Thread 106907448

Anyone else here having NO tv at home?

>>106907448 (OP)
Me. I'm so autistic I can't follow TV shows.

>>106907448 (OP)
Yes?

TV became absolute fucking garbage and the internet is now on the same path.

>>106907448 (OP)
that cat looks autistic

>>106907448 (OP)
no tv here either
its brainwashing when its not a weapon directed at ones sanity

>>106907537
So just like the modern day internet?

Haven't had broadcast TV for at least 20 years. Don't miss it. Can still watch a show occasionally via download, but it's not frequent. There's not much that's good out there.

>>106907544
no, you can chose what you consume on the internet
i dont watch dumb slop. the brainrot present elsewhere just doesnt concern me

Literally the only thing I miss about radio and tv was the anticipation of waiting for a show I enjoy.
>friday night has my favorite radio show
>buy cassette tapes couple days before
>an hour before the show prepare ghettoblaster, tapes for recording, snacks and comics to read while listening to the radio show
>enjoy the literally perfect radio night every week

It was so insanely comfy.
Waiting for the thing was part of the experience.

>>106907448 (OP)
Me. Stopped watching that retarded nigger/fag infested, cultural marxist garbage back in the 90's. Kept a couple of crt's around just for the micros, though.

>>106907448 (OP)
I have a "TV" at home. I use it as a computer monitor.

>>106907739
>TV as computer monitor
are you 80?

>>106907764
???
nta but if i had a tv id use it as screen, too
i did when i still had one
dont you know you can do that, zoomie?
i dont understand whats your deal here

>>106907448 (OP)
I have a nice TV but I only use it for consoles, Youtube, Plex and Twitch
I will never subscribe to a streaming service

>>106907845
at most for watching movies but other than that why would I?

>>106907998
multi screen setup
you put your tv further away, instead of using brackets to stack your monitors up high
also its practical when you want to have some readout always on screen and are busy doing other stuff
on your computer or otherwise
the big format comes in handy.
and ofc, entertainment. jewtube/vidya/movies

I get cable with my internet for free and this bundle was from 2004 and it is cheaper to keep cable than it is to break the bundle and pay current price for everything. I just use it to watch PBS. I don't pay for the set top box though cause I dont pay for extra channels so I'm just getting air rebroadcasted.
I watched the Ryder cup one weekend that was fun.

The upshot of broadcast is no one knows what you're watching unless you plug in the ratings box. Radio is also fun to listen too in my area because there are alot of religious crazies right around NPR and PBS and a university radio station where idiots argue about the price of gas. FM is good fun alongside TV

>>106907998
>>106908048
you should try it.
you should have hdmi connnectors on your gpu
its the same hdmi that you would plug into a tv

>>106908048
>>106908060
ye gpu can do it but I'm afraid of globohomo TVs these days, they come will kinds of shit on them. don't think regular TVs are available anymore, some shitty spying OS always on these bitches

>>106908109
what makes you think you dont have one running in your monitor?
also, unless your tv is connected to the outside world, you can monitor your network activity through your computer
because thats the pathway its gonna have to take to call home

and, finally, you should always assume everything is pozzed and act accordingly.
dont be glow too hard, dont be the lowest fruit to pick because theyre the ones getting caught first
keep your sensitive shit offline
and you should be good
you cant assume perfect invisibility, but you can leverage technical camouflage to remain unnoticed

>technical
*technological

>>106907448 (OP)
I have a TV for 2 reasons.
Local TV news stations because local news and goofy shit in hurricane seasons and because a big TV is nice for games at bed.

>>106908165
>what makes you think you dont have one running in your monitor?
monitor has no internet connection and doesn't require an account or shit. can't do shit on displayport. at most EDID bullshit but there's nothing there.
do new TVs even work without an online account or connecting them to the internet?

>>106907448 (OP)
You still have to pay for your TV loicence.

>>106908225
>monitor has no internet connection
heh, you computer does
>do new TVs even work without an online account or connecting them to the internet?
iunno. i havent bought one in 10 years

>>106908256
ye man I played with EDID there's nothing fishy with it, it's just for monitor specific data and shit. I can for example set my monitor brightness trough it, like you can on laptops. don't have to push the monitor buttons to get in menu etc.
it can also be blocked, I'm on loonix.

