i wonder if there’s enough TV available on streaming services by now that a person could watch TV continuously from birth to death during their waking hours without repeating an episode
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I have no doubt about this. None. Especially if we’re only counting waking hours.
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Almost certainly yes ― I'd be extremely surprised if that were not the case. I guess it also depends on how you define "TV", though. There are orders of magnitude more playlists of episodic content on YouTube than e.g. whatever is tracked in IMDb, I think.
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Definitely. It might be a challenge if you limited it to free services or age appropriate material or certain languages, maybe
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I'm not sure how many hours of TV are produced worldwide each year but I'm pretty sure more hours of TV are produced than there are hours in the year. If that's true then you only need a portion produced to go on streaming services to have 24/7 new stream projected into your eyes
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We probably hit this point years ago, and that’s just for professionally produced TV. About a lifetime’s amount of video is uploaded to YouTube every *day*, even accounting for music and duplicates, that’s still a ton of stuff on that one website.
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with US average life expectancy that's 460k hours. based on a few random googles im finding all of netflix is ~36k hours and hbo max is 10k hours. so i think we're probably in the right order of magnitude, but maybe could go either way on precise number depending on definition.
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How did you get 460k hours? That comes out as around 52 years
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