The "Death" of Television

[@knowledgehusk]

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[@lupettoversilia]

#MailRoyalCaneStaBene ❓

[@thomasturner6980]

I'm gay for Beast

[@Moxie9]

Hey, as an early bird watcher can I ask how did you get your first 1000 subs. Was it hard? I'm trying to start up and I would be glad if I can get some guidance :)

[@HeChemicalFe]

@@thomasturner6980 werid flex but okay

[@bangbangliu2146]

r/foundthemobileuser

[@kelly2fly]

Fun fact: the new thing for kids during the 1800s were comic strips. Comics were such a novelty. Kids would either skip dinner or bring the strips along while eating. Needless to say parents weren’t happy with this new marvel. Some even banned it from their homes thinking the comic strips were turning kids into mindless drones. Next came books and magazines, then Walkman, handheld electronic games. Fast forward to today and we get kids on their phones during dinner. Basically it’s the same shit different day scenario for every generation.

[@danny75461]

Books came out many centuries before the 1800s.

[@kelly2fly]

danny75461 very true. I should have been more specific. Books and magazines that were targeted at young audiences.

[@davilimalol4612]

Thank you for not being nostalgia-blinded.

[@cosmicbinary1982]

i think foldable phones will be the next big thing. the galaxy fold is ugly af but once you get over how offensive it looks it could be kind of neat. eventually i'd like to see laptops work in the same way..

[@adrianshephard378]

That's not justification for being anti social at dinner. PUT YOUR FUCKING PHONE AWAY

[@natedunn51]

17 minutes of content, but where is my 13 minutes of ads? this isn't like tv.

[@zeffery101]

its pretty crazy that the length of this video is about the same length of a full episode on TV minus the ads. Im glad I was born in 2000 because I appreciate streaming services a lot more than kids do now.

[@kvinity]

On god

[@nothandmade9686]

Born in 2000 you are a kid. I am classed as young being under 35. And I remember 4 channels.

[@jrodagormykid9063]

@@nothandmade9686 lol same here man I'm 32 and people still try to classify my age as a millennial 😅😅😅 millennials know nothing of 8 bit Nintendo on a 16" tube tv that only got 3 channels with bunny ears. Millennials know nothing of wearing out your favorite cassette tape or scratching up your favorite cd💿! Millennials know nothing about living life, socialising, trying to hook up and/or date girls, experimenting with drugs and alcohol (well... Maybe they do, but not the fun drugs) and I guarentee millennials know Jack shit about throwing huge bonfire parties in the woods and getting 50-60 people out there all fucked up having fun.

[@potatofuryy]

420 jrzl 906 bc cassettes and cds aren’t a thing. I was born in 2004, so I’m in gen z, the generation AFTER Millennials. And I used to use cassettes and later CD’s as my primary source of (non radio) music. And DVD’s aren’t even old yet. And I’ve used VHS tapes but tbh. I don’t even remember that anymore.

[@capncrunch4864]

That king of the hill drawing is the stuff of nightmares

[@marlom7882]

I’ve seen worse

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Just be glad he didn't draw Peggy.

[@alecity4877]

and the simpsons ones?

[@JarrodBaniqued]

I thought it pretty funny.

[@davidweikle9921]

Damn it, Bobby.

[@TheGreatAli02]

Who remembers running to the bathroom or kitchen fast before a show started? Good days man

[@fieldrook1613]

@@slyack I remember back in second grade when the new Pokémon episode would come out, good times

[@BAIGAMING]

I remember even turning up the volume loud and using the washroom with the door open 🤣

[@TheTrueDoomSlayer]

How old are you? Or did you not have recording as a kid.

[@TheGreatAli02]

@@TheTrueDoomSlayer 19

[@iamasmattypeofguy]

I remember watching yo gaba gaba and just dancing with it, nostalgia hits very hard, dude

[@Raul_Menendez]

I hope The Buggles create a sequel song to "Video killed the radiostar". They should name it "Internet killed the videostar".

[@Taladar2003]

You mean like kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4GrfYZ5a5hoea8 from 2000?

[@zackwhitaker9602]

Can we appreciate the amount of stock footage that was bought for this video

[@NSPlayer]

pirated*

[@NSPlayer]

unauthorized sharing*

[@NSPlayer]

@BMAN488877 said no one ever

[@davidgn40]

@@NSPlayer never been to Blockbuster smh

[@jamesbaxter5147]

nzfamily *Article 13 wants to know your location*

[@derkwolf3244]

I've never seen so much stock footage of people using remotes

[@theiceana7237]

Much stock footage*

[@CarminaTunes]

And counting money

[@InvestingBookSummaries]

lol

[@drewlovely2668]

Is it controlling you? Sorry for being a year late

[@well_as_an_expert_id_say]

@@theiceana7237 ok

[@AlternateHistoryHub]

2:57 When you tell everyone you're ok.

[@lupettoversilia]

#CanaleTestDiDDLE

[@thomasturner6980]

I'm gay for Beast

[@jamesbaxter5147]

AlternateHistoryHub You just have to tell everyone you’re fine, when you’re not really fine, you just can’t get into it because they would never understand.

[@Dustyhillfarms]

Lies

[@nick3718]

James Tredinnick Lol

[@hondansx2636]

I remember about 12 years ago, there was a school kid in my class who didn't watch TV and we all thought that was crazy. Looking back on it now I feel such irony, I haven't turned on my TV in years.

[@LividImp]

You should rename this, "Stock Footage: The Movie"

[@luddity]

57 channels and nothing on

[@sampatterson8986]

Just a matter of time before Soulja Boy releases the SouljaTV

[@Rosario_Verano]

For the affordable price of one kidney per month.

[@rachard]

oh yeah yeah

[@fatfuck2384]

Fym Soulja Boy made Television. Give him the respect he's due period.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Sam Patterson> Just a matter of time before Soulja Boy releases the SouljaTV He doesn't actually make squat, so it would only happen if someone else creates one, then he can re-sell it.

