Is the death of television (TV) as a technology upon us ?

[Caduceus]

Do you guys think television will completely disappear or die as a technology and communication medium once the boomer generation is gone, or will it live on ?

Many popular youtube stars, podcasters, and other internet video formats already have 10 times as many viewers than television does, so I'cant see TV as a communication medium surviving past 2030. It's just isn't financially viable anymore.

Boomers are the only generation that just can't ever let go of their TVs, and cannot seem to function unless they watch some mainstream television every day. However, most people under 60 years of age (Generation X, Millennials, and Gen Z) nowadays get their news, entertainment, and coverage of live events from the internet and video livestreams.

People under 60 may "use" a TV to watch something from the internet on a bigger screen, but fewer and fewer of these actually want to pay extra for a cable subscription, or pay for a TV licence to their respective governments.

Perhaps TV will go the way of radio.....something that still will still exist, but that very few people will actually pay much attention to.

 

[Gaboyski]

The Jew just ends up moving from your living room into your desk or even your hand.

On a more serious note, yeah, TVs will just end up being oversized PC monitors, with people only watching YouTube or Netflix or videos they saved in their thumb drives. News networks already do livestreams on their YT channels. Whatever is left of the traditional TV broadcasting format will be reduced into targeting niche audiences.

One particularly good scenario out of this is that the BBC might finally go bankrupt, hopefully a step towards liberating the ethnic Anglo-Saxon and Celtic populace of the UK

 

[paternos]

I think it already disappeared.

The old situation was that we click on the TV and watch whatever the TV gods would give us that night. And we could pick from a few channels and follow the order they give us. For up into the 80s in Europe we only had state TV. That's why this post WW2 campaign was so effective.

In effect 95% is still state approved content, if you watch Netflix that's effectively globalist state TV. That's interesting. Most of the TV was local / national back in the 90s. Today most is international. This was a slow shift, over 50 years or so.

Anyhow the media we consume has changed.

- More international
- The perception of freedom, while is reality I think Netflix is heavier controlled that a 60s local station
- 95% watches what the state approves
- 5% are disconnected from that propaganda, probably most here don't watch the state news, don't watch Netflix, don't read newspapers. the average clip I watch online has maybe 5.000 - 50.000 views at max?

I think we will see a bigger divide. Kind of how the Amish lived for many years not accepting the TV propaganda. Smaller groups with a totally different view on life, love, God, family as the state is desiring us to have.

There will though be a constant battle to get these groups back in the main stream to secure the power of the state. Initiatives like the Daily Wire, or Jordan Peterson.

Large secluded groups are a threat to "democracy". Whenever these groups get to big we will see state approved content appear. They will say it's just market dynamics.

Summarizing, nothing really changed when you look at the large numbers. It's even worse, more hours consuming state approved content on screens.

But, it's possible now for the individual or smaller groups to learn quickly, to bypass the main stream, anyone has access to the smaller streams now with a few clicks. The fact that we are talking here as likeminded Christians, would be impossible 30 years ago.

 

[FrancisK]

I still have cable, not even sure why anymore the one or two shows I kept it for I don't even really watch anymore. Mainly gold rush and deadliest catch but they're just repetitive at this point I didn't even watch the last seasons, anything else I used t watch turned into woke garbage and I can't watch that stuff. I am rewatching sopranos for like the fifth time with someone who has never seen it before...that's always fun. But I guess I don't need cable for any of those anyway, can't remember the last time I channel "surfed".

It's silly expensive but I'm definitely getting my moneys worth, people all over the country log into my account to watch my cable haha. Spectrum sucks because they are like 15 years behind xfinity in their tech but I think that also means they don't catch it when a few dozen different people are all using the same account....makes me feel better.

 

[Gaboyski]

I don't have a TV in my apartment when I moved out, anything I need or want to watch is either on my laptop or phone. I suppose it's an upside of TV being rendered obsolete. And the battle lines had been long drawn when it comes to the media anyway, so I don't see any benefit or use in watching legacy TV networks the content of which I'll disagree with every second. And cutting down on social media helps a lot too.

The old situation was that we click on the TV and watch whatever the TV gods would give us that night. And we could pick from a few channels and follow the order they give us. For up into the 80s in Europe we only had state TV. That's why this post WW2 campaign was so effective.

In effect 95% is still state approved content, if you watch Netflix that's effectively globalist state TV. That's interesting. Most of the TV was local / national back in the 90s. Today most is international. This was a slow shift, over 50 years or so.

The difference is that the older generations still enjoyed a stable and ethnically homogenous Western society growing up, right up until the Bush Jr. years—fast forward to 2023 with civilization falling apart all around us, and many already grew tired of divisive, politically correct propaganda being shamelessly broadcast. The ethnic English and Welsh of forty years ago may have been content with their football and news and soaps on BBC and Sky News, but not anymore when state media is telling them to fear Russia when they're getting systematically replaced with alien migrants, when Premier League matches tell them to take the knee for rich black athletes and migrants being given free lodging at their taxpayer expense.

