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jert3 t1_j9melza wrote

I can't believe people pay for television, especially considering cable tv is 60% advertisements.

I stopped paying for television around 2001. Being a pirate is better than early netflix and arrived 20 years earlier. It's superior in every way: every show ever, and much you can't even find on TV if you paid $500 a month for all the subs, available to you in a couple of minutes of d/ling. I don't understand television watching, I could never sit through ads, or paying multiple sub services.

Doing some napkin math, say 20 years of paying $50 a month for TV, oh .... saved me at least $12,000 dollars. I'll take the used car instead of the TV, thanks.

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yeroii t1_j9miock wrote

I mean, if people do not pay for television, soon enough you will have nothing to pirate. Better keep thanking they can afford to pay.

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Les-Freres-Heureux t1_j9oljzn wrote

That's really not true though.

It's not like a multi-billion dollar industry is just going to disappear.

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yeroii t1_j9oncl0 wrote

If the overwhelming majority of people like OP above me were to stop consuming legally and opted for piracy?

Yeah, ofc it'd disappear.

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Les-Freres-Heureux t1_j9ooam6 wrote

Not really.

For decades television profited without directly charging consumers (mainly through advertisements and merchandise). The industry would find alternate ways to generate revenue that don’t rely on charging customers directly for content

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yeroii t1_j9op2ni wrote

Advertisement in tv rely on eyes to watch it. If there are no eyes, how would it be profitable?

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BroadInfluence4013 t1_j9owcr3 wrote

Way to brag about being a deadbeat. If there weren’t good people who paid then you’d have nothing to steal.

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JeddHampton t1_j9o49hq wrote

An antenna has served me well. I have a Tablo that puts the broadcast on my network where I can watch off connected devices. It has a DVR, and there are programs that allow you to take the shows off the DVR and move them to wherever you'd like. I also use commercial removing software before putting the show on a Plex server.

Everything I paid for up front. The only monthly subscription available is the guide data to the Tablo. I bought the lifetime option when I got the device. It's more than paid for itself already.

The only issue is that there are fewer and fewer quality suites in standard broadcast TV. I've got a great catalogue of NFL games though.

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