>>106908279
yeah but theres ways that you coudl have been dodged
you never know
you basically have a minix OS running in your cpu, invisible to your normal os
the gpu can communicate weird shit directly to it
this can be dealt with through hardware so even a close inspection of the drivers will yield nothing
only if you duplex the signals to/from your monitor, and you analyze the waveform you can be 100% sure nothing fishy was gtoing on... while you were looking.

no 100% solution exists.
if you want certainty, you have to assume everything is pozzed, and act accordingly
nothing is beyond their reach- but they dont have infinite resources
how i see things the only way to evade them is to be too low priority for them to allocate said resources to you

>>106908279
>>106908687
>duplex
my nigger-tier vocabulary strikes again
i mean turning one output into two and analyzing the signal through an oscilloscope

>>106907448 (OP)
Do people still pay for tv/cable service?
(or do you pay for disney plus, netflix, hbo, amazon prime video, or some other junk?)

I haven't in like 12+ years.
I ONLY use wifi, that's it. For like 55$ a month (not like 100-200$+)
https://troypoint.com/best-live-tv-streaming-sites/

>>106907739
>>106907845
enjoy being spied on by the jews 24/7 :)
that's the only thing (((smart TVs))) are "good" for, anyway

>>106907448 (OP)
No TV here. Having a nice OLED TV might be nice on the rare occasion I actually want to watch something but it's not really worth it. I fundamentally just prefer reading when it comes to fiction.

>>106907448 (OP)
a TV would be nice but illegal streaming on my laptop is too convenient to not use.

>>106907448 (OP)
my living room tv is just a monitor connected to my network storage

>>106907448 (OP)
Use it as a giant secondary display.

>>106907509
back to books then
we've come full circle

>>106907448 (OP)
weird ass cat

>>106907448 (OP)
I only really use it for sportsball and the occasional docu
dodgy firestick connected that gets me every channel in the world

>>106909059
read the reply chain
the only solution is to be lost in the information flow
unironically privacyfagging makes you glow harder
you appear as a black hole, and that makes the glowies curious what youre hiding and thats how you end up with them actually using the shit like the radio emitters in your machine
bc youre ack-doored anyways

the true solution if you have something to hide
is to give the impression youre not hiding anything

I put up a OTA antenna at my house and aimed it at the local broadcast towers. Then I wired it to every room in my house and get like 50+ channels all free in 1080p or 4k. Shit is cash.

>>106907448 (OP)
TV device yes, but no cable. I use FireStick + Youtube app maybe half an hour in the evening and that's about it.

I got a 55 incher for sim racing but transitioned to VR headset, so prob gonna re-sell that one sooner or later. And an old Samsung LED (pre smart era) with the Firestick. Might wanna get rid of that one sooner or later as well since it's probably a massive electricity hog given its age.

>>106907448 (OP)
>dog is smug
>thinks the remote control is some status token and he now has the right to hold it.

>>106907448 (OP)
I don't have a TV service if that's what you mean.
I do have 3 TVs tho. For movies, anime, or YouTube bullshit.
Although I find myself leaning more into reading books and manga. I find that most movies im watching are older things of lower budgets. Lots of "exploitation" stuff. I think the newest thing I recently watched was something about big tiddy middle aged strippers hunting bigfoot in the woods or something.

no

>>106910082
>dog
Anon I

Yes, I've been living for almost two years with no TV. Actually I do have a TV but I don't have signal so I just use it every couple of months to watch a movie when I feel like not watching it on my monitor.

>>106907448 (OP)
I have a 22" TV that I found in the dumpster and fixed myself, but I barely use it to watch DVB-T channels. They are all shit here in France. I mostly use it as a monitor that I can quickly carry around for testing PCs and various AV devices as it has a lot of different inputs.

>>106910737
I used to have two 42" TVs too, both found broken in the dumpster, but I ended up selling them as they were taking a lot of space. I don't realy miss them.

>>106907448 (OP)
No tv no Netflix no shows no yt either.
Only activities.

Sometimes books from library. I like travel books.

>>106907448 (OP)
I have a TV but i ever only turn it on if i play a cinematic game with a controller and during world championship in ice hockey.