The silver lining, however, is that the infestation of the woke message everywhere on movies and serial shows is finally forcing people to find alternative uses for their time otherwise spent watching. This might even ironically cause a pushback towards traditional living for the red-pilled minority (our ancestors basically finished everything they had to do for the day, before snuffing out their candlelight). Hanging out on a Christian internet forum like this, for example, is a modern digital equivalent of discourse in the town square or tavern. For parents in particular, this might help them reconnect with their Gen Z and Gen α children who are increasingly being atomized with social media.

I think we will see a bigger divide. Kind of how the Amish lived for many years not accepting the TV propaganda. Smaller groups with a totally different view on life, love, God, family as the state is desiring us to have.

The Amish have the benefit of their own tight-knit community, while we're dispersed far and wide, only using this very modern technology we oppose, to have some sort of connection. But I do concur that this divide will be greater, say I might be living with neighbors who think that human beings can identify as either male or female in their minds. Sooner or later everyone will have to face the choice of being completely immersed in the lies of the Antichrist, or reject it altogether, realize where the West had gone wrong for the last sixty years, and leave their cherished comforts to follow the light of Christ.

 

[Arturo80]

Long found it quite pretentious when people make a deal of saying "I don't have a TV", as if that's some sort of revolutionary stance, when the same person will spend half their life on the internet, social media and YouTube.

There's one streamer in particular who says this often, who is perma online on about three different Social Media channels 18 hours a day.

 

[Thomas More]

While fewer people on the forum are TV watchers, I think a big percentage of the population still turns the TV on whenever they are at home. Whether they're watching Fox News, or ESPN Sport Zone, or reruns of the Golden Girls, they like to have some kind of broadcast media turned on.

Personally, the only TV I am interested in nowadays is sports, but I'm not a dedicated fan, so I don't mind missing any given game, with a few exceptions such as when a team I like is in some kind of championship game.

I haven't have cable TV for years, so I just watch sports when I'm at a bar.

 

[Gaboyski]

Long found it quite pretentious when people make a deal of saying "I don't have a TV", as if that's some sort of revolutionary stance, when the same person will spend half their life on the internet, social media and YouTube.

The difference is that PCs, laptops and cellphones have other functions such as word processing (or office programs in general) and communication, while TVs only provide a one-way broadcasting.

Being chronically online is a problem of suffering from social isolation, but it's not the same as consenting to have globohomo propaganda blasted to your face on the nightly news.

Unless you want us to go back on using typewriters, slide rules, drafting machines, pagers and snail mail. No thanks, I'd prefer spending hours on CAD rather than straining my back and arms working on gigantic sheets on paper.

Life before the invention of AutoCAD, 1950-1980 - Rare Historical Photos

Before the advent of AutoCAD and other drafting software, engineering drawings were made on sheets of large paper using drawing boards.

rarehistoricalphotos.com

Personally, the only TV I am interested in nowadays is sports, but I'm not a dedicated fan, so I don't mind missing any given game, with a few exceptions such as when a team I like is in some kind of championship game.

Even sports events now are poisoned with Clown World ideology. NFL matches with "End Racism" mottos written in the endzones while blacks get away with attacking whites and Asians, and more recently the absolute laughingstock that was the LGBTQ agenda in Qatar.

 

[Thomas More]

The difference is that PCs, laptops and cellphones have other functions such as word processing (or office programs in general) and communication, while TVs only provide a one-way broadcasting.

Being chronically online is a problem of suffering from social isolation, but it's not the same as consenting to have globohomo propaganda blasted to your face on the nightly news.

Unless you want us to go back on using typewriters, slide rules, drafting machines, pagers and snail mail. No thanks, I'd prefer spending hours on CAD rather than straining my back and arms working on gigantic sheets on paper.

Life before the invention of AutoCAD, 1950-1980 - Rare Historical Photos

Before the advent of AutoCAD and other drafting software, engineering drawings were made on sheets of large paper using drawing boards.

rarehistoricalphotos.com

Even sports events now are poisoned with Clown World ideology. NFL matches with "End Racism" mottos written in the endzones while blacks get away with attacking whites and Asians, and more recently the absolute laughingstock that was the LGBTQ agenda in Qatar.

True, but I still like watching a game anyway. I just ignore that stuff.

I've trained my mind for years to ignore ads. I particularly like to avert my eyes when a popup ad appears on the phone or laptop screen. I look for the X at the corner to close it, and try not to see what the ad is for. I usually am successful and can close the ad without ever seeing what was being advertised. I try to do the same with the ads at the beginning of a Youtube video as well.

On sportsball games, I just look down at my phone and surf RVF when a commercial comes on, then I look up a little later to see how the game is doing.

 

[Sherman]

I haven't had a TV for over 15 years. But TV appears to be making a come back on the Internet. There is "Pluto TV" where you can view old TV programs like "The Lone Ranger" and "Andy Griffith".

