Was TV Better In The Past?

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When I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s there were only a handful of channels; NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS and 3 local channels in Boston that played reruns.

In 1986 my family got cable which was about 50 channels.

Nowadays I can't count how many channels I have. I have an Amazon fire stick which gives me at least 500 channels plus on demand TV.

Were things better in the 80s when everybody had the same channels?

Nowadays theres so many shows that nobody watches the same show anymore.

Your thoughts?
 
I've pretty much given up on attempting to keep up with all the popular shows over the last 10-ish years. It definitely was easier to have shit to talk about in the lunchroom back in the late 70's, throughout the 80's, and in the DC on campus in the 90's 'cause there were fewer channels and fewer shows, and particularly only a handful of Black-centered shows that most of us would talk about.

I have a Samsung tv in my living room and I've subscribed to Samsung TV+. There's so many fuckin channels on there it's ridiculous. When we had Direct TV we had crazy channels we never watched. Even with the lil digital HD antenna I have hooked up there's a grip of channels that I never intentionally check out.

There's such a thing as "too much", we've gone well past that point.
 
loud-ninja said:
No in terms of content. Yes in terms of only having to go to one place for all channels.
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This. The amount of content and the quality of content has increased hugely.

Having to subscribe to 20 different things has been shit. Some of these companies need to merge together and keep the price point the same and release their ENTIRE library. I hate how the licensing rights have effected some shows. Theres Showtime shows i cant find anywhere unless i rent it, yet i have paramount+ with showtime and should have access to the entirety of the library showtime has.

Some HBO Shows arent on HBO because they licensed them out to Netflix for however many months. Some i cant find at all because the show is owned by somebody else, HBO was just the network it aired on.

I want access to everything all the time for a reasonable price lol.
 
Lou Cypher said:
This. The amount of content and the quality of content has increased hugely.

Having to subscribe to 20 different things has been shit. Some of these companies need to merge together and keep the price point the same and release their ENTIRE library. I hate how the licensing rights have effected some shows. Theres Showtime shows i cant find anywhere unless i rent it, yet i have paramount+ with showtime and should have access to the entirety of the library showtime has.

Some HBO Shows arent on HBO because they licensed them out to Netflix for however many months. Some i cant find at all because the show is owned by somebody else, HBO was just the network it aired on.

I want access to everything all the time for a reasonable price lol.
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This is why piracy had a whole ass resurgence. Folks got tired of the bullshit and said "fuck it" and started downloading every season of every show they wanted to watch, especially if it wasn't available on DVD or BluRay.
 
I think it’s a way I’m programmed. I got Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, and decided to do away with YouTube TV.

Only after a few months, I had to get that mufucka back. I don’t even watch nothing on it. It stays on the comet ch. with reruns of Grimm, Xflies, and Xena

But there is just something about hearing mesothelioma and nugenix commericials, that my body just needs
 
We're in a circle. We went from cable, commercials, and weekly releases to streaming, no commercials, and full season releases to streaming, commercials, and weekly releases


And people like it lol
 
RandomOne said:
We're in a circle. We went from cable, commercials, and weekly releases to streaming, no commercials, and full season releases to streaming, commercials, and weekly releases


And people like it lol
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There are some series where I just want the whole thing up front. I don’t think some series are strong enough to string me along week by week.

Or that deserves the respect of thinking is capable of that. Shoes should have to earn not dropping a full season
 
SeaSnake said:
I really don’t like having to buy movies on Amazon prime when I already have Amazon prime
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Or paramount for that matter. Telling me I need a paramount subscription

Bitch ain’t you paramount?
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The question said:
Or paramount for that matter. Telling me I need a paramount subscription

Bitch ain’t you paramount?
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Literally the same thing I was getting at here:

konceptjones said:
Yeah, you always have it and it'll always be playable as long as you take care of it. Record labels, publishers, and movie/tv studios can't take it away because you own it.

I see so many complaints almost daily about what folks can't watch anymore on whatever streaming service they had because they either got rid of the movie/show, moved it to another "premium" service offering of theirs (i.e. Hulu Live), or made it unavailable in your country but other countries can still view it. But if you have it on VHS, VCD, DVD, or BluRay you never have that problem and I think people are starting to come around to that fact. Same for music, there are entire artist catalogs that aren't available on streaming platforms, and indie artists have been pulling their music in protest 'cause they're getting fucked over on the money, but that's not an issue if you own a physical copy of it or even an mp3/flac/ogg copy.
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Like, how the fuck I got Hulu, but it ain't "the right Hulu" to watch some shit???
 
Probably off topic, but Blockbuster was the place on Friday nights. Rent a movie, slide by Pizza Hut (back when they used have a salad bar and arcade games) and get a pizza, then head home to eat pizza and watch movies. Back on topic, yeah it was better back then to me

Is it me, or who used to change to the TV guide or the weather channel. Just to listen to the jazz music on it lol.
 
T. Sanford said:
Probably off topic, but Blockbuster was the place on Friday nights. Rent a movie, slide by Pizza Hut (back when they used have a salad bar and arcade games) and get a pizza, then head home to eat pizza and watch movies. Back on topic, yeah it was better back then to me

Is it me, or who used to change to the TV guide or the weather channel. Just to listen to the jazz music on it lol.
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Nah b, I def used to get ready for work with that weather channel music playing in the background.
 
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