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An expensive TV is a poor investment, and people spend FAR too much on them

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HighVoltage:
I have stopped watching TV many years ago! We don't even have a TV set anymore.

pardo-bsso:
About the BBC and its defunding.

Being in South America, I used to listen to it over shortwave for quite some time before the modern interference in my town made that impossible (and internet arrived).

I'd gladly pay them to be able to watch their content but alas, the contortions needed to do so are a chore.

bingo600:
My new 55" SmartTv LG was connected to the internet (via PDS cable) once, when new to get a firmware update.
And i actually connected it via a VPN connection. I know that VPN worked , because it belived it was in that country's  TZ after the update.

Since then no internet for the TV ...

So it's not a Smart-TV , but a "Dumb-TV"  :-DD

All watching is done via an AppleTV , that is "locked a bit down" via a pi-hole.

/Bingo

PlainName:

--- Quote ---Since the new tool is no more capable of moving earth than the bargain he got for 1/10th of the cost at auction, set his hand to and repaired for a fraction of the price
--- End quote ---

That's unsustainable. If everyone did that there would be no new ones to be worn out and auctioned off, so any that were available would cost pretty much the same as a new one anyway. But there might not be any new ones any more since the manufacturers can't live on second-hand auction sales, so your mate could well end up paying more than the new price for a turd.

tooki:
A TV isn’t an investment, it’s an expense. And they’re cheaper than ever.

There’s tons of trash on TV, but at the same time we’re in a golden age of TV, where even the networks are making some outstanding programs (the fact that there’s tons of crap as well doesn’t make their great work any less great), but above all, Netflix is bringing everyone the best of TV from around the world. 20 years ago, we watched what came on TV when it came on (occasionally using a VCR to time shift it) and that was that. Now we can be very selective, and watch what we want, when we want it.

Additionally, YouTube has enabled the creation of high quality video content that networks would never have given the green light. Channels like eevblog, Ask a Mortician, and the gazillions of really excellent cooking channels (like Maangchi, Cooking with Dog, or Pasta Grammar) could never exist on network TV, at least not in the way they do. (For example, how episodes can be as long as they need to be, not crammed or stretched into half hour slots.)

Meanwhile the Hollywood movie studios appear to have been castrated at some point, in that they no longer have the balls to make anything except for Yet Another Stupid Movie based on Marvel or DC Comics superheroes.

Me, I haven’t actually had cable (or satellite or aerial) connected to my TV since 2008. I’ve used streaming and downloads exclusively since then.

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