do you use paid tv or over the air tv?

theykilledkenny, 10 months ago

i dont watch television i more often stream or pirate.

Gnorv, 10 months ago

I use neither.

Notnotmike, 10 months ago

In the United States here and I haven’t had non-streaming television since I moved out of my parent’s house.

Toyed with things like Sling and YouTube TV once, but they just aren’t worth it.

Gnorv, 10 months ago

If I watch any shows or movies it is from a selfhosted Jellyfin server. No need for any subscriptions or cable TV.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 10 months ago

Where I live, you get very little over air TV. In fact, I’m not sure there’s anything now.

We don’t pay for TV, but I have a little yo-ho-ho station, check out DVDs from the library, stream, or occasionally watch one of those free Pluto channels if I just want background noise

ghashul, 10 months ago

I’ve never had TV since I moved out from home.

Mothra, 10 months ago

TV? What’s that?

Everything through my laptop. Except for a shared Netflix account that costs me 5 bucks a month, and I only watch it on my phone.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 10 months ago

How does it cost $5/month?

Appoxo, 10 months ago

shared

LinkOpensChest_wav, 10 months ago

Aha, thanks

Mothra, 10 months ago

We split the costs, as I said my part is 5. Because shared.

LinkOpensChest_wav, 10 months ago

Makes perfect sense now. I think my brain had a moment

JWBananas, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

TV? What’s that?

We all know Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster.

knobbysideup, 10 months ago

Ota + Plex + pluto

Marxist1312, 10 months ago

I have over the air, but I mostly use the internet

angstylittlecatboy, 10 months ago

USA: Have an antenna for OTA, don’t actually use it much.

Efwis, 10 months ago

USA here. Where I live if you want to watch anything you have to pay for it or ride the high seas. OTA doesn’t work in rural communities, this signal is too weak from the big cities, and even in the city OTA can be questionable based on location.

Catsrules, 10 months ago

Never had problems with OTA signal in my area. I did have a antenna on the roof in all of my locations so that might have helped.

Efwis, 10 months ago

Yea, see I live in an apartment, so I am stuck using those indoor antennas

Semi-Hemi-Demigod, 10 months ago

I had an antenna set up to see what I could get, and I can pick up affiliates from all the major networks, which is nice.

But it's so full of commercials I can't stand watching anything other than PBS so I took it down.

Catsrules, 10 months ago

Yeah you really need something to record the TV then watch it later skipping the commercials in order for it to be useful.

Bishma, 10 months ago

I have an OTA antenna but it’s really just there in case we need news and the internet is out. In the same we that there’s a crank radio in my emergency supplies. Everything else is Roku.

Nighed, 10 months ago

My TV is used for F1 (via now TV - internet stream) and occasionaly YouTube and occasionaly video/games of my laptop.

If I did watch TV content it would likely be on iPlayer etc as I would never know when to watch things live

speaker_hat, 10 months ago

github.com/iptv-org/iptv#grouped-by-country (USA) + tivimate

Curious_Canid, 10 months ago

I use over-the-air supplemented by a few streaming services. After years of cable, it was startling how much better the picture and sound are with OTA. It used to be that cable was better quality, but they have compressed it down to the point where it is just barely acceptable.

applejacks, 10 months ago

Neither at the moment, but cable is actually getting more appealing giving the constant splintering of streaming services.