Watched Regular TV for time in 10 yrs

So we have Bell Internet and Bell Satellite since August when we moved to the country (10 meg down - 1 meg up). The internet has down since New Years Eve - That's another story). SO I watched the Bel satellite for first time last night, even had to find batteries for remote to use it. Anyways, I am amazed at how advertising has changed (for the dumber), it is comical, the sales pitches now. Let alone how little patience I have for commercials anymore. But it is very interesting how "meme" like or "tik tok" like, the 30 second - now 15 second commercials are now. Used to be 2 min of advertising with 4 X 30 second spots, now it was 8 X 15 second spots- they have taken the attention span down to 15 seconds to sell. Anyways, I watched about 1.5hrs of Lethal Weapon 4 - before I could not take it anymore, between dumb commercials and just commercials. Another thing I noticed is 1300 channels, which basically repeats itself, but the content of some of the shows was just down right stupid - 30 second/day fiance???? WTF.

Anyways - it reminds of the Movie Gladiator - Senator Grackus - said - I think he (Comodos) understands Rome - Rome is the Mob - conjure up marvels and they will love him for it. This is mainstream media and short attention spans in which they cater to now. I didn't have the courage to try and watch mainstream news, blood pressure spikes..lol.

I only watch about 1.5hrs of Netflix per day...before I fall asleep on couch, the rest of my time is spent building, renos, planning new gardens for property.

Good news is my reloading room got lots of building and love over New Years - and is now back in operation with MEC 600 jr, 650 and 700, shotgun presses back in operation. The RCBS rock chucker is back in operation and new special base built for 2 X LEE single stage presses (mostly used for resizing and depriming operation and sit off to side. I deprimed 1000 2 3/4 and 3" shotgun hulls. Made another pd of black powder. Deprimed X 1500+, 9mm, 45, .223, 30-06, 30-30, 243 and 308. The Franklin Arsenal Case and prep station will be working hard the next few weeks after full length resizing. Went through lots of primers, so trip to Higgissons is on the agenda after lockdown period for more Primer and powders.

Ordered new casting molds for 9mm, 45, 223, 30 cal (with new Lee sizing dies) to start casting more and powder coating to fend of parts shortages. Maybe I am a little later to powder coating game, but it removes the need for gas checks with over 1800FPS with cast bullets. Fortunecookie45LC and Elvis Ammo (YouTube) have shown my why I should cast and powder coat, instead of GC. ..223 should be interesting at the specs I load for.

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I can't watch network TV anymore Mark, I got the smallest Bell Satellite package (20 channels) primarily so I could get live news. My smart TV gets the Netflick /YouTube so I can watch commercial free TV.

Man it's painful to have to watch 'live' TV...thankfully I can save few shows like Question Period on Network TV to the PVR and fast forward thru the mind numbing attempt to social engineer what we 'need' to buy.

Yes having hobbies that keep you out of the living room is the only way you can sanely survive retirement. Fill your quite time with a good book.

Same here. Cancelled everything and just get 3 over the air local channels. I am now shutting the TV off at 6:00 and no longer watch the news as all they do is spew Covid 19 propaganda ad nauseum. They even have commercials about it.

Netflix is OK but now find Youtube splicing in ads midway through the videos I like watching.
Difficult not to get bombarded with ads and in order to keep a healthy mind it is good to disconnect from everything on occasion.
I feel bad for the people stuck in a condo in this period of lockdown. It is 28 consecutive days of pure propaganda BS on their connected devices.

Haven't had any real TV for 3 years now, I just stick with Netflix and Prime. I get news on Prime and don't watch much TV anyway. $70 a month covers it all including internet. The thing that chapped my azz while at a family members place a while back was that there were weed commercials running and they were clearly aimed at younger people, kids! We can't show someone smoking a cigarette on TV without rating the show Restricted but we can have pot commercials in amongst a cartoon!

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Same been a few years since we connected the cable lol.

