I'm a millennial that uses an antenna. Can confirm. None of my peers know what it is or why I have it. Sometimes I don't want to spend forever finding something to watch on Netflix.
Post by UMaineTeach on Aug 3, 2017 20:20:20 GMT -5
Come on people!
I remember that the digital conversation was the topic of the Academic Decathlon speech I gave in what? 2000 or 2001? I was against it on the principle that the government shouldn't force people to buy a new TV.
But then, before the law took effect the converter box was invented and the government gave them out for free. No more problem. Except that now you get channels or you don't. There is no watching it though the snow.
I fear that right after net neutrality is ended, free tv and radio will be next. That 45 will just end the FCC.
I'm a millennial that uses an antenna. Can confirm. None of my peers know what it is or why I have it. Sometimes I don't want to spend forever finding something to watch on Netflix.
So you spend forever flipping through the channels?
Post by suburbanzookeeper on Aug 3, 2017 23:32:04 GMT -5
I'm technically a millennial and I know I've had to explain it to friends that we still watch all of the major local channels (and PBS + PBS Kids) since we cut cable/went to streaming. We've been getting our local channels like this for years.
I'm a millennial that uses an antenna. Can confirm. None of my peers know what it is or why I have it. Sometimes I don't want to spend forever finding something to watch on Netflix.
So you spend forever flipping through the channels?
I can't tell if you're serious or not, but no. They make DVRs for broadcast TV so I can still pull up a channel guide. Our channel selection is much smaller though. We mostly use streaming services, but we have all the major broadcast channels. Once we cut cable, we realized quickly we didn't even miss it.
I'm an old millenial. I grew up with a rooftop antenna. One of the big kind. It had a wired control knob to spin it. The knob had sharpie notes on it about which way to point it for each channel.
We got cable when I was in middle school.
I wish we could just have an attenna and netflix now, but maryland does baseball by cable, and you can't legally watch it online in local market. Stupid orioles.
H and I are technically millennial and know about antennas. I didn't have cable until late middle school. My ILs didn't get cable until 2001. After 9/11 they no longer got signal at all so that's when they got it. We all still get the most basic cable available, which is little more than broadcast channels.
I'm an old millenial. I grew up with a rooftop antenna. One of the big kind. It had a wired control knob to spin it. The knob had sharpie notes on it about which way to point it for each channel.
We got cable when I was in middle school.
I wish we could just have an attenna and netflix now, but maryland does baseball by cable, and you can't legally watch it online in local market. Stupid orioles.
Our rooftop antenna has a broken motor. We used to be able to watch Fox (H loves the Simpsons) in winter when the trees lost their leaves, so we'd go up on the roof twice a year to adjust it by hand for optimal seasonal reception. "Can you see it now? Now? What about now?" Our neighbors probably think we're insane.
I seriously thought that this was satire. Then I was assuming it was one of the pieces built around a few outlying examples. Then I got to the statistics.
Almost a third of Americans (29%) are unaware local TV is available free, according to a June survey by the National Association of Broadcasters, an industry trade group.
29%?!
ETA - A contributing factor to my astonishment is probably that when I was growing up, you couldn't get cable in my neighborhood. For years, it was a giant satellite dish in your yard or an antenna on the roof. My parents still live there, and they still watch broadcast TV.
We have an antenna. Last night we tried to watch Wheel of Fortune and the tv kept going out whenever we moved. I kept yelling for H to sit still.
Back in the olden days, long before we had cable, we had a portable TV with an antenna that would mess up every time DH moved. He would experiment with crossing his legs or doing something with his arm, and it would drive me crazy. He claimed it was his 'magnetic personality,' but that just made me more annoyed with him. ;p
There is an episode of Laverne and Shirley where they are trying to watch something with their friends, and every time it shows them watching the tv, they are in a different position and they are using aluminum foil to help. They have tin foil ears, hats, etc.. I don't even remember what that episode was about, but I think of that every time someone mentions tv antennas. My memory is probably much more hilarious to me than the actual episode was.
I'm an old millenial. I grew up with a rooftop antenna. One of the big kind. It had a wired control knob to spin it. The knob had sharpie notes on it about which way to point it for each channel.