Went home to visit my boomer parents for Thanksgiving and they watch a lot of TV. I should say they watch a lot of commercials.
I don't have CATV/SATV or whatever the GenXers and Boomers are consuming these days. I stream everything through a browser with adblock so I never see a commerical.
My god! It's commercial after commercial after commericial for seemingly the majority of the program. Even football games are all commercials now. Do they pause the game for 5 minute commercial breaks? I used to play college football. I don't remember putting the game on hold for 5-10 minute commercial breaks.
Modern television in unwatchable. It's like 1 minutes of show and then 3-5 minutes of commericals. It didn't used to be like this. In a 30 minute block, there was 22-24 minutes of show, now it's like 10-15 minutes of show and the rest is commercials. Modern TV is unwatchable! I burst a blood vessle in my eyeball in anger.
The next day we all sat down for breakfast with the TV on, of course, and we all finished our meals before the commercial break ended. WTF, DUDE!!?
Anyways, I'm trying to get them to cut the cable.
In their defense, streaming sucks dick. I haven’t seen a stream that isn’t plagued by lagginess and / or bouts of shitty resolution. Pharma ads are a necessary evil in exchange for avoiding that.
Or you can just pirate like a normal person and get the best experience for free without supporting those who hate us...
There's no excuse for someone posting on this board not to pirate. It's impossible to get normies to pirate, especially the older ones because it requires a tiny amount of tech knowledge and they want their shit to just work. It's the only reason predatory cable companies are still in business.
Nothing worth pirating.
What if we are new to the pirating world? What is the best sites, what to watch out for, etc?
just install qbittorent and setup/use it's search function.
you can also start looking into setting up a htpc with sonarr etc. to automate the process and get a frontend like kodi on your tv.
i stil use the good old combo of libreelec on a raspberry pi, and another raspberry with external drives as cheap homeserver/weatherstation.
edit. also on libreelec use the moonlight/sunshine combo to stream your pc, not steamlink. steamlink sucks in comparison
In my experience, pirated streams suck dick even worse than official streams. Maybe my old age, but if someone can point me to a place where I can find streams that aren’t laggy as fuck / potato quality, I’d be very happy to do that.
It's because browsers don't buffer video like they used to. In a fine example of fixing what isn't broken and adding a 'feature' nobody asked for, they made it more "efficient" and now you can't pause at the beginning and do something else while your show buffers, then enjoy uninterrupted viewing. There's probably browser plug-ins to buffer the old way.
If I had to guess, they've probably been adjusting their default buffering parameters to factor in a wider range of devices and their more limited memory capacities.
And/or possibly to somehow reduce network strain.
But yes, there are some browser plugins like you suggested. I don't know how well they work on paywalled streaming services though.
Download a "file" which contains the media. The "file" resides on your device and you can play it whenever you want.
Spare me the condescension. There’s plenty of content that is best viewed live. Not everything is weeb shit or whatever the fuck you’re into.
Again, why are you streaming rather than downloading and running after its complete?
I’m mostly watching live sporting events, rather than pre-recorded content.
You’ll be happy to know TV existed just fine before pharma commercials.