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I've all but given up on TV as well. Unless we're watching something together as a family, I'm usually reaching for whatever novel I'm working through.

I haven't been able to figure out why TV is so lame these days and I think maybe it was touched on above. It's now geared to the short attention spans of today's society.

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I should have mentioned Mark where you are you can get a handful of 'free to air stations' with a Digital Antenna on the roof. I have one hooked up for when Bell goes down. Excellent quality to...not like the days of old with bunny ears Haha...

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Netflix is OK but now find Youtube splicing in ads midway through the videos I like watching..

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I think we're dumping Netfix and then going to get 'YouTube Premium'. It'll be a wash financially and I find that I use Youtube more as it provides far more things I watch and with the premium you get rid of the 'ads' again. ...

Good deal for $12 month....

https://www.finder.com/ca/internet-tv/youtube-premium

When i was growing up,my family owned a TV tower sales and installation business. I've often thought about installing a "OTA" unit. It can be done for under $1200 complete,cutting the cord permanently. It can't solve the BS ads,but,it stops government censorship as to what we can and can not watch cold in it's tracks. Freedom,baby!

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When i was growing up,my family owned a TV tower sales and installation business. I've often thought about installing a "OTA" unit. It can be done for under $1200 complete,cutting the cord permanently. It can't solve the BS ads,but,it stops government censorship as to what we can and can not watch cold in it's tracks. Freedom,baby!

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Go to this link at TVFOOL.
Plug in your postal code and it will tell you available channels in your area.
You will be amazed at what a $30 antennae will get you for channel reception.

https://www.tvfool.com/index.php?opt...ask=view&id=13

We also bought a Tablo PVR that records all the shows automatically for viewing at a later date. It is a must have for the Misses Y&R shows. It also has the commercial skip feature.

https://www.tablotv.com/products/

The main reason the wife ordered Bell Satellite is Y & R which she misses. As for OTA, havent tried that yet, to many other projects. I have built HDTV antenna for my truck camper and it worked excellent. But really, I dont watch lots of TV, more YouTube then anything, but refuse to pay the premium price.

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Go to this link at TVFOOL.
Plug in your postal code and it will tell you available channels in your area.
You will be amazed at what a $30 antennae will get you for channel reception.

https://www.tvfool.com/index.php?opt...ask=view&id=13

We also bought a Tablo PVR that records all the shows automatically for viewing at a later date. It is a must have for the Misses Y&R shows. It also has the commercial skip feature.

https://www.tablotv.com/products/

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Originally Posted by impact

Go to this link at TVFOOL.
Plug in your postal code and it will tell you available channels in your area.
You will be amazed at what a $30 antennae will get you for channel reception.

https://www.tvfool.com/index.php?opt...ask=view&id=13

We also bought a Tablo PVR that records all the shows automatically for viewing at a later date. It is a must have for the Misses Y&R shows. It also has the commercial skip feature.

https://www.tablotv.com/products/

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Thanks for this,Impact. I'll check it out.

I use an Android Box and you can get free TV with various app or you can pay for IPTV 25 bucks and get more channel then Bell can give you on their largest package.

We got rid of traditional programming when we moved to the country. The first couple years we lived off an Android and Netfilx. Got sick of constantly having to update the Android and got rid of that as well. Can't ever imagine going back

Today: Netflix, Prime and Crave satisfies our needs.
We watch a lot of British programming. Far superior to trite, formulaic, where all cast members are ridiculously hot, North American programing. The epitome of shallow with only the rare exception.

Internet: Is a different topic :) 25 down sometimes is a bear

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We got rid of traditional programming when we moved to the country. The first couple years we lived off an Android and Netfilx. Got sick of constantly having to update the Android and got rid of that as well. Can't ever imagine going back

Today: Netflix, Prime and Crave satisfies our needs.
We watch a lot of British programming. Far superior to trite, formulaic, where all cast members are ridiculously hot, North American programing. The epitome of shallow with only the rare exception.