[@bimbgusbomgus2861]

*SouljaVision

[@LitOwO]

"Video killed the radio star"

[@lupettoversilia]

Reasonable point of view

[@lupettoversilia]

@@tippymctippersonepsilon1634 👍

[@ErikPT]

Radio is still a thing actually

[@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsCunt]

Internet killed the video star

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

Erik P.T.> Radio is still a thing actually It's a song. ¬_¬

[@rubeniz5151]

I hated waiting forever till the commercials finished

[@tdfern1]

Commercials are the WORST.

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

Now we wait a few minutes on unless you have premium like a system you have Chrunchyroll or VRV

[@RamdomView]

That was the reason I never went back to cable tv after learning about streaming services. No way in hell am I going to sit through 4 minutes of ads.

[@bobbyferg9173]

I remember when I was young that I would change the channel whenever a commercial was on. Sure watching 2 shows at once and missing large bits of information may have been inefficient, but it saved our short attention spans.

[@zackcash4941]

@@bobbyferg9173 And sometimes they'd both have commercials at the same time 😂

[@wesleyhunt7599]

Cable will die when football loses its cultural relevancy and the cable companies pull their sponsorships. I give it twenty years tops.

[@lukedetering4490]

Either that or all the sports channels grow a brain and fully move their services online

[@ArnoldTohtFan]

@Mike Ross I wish everyone had been astute enough to recognise that a hundred years ago. It would have saved humanity a lot of time, effort and money. Sports suck, people.

[@ronaldcole6101]

Lol ads will never die, if tv dies then youtube will be filled with 10 ads a video atleast.

[@raptorfromthe6ix833]

@Stormtrooper 094 you could say the same shit for everything, war:just a bunch of angry men comparing their dicks, politics:basically high school

[@joejohnson2802]

Autisticus Spasticus I mean, so does Game of Thrones, but both are still forms of entertainment.

[@Levicandoit]

*Fun Fact* Top Gun was the reason why videos dropped down to $30. As he said most videos were about $80 but Top Gun exec's came up with the genius idea of running a Pepsi ad before the show. This revolutionized VHS and Top Gun was a huge seller and this is why you often see ads before a lot of older VHS movies

[@randomlygeneratedhuman9958]

the only entertainment i get from the tv now is waiting for the dvd screensaver to hit the corner

[@vacatiolibertas]

They got rid of that on the new version of DirecTV. Press F to pay respects.

[@rydemk4168]

Why is that a meme

[@Novusod]

I don't understand that meme.

[@ggallintedtalk]

Ryde Mk You’re too young to understand

[@davidgn40]

@@rydemk4168 buy an old DVD player and you'll understand

[@darnchacha1632]

I still don't understand why my folks don't just switch to Netflix, they have a smart tv. But they refuse to let me set it up for them, and then complain constantly about Comcast prices and customer service. I hope that the day will never come for me, where I refuse to adopt more convenient technology and services because I'm an old dog who refuses to learn a new trick

[@MCMLXXXV.]

Lol I'm that person

[@g3heathen209]

Well in my case I can get only get satalite internet and Netflix and hulu would use up all my data in a few days.

[@skellymom]

Hey, some of us old dogs love the new tech.

[@zacharyjones5102]

My parents just dropped Cable a week ago. My mom has her smart TV and my dad got a Roku.

[@davehoffman4659]

DarnChaCha I am giving actual books to my children. Just to clear any confusion, I'm not even in high school yet, so it's still a long way off.

[@dead-ishchannel6212]

"It can even automatically skip ads!" Take notes KZbin.

[@133774c05]

Adblock

[@Paddy656]

Don't use an adblocker! That's just cutting into the revenue of creators who need it. Also, I think KZbin can detect when you're using one because they play unskippable preroll ads when you have one running.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

+Paddy You've obviously never used an adblocker. If KZbin is able to play unskippable prerolls, then your blocker is shit and is not working. You can also install anti-adblock killers to block their detection scripts. Anyways, if creators need to make money from their creations, they can set up a patreon, set up a coffee or whatever it's called and go that way. You don't need to give ad-money to the asshats at Google.

[@Paddy656]

@@voidofspaceandtime4684 I use an adblocker regularly, but I've only had it for a few months. It probably doesn't help that it's a chrome extension too.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

Most adblockers are chrome extensions. Chrome is still the top browser. While chrome has it's problems, extensions being bad has never been one of them. I have five different blockers, they all do their jobs.

[@BenYork-UBY]

Why watch what you want on the television programmers schedule when you can go on the internet and watch what you want on your own schedule? For that reason I haven't watched TV in years and nothing really draws me back to it

[@Taladar2003]

More importantly. Why watch what the TV station wants to show you when you could watch something that fits your interests exactly.

[@awitcheskid]

This is by far the best "history of television" video on youtube! I've always been curious about the early history of broadcast tv, and I learned a lot from this clip.

[@Admiral_Jezza]

- TV is less convenient than internet - Censorship of mundane things like swearing on TV - TV has more Ads depending on the service - TV has restrictions on and/or bias of the media - Why pay for both cable and broadband when broadband can supply the same content as cable as well? - Simply more content available on the internet - Even cable alone is in many cases costlier than broadband alone - Internet is interactive; mostly encourages engagement rather than passive viewership - TV has government controlled channels like BBC or Russia Today - Internet doesn't have as much government interference, if there is, then it can be easily circumvented by VPNs or Proxies Literally find me one good reason as to why TV isn't totally inferior to the Internet.

