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A lot of people say this has nothing to do with it. But for me personally, even when I started watching TV on the computer - which was always a specific Show or
by hateful 5y ago
A lot of people say this has nothing to do with it. But for me personally, even when I started watching TV on the computer - which was always a specific Show or Movie, I would still "channel surf" the regular TV as a way to kill time. But once the digital boxes came out in the late 90s/early 00s, it would take 1-2 seconds to switch stations. Longer than I would have been on that station at all while surfing. This completely ruined it for me and I never channel surfed again.
- sokoloff 5y agoI channel surfed right up until getting my first TiVo box (probably around 2002?). That killed it dead for me, by completely changing how I consumed TV (for the better).
- Cerium 5y agoI stopped channel surfing the day we got a digital box. I used to be pretty fast on the remote with the keypad, and could cycle through a number of channels. I forgot how disappointing that digital box was.
- rconti 5y agoI can't channel surf on YouTubeTV because of the UI. And I could never have been a Dish/DirectTV subscriber because the lag to change channels absolutely kills me.