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Ask HN: Does anyone here watch offline TV anymore?
I haven't bothered to subscribe to cable the last few years. It's overpriced and irrelevant for me these days and made me wonder if anyone else has done the same?
- byoung2 17y agoIf cable weren't already included in my HOA payment, I wouldn't subscribe. I never watch live TV. I usually watch shows on Hulu or download a torrent of the episode with the commercials removed. Since I'm in California, I can usually watch the show at the same time it comes on live because someone on the east coast has already encoded and uploaded it during the 3 hour time difference.
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- patrickk 17y agoYes for live sports. Streaming quality is too crap online generally for me. Apart from that, no. I have a big screen LCD TV in my room, and it acts as a media centre monitor for my XBMC setup. It isn't hooked up to anything other than my PC.
- ascuttlefish 17y agoI've never had cable. Well, honestly, I've never paid for it. I've had roomies who just had to have it, but I never wanted it or had a TV until a few years ago. In the past couple years I've been watching TV series like Battlestar Galactica on DVD, but otherwise my TV is for watching movies.
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