[@alexanderchristopher6237]

The internet is still government censored, unless somebody pulls an extra few bucks for VPN. I don't know how watching TV shows from my TV is less engaging than from a streaming service online, but whatever. But yeah, TV's golden age is long past. Thankfully, a bunch of people in the TV and entertainment industry managed to keep up with the time. TV won't be defined by cable or satellite anymore, but more as a medium. I mean, it's better to watch the Superbowl from a large TV rather than your phone or computer, right? Which is why we got all these smart TVs, so you can use the internet on a bigger screen.

[@lukedetering4490]

Sports. That is literally it

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

Digital subchannels.

[@voidofspaceandtime4684]

Ironic, since KZbin has begun soft-censoring swears and shit.

[@randomassortmentofthings]

@@alexanderchristopher6237 it's not censored in the US

[@darryljones3009]

"That particular form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year 2040." - Data, Star Trek: TNG

[@datfisheboi6519]

He might actually be right irl. Which is kinda concerning considering the history of Earth in ST...

[@darryljones3009]

@@datfisheboi6519 Well, luckily we've missed the Eugenics Wars... but I guess the Third World War could still be caused by other factors.

[@datfisheboi6519]

Darth Cynicus At least we got through it in the end

[@jamesbaxter5147]

Darth Cynicus True, But in their day they still read, play classical instruments and do plays for recreation. Unless the Enterprise is just a club for intellectuals and 99% of Humans in Star Trek still watch KZbin.

[@daroaminggnome]

@@darryljones3009 Have we though? Iceland has recently been celebrating the elimination of down syndrome in the country. Not because they cured it, but because I shit you not 90%+ of the fetuses diagnosed with down syndrome are aborted(and the diagnosis rate is near 100%). A Chinese scientist was arrested just a few months ago for genetically editing embryos(I think it was embryos he worked on, someone will probably correct me if Im wrong). Both are cases of eugenics, just happening before birth instead of after. If designer babies become a real thing with noticeable increases in health, intellect, strength, & beauty then you better believe thats going to be a cultural shitstorm. Don't know if thats what causes ww3(I'd suspect ww3 would more likely be caused by advanced anti-missile technology disabling the destructive potential of nuclear weapons) but I certainly could see it sparking civil wars in post-industrial countries.

[@Andrew-ub5yc]

Do I look like i know what a Jpeg is? I just want a picture of a God dang hot dog.

[@SovLestlandia]

*Currywurst

[@pitedapollo6175]

oh god

[@amadeusdollarsindustries8902]

I like to hearken back to the days of television. I’m quite young now, but the only streaming services I was familiar with were KZbin and Netflix, so I didn’t use those often, but would watch TV with the family every now and then. It’s only recently that I started using streaming services consistently and I really only watch TV with my father when I get the chance. My dad is an older style person, rarely using his card and sticking with cash, along with mainly using television, though he does use Netflix and Disney+ to watch movies. We all should admit it that radio most likely won’t die out for at least a while, as that majesty from the 50s and earlier is all in our cars, just displayed better.

[@derekg5674]

I feel like a title such as “The Rise and Fall of Television,” would have been more suited to this video. It seemed more like a history lesson than a dive into how and why T.V. is failing. You didn’t even touch the subject in the title until the last bit of the video.

[@JustinY.]

When one titan falls, another rises to take its place.

[@freedamerican5243]

Justin Y. Why are you so fast?!!!

[@lupettoversilia]

#RoyalCane 👈

[@rollercoasterman8114]

The internet myth appears

[@haze154]

Hey thats me

[@jamesbaxter5147]

Justin Y. Ah. I see you’re an intellectual too.

[@darksuperganon]

"Young people don't watch sports because of short attention spans" "Everyone is binging Netflix for hours" Err, what?

[@SommerSen]

It seems a main problem when attempting to explain this is the mentality of blaming the watchers instead of how boring the shows are. I know this channel has good content but this makes me wonder if in a few days we would have to gear up for "Millenial Rant #50^5"

[@SupaCLUCK]

I don’t like sports and watching it is boring for me.

[@iMatterhorn7]

I’ll never truly understand why my dad and uncles love to watch sports too but I guess I didn’t grow up in the 80s like them

[@SommerSen]

@@SupaCLUCK I initially didn't like watching sports, but then I discovered battlebots and now occasionally I watch F1, basketball & football (soccer). Still I prefer actually playing sports or games

[@dunhillsupramk3]

oh the younger generation do watch sports, just not the boring stuff... for example i would watch 24hrs of LeMans every yr on my TV (but i would watch it using KZbin on my smart TV) and during that time i have a house party and invite some friends over... other than that the younger gen don't spend much time watching TV but they do spend more time actually playing video games and doing the actual sports...

[@thomasturner6980]

CNN has left the chat

[@Zangoose28]

Thomas Turner And Fox News, BBC, NBC, ABC, and Etc.

[@jamesbaxter5147]

Ben Co. Inc Not the BBC, they’ll be funded by the UK till the Germans invade again.

[@Zangoose28]

James Tredinnick You are right but the rest still stand

[@Zangoose28]

Chris Schafer Dang It!

[@jamesbaxter5147]

Chris Schafer Even though they’re invested, that doesn’t mean they’ll be able to embrace the new market in time. If these MSM companies manage to convert, they’ll have to significantly change the way they do things to make it profitable.

[@razormc954]

It's all going to come full circle anyway.. Spotify's live podcasts are literally just radio, Netflix is trialing an option in France that resembled traditional TV

[@theknifesong]

It's easy to grow tired of the political aspects of the news stations, ESPN, sitcoms, etc. Honestly youtube, google, facebook, twitter... aren't much better though. Even though the FCC isn't really involved anymore there are still powers silencing certain wrongspeech. KZbin's demonetization of wrongspeech channels is becoming pretty alarming and netflix continues to shoehorn their political biases into their original content.