>>106910851
How do you manage to do so? I mean I don't have a TV myself nor do I watch Netflix but I waste quite a lot of time on YouTube. Maybe it could be said that I'm already half way there but still. I mean most of the good content I watch is not on my feed so maybe blocking the home feed with Unhook could help?

Every day I think about installing one so I can put twitch/youtube slop on it and watch from my bed but I also have a 60in commercial panel in storage that has displayport input I would use so it's basically a monitor, but it's bgr so it's big gay for font rendering

No TV but it's not because I'm smart, it's because I watch shit on the computer screen

>>106907764
They're good for TV stuff. I have 3 different screens hooked up to my PC:

43 inch 4k TV
27 inch 4K monitor
21 inch crt monitor

>>106907590
this
it's the same with music and everything else really, before when you had to wait/go to a different place/exert specific effort to get something it'd feel much better in the end, like having 10 songs downloaded on your phone, some of which a friend had sent you through bluetooth lol, and you'd be happy with that
or going to your favourite takeout place being an actual event by itself, instead of just ordering the thing to be delivered to your home

but I suppose in the end it may be good that tv has become slop, that way it's so much easier to break free of

>>106907448 (OP)
I boughted one a few years ago just to watch kinos
No regrets, it's way comfier

>>106907764
A TV is the only option if you want a monitor that is 4k 42 inch OLED 144hz. Im a programmer, one large monitor is superior to multiple monitors.

>>106908109
>>106909059
Just dont connect it to the internet

>>106912717
at a reasonable price*

>>106912730
>just don't connect it to the internet bro

>>106912516
Not him but I find most of youtube to be utter garbage so it seems pretty easy to me. I pretty much only ever use it to check out music.

>>106912905
I like to have lunch or dinner listening to stuff, but I usually spend a lot of time finding something worthwhile and it's usually something I've already seen before. I like watching chess videos like Antonio's but it doesn't go well with eating because I have to constantly be looking at the screen to make sense of what's happening. Aside from that it's mostly garbage yeah. One good channel here and there, I like Luke Smith and Solar Sands.

>>106907448 (OP)
There is an old ass tv no one watches. Everyone's too lazy or busy to bother selling it.

>>106907555
i miss broadcast TV for the format, just being able to tune into whatever and let it play without any input. it's a shame the actual content on TV is complete dogshit though

>>106909507
booktok ruined those too, it's all stories about getting raped by big foot and shit

>>106907529
He's just black.

>>106913220
>shame the actual content on TV is complete dogshit though
Last Friday I watched chainsaw man on the telly

>>106913518
wow

My Grandma cried because I didn't have cable.

>>106907448 (OP)
Me. No television, no antenna, no cable, no streaming services. No JewTube either.

>>106913682
My mom had a "this does not compute" response and for years she kept saying "but how can you live without TV? Don't you want TV? If it's money, I'll pay for your TV! You HAVE to want to watch TV, right?!"

>>106913682
So sad

>>106913720
> "this does not compute" response and for years she kept saying "but how can you live without TV? Don't you want TV? If it's money, I'll pay for your TV! You HAVE to want to watch TV, right?!"
Mine was just confused crying.
>>106913729
This.

>>106913682
Your Grandma must be feeling pretty alright to have such concerns. That's good news.

I use my TV for streaming HDR off of my jellyfin server because HDR is way better on it than on my monitors. That does require me to want to watch something though, and that's not that frequent these days. My mother pays for netflix and I set up the network at her house to tunnel her TV through my network so we can share netflix, but there's just.... fucking nothing on there. The best stuff on netflix is almost universally stuff not made by netflix, and it's not there permanently. Meanwhile my nas never loses anything unless I want it gone.

I haven't watched broadcast TV in over a decade. Too many ads, and the bundling makes the price not worth it. It's not that I can't afford it, but comcast wants 140 a month for an internet package that's worse than my 50 dollar fiber plan, and they want 150 a month as an intro rate for the full cable package. In total that's getting around the price to lease a base model care... which is fucking absurd. Or I can just torrent stuff for a couple of dollars a month in electricity to keep my server on.

>>106913682
I've got older relatives that literally start to panic if the TV isn't on. They cannot function without some kind of background noise.

