Has anyone given up on TV?

[Scotchy]

Thank God for DVR's.

Absolutely agree with that!

TV is much better than it used to be, to the extent that there is more good TV out there for any one person to watch.

Having grown up in a time when there were only 2 channels that mainly showed golf and religious programming on the weekends, I agree with you 100%. When you contrast satellite TV that has hundreds of 24-hour channels with a very wide variety of programming against 2 crummy channels that went off the air around midnight every night, it's clear we've made progress.
That being said, streaming is pushing against traditional TV the way cell phones are pushing land line telephones out of the picture. The new Trek being confined to streaming, for example, or series like Daredevil that won't be shown on TV.
I intend to install a media server in my home. My wife asked me if I would get rid of our Dish at that point. I told her no - not yet.

 

[Greg Cox]

I still have a VHS player hooked up to my TV set, but I figure I will probably retire that when I finally break down and buy a new TV. Our current set is about twenty years old and has been known to provoke giggles from visitors.

"What is that strange boxy thing in your living room?"

 

[Campe]

I cut the cord maybe 5 years ago now and have not looked back. Its made me cut back on the amount of TV I watch. Ten years ago, I was probably watching 15-20 full 22+ episode shows a year. Now, as has become more the norm, I still watch a lot of programs, but they're shorter runs. My full season shows I watch are:

Agents of SHIELD (ABC)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX)
The Good Life (NBC, new in the fall)

The other series I continue to watch that are typically 10-13 episodes a season are:

Archer (FX, 10 episodes)
Silicon Valley (HBO, 10 episodes)
Veep (HBO, 10 episodes)
House of Cards (Netflix, 13 episodes)
Orange is the New Black (Netflix, 13 episodes)
Daredevil (Netflix, 13 episodes)
Jessica Jones (Netflix, 13 episodes)
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix, 13 episodes)

I've also been told to give Stranger Things a shot. Just haven't gotten around to it yet. I plan to add to that list:

Luke Cage
Iron Fist
Star Trek: Discovery

But I also have a lot less of a threshold for TV. I've given up on Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and Doctor Who in the past few years. GoT and TWD just got too depressing for me and I may pick them up again when they finish their runs if the general opinion is they are worth it. Doctor Who? I just don't like Capaldi.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

^^^
I know how you feel. I saw the first season of Walking Dead and I thought it was artistically amazing but still didn't want to watch it because I just didn't want to be subjected to a constant stream of getting attached to characters and watching them horribly ripped apart.

There aren't a lot of full season shows I watch now, come to think of it. It might be down to just Survivor, Amazing Race, and late night comedy shows. I recently started watching The Good Wife on Hulu, five weeks before it ended. I'm so skeptical about network shows that I don't give them a chance until everybody has been praising them for years. I like Brooklyn Nine Nine but I lost touch with it this season cause they moved it to Tuesday and I'm usually out with friends on Tuesday.

There are a couple random fun shows I watch if I just happen to be home when they air like Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy and I watch lots of Boston sports.

But, looking forward to Westworld. HBO has been good for a lot of short run series.

 

[BillJ]

I don't watch much TV, but I really like Mr. Robot. Just finished the first season on Amazon Prime.

 

[Owain Taggart]

Yeah, I find I can't really watch shows with long seasons anymore. And these days, I find that shorter seasons are of higher quality anyways. I'd rather them produce shorter seasons of quality than 22 episodes that are lackluster. In general, I think shorter seasons work better in this day and age.

 

[bajorangirl]

I'm getting fed up of all the reality TV programmes. Geordie Shore, Made in Chelsea, The Only Way is Essex, Ex on The Beach just to name a few. Never watched an episode of any in my life but yet they're all I see all over TV and internet. I don't know how anyone can watch them they're so annoying.

My favourite TV shows still on TV are The Vikings, Peaky Blinders, The Last Kingdom, Ripper Street just to name a few.

 

[John Clark]

I'm getting fed up of all the reality TV programmes. Geordie Shore, Made in Chelsea, The Only Way is Essex, Ex on The Beach just to name a few. Never watched an episode of any in my life but yet they're all I see all over TV and internet. I don't know how anyone can watch them they're so annoying.

My favourite TV shows still on TV are The Vikings, Peaky Blinders, The Last Kingdom, Ripper Street just to name a few.

Thank you - my mates and I were talking about a show yesterday and we just couldn't remember the name. - The Last Kingdom.

We were thinking something Saxon - but it just didn't sound right.

