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 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.
I'm referring to what BeefyBelisarius mentioned with addons that allow you to properly prebuffer larger amounts of a video. I've used one that seems to work (forgot the name), but I've not tested it on sites like Netflix.
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.
You never mentioned sports in any of your comments. There were two possibilities:
I apologize for giving you the benefit of the doubt.
Edit:
Sorry. I missed that the first time. My mistake. Good luck. I hope Tyrone scores all the points.
Ahh, predictable. Some of us actually weigh less than 400 lbs and played sports and have some appreciation for the athleticism that’s involved in this stuff, and we can tune out the surrounding cuckoldry. I’m sorry (sincerely) if you got bullied by braindead jocks for liking anime or whatever, but stop being retarded.
Anyway, the op explicitly mentions sports, so I kind of figured you could put two and two together.
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.