Internet: Is a different topic :) 25 down sometimes is a bear

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The funny thing is, with those 3 subscriptions you are getting pretty close to the cost of cable, ha ha.

Not really.
Netflix is what $15?
Prime is free with Amazon Prime which being in the country we use/need a fair bit.
Crave. No idea what we pay, I think $10-15 the missus wanted that. But pretty sure were coming in well under what I used to pay Bell/Rogers. And we aren't paying for a ton of crap we never tune into.

So even if the cost is a wash, still ahead of the game.

Honestly, there’s not enough time in the day for TV. We have a Netflix subscription we split with my siblings so that my kids get to watch cartoons. I do enjoy watching sports that I watch for free on the CBC app whenever hockey starts up again.

When you come home from work around 6, just in time for a quick dinner and shower and down time. It’s already 8 and by that time I’m zonked. A quick check online to see what’s new and off to bed. Repeat.

Yup, pretty sad the state of TV these days. We split a Bell subscription with my parents and brother - I’d never pay full price for this garbage. We watch a lot of hockey as a family and I like the news.

Most of our neighbours still have the old TV towers and I am told the reception up here in the Oak Ridges moraine was excellent back in the day. Digital antenna would likely work great.

With kids needing lots of internet for school this year we finally joined the rest of the world and got fibre and a smart tv.

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Not really.
Netflix is what $15?
Prime is free with Amazon Prime which being in the country we use/need a fair bit.
Crave. No idea what we pay, I think $10-15 the missus wanted that. But pretty sure were coming in well under what I used to pay Bell/Rogers. And we aren't paying for a ton of crap we never tune into.

So even if the cost is a wash, still ahead of the game.

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Netflix went up, $19/month for the premium with movies. Prime is free with Amazon Prime but that still costs $8/month, Crave is $20/month if you want anything but the originals. So without making sure you have decent enough internet to be able to stream these, and unlimited internet to cover if you are looking at $47/month plus tax. Now tack on upgraded internet charges and you are not far off from a normal cable package.

You may stop at just these 3 but people with kids will add Disney+ at $9/month, so up to $56 before you blink.

You can get IPTV in Ottawa for 25 bucks and get more channels then anything Rogers or Bell could hope to offer.

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Netflix went up, $19/month for the premium with movies. Prime is free with Amazon Prime but that still costs $8/month, Crave is $20/month if you want anything but the originals. So without making sure you have decent enough internet to be able to stream these, and unlimited internet to cover if you are looking at $47/month plus tax. Now tack on upgraded internet charges and you are not far off from a normal cable package.

You may stop at just these 3 but people with kids will add Disney+ at $9/month, so up to $56 before you blink.

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To match what you mentioned above with a Bell ExressVu package would cost you $135 a month (on sale now for $110) so about the same financially, but your back to watching ads and commercials and scheduled programming.

I've just entered the world of 'paid' for streaming video after years of FREE TV with an Android Box. So far the best we found is Prime Video as I also shop a lot on Amazon and use the free shipping. We started with NetFlix last year and I've gotten tired of spending 30 minutes trying to find something to watch. Lots of garbage on it...then when you pick one that sounds good it turns out to be a foreign film with subtitles. HaHa.

My daughter dumped Crave after the initial FREE trial. She says it was the worst she has come across....and she's been streaming for years.

Last week she suggested we use 'TubiTv' from FOX. Free but with ads, which she says are minimal and apparently they are coming our with paid for subscription service (ad free).

Fox,
Our internet package is $100/month. Compared to what I paid Rogers and Bell that's money in our pocket every month. Quite a bit. We get 500 gig/month and have never come close to exceeding that. We don't watch a ton of tv. If there is a down side, it's that occasionally service is spotty due to weather and 25 down while it works just fine, once in a blue moon it has to buffer.

