"I don't even own a TV"

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