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I suspect there's a correlation between having the money and desire to own a TV and having the money and desire to pay for content, as opposed to consuming content on devices like phones which are more likely to be owned even by people who don't care about media viewing experience enough to pay for it.

Not to say there won't be plenty of people watching free content on TVs and premium content on phones and computers, just different ratios.

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Do people not get TVs by default anymore?

Even treating it as an extra expense, a 40" TV is $3 per month when you average it over 4-5 years. It's so much cheaper than any paid content you might consider.

I don't have one. First because it is an eyesore. Second because most of the content I watch live is not in the living room but somewhere else. That somewhere else being any room in the house and I would definitely not want a 40" eyesore on every single room. Most of the time if I am watching something live I am doing something else at the same time, like cooking, building or repairing stuff so it is just more convenient to use a laptop for this.

For movies I have a beamer in the living room, the only wall without furnitures, flowers or frames being the screen.

Having said that, I don't know why we oppose "physical TVs" with youtube here. All TVs nowadays have youtube apps or can be plugged a device with the app on it, and every single TV channel on planet earth nowadays as a way to access it from a web browser.

I thought about ditching my TV with my next move, but I've actually started switching all my video content consumption back to the living room (via an Apple TV).

I watch no traditional television, but I feel like after years of sitting at my desk to watch "content", I forgot how comfortable a good couch and a glass is, and the Apple TV apps are gradually getting better. Some are even good.

(Although I was recently exposed to a proper "Smart TV" for the first time whose software was beyond awful, so I can understand people thinking TVs are no longer worth it.)

>I suspect there's a correlation between having the money and desire to own a TV

TVs are pretty darn cheap.

Certainly cheaper than smart phones.

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