re: Has all the new technology screwed up the way you watch TV now?

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I grew up in the 50's and 60's and there was a time when our family actually gathered around the television to watch our favorite TV shows together

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We don't have cable, and none of my kids have tablets or phones. We have Netflix and Amazon Prime, but rarely use those. We do like to sit around together like you said and watch The Andy Griffith Show, and it's really an enjoyable family activity.
I gotta be honest, though; sometimes Andys show is a little progressive for my tastes.

What I like about new technology is NO COMMERCIALS!!!! I'm willing to wait sometimes, until the shows I want get picked up. But not always. That's why God made DVRs and fast forward buttons - to save and then zip thru the commercials.

Last resort: on-demand replays. Then offending commercials can't be zapped away...

I do regret that everything is a little less special now that the internet, cable, and streaming services provide everything instantly. (Not that I don't understand that my life is infinitely better because of modern tech.)

It's nice to see that people still get excited when TCM is airing something good. That used to be a common occurrence, getting excited because TV guide had some great movie listed for the weekend.

I was a bigger VHS geek than I am a DVD/BluRay geek. Mostly because I was poor as frick in the VHS era, and I couldn't afford much if any cable. And streaming has killed my need for DVD fixes. I have favorite movies and series on DVD, but I'm more likely to check them out on Netflix than to pop in a DVD.

My little grandson gets mad when he sees me looking at comic book covers online, and he goes to press the image to make the "movie" play and it doesn't play. In his world movies play whenever you touch the image of the movie.

Sports and Game of Thrones are the only shows I watch live (maybe the local news for weather)...and both of those I only watch live because I can't trust the internet or my co-workers to ruin them for me. I'd probably watch GOT on delay if that was the case, but I don't think I could wait to see sports more than a couple of hours after they happened.

With 3 kids 7 and under, we're usually not done with baths/bedtime routine until 8 or so, and it's nice to be able to watch the shows we like on Exodus without any commercials, and not worry about missing the shows that start at 7. I need all the time I can get, so if missing out on commercials means I can get to bed 30 mns earlier or can watch one more show that I wouldn't otherwise be able to fit in, then I'm all for it.

I remember seeing the netflix app on my Xbox, started streaming The Office and cut that MF the next month.

Cable can suck my BBC