Americans Only Watch 17 TV Channels

General Discussion
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Honestly, monetarily it’d be incredibly smart to just cut off satellite forever.

But when I spend days at my brother’s who has done exactly that…can’t do it. I just feel incredibly bored.

Half the shows I get into are shows I’ve flipped to when nothing else I liked was on. I very rarely watch something based on referral.

Not to mention there are still quite a few shows that aren’t that easy to get over the internet, either legitimately or not.

Yeah, the logical thing is to cut off the cable/satellite, but we as humans aren’t one to think that logically to begin with.

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I turned in my cable box a few years ago. Saved me a TON on my bill. Now it’s only the $40/month just for net. Wasn’t even watching 10 channels myself before that. Figured I’m just wasting money having this cable box.

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Cable is such a huge waste of money IMO. Internet + Netflix more or less gives you everything you could want to watch.

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I get annoyed when ever Comcast mysteriously adds in basic cable to my internet bill every so often.
With commercials, majority of what’s on is crap.

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1 channel on nearly 24/7: Kid Disney, or whatever that channel is called that plays Disney cartoons 24/7.

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I only watch premium movie channels…you know like hbo and starz and shit. We gots the skrilla so I dont give a fuck.

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The internet is soo much better to watch everything, but the atmosphere the cable provides is too hard to let go. + what else am i gonna use to break up some tension with a woman in my house and make her comfortable. + Theres annoying ass kids that always come over, don’t wanna deal with them, hit them with the TV+playstation.

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I dont even watch TV anymore.

#getonmylevel
#3cool5you
#hashtag

Seriously though, if it aint on Netflix/Hulu or a torrent isn’t available, it’s not worth watching in the first place. Ill keep the extra cash from my check while you continue to shovel out storage wars, Ripoff Stars Pawn Stars and shitty reality shows. Stay Free television.

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See what happens to your username when you watch tv kids!

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I watch all my sports live, streaming over the net. You can quite literally watch any live sport, from college ball to champions league soccer. I got fed up with how the NHL was airing the games. I had to watch TSN to watch some games, CBC to watch Saturday games, Sportsnet to watch even more games, and finally Leafs TV to watch specific leafs games. So many channels just to watch my team play during the year.

Finally said fuck it and decided to start using atdhe and sportlemon, and I have never looked back since.

Only thing I miss about TV is the random factor. When I wanna watch something now, or throw it on for background noise, I have to actively search for something, and load it up. With TV you could just turn it on, put on a random channel, and go from there.

But the cable bills have gotten so ludicrous, I just couldn’t continue living like that, pissing away money on shit I just wasn’t watching.

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Once the internet takes over though, all the perks will be gone :frowning:

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Then people would complain about invasion of privacy.

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TV is honestly worthless unless its sports, some news, or just turning to a random channel for background noise. lol

I seriously get everything online from cartoons to a lot of news to television shows like The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones etc…
My Playstation has everything else on it I need for entertainment like netflix hulu youtube porn etc

Maybe TV will become interesting again if VR becomes mainstream but even then they’d fuck it up with commercials and stupid shit.

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They could just make it work like twitch or something.

I suppose people are complaining about youtube invading privacy when they count you as a view too?

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How the fuck can there be part of a channel to qualify for “17.8” channels watched? Is Nielsen grading it based on minutes spent watching a channel, or are they just fucking stupid?

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TV sucks anyways. Aren’t there streaming sites for some of this stuff anyways? Cable is a waste of money

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17 channels? Who the fuck need 17 different TV stations? You niggas watch way too much TV. Let’s go outside and play tackle football… in the street.

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17 channels? Hmm…most I can think of off the dome is 9 and 3 of them I only watch one show on. I’d like to meet these 17 channel watching people.

You know damn well the furthest you’d go is a dirt road. Stop frontin’.

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I’ve been saying we should be able to pay for groups of channels for years.

Literally the only stations I watch:

-Food Network
-CNN
-HBO
-Cartoon Network

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