[@goGothitaLOL]

unlike TV and literally any other industry you can think of, there's not much if ever any competition, and even then they're much smaller in comparision

[@laurocoman]

@@goGothitaLOL now there a whole bunch of streaming services and they all keep buying exclusives. You got HBO Go? Sorry, no Mandelorian. You got Disney Plus? No Stranger Things. You got Netflix? No Game of Thrones. The service reached a peak and it's getting worse by the day, there is less content in all of them because of exclusives.

[@Astolfo2001]

@@laurocoman and this is why I torrent and buy DVDs and Blu-Rays there's just no point in paying for a subscription to a streaming service just to watch the stuff you want

[@typea5426]

@@laurocoman I mean paying for all these services together is probably cheaper than cable

[@laurocoman]

@@typea5426 and pirating them is even cheaper.

[@theknightofyeet6358]

Who here remembers having like a big bookshelf full of VHSs and a TV the size of a dinner table (the old TVs in other words)???

[@sexehseal1417]

I would still prefer it if it was viable means of watching television today

[@MCMLXXXV.]

Omg yes

[@jamesbaxter5147]

The Knight of yeet Mine’s still in the House. It hasn’t been touched in years.

[@skellymom]

Oh dear god yes. And, when you had to move, the freakin' TV was a back breaker! I love having a laptop and streaming.

[@JediAcolyte94]

Knight I definitely remember that. I remember having a 15-25" TV in my bedroom that didn't have a remote and had a little door under the buttons that could be opened to have access to little knobs that could adjust picture color or tint. And I'm 25 years old.

[@AMD64EVER]

I left home in 2005 and have never paid for television. Still have an antenna to pick up certain sporting events, but that's the extent of it. It is bizarre that TV is allowing itself to die such a long drawn out and obvious death. I'd be surprised if they wise up and come around at this point. Way too late.

[@MrDylsha]

@@williamcurtis2145 And thus we will come full circle and pirating will reign king again

[@MrPolandball]

@@williamcurtis2145 Hence is why KZbin was born. Unfortunately it's having the same fate, we're gonna need to abandon this ship in near future

[@lukedetering4490]

When TV inevitably becomes obsolete, I wonder how much internet services are going to cost compared to cable. Now that there is more competition in the internet streaming business, we need more subscriptions to get the same amount of content, because some companies break from others and create their own service. Kind of like how Disney is launching their service and killing their movies off Netflix

[@jimothypersson8306]

@@MrDylsha in Sweden pretty much all television is watched with subscriptions, except for the government owned television. every new tv is a smart tv. to watch all sports and tv series i want to watch i'd have to pay the equivalent of 145$, so instead i just watch illegal streams for sports games

[@OBrasilo]

Not sure about the US, but here in Europe, TV has basically dying because of two things - reality shows and the fact all content is either from English-speaking countries, Latin America, Turkey, or local production anymore. Anime, for example, used to be huge, but despite the renewed boom of it in the 2010's, TV channels kept reducing it instead, and at the same time, complaining about why they were losing viewers.

[@christianweibrecht6555]

This video is best consumed by listening while looking at something else

[@TBustah]

The problem with streaming services is that the traditional broadcasters are starting to catch on: why should NBC let Hulu broadcast their stuff when they can cut out the middle man by starting their own streaming service? Disney hasn't taken their stuff off of Netflix yet, but now that they have their own service, it's probably only a matter of time. I think that as more and more companies do this, they're going to realize that consumers aren't willing to pay for eight different services at $10 or more per month. If they were willing to pay that much, they'd just get cable or satellite. In response, these companies will probably start to merge their services. WarnerMedia, Viacom, and Disney have big enough libraries to stand on their own, but the smaller ones will probably form joint ventures. Hopefully, it'll get back to the point that you'll still be paying less to get all of the stuff that you want for less than a traditional service, but I think the days of $30 or less per month are behind us.

[@lukedetering4490]

Yep. It sucks, but eventually all good things come to an end. On the bright side, inevitably something will replace the internet streaming service, and that cycle can come back

[@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN]

You just typed something predictable about the NBC getting their own streaming service part, their streaming service is called peacock...

[@jasonreed7522]

This aged well as we are currently in the age of every network has their own service called network+ (i wonder who they are copying). And now some franchises like Star Trek are getting trapped as exclusives behind paywalls to sites where they are basically the only reason to sign on. I want a return to the days of just needing at most 3 $10/month services to get everything you care about. Or atleast options to have free with ads (that better be well timed, meaning not mid sentence) as an alternative to paying for no ads so i can watch the 1 worthwhile show and see if its actually worth paying for. If the fracturing doesn't stop we could see pop culture fragment as people refise to pay for sites and therefor never see culture defining shows. (That they otherwise would have watched)

[@Taladar2003]

The problem is that that won't work permanently. Their services might work for a year or two and then people notice that literally everything produced for them is crap.

[@TBustah]

@@Taladar2003 They don’t really need original content. Yeah, most of Hulu’s original stuff is shit, but does anyone really subscribe to them for that? These companies have MASSIVE back catalogs, they can license foreign shows and stuff from smaller companies, and they can put the current offerings from their television channels on them.

[@raidev_]

The best part is that many tv channels are still broadcast in 480p

[@baronofbahlingen9662]

>Current year >Watching tv

[@SimplyApollo]

I literally have not watched TV in years. LOL KZbin is king

[@DeadpoolUniverse]

simplyapollo ha I get to. See game of thrones before you ha

[@gaveferia1421]

@Serious Face "meme arrows" smh

[@Nugcon]

TVs? You mean that big monitor thing that you can watch KZbin on?

[@Jon-id7ki]

@@DeadpoolUniverse you can watch GoT through HBO go tho... So... The point stands

[@MarkfromNewYork]

Im in my mid 40's and i dumped TV in 2010 and never went back and never will. The idea of live TV and especially commercials is so alien to me now

[@daroaminggnome]

"Live TV" for us millenials/gen Z is stuff like twitch streams, so even that won't be a hook for much longer. Most of the big sellers for live TV(specifically sports, also some news stuff) already have streaming options now. KZbin's Premier feature is another option for replacing "live TV" as far as simulcasting new episodes goes.