I haven't cut the cable/aerial lead yet, but for my tastes, I have to agree, there is too much reality tv on here

 

[bajorangirl]

Thank you - my mates and I were talking about a show yesterday and we just couldn't remember the name. - The Last Kingdom.

We were thinking something Saxon (Though the book series might be called The Saxon Chronicles) - but it just didn't sound right.

I haven't cut the cable/aerial lead yet, but for my tastes, I have to agree, there is too much reality tv on here

You welcome LOL. Yes the book series is called the Saxon Chronicles but the books them selves have separate titles. I actually bought my first audiobook the other day of The Last Kingdom. As with many TV and films the books are meant to be better than the series so we'll see about that.
I tend to watch the same programmes/series all the time as theres that much crap on the telly.
The reality TV wouldn't bother me as much if it wasn't on every channel. Every time you flick though theres another new programme. Its terribly annoying...

 

[John Clark]

Think I've got all the books though not read yet. read all the Sharpe and Starbuck series (along with a couple of stand alones) that the author has done as one of my colleagues recommended them starting back in 91. The Sharpe series started a couple of years later and I got hooked on those too.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Here in Australia - the three main commerical networks show too much reality TV. Don't care about them. Most of the stuff I download, as it isn't available to free-to-air TV here, or I have to wait months for it.

Lately I've been watching more DVDs, as I got a new TV finally.

 

[lurok]

I haven't watched terrestrial broadcast TV in years, probably due to time. Mostly movies, Netflix or occasional documentary on iPlayer.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

I gave up on tv when I moved out of my parents' house to go to college, purely because I could not afford it. It's now been about five years since and I just never got cable. It's too expensive and there's a thousand channels I wouldn't watch anyway. Why bother? I'm happy to shell out small fees for Netflix, Hulu (sometimes), and eventually CBSAA just to get the handful of things I do want to watch. I think cable will go away eventually and people will just pay for the four or five channels/services they actually watch, a la carte style.

 

[Tim Walker]

I think that old style television-if it survives-will eventually be consolidated into just a few channels. Emphasized would be live programming, such as sports. (especially sports). News and weather. Actually, I understand that this was the kind of programming prevalent during the late 1940s.

Other programming, which would be low cost to produce: awards shows; game shows; cooking shows. And so called "reality" shows.

 

[tomswift2002]

For me the only reason that I still have cable is that I volunteer with the local cable company, so the only way that I can get personal copies of programs I work on is to record them off of TV, otherwise cable is only good for getting the news. Otherwise I tend to watch my TV shows on DVD/Blu-Ray or in the rare case iTunes. Some of the newer shows, like "Fringe", "Smallville" and "Agents Of Shield" I can watch on Blu-Ray and skip over any episodes that are snore-bore's. I still remember when "Smallville" was going airing its Season 8, I had just finished getting caught up on the other 7 seasons and I watched the first 4 or 5 episodes and even on episode 3 I was finding that the producers were not enticing me to watch, and after episode 4 or 5, while I still recorded the shows on DVD-RW, after a while I just erased the entire disc to reuse it and figured I'd just see the season when I picked up the Blu-Ray. Suffice it to say, since then all the new shows I've been a season behind on new shows that I want to see. Plus there are tons of older shows that, to me, are brand-new, so Zi tend to make up my own TV broadcast seasons from DVD/Blu-Ray/iTunes, especially since the local channels don't air the older shows, or even reair the current series last season during the summer like they used to.

 

[Spot's Meow]

...especially since the local channels don't air the older shows, or even reair the current series last season during the summer like they used to.

I don't like that change. I remember when, if you missed an episode you could at least catch it during the summer, or you could rewatch the last few episodes of the season to refresh yourself before the new one started, but they just don't do that any longer, or at least not as frequently. I guess I should be happy that we get more new content during the summer than we used to, but I didn't mind the reruns.

 

[Guy Gardener]

You're balmy.

The larger TV stations give you on demand services the next day.

Netflix.

DVD boxsets.

And then there are achooo- torrents -oo - oo.

Missing an episode today is nothing.

 

[Tallguy]

No, I usually give up off the air. (HA!)

Actually, I was an ardent follower of Person of Interest. Now suddenly DC comics on the CW owns my soul. How did THAT happen?

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Box sets FTW....... Now I can watch old series I never saw the first time around. Some of those I love to bits, others I just regret.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I do have to admit I'm hooked on two other shows Motive and Elementary.