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Post by chonies on Mar 17, 2015 12:09:09 GMT -4
Oh yeah. Not just cable, deluxe cable. Raaaaage.
One other slightly amusing side effect of having Netflix but not cable, my friends' kids don't understand what a channel is, or how tv works. Their tv viewing habits are naturally marathoning, or by choosing the show directly. It's not a huge difference, but it's a curious thing I noticed.
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Post by kostgard on Mar 17, 2015 13:16:14 GMT -4
I already have all the non-cable accoutrements - the tablet, the roku, a smart tv, the subscriptions - and honestly, I almost always watch something streaming rather than TV and only watch things live when it is a show I love. I would only need an Apple TV because I find having to watch all my iTunes content on my iPad annoying (and HBO would come the same way if I cut the cord).
The more I look at it, I can't believe I haven't already seriously considered it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2015 13:23:17 GMT -4
Oh yeah. Not just cable, deluxe cable. Raaaaage. One other slightly amusing side effect of having Netflix but not cable, my friends' kids don't understand what a channel is, or how tv works. Their tv viewing habits are naturally marathoning, or by choosing the show directly. It's not a huge difference, but it's a curious thing I noticed. My friend's kids have the same thing, TV to them is Roku and Netflix through the XBox 360. My friend got rid of cable when her oldest was still a toddler so the kids have no idea what regular TV is like. I've thought about getting rid of cable, but I like being able to channel surf and watch live TV too much. I'm also not patient enough to wait for my shows to come out on DVD or stream and I'm too lazy to figure it all out and set it up.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2015 13:57:07 GMT -4
One other slightly amusing side effect of having Netflix but not cable, my friends' kids don't understand what a channel is, or how tv works. Their tv viewing habits are naturally marathoning, or by choosing the show directly. It's not a huge difference, but it's a curious thing I noticed. Yep, this is two of my nephews as well. It is kind of a huge difference in that they very rarely see any "event TV," like games, State of the Union addresses, and the like.
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Post by chonies on Mar 17, 2015 14:35:38 GMT -4
One other slightly amusing side effect of having Netflix but not cable, my friends' kids don't understand what a channel is, or how tv works. Their tv viewing habits are naturally marathoning, or by choosing the show directly. It's not a huge difference, but it's a curious thing I noticed. Yep, this is two of my nephews as well. It is kind of a huge difference in that they very rarely see any "event TV," like games, State of the Union addresses, and the like. I hadn't thought about that! The only real example I had was when we all went to a restaurant and the waitress asked what channel Firstgrader wanted to watch, and there was confusion. The dad comes over to our house to watch sports (and the whole family came over the Sochi opening ceremony), and the family is disinclined to things like watching SOTU. But your premise is fascinating and I want to put on a sociology helmet and conduct a study--how do you think this affects the nephews, if at all? I think mass culture and events can be really important, but most of the stuff I think that's really important (various SOTU, the Mars landing) has been streamed.
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Post by chitowngirl on Mar 17, 2015 17:38:50 GMT -4
I'll contribute to your study, chonies. My 20 year olds just barely know what a broadcast channel is, because to them, ABC, CBS, NBC, & the CW are the channels where most of their shows are first-run before syndication. And I had to explain syndication to them!
They are also pretty much the last age group to remember life before 9/11. After them, 9/11 is history.
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Post by chonies on Mar 17, 2015 17:58:10 GMT -4
I'll contribute to your study, chonies. My 20 year olds just barely know what a broadcast channel is, because to them, ABC, CBS, NBC, & the CW are the channels where most of their shows are first-run before syndication. And I had to explain syndication to them! They are also pretty much the last age group to remember life before 9/11. After them, 9/11 is history. Yay, data! This is getting further and further afield, but this Onion article always resonates: 18-Year-Old Fighting In Afghanistan Has 9/11 Explained To Him By Older Soldier. I don't know if I mentioned this here, but in my job as a librarian, I have to explain what a "periodical" is several times a week, and also explain what volumes and issue numbers are. I settled on explaining it as the same as seasons and episodes for the short version. Electronic databases are truly amazing, but they also flatten the field so much that students don't often know what they're looking at--a book, film, article, newspaper editorial, etc. They usually catch on pretty quickly, though.
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Post by Martini Girl on Mar 17, 2015 20:01:20 GMT -4
I haven't had a TV in 2 + years. I stream everything and have found ways to get live events as well. My friend lets me use her Netflix account, and I have Amazon Prime. I don't miss it, but every so often I feel like I'm out of the loop w/ new shows etc.... I also haven't found a way to stream HBO shows in full... but other than that, I don't miss Time Warner Cable AT ALL.
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Post by sardonictart on Mar 18, 2015 2:11:22 GMT -4
I haven't had a TV for around 3 years. I stream everything, use the U.S. video apps, or buy season passes on iTunes. Granted I don't have to pay for my streamed content since I live in a country where that's legal, but I'd do it if I had to pay too. There's always a way to watch live events. I was watching the Olympics on an Italian website that was streaming it. I've watched the World Cup that way too. The only thing I miss is randomly catching Law and Order or watching something like House Hunters International which is difficult to find streaming due to geo-location restrictions and lack of people uploading it. You can usually find old shows on YouTube as well as clips from Soap Operas and novellas too.
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Post by chonies on Mar 18, 2015 12:14:32 GMT -4
This is a dumb question, but does anyone remember an ancient mail merge program called Mailasaurus? I was discussing old software at work and no one else has heard of this, and I can't find any evidence of it on the internet. I used (or something with a similar name) in 1996 when I interned at a museum.
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