Really makes me laugh at all the people shitting on zoomers and their need for subway surfurs in the background. No, that's not just zoomers, it's the majority of the population regardless of age outside of maybe some gen Xers and older millennials.

>>106914284
>I've got older relatives that literally start to panic if the TV isn't on. They cannot function without some kind of background noise.
This

>>106907448 (OP)
i havent really watched tv since the mid 2000s

>>106914360
Same. The kikeish (((brainwashing))) is insufferable.

we have one but it's mostly just there for youtube and jellyfin. a friend lent me his hbo account, I don't even use that anymore cuz they took of the only thing I've been watching on it (Gumball).

>>106914321
It's fucking maddening. We had people over for a hybrid Late Christmas + New Years party, 2 years ago and a good portion of the older crowd wanted to wait inside and watch the broadcasts of Times Square. I bought a blacklight that fits in my floodlight a few years ago, and last year we gave the kids a bunch of glow in the dark foam LARP swords/shields and a glow in the dark basketball and let them loose out by the garage. Imagine having your grandkids and grand nieces/nephews having a blast hooting and hollering while my brother who is everyone's favorite uncle minds a grill and makes them all the hotdogs, brats, chicken, burgers, veggies, and corn on the cob they can eat. Now imagine that instead of throwing ball or even just sitting there and taking pictures while nursing a sherry, all you want to do is watch people on TV that are most likely wearing soiled diapers because they've been standing in one place for 12 hours pretending to have fun. What the fuck is wrong with you?

I've already told my cousins and such that I'm not doing the big event again this year even though we've done it for 7 of the last 9 (admittedly much smaller scale for the 2 covid years). We might invite a couple of my cousins over, and a few people on the wife's side of the family moved a couple hours away recently so we might have them over because her family is significantly less insane than mine, but I just cannot bring myself to do large events anymore, let alone put my wife through it. 2 years ago she needed damn near a week to properly unwind because 5 hours of clipped comments subtly implying that we weren't doing well enough in life really ate at her.

>>106907448 (OP)
I haven't owned one since 2007.

>>106914321
i thought i was the only one, my parents literally have a TV going 24/7
theyll watch random hallmark movies in the middle of july
If they wake up in the middle of the night to go piss and the TV is off theyll turn it on to some talk show even if theyre just going to fall back asleep 5 mins later

im glued to my phone myself but i dont need it on 24/7

>>106907448 (OP)
I hate it. mae it stope.

>>106907448 (OP)
You mean watching TV or using a TV as a large monitor for a HTPC? I am watching The Gods Must be Crazy on it right now.

>>106908858
There's this known group called boomers and elderly who still watch and pay for cable. Maybe you've herd of them. I'd even add out of touch millennial, ex-cons, and low income people in general.

>>106912822
Vizio may be highly shit but you can disable the smart features on them. It just disables pretty much every feature to make you suffer for the sin of not letting them collect data.

>>106907448 (OP)
I still live with my parents and they can't live without it. They always treated me like I'm the weird one for watching all my shit online. Took them until recently to adapt to streaming but they still continue to pay for both streaming and satellite. I still watch some stuff on tv too but I could honestly do without it. I only use it to drawn out their noises.

>>106907448 (OP)
My TV died in 2005, I was a teenager and I was more interested in upgrading my PC than buying a new TV, so I just... got used to not having a TV.
I got a new one a few years after that and I could no longer stand watching TV it was more annoying than entertaining.
Now my TV is just a bigger monitor to play games and watch anime on.

>>106915786
>mid to late 2000's
>playing some shitty mmo on my crappy windows XP prebuilt desktop
>tv on as background noise with some random cartoon being played
>over a decade later, think about that old shitty mmo
>remember all the good times you had while also remembering what was airing on tv at that time
>miss both the shitty mmo and the shows that were airing while I was plaything them
Ehh, it wasn't all bad.

>>106907448 (OP)
I have a 80" OLED in my living room to watch movies , anime and tv shows. So yes I have one. I don't use any streaming service.

>>106907448 (OP)
cute dog.

>>106915849
That's nostalgia, every year was meaningfully different and felt significant when you're young.
Then you finish your education, enter the wageslave life and suddenly it all becomes a blur and you feel like all you're doing is waiting for the weekend to come around.

