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Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

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653 points thunderbong | 4 comments | 28 Jul 23 12:46 UTC | HN request time: 0.442s | source
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wintorez ◴[28 Jul 23 16:13 UTC] No.36909082[source]▶
There is something extremely addictive about flipping channels on TV. I think it's the magic formula behind the popularity of TikTok. It's not "yet another social media app", it's TV re-invented.
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em-bee ◴[28 Jul 23 22:42 UTC] No.36914368[source]▶
ugh, no, i grew up without a TV but i had TV in my 20s. one thing i learned very quickly that flipping channels was a waste of time. instead i would study the TV guide every week and mark every show that i wanted to watch or if i would't be able to watch at the time, record, and then i never watched anything but what i had marked.

and ever since i have the ability to watch what i want any time because it's always available or i can download it, i do the same, but now i can choose when to watch without letting the TV dictate my schedule.

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1. tenebrisalietum ◴[29 Jul 23 00:01 UTC] No.36915077[source]▶
How much time did you spend on this per week?
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2. em-bee ◴[29 Jul 23 00:18 UTC] No.36915256[source]▶
i don't know really how much it was back then, but not to much. there wasn't more than one or two shows in a day that i was interested in, often it was less, so maybe 5-10 hours per week?

i can tell you that now i spend an average of 1 to 1.5 hours per day watching movies, series or youtube. there are to many other interesting things to do that i also want to spend time on (like discussing on HN :-)

3. pests ◴[29 Jul 23 06:43 UTC] No.36917574[source]▶
This was extremely common especially once cable boxes started to get more advanced guides and built in dvr. The TV guide just became a catalog of what you wanted to watch. All watching you'd do completely inside recordings. It was nice when they added their own episode catalog (on-demand I believe it was called, before we started calling it streaming) and would skip the dvr recording of an episode and go straight to their on-demand one. Or when you started watching something mis-show and the cable box would offer to restart from beginning from their on-demand offering.
4. aix1 ◴[29 Jul 23 11:47 UTC] No.36919280[source]▶
Worth noting that, in some countries, TV guides published numeric codes for each programme. These codes could be punched directly into a video recorder to set up a recording (instead of having to manually select the channel, the date and the start/end times).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_recorder_scheduling_co...