is the right word there

what i'd say is that there's definitely something very real at the core of skepticism toward mass telecommunication, but at some point "i don't even own a TV" become a sort of spiritual materialism for people who were attached to what the idea represented but who weren't sufficiently nuanced in their thinking to understand how their own habits and consumerism essentially made it a hollow and sort of self-aggrandizing thing to say

otm

"i have my mom's netflix password but i don't even use it"

I think the instances of this being brought up as a trope are way more numerous than ppl who actually do this, but perhaps that's my echo chamber.

Surprised no one seems to have brought up Pulp Fiction! Tarantino was clowning this expression even then

“Okay, you don’t own a TV. But you know what TV is, right?”

i have 55" and tbh the criticism i have of it is that i couldve and shouldve gone to 65" now i look at it

― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Tuesday, March 28, 2023 1:58 PM (yesterday)

same

found out a friend bought the 65" new generation of the 55" model i have and briefly felt a sense of missing out

I do know people who don't own a tv and also don't watch streaming series, just read and go out to movies etc, nothing but respect tbh.

does anyone else not watch 'shows'

I also regret only going for a 50-something" TV the last time I bought one, the 65" one wasn't really that much more expensive, but I was going from a 34" and I figured this was already huge. I now realize that bigger is better, I totally want the full home theatre experience.

i don't even watch video

I try to mostly stick to watching movies, no TV series or other video content.

lol oh yeah, I already forgot about that thread

I also regret only going for a 50-something" TV the last time I bought one, the 65" one wasn't really that much more expensive, but I was going from a 34" and I figured this was already huge. I now realize that bigger is better, I totally want the full home theatre experience.

― silverfish, Wednesday, March 29, 2023 10:06 AM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

See, here I, the "don't own a TV" guy, really am different -- I mean, the truth is, I actually DO own a TV but I never bothered to unpack it the last time we moved, I barely even watch TV on the laptop, I watch it on the iPad, smaller and more portable is better

experiencing BEN-HUR on your apple watch the way god intended

I've never had broadcast television/DVR/cable/satellite. By the time I lived on my own in the mid 2000s, torrents and stuff like rapidshare had arrived, so I simply downloaded Lost etc. on my brand new DSL connection. I even had some nifty Mac app where I could select the shows I wanted, and it would automatically scan for when a torrent was uploaded for the latest episode and start downloading.

As such, I haven't watched TV with ads by choice in decades (i.e., not counting being in a bar with the TV on, hotel room, etc.) As Andy the Grasshopper said, it's quite jarring to see it again. It's probably my imagination but it seems like the breaks between commercials are so much shorter. I do see ads on the Roku TV app sometimes, because sometimes I'm too lazy to get up and fetch my laptop to watch a five minute video (I try to airplay/chromecast if possible to avoid even that.).

I don't watch TV, I intentionally sit in front of my 85" 8K Gigant-o-tron with my eyes closed.

Burning question of the moment: do the blind listen to tv?

Yes and in fact I learned a lot about 'audio description' for shows/movies from this podcast: https://www.20k.org/episodes/athousandwords