Nostalgia aside, at least where I lived that time period was the start of shitty reality TV, and the general vibe shifted to more crass, low-brow entertainment.
MTV's heyday was passing and generally by the mid to late 2000s music became way too rap-focused.
I kept watching Discovery channel shows like Mythbusters, but I just pirated them.

I still have one, but I haven't turned it on since July. I'm not even sure the antenna cable is plugged.
Teletext is still comfy as fuck, though.

>>106907448 (OP)
Don't have one but if i had a TV it would be probably just to watch old anime at night just like in the old days

>>106907448 (OP)
I have a 75" tv but I watch YouTube and downloaded movies on it.

>>106907448 (OP)
I didn't have one for over a decade. Then I bought one and converted my PC into an HTPC. Feels comfy to watch kino on a bigger screen.
>>106907739
And let me guess, you sit over 10 hours in the same chair hunching over your desk? Im nearing 40, I need to sit in a couch or spin on a gym bike while consooming entertainment.
>>106910851
I only listen to audiobooks - while lifting or driving. Reading is a waste of time.

>>106916000
congrats your job sucks out life and soul out of you

>>106916000
>That's nostalgia
Yeah but doesn't mean you can't keep continuing having new nostalgia. I still have an old flat screen tv next to my monitor and still leave it on for background noises when I'm doing something and I've still been reminiscing about stuff that was on from the 2010's while I was doing stuff on my PC. I've even been nostalgic from stuff from the pandemic lockdowns. If I don't like a network then I just change the channel. There's other shit out there that isn't trash tv.

Then again I have satellite which is not as shit as cable but still pretty shit. Just have more verity.

Yeah, married man with children here. No tv in our house, not a disciple thing or anything like that, we owned one but never used it, maybe a couple times to play some emulators by connecting the laptop, it just sat there unused taking up space so we gave it away. Now we either use the living room computer or me and the wife watch on a laptop when the kids are not around.

>>106917811
Based. I'm a control nazi with my kids so we just have one TV in the living room, and my main PC lives in the living room between the TV and the couch so I can half ass monitor the kids when they play on the computer. My wife and I just use my laptop in the bedroom. I wouldn't even have a TV if it weren't for the occasional movie night.

>>106915627
I'd go fucking insane with addiction if I where like this?

>>106907448 (OP)
My only TV is a fuckhuge CRT with only an ota converter connected to it in case I absolutely need to catch something on a local broadcast channel.
Other than that I only use it for retro games and old movies, and only occasionally bring over my HTPC to watch newer stuff on it.

>>106907448 (OP)
I have 2 tv's but no cable or streaming. I just use them as big monitors so I can browse the web and watch youtube on a tv, with a keyboard on my lap and a mouse next to me in the sofa.
I've had this kind of setup way before 'smart' tv's and even before flat screens on a crt tv. It's way better then so called smart tv.

>>106907448 (OP)
Roommates have one, but I have no need for one. Mounted a decently sized monitor on the wall and ran it to an HDMI switch from my computer.

yes

>>106907739
>I have a "TV" at home. I use it as a computer monitor.

>>106924036
Looks mad comfy except the floor chair.

>>106924055
floor chairs ARE mad comfy.

>>106924061
Nah looks like a child's car seat. Go big or go home.

>>106924091
just don't be fat

>>106917533
>And let me guess, you sit over 10 hours in the same chair hunching over your desk
Yes. I also walk/run on a treadmill while watching anime.

>>106924036
I sit closer than that. I have it positioned like a regular pc monitor right in front of me on a computer desk. I have had a setup like this for the last 15 years.

>>106924091
How fucking fat are you?

>>106924091
Fatty

>>106915849
I'm not sure though, I still remember going to my dads house on weekends and even satellite with like 1500 channels there's was fuck all worth watching and I'd just end up playing vidya or hanging out with friends. I feel TV has basically been shit from inception

>>106907448 (OP)
I haven't watched TV in quite a while, though I do watch news livestreams sometimes on jewtube (when something big happens or whatever).
I don't like being brainwashed to consoom or to vote for TV stars and similar clowns.

>>106908165
Once again, zero proof of anything is provided.