will TV be dead in 15 years?

I really got disturbed by the show cancellations especially when it was a favorite like Hill street Blues. I heard most shows will only go five years because that is when the actors can negotiate new contracts. Get rid of the old shows and put on new junk.

Wonder what the future holds for us and what programs will be offered? Tell you what, first chance I get at better viewing the cable company is out of here.
 
"Yep, nothing but advertisements. Wish they would let us pick channels rather than having to buy a package. Lots of channels just don't fit my lifestyle"
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I believe as streaming TV gets better, a la carte will have to be implemented by cable and satellite companies to stay competitive. I just hope I live long enough to see it!

Someone mentioned football, thank goodness for DVR! If it's a game I really want to see, I'll wait an hour or more after it starts, and then back it up to the beginning and skip time outs and commercials. If I time it just right I can finish watching the last two minutes or so live.
 
We haven't watched regular TV in years, aside from the occasional Pawn Stars episode while I'm waiting for dinner. Too many commercials! So, if there is a show we really want to watch, we wait for DVDs and watch without interruptions.

Also, there hasn't been a show that I stopped what I was doing to watch since Babylon 5 went off the air 15 years ago.
 
It's already dead in our house. Dish got too expensive for the content (just paying for commercials) and we don't have cable in my neighborhood. We stream everything now, just have to wait awhile for it to become available. Netflix and other companies that do the same thing will be the norm in 5 years unless cable and dish cut their prices in half and double their content. That just isn't going to happen.
 
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I have an antenna in my attic........get network TV and whatever else is free. Watch the weather first thing in AM, "some" of the local news, turn it off! Again watch "some" of the national/local news at bedtime. It has greatly increased the amount of time I have for other things. WooHoo :)
 
It might as well be dead with the **** they're showing! When they do have something on worthwhile that you enjoy, I guarantee it will be taken off for something worthless and stupid for the brainless masses! :rolleyes:
I wish they would force the cable and dish outfits to go to ala carte menu options! But it probably would become totally worthless since they now would have to give the customers what they want and for what they want to pay.
 
Most of it has already been dead for me. The again 15 more years I probably won't have to worry about it ya can't live forever and I ain't young.
 
Donn said:
In all likelihood, I'll be dead in 15 years. Ergo, I don't care one way or the other.
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Yep, me too. However it's interesting to me to talk about the subject. Just look at all the changes in your lifetime and only half of that life had advance technology. Very interesting world we live in and I never fail to marvel at how fast it's changing.:)
 
There's a reason I have a large selection of movies.

Funny at my camp in vt I have no tv and don't miss it. The coyote howling and the bears hootin all night long entertain me.

Funny they took off Popeye, the three stooges off the air for being violent. Ever watch spongebob, )"(spoooogebub)" south park or family guy?
No wonder the younger kids of today are messed up. They can't say the word "heck" today it's a bad word? What have we become?
 
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Yorkie Man said:
It died when idiots like the khartrashians and honey boob boob made it to the screen. Who ever decided to put them on TV should be flogged with a wet towel.
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I can tell you that before I retired, the line of work I did was being taken over by a "new generation." These kids, especially the females, loved the type of shows you speak of and whenever they had a few minutes to sit around staring at their phones, they were alive with chatter about these shows - who was in bed with who, did you see her eyelashes?, etc. These kids actually thought shows like the "Amish Mafia", "Pawn Stars" and "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" (and on and on) were real life depictions to the point that it became sickening. If you said one word to any of them about these shows that differed from their opinion, they would run to their supervisors and claim you are picking on them. Television today is catering to this upcoming crowd as are the phone and electronic companies. I'm sure thankful I grew up when I did and won't be around to see the end result of all this.
 
I agree TV has been dead for some time now. If not for my wife's Fox news and a few other stations I'd disconnect cable and use my TV antenna.
We did that for a winter after our ancient satellite dish died but she missed her shows too much and ordered cable.
 
We have come a long way in a couple of generations. My grandparents never owned a TV or a radio, said they couldn't stand all the noise. Now most homes are full of electronics of some sort. Older I get I am thinking my grandparents were right, it's all just too much noise.
 
I DVR the shows I want and flush the rest.

It will most likely be alive with "reality" shows, celebrity gossip and/or news propaganda, ie: look what it's done for our leader{s}. It's the people in front of it, IMO, that will be/are "brain" dead.
 
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