personally in Estonia you’ve gotta pay for tv mostly
- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 11•1 year 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.
- JWBananas ( @JWBananas@startrek.website ) English4•1 year ago
TV? What’s that?
We all know Frankenstein is the doctor, not the monster.
How does it cost $5/month?
- Appoxo ( @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 8•1 year ago
shared
Aha, thanks
- Mothra ( @Mothra@mander.xyz ) 2•1 year ago
We split the costs, as I said my part is 5. Because shared.
Makes perfect sense now. I think my brain had a moment
- ghashul ( @ghashul@feddit.dk ) 6•1 year ago
I’ve never had TV since I moved out from home.
- Saik0 ( @Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com ) English5•1 year ago
Plex + HDHR = beautiful.
For everything else I just sail some seas.
Helps that I’m a lifetime plex member and have been for a long time now.
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
- Kazumara ( @Kazumara@feddit.de ) 5•1 year ago
No, I don’t
- Gnorv ( @Gnorv@feddit.de ) 4•1 year ago
I use neither.
- Notnotmike ( @Notnotmike@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year 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 ( @Gnorv@feddit.de ) 2•1 year ago
If I watch any shows or movies it is from a selfhosted Jellyfin server. No need for any subscriptions or cable TV.
- speaker_hat ( @speaker_hat@lemmy.one ) 4•1 year ago
https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv#grouped-by-country (USA) + tivimate
- 1984 ( @1984@lemmy.today ) 3•1 year ago
In Sweden we have to pay for TV through taxes. And then they use the money to make propaganda programs paid by the tax payers. Works well for keeping the population docile.
- Semi-Hemi-Demigod ( @Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social ) 2•1 year 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 ( @Catsrules@lemmy.ml ) 2•1 year ago
Yeah you really need something to record the TV then watch it later skipping the commercials in order for it to be useful.
- Curious Canid ( @Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca ) 2•1 year 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.
- Efwis ( @Efwis@lemmy.zip ) English1•1 year 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 ( @Catsrules@lemmy.ml ) 1•1 year 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 ( @Efwis@lemmy.zip ) English1•1 year ago
Yea, see I live in an apartment, so I am stuck using those indoor antennas
- angstylittlecatboy ( @angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com ) English1•1 year ago
USA: Have an antenna for OTA, don’t actually use it much.
- Marxist1312 ( @Marxist1312@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•1 year ago
I have over the air, but I mostly use the internet
- Nighed ( @Nighed@sffa.community ) 1•1 year 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
- 👍Maximum Derek👍 ( @Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ) English1•1 year 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.