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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Are you watching shows (with actors, scripts, directors, producers) on it? Then yes. Saturday Night Live is TV whether watched live on cable/satellite/antenna, live on Youtube/Hulu/Sling, streamed on Hulu, Youtube, Netflix, Amazon. On a TV, PC, laptop, tablet, or phone. Same for any show/series produced for consumption by audiences. How you "watch TV" hasn't been limited to the type of device you're looking at for a long time now.
Let me ask you a question. What is the distinction you're trying to make? How is being curled up with a tablet watching a show on low volume with subtitles a different activity than being curled up watching the same show on low volume with subtitles on a television?
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I don't watch anything on Youtube, it was just a question.
To my mind, it's not really the device (after all, one can watch cable TV on a tablet as well, so my mention of a tablet was more of a joke), but the program. I've always thought of TV as a fixed program, where I can't really choose what I watch. Or when, except within the limits of a fixed period (a week with my cable subscription). Yes, I can change channels, but the program is still pre-determined on another channel as well. With streaming services I can choose whatever I want to watch or when, even months after the initial release. So I've never thought of them as television. Perhaps there's something different about TV in the US, the selection between different providers and channels is almost certainly bigger.
I don't think watching TV makes someone a worse person in some way. All my family members and acquaintances watch TV, after all. And I can't say I never watch cable TV either. I do watch something once or twice a month, perhaps.