 

[God's lonely asperger]

It's definitely dead after social media and streaming services. But is that a good thing? For me, I always hated TV since there are barely any good channels in my country. I always loved radio even if most of my experiences with it were thanks to GTA radio. TV is also pretty brain dead entertainment in my opinion. The main news channels always have to explain the simplest things in the dumbest spoon feeding way possible, while including globohomo indoctrination.

 

[Viktor Zeegelaar]

Yeah it doesn't really matter that much: in fact everything moved to the internet could be more dangerous, for there's so much stuff going on there, and the lines are so short to other distractions. TV is kinda slow, internet is hyper fast. Click on youtube, move to insta for a bit, watching a quick reel, some news, some tiktok. I think it'll be more damaging for the average person than TV, since it's endless. That may actually be why they could even purposefully move everything to the internet: just a more continuous barrage of distraction and nonsense than they can achieve on TV. And also with the metaverse and stuff like that, or transhumanism/Neuralink and developments alike, it's just a logical step to move to the internet for everything.

 

[Острог]

I don't even have a TV. Let it all BUUUURN!

 

[nailgun101]

unfortunately as long as blue pilled neanderthals watch college sportsball on cable exclusive broadcasts, yes, TV will still be around. Once you can view these events live on TikTok - then it might go away.

 

[bubs]

Yeah it doesn't really matter that much: in fact everything moved to the internet could be more dangerous, for there's so much stuff going on there, and the lines are so short to other distractions. TV is kinda slow, internet is hyper fast. Click on youtube, move to insta for a bit, watching a quick reel, some news, some tiktok. I think it'll be more damaging for the average person than TV, since it's endless. That may actually be why they could even purposefully move everything to the internet: just a more continuous barrage of distraction and nonsense than they can achieve on TV. And also with the metaverse and stuff like that, or transhumanism/Neuralink and developments alike, it's just a logical step to move to the internet for everything.

I think I’ve heard the term used “brain drain” where it gets exhausting mentally to be bouncing back and force all day between real-world and screen time and then while in screen time (which is majority of the waking hours), bouncing between so many medias in short timeframes. Our brains and bodies aren’t meant to be overstimulated like that on a regular basis. It’s also interesting how with more and more conveniences and time savings thanks to technology, people are so much more impatient with conversation and claim they don’t have enough time for anything. Reality is they are addicted to the fast paced social media and streams etc and want to hurry back to it and escape your long-winded conversation of 20 seconds.

 

[dicknixon72]

Like the gun or the automobile, its how you choose to use the tool, not the tool itself.

Television as an extension of the old traditional three-channel media service is indeed dead. The prevalence of dirt-cheap high-speed internet connectivity as well as vast bandwidth of upload capability gives us unparalleled access to quality resources for news, information, personal social connectivity, and entertainment.

You can use this tool for personal improvement and have it become an enhancement to your life as I'm sure so many of us here have (after all, we're all on it right now) - we can communicate and share thoughts and discussions with like-minded individuals we would've never met before, have our preconceptions challenged and grow, take advantage of tons of free resources on everything from DIY home repair to doing complicated and intricate motor work on a modern car.

Or, you can scroll through bimbos jiggling their bodies on TikTok all day long in between posting pictures of your $15 panini on Insta.

Its your choice to use it how you want.


P.S. I'm not racist; I have a colored TV.

 

[JCSteel]

At Planet Fitness TV is very much alive. It's extremely annoying to be bombarded by so much content and images when you're trying to work out, and most of what's on is crap. Two rows of 25 large screen TVs..which one am I even supposed to focus on?

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[SeekingTruth]

At Planet Fitness TV is very much alive. It's extremely annoying to be bombarded by so much content and images when you're trying to work out, and most of what's on is crap. Two rows of 25 large screen TVs..which one am I even supposed to focus on?

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PF is peak clown world with its 40 TVs, purple colors, and lunk alarm with statements about men in tank tops carrying water jugs while ignoring women exposing everything. It's a total joke.

The only thing admirable is it's low cost which helps to push lower income people into fitness which can be some type of motivation towards a better life.

 

[JCSteel]

PF is peak clown world with its 40 TVs, purple colors, and lunk alarm with statements about men in tank tops carrying water jugs while ignoring women exposing everything. It's a total joke.

The only thing admirable is it's low cost which helps to push lower income people into fitness which can be some type of motivation towards a better life.

I've joined a lot of gyms and PF is by far my least favorite, for the reasons you stated. It's far too corporate; they got rid of the bench presses and squat racks because such equipment didn't fit in with their marketable "beginner/judgement free zone" image.

 

[SeekingTruth]

I've joined a lot of gyms and PF is by far my least favorite, for the reasons you stated. It's far too corporate; they got rid of the bench presses and squat racks because such equipment didn't fit in with their marketable "beginner/judgement free zone" image.

It exemplifies everything wrong with the culture by playing into some people's insecurities instead of just telling them to sack up and get the job done. It's why we are weak and failing.

Most of us only go because it's cheap. Or it's convenient because they are going on multiple street corners like McDonalds. This is similar to the boomer mentality of doing everything on the cheap and sacrificing quality in the process.