Our bundle of streaming. Cost us $30/month including Prime( I checked last night). So for $120-130/month.....We have all we need and we aren't paying for a stupid amount of channels we never watch and crap programing. Good luck paying less than $200/month (all in) for Rogers or Bell, even with basic packages. And for what it's worth, our internet goes down less than it did with both when I lived in Whitby.

Ahhhhhh the paradox of choice. I'm not as old as some on here at 45, but I can still remember having to watch what was on, and having to wait for the shows you wanted to watch.

The problem now is that being able to watch what we want, when we want, we're just unable to choose.

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Not much to watch news and ... well I watch star Trek

I do like YouTube

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Ahhhhhh the paradox of choice. I'm not as old as some on here at 45, but I can still remember having to watch what was on, and having to wait for the shows you wanted to watch.

The problem now is that being able to watch what we want, when we want, we're just unable to choose.

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You have a choice between Alaska Bushed People and some other idiotic lack of reality show I too would rather watch Star Trek.

HAHHAA, I was watching the original Start Trek on Satellite for 2 nights...commercials are so annoying.

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You have a choice between Alaska Bushed People and some other idiotic lack of reality show I too would rather watch Star Trek.

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Netflix went up, $19/month for the premium with movies. Prime is free with Amazon Prime but that still costs $8/month, Crave is $20/month if you want anything but the originals. So without making sure you have decent enough internet to be able to stream these, and unlimited internet to cover if you are looking at $47/month plus tax. Now tack on upgraded internet charges and you are not far off from a normal cable package.

You may stop at just these 3 but people with kids will add Disney+ at $9/month, so up to $56 before you blink.

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Trick is to split those between several households ;-)

LOL, i turn on regular TV to fall asleep to be honest hahha. i just download all the stuff i wanna watch.

only thing i use regular TV for is Formula 1 on Saturdays and Sundays.

I have Bell at the cottage and Rogers at home. Except for the Golf channel they are basic packages I can find way more shows that I am interested in with Rogers at home. And it’s more reliable as Bell satellite up north can cut out often, if inclement weather is present . I never watch commercials as I PVR the show and just start watching it 12 minutes later than the start time. FF through the commercials and you have the show in 20 minutes.

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I have Bell at the cottage and Rogers at home. Except for the Golf channel they are basic packages I can find way more shows that I am interested in with Rogers at home. And it’s more reliable as Bell satellite up north can cut out often, if inclement weather is present . I never watch commercials as I PVR the show and just start watching it 12 minutes later than the start time. FF through the commercials and you have the show in 20 minutes.

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Why not use Bell at home too? I believe you can have about 6 receivers on one account.

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Fox,
Our internet package is $100/month. Compared to what I paid Rogers and Bell that's money in our pocket every month. Quite a bit. We get 500 gig/month and have never come close to exceeding that. We don't watch a ton of tv. If there is a down side, it's that occasionally service is spotty due to weather and 25 down while it works just fine, once in a blue moon it has to buffer.

Our bundle of streaming. Cost us $30/month including Prime( I checked last night). So for $120-130/month.....We have all we need and we aren't paying for a stupid amount of channels we never watch and crap programing. Good luck paying less than $200/month (all in) for Rogers or Bell, even with basic packages. And for what it's worth, our internet goes down less than it did with both when I lived in Whitby.

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Go with Teksavvy, we have a VOIP home phone included due to crappy cell coverage and little kids at home, but we pay $72 after tax for unlimited internet.

I was not saying that it is was exact, but the number of streaming services has essentially turned into the number of channels that you used to go buy. Many of these streaming services also have ads, you can pay more to have commercial free streaming, but there are ads for services you are paying for.

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Trick is to split those between several households ;-)

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Bingo ;-)

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Why not use Bell at home too? I believe you can have about 6 receivers on one account.

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We have internet at home but not at cottage. We weighed our options and with the ‘packages’ Have Ignight at home, offered between the two companies, this was the best way to go.