[@jaojao1768]

Depends on where you live, in my country public service channels don't have commercials

[@iMatterhorn7]

Also because my family always had “ live tv” my parents use KZbin TV to get live channels but I don’t know how long it’ll be around because growing up we were all into that but now I barely use it I just go on KZbin or watch shows in Netflix or Hulu (Hulu TV is another live tv streaming thing too but we don’t use that)

[@SwagHyde]

my dad is in his mid 40s too and he's dumped tv for.. god i don't know how long i didn't see him too much when i was younger but i don't even remember him having tv before he used netflix, him and his gf would torrent shows then they used netflix and now that netflix is not as convenient anymore, they went back to piracy again (it's not torrents, it's some sort of site that's invite only i think and it's a streaming site)

[@ashrafhaider598]

Yea

[@loszhor]

Fun fact: VCRs became very popular because people could rent and watch porn on tapes in the privacy of their own home rather than risk being seen at an adult theater.

[@Colddirector]

I thought it was Beta that had the porn lol

[@davidgn40]

Guess I have to thank porn for making a better alternative to DVD mainstream.

[@belstar1128]

I can't imagine anyone who wants to watch porn in a theatre with a bunch of other dudes gross.

[@mgeiger2341]

It also killed beta, because you could easily record football games. Some would go on for almost 4 hours, and when asked about extending recording times, sony was apathetic at best, and JVC said it wad technically possible

[@asneecrabbier3900]

“adult theaters” what are them things?

[@BillyAaronSeaton]

The internet has already surpassed television.

[@wrestlingisdeadmoveonwithy8939]

Television died in the late 2000's, IDGAF about what anyone says. THAT'S when television died. It was so good up until around 2008

[@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN]

For me it's late 2010s, but for some reason TV is still alive...

[@ADeeSHUPA]

@@PickleRicksFATASSCOUSIN uP

[@zizzlefax8861]

It died for me when I got netflix on xbox 360 back in 2011 and my iPhone 3GS in 2012 lmaooo. Just being able to watch what I wanted almost anywhere I wanted was a fucking wrap for me

[@DeltaFRFX]

For me it died in the late 2010s, specifically after 2016 when half of shows just became "Trump bad"

[@notenoughmemes1847]

TV for me died when a lot of the classic cartoons on Cartoon Network or Disney XD ended. The only time I've ever used it since was to watch the first and second season of Infinity Train until I found out I could pirate it easily.

[@cronaalbarn2146]

Tv is too expensive compared to online streaming and like the news paper before it it shall die.

[@asielmilian38]

Cable is a privilege not a right.

[@cronaalbarn2146]

@Joker ??? true but not nearly as many do now that you can get the news online.

[@tanostrelok2323]

@@asielmilian38 It's called market competition, why would you pay for shitty cable TV when you can get similar (Or better) content on the internet for less money?

[@asielmilian38]

@@tanostrelok2323 True and having a cable is a privilege not a right.

[@mikeoxsmal8022]

@@asielmilian38 yah no one said otherwise

[@thomasturner6980]

The internet has already surpassed television, the average TV viewer is 60

[@Tickerchicken]

Tbh I haven’t sat down to watch something specific on TV since I was 16 (19 now) the only time I do watch it is when my family’s watching something I like

[@Rosario_Verano]

Other than a few sports (I watch most of them via illegal streaming) and the occasional movie, I haven't watched TV in over 5-6 years.

[@skellymom]

Lol...I turn 50 this year and haven't watched TV in over 10 years. It just got so stale and junk took over. Plus, being able to control content and watch when convenient really won out. Will say when moving, it is certainly easier to pack up/unpack a computer monitor/laptop than a HUGE old school TV.

[@generalmaul4615]

Tbh I somehow didn't realize up until now that I haven't turned on my TV in like a decade lol.

[@HeatherLandon227]

The last time I was watching something on network TV, I ended up laughing at how they cut a movie up to the point where some scenes go from serious to hilarious...all in the name of their commercials. My dad and I don't watch network TV as much and both stream stuff Alot. It's my mom who's stuck on the network TV bit...

[@liberalbias4462]

I wonder whats gonna replace the internet.

[@DocLL]

the outernet

[@interferon4800]

@@DocLL You mean it will change from an innie to an outie? Trans lives matter.

[@DocLL]

@@interferon4800 yes

[@TitoTitoTitoTito]

Internet 2: the squeakquel

[@Colddirector]

We've barely begun to adopt IPv6, probably a little soon to be thinking about that lol.

[@sownheard]

Watching sport is the exact same as watching twitch. The differences is sport is just a arbitrary game old people like, because its what they grew up with.

[@ProDog02]

I just found your videos. Enjoy the way everything is cut together and flows, perfectly. On a binge lol Thanks for all the hard work 👍, for my enjoyment 💪

[@joeking3181]

My grandparents still leave the News on all day on their TV while they watch stuff on their computers or tablets, and that always confuses me. Why shill out tons of money every month to watch a couple minutes of something you can find out about almost immediately online, and then 10 minutes of constant advertisements.

[@Paddy656]

"Background noise" Alright, boomer. Background noise doesn't need to be so expensive.

[@joeking3181]

Paddy the Daddy You want to know the saddest part though? It’s a smart TV, so they could literally watch the KZbin videos they watch on their computers, but nope. “Why watch things we actually enjoy when we can use the news as a way to constantly ruin our faith in humanity.”

[@Paddy656]

@@joeking3181 Nah, give them KZbin and watch them put on whatever the algorithm shovels their way. The trending tab will ruin your faith in humanity much more than whatever's on the news.

