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I'm not sure of the exact year, but sometime in the early 2000's I stopped paying for cable and went 100% online or purchased DVD's (netflix was just starting t

I'm not sure of the exact year, but sometime in the early 2000's I stopped paying for cable and went 100% online or purchased DVD's (netflix was just starting to stream). Every once in a while I experience regular television at someone's house and it always blows me away that people are ok watching something and being interrupted constantly while doing it. I've been told cable now has commercials, which cracks me up since the advantage of cable used to be not having commercials because you paid for it.

OrgNet 7y ago
I feel the same way when I browse the web with ads...
- celticmusic 7y ago
  When I install a new OS what I do goes in this order. 1. start OS updates 2. install FF if it's not installed (aka if its windows) 3. install ublock origin I'm grateful there are people who take the hit and keep the internet free for people like me, but I could never deal with those ads.
ggggtez 7y ago
>now has commercials Commercials had invaded Cable TV thoroughly, well before the 2000s. I know it was 20 years ago, but I'd be surprised for someone to forget about the existence of commercials. Today's are much more intrusive, however.
- snuxoll 7y ago
  My daughters only experience with linear television programming is in lobbies and my families houses for the holidays/visiting grandpa. It’s interesting to watch a generation grow up that literally doesn’t know what traditional TV looks like, and I’m fucking glad because it sucked. Too bad new issues of content fragmentation are developing in its place - I’m at least thankful Apple is starting to tackle it with “channels” in the Apple TV app and hardware, I still have to juggle subscriptions but at least I have a consistent interface to all of them.
  - onefuncman 7y ago
    What do you mean, content fragmentation? You just search for what you want to watch on Telegram and pick your preferred resolution for your device and bandwidth. As an added bonus, there's usually better localization available, too!
- celticmusic 7y ago
  could be an area thing, but I certainly never had a show or movie interrupted in order to play a commercial. They would do the small commercials in between programs to let you know some show or movie was available to watch, but that's not my understanding of commercials as they exist today on cable.
EncryptEntropy 7y ago
Cable always had commercials, not sure what special cable you recall having, but Comcast was full of commercials 20 years ago.

OrgNet 7y ago

I feel the same way when I browse the web with ads...

celticmusic 7y ago
When I install a new OS what I do goes in this order. 1. start OS updates 2. install FF if it's not installed (aka if its windows) 3. install ublock origin I'm grateful there are people who take the hit and keep the internet free for people like me, but I could never deal with those ads.

ggggtez 7y ago

>now has commercials Commercials had invaded Cable TV thoroughly, well before the 2000s. I know it was 20 years ago, but I'd be surprised for someone to forget about the existence of commercials. Today's are much more intrusive, however.

snuxoll 7y ago
My daughters only experience with linear television programming is in lobbies and my families houses for the holidays/visiting grandpa. It’s interesting to watch a generation grow up that literally doesn’t know what traditional TV looks like, and I’m fucking glad because it sucked. Too bad new issues of content fragmentation are developing in its place - I’m at least thankful Apple is starting to tackle it with “channels” in the Apple TV app and hardware, I still have to juggle subscriptions but at least I have a consistent interface to all of them.
- onefuncman 7y ago
  What do you mean, content fragmentation? You just search for what you want to watch on Telegram and pick your preferred resolution for your device and bandwidth. As an added bonus, there's usually better localization available, too!
celticmusic 7y ago
could be an area thing, but I certainly never had a show or movie interrupted in order to play a commercial. They would do the small commercials in between programs to let you know some show or movie was available to watch, but that's not my understanding of commercials as they exist today on cable.

EncryptEntropy 7y ago

Cable always had commercials, not sure what special cable you recall having, but Comcast was full of commercials 20 years ago.