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[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Though pre-DVR TV and especially a household too poor for cable the television was... a bit less continuously interesting. Having even a VCR was just amazing and that was a royal pain meaning you really had to pick and choose what to record. Most of the time you didn't even have anything you wanted to watch that happened to be playing right then. Even when you did want to watch, good chance it is a rerun and you only half paid attention if you bothered at all.

The on-demand nature of it and the volume of it are really what makes it just constant.

[-] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lol I spent almost a year living in a part of Florida that had two broadcast stations, ABC and PBS. And I had a TV without a remote, just the two old-fashioned dials. And I would spend entire fucking evenings just flipping between those two channels. The weed helped, but I finally gave in and paid the $100 or so installation fee to get cable.

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