[@matthiasnagorski8411]

Where can my parent's stream Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Dragnet, Andy Griffith, and a skew of John Wayne era Westerns? That's why my folks still have cable. Three channels they have to pay $200 to get.

[@fungo6631]

@@Paddy656 You do realize that FTA terrestrial and satellite TV is a thing, do you?

[@jaybabcock9123]

i havent moved out and I already dont watch TV. I rarely even watch Netflix/Hulu. I just watch KZbin.

[@exeggutivejudge3747]

Facts

[@iMatterhorn7]

Netflix originals are the only thing I regularly use it for but KZbin is the number one thing I use more than any other way to watch videos

[@timothyhilditch]

I feel like it is just going to switch to me sitting in my living room watching this, and just zoom in on my smiling face.

[@peterfmodel]

Good Video. I am astounded how things have changed in just 10 years, it will be interesting to see what happens int he future. One option not covered here is converting all your owned content into MKV or MP4, placing it on a NAS and watching it on a AppleTV, WDTV or Android video player.

[@spencerrr9878]

I think the thing that killed the tv more than the internet is: just how fucking expensive it is, the fact that half the time you spend watching TV your spending watching adds you don't wanna see, and the fact the TV channels usually are separately sold from the main TV service and are time sensitive. Hence notice why most of the major TV networks now provide internet services

[@jaredgunter9170]

It’s pretty crazy to me that I’m older than I thought. I mean I’ve only just turned 21 but I still remember a time when I had a CD player that I used to listen to music on the bus in elementary school and that I thought DVR was amazing. And now kids just grow up with iPhones and all these easy ways to access media. We evolve so fast and never realize it until it’s already happened.

[@tylerlarsen1842]

I remember watching movies on a VHS at a babysitter's house, watching movies on DVD for most of my childhood, and listening to music on CD's. We now have Netflix and Spotify for movies and music, respectively.

[@Chironex_Fleckeri]

Nah, you're pretty young.

[@profesae]

Lobster Johnson 21 is old to a child

[@ashrafhaider598]

@@Chironex_Fleckeri well , yes 21 is not that old but he is older than he thought , also its not a competition lmao

[@notenoughmemes1847]

It does feel rather odd. I'm only 17 but I still remember only watching movies on VHS for a while on a box tv along with going to Blockbuster until it closed at the local stripmall. Still miss the atmosphere that place had and Family Video never could replace it. I even used my dad's walk-man to listen to the songs on tape he had. Might've been because my parents were actual boomers and tend to stick with old tech for a while. Then I moved on to using a Toshiba with Internet Explorer, even had a disk drive which is a rarity in today's laptops. Now I have an iPhone, having not touched the old forms of media and technology I grew up with since maybe 2015.

[@miguelpadeiro762]

Those random zoom ins really improved the video's quality! Now this is competition to television

[@twicethess-ratedghoul7859]

I remember as a kid my mum didn’t act like a 30 year old at all and was as excited as we were to watch cartoons when we got home from school. Now, 6 years later, we still do the same thing... just not as often. Love the video Tyler ! Keep doing what your doing !

[@Jarod-sm5rf]

I remember in the “old days” when my dad would record my favourite show and movies on his VCR😎

[@Snowthree]

"When I moved out of my home and into my new apartment' *image has a dumpster in the front and taking up a sizable chunk of the picture*

[@blizzyyt2281]

30p resolution????? What kind of dystopian past were you living in

[@tz8785]

That would be Baird's early experiments in the mid 20s and early BBC broadcasts, in 1936 the BBC updated to 240 lines.

[@interlamer7480]

was it really 30p? I think it may have been 30i. May be wrong though.

[@belstar1128]

Its not like any normal person had tv before the 1950s.

[@LeeRaldar]

@@belstar1128 @ When the first TVs became available, maybe one or two houses owned one in a street the whole neighbourhood would try cram into the same room where the TV was if some big event was being televised.

[@obi0914]

It's called a gaming console, PC MASTER RACE!

[@PeridotFan64]

I still love cable and see streaming as the place to go when you're trying to get caught up or want to watch something again

[@ashrafhaider598]

Nah , I watch what I want to watch not people I dont know decide what ill watch

[@BenoHourglass]

@13:35 I remember wanting to catch up on a show in 2008, what you would do is watch one show and have 2-3 episodes also loading so that _most_ of one would be done by the time you finished one. Usually it took twice as long to load an episode than the length of that episode, but considering the alternative was either spending $100 on a dvd set or not watching it at all it was the start of something, anyway.

[@wannabeb3]

Time traveling from 2022 to tell everyone that Netflix seems to be in jeopardy due to increased competition

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

I often think of what the world would look like with portals. Not only would the entire transportation industry crash and burn, but we could go colonize whole new planets. We could replace online chat systems with real world chat systems. We could live in Alaska and work in the Sahara. The possibilities would be endless; I'd love to hear more.

[@lucas13flu]

I wonder if something can ever make the internet obsolete. I'm no visionary so to me it seems like this is the endgame, internet is the peak of communication.

[@lucas13flu]

@@katieee4915 I feel uneasy with the idea that someday a device will read my mind and do whatever I want. It's the most practical thing imaginable of course, but seeing as our private information is easily leaked nowadays, imagine your most private info possible being leaked! If our government turned totalitarian then, oh boy. 1984 would look like a better world than that lol.

[@briandiehl9257]

@@katieee4915 that sounds like a more advanced form of the internet

[@WitchVulgar]

For me, it's gonna be broadcast TV, KZbin, and piracy. Ahoy, m80.

[@privateinformation2007]

Same here.

[@fartyperson]

R)

[@banjofangirl3458]

How do you not read m80 as mato

[@victorsandeen2694]

It depends on how easily you read 1337 speak.

[@goGothitaLOL]

same, pretty much

[@NowYouGottaDoItAgain]

Just a small misconception near the beginning of the video, the broadcast CBC was putting out wasn't in 30p, but technically 30i. You see the old CRT of the day used an interlaced resolution, which is different from the 1080p we are used to today. So when he made the comparison to 1080p, it wasn't quite the best explanation. A better example might be what video quality might of looked like in a broadcast later on when CRT was still relevant (like a 480i broadcast) Definitely not the main point of the video nor was it very important, however I thought for people who might want a better understanding would appreciate this. Thanks for reading and I hope you learned something!

[@emperorleroy6747]

My favorite parts of these videos are the drawings. You truly are the greatest artists of our time.

[@JonO123]

F in the chat for Cable

[@MustraOrdo]

Nah, cable is not yet fully dead. Maybe in America but not in the rest of the world. I see cable more on life support.

[@jamesbaxter5147]

OAC hallucinating We need to pull the plug. It’s what they would have wanted.

[@zacharyjones5102]

@@jamesbaxter5147 I hear that's legal in Canada.

[@edwinmizen8330]

F

[@Stritty]

11:35 >talks about late 90s stuff >ska music starts playing was this on purpose

[@ReimuandCirno]

Great brief history of TV! It's one of my favorite technologies. I sometimes buy DVD box sets of shows from the 80s and 90s. I love the sitcoms of those decades.

[@SchwerMetall154]

As a 20-something, I will admit to owning a TV antenna. Got it as a hand-me-down in 2015 and still works decently enough. Anything beyond that I usually look on KZbin or any other free streaming site.

[@ceilingsandfloors]

I used to have a black and white TV in my room when I was a kid back in the 2000s, that I could get 4 channels from with some rabbits ears. But they cut the aerial service in my country years ago.

[@nickymo]

Awesome video it is insane how much technology and media changes so quickly when it first comes into popularity

[@bentaylor176]

i never thought tv died just evolved

[@1leon000]

ah yes, the internet, the next evolution of TV

[@legoworksstudios1]

You say "Death of Television", but the video's content makes it seem like it is evolving before our eyes like the "Evolution of Television", comparable to the "Evolution of Video Games" and the "De-evolution of Music"

[@Bat-manwholaughs]

Thank God someone with a brain broadcasting is dying I use my T.V. for playing music no stereo needed,streaming movies or whatever I want to watch or I have it hooked up to my MacBook to use as a monitor T.V. is evolving not dying. Broadcasting that's another story.

[@taliakellegg5978]

No such thing as de evolution

[@LostShipMate]

@@taliakellegg5978 degradation then?

[@taliakellegg5978]

@@LostShipMate sure!

[@Jon-id7ki]

By "television" he's clearly referring to cable and satellite TV packages. Those are dying. You're confusing that point with the death of the television monitor and video media... Obviously that isn't going anywhere. Stop trying so hard to be smarter than everyone else, it's not working.

[@crispitycrunchy]

First, video killed the radio stars. Now, streaming killed the television stars

[@MarthaRoseMoore415]

I've bored my teenage son to tears with anecdotes about the magic of Saturday Morning Cartoons - when most of the "commercials" (content aired between TV blocks) consisted of School House Rock and other educational tidbits and kid-focused PSAs. That was before the shows were based on a movie and were trying to sell kids action figures and oodles of other cross-merch products.

[@BlueBoxRevan]

Satalite TV: hello darkness my old friend.....

[@MrLittleDuck]

Don't forget about the BBC in regards to online video. It started out sometime around 2007 in a prototype stage and the BBC were experimenting with online broadcasts since around 2003. I watched the announcement of the GB winning the olympics on the BBC online in 2005 and they're online broadcasts of both the Olympics and Wimbledon are unmatched by any other service. They are pirated by millions every time they are on, with the ability to see every event or game that is on at the time.

[@TS-qq7vr]

"The Death of Television" is presented as the history of television.

[@vcrsalesman2606]

Sitcoms in the 70s really pushed the limit, dealing with many controversial subjects

[@phoule76]

I watched Bang Theory once and wanted to jump out the window. It's like turning on a pop radio station for the first time in years.

[@circleinforthecube5170]

thats because its the big bang theory, nobody can stand that

[@brandonmahoney1489]

My Grandpa told me the first time he saw a tv in the year 1944 he thought that it was just a fad and radio would keep on dominating. He now watches 7 hours of tv a day

[@Taladar2003]

Probably told you that your eyes would turn square if you wanted too much TV too before he really got into it himself?

[@ardt1912]

*cries in CNN*

[@USSAnimeNCC-]

I got Jimmy Dore and secular talk why I would need the failing mainstream media

[@rayxr]

It's the age of the internet. If you know what you're doing, EVERYTHING can be found online and for free.

[@rayxr]

@BMAN488877 It depends. Public wifi is a thing, and you can just download a bunch of videos and play the VoD when u get home. Additionally, most cellular companies provide mobile hotspots and/or unlimited data which should allow you to stream/download a nice chuck of content.

[@sledgemann6683]

Even the sports game he mentioned are streamed on twitch (mostly football but still)

[@alphayun7401]

have fun with those viruses, also anyone think tv is dead? i mean yes tv's are still around but can they really be called tv's anymore? they seem more like monitors now also i hope cable services will still exist on the internet instead of having to pay for each channel where these online cable services will take the money and like say pay hulu netflix etc and the people who made said content well point being cable and satellite is cheaper than internet services by comparison because your only paying for the cable service nothing else

[@alphayun7401]

@@TrickZ_Retz but most shady free sites have viruses

[@axelpatrickb.pingol3228]

Nothing is free. Public Wifi has either you or the taxpayer paying for it. GPS is technically not free for use because US taxpayers are paying for it for free use by the world.

[@roscojenkins7451]

Here's a tip. Buy an Amazon fire stick for $40. KZbin jailbreaking said fire stick. Watch damn near anything for free

[@Bat-manwholaughs]

Don't need one can stream anything on my Xbox

[@greenjd3700]

@@Bat-manwholaughs lol, how?

[@roscojenkins7451]

@@greenjd3700 KZbin videos show how. look up Mchanga. She goes through step by step. But u download something called Kodi

[@roscojenkins7451]

@iAmCyber outside of the 1 time purchase of $40 and the cost of internet itself. You dont need to spend extra on Netflix or Hulu or cable or anything subscription based

[@roscojenkins7451]

@iAmCyber Jesus christ... Then steal a fire stick and get free internet. U can also watch pretty much any movie

[@castsmith6783]

it's because *tHeRe aReN't aNy hEnTaI iN tV*

[@majamystic256]

Only the internet can bring me the finest dragon hentai

[@andrewscall7960]

This actually made me sad, I miss my childhood, and how sociable people use to be

[@sno7599]

I rember being upset when my parents did the VHS away because whh would we do away aladin and that was 9 years ago at most... man ive changed

[@CoasterMan13Official]

I think cable TV started to die in the early 2010s when all that networks would play is either bullshit or filler crap like mindless glamor TV. I wouldn't pay for that shit.

[@peterthespidey8505]

I wonder how people used to live without internet those days

[@soygato2722]

Peterthespidy Comics. Sticks. War.

[@MustraOrdo]

They were practically more social than our recent generations, I'll tell ya that.

[@MCMLXXXV.]

We spent time with friends and family, went out as well. Party. Read a book. Listened to radio. Watch tv. If you were a kid, you'd had your imagination on full blast. It was simple, but good.

[@HudaefCares]

Playing outside and TV. Reading books. Memorizing what time that show you liked went on. Waging war for the remote. I met more ppl like that than online, that's for sure.

[@Colddirector]

Imagine missing the first 5 minutes of your favourite show because you forgot it was on at that time. Imagine only being able to carry a few albums worth of songs in your pocket. Imagine being only able to make calls at a phone plugged into the wall. Imagine only being able to watch a movie if a local rental store happened to have it stocked. Despite that, god I miss the 90s.

[@Lindenborn17]

15:18 Borts!!! I dont know why but that made my day! Keep up the great work! its truly appreciated!

[@UnDark1]

I’m almost 40 and haven’t had cable since 2010. Before that I was torrenting, so I effectively cut the cord back in 2006. Today it’s all streaming on my iPhone or iPad, and gaming/family movie night on my TV.

[@MarquisdeL3]

I'm in my late 20's and I technically have cable (because I live in an apartment complex and it comes included), but it would be such a hassle to actually go through the process of getting the cable box set up that I haven't bothered. I've lived in this apartment for a year and a half.

[@kingslushie1018]

I think you should call this video, “the rise and fall of television”

[@wiatrakx]

but it didn't fall.

[@MustraOrdo]

@@wiatrakx ... yet.

[@wiatrakx]

@@MustraOrdo the future smells like pirates around here

[@MustraOrdo]

@@wiatrakx It is a strong odor indeed.

[@andrewscarpati9665]

"So, I can watch whatever you have on this here box, from the comfort of my own home?" "Yup, unless war were declared." "Wait, it stopped, and now my house has been blown into pieces." "War were declared."

[@roastedlemon]

I haven't sat down and watched actual tv for years. Mainly because my parents stopped getting it after our TV light bulb went out, I found out about Hulu and netflix, and never looked back.

[@jocefjose6004]

I can't even remember the last time i sat down for a 30-minute tv program. Maybe around a decade ago, i would only turn on the tv in my room to have some dim light. Nowadays i have cable tv for its internet alone.

[@Tall_Order]

Kinda funny that radio will outlast TV. Everyone who drives a car still listens to that.

[@lukedetering4490]

Probably because Radio doesn't distract the driver as much, and can help calm the driver during a long drive. TV would be a bad option because TV is very distracting and could cause injuries on the road

[@someguy227]

I listen to music off of my phone. You can even buy an adapter that lets you hook up your phone to a cassette player.

[@briandiehl9257]

If we get driverless cars, we might watch videos in the car instead killing the radio

[@Tall_Order]

I don't really like the idea of not driving my own car, especially if Google are the designers of the AI, but if someone else wants to do it fine.

[@Tall_Order]

Of course, it's just in order to get good internet while driving all over time you gotta have a data plan in your car radio, because otherwise you're gonna gain and lose wifi signals every so many feet. Right now the airwaves are more convenient and they cost nothing to listen to. Having said that I do occasionally plug my smartphone into my car radio using one of those audio jack to cassette tape adapters so i can listen to iheart stations. There's just some genres of music you don't hear on the airwaves.

[@MrAgLi]

As always, history has shown us that history never ask you to conserve and stays the same but to adapt and improve.

[@bananaman281]

I’m lucky to have been born in the early 2000s to be able to grow up with cable and now streaming in my late teens

[@PongoXBongo]

This discussion comes up when I go to visit my folks (who have cable TV) or they come to visit me (Internet-only). I ask them "how can you stand watching so many commercials?" and they ask me "how can you stand having to search for what you want before watching it (instead of just scrolling through channels)?" It's a trade-off either way. It seems like they prefer a smaller selection of programs that they can get more invested in, while I prefer a wider selection of programs that I don't need to be as invested in. But then the opposite happens as well with niche interests. They don't come across them as regularly and therefore don't really get into them, while I come across them much more often and tend to do so.

[@shaymorcormick8743]

A friend of mine was working for charter around 2014. He did sales and signups for their services. He told me how in one meeting they brought up a graph on tv service packages. It was booming in the 90s, peaked in 00s, and just plummeted from 09. He explained it looked like a cartoon going out of business graph. I think later that year or next they started dropping phone and tv bundle requirements for internet. That used to suck.