Navigation is a little clunky, but I'm betting next versions will be better.

People will prune providers.

interesting numbers 🤔.....

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FOX did a rate hike, along with Verizon in general, so I cut cable and just went internet & phone.

$90/mo after taxes for 1GB speed. I don't miss cable TV at all.

The rate hike that forced me to cut service was a jump from $225 to $287 a month.

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and DU.

That's as much News and Entertainment that I need. And, it's been going on for Years!

electrical and it makes it like your tv is plugged into your router.

cable is a LOT more.

I only stream tv shows.

I haven't missed cable either.

I'd rather be online.

Been streaming only for probably eight or nine years now.

Smart TVs or $25 Chromecast on the non-smart ones. Everything can be selected and cast off the phone. Problem solved.

Cheaper, too. Currently paying $50/mo for all our stuff. Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Max, Disney+, and Showtime. I think that's all of it. Then an additional $10 for Spotify, because we're heavy music types. I think our internet itself is $60 for 1GB speed or something stupid like that.

So about $120/month for our total tv/internet situation. Feels reasonable.

for the most part. How many reality shows can a person be expected to think are actually real? How soon we forget they only came about because of the first writer's strike.

Not that Direct TV is traditional tv, but even with them, all the stations do is rerun old and ancient tv programs.... and the same thrust of movies run every weekend, only on different channels, as they've all been divvied up and owned by a few select individuals.

You really don't dare get involved in the few shows that (at least) start out on a major station. If they don't shake the world and make more gobs of money that anything else, the shows are cancelled in the first season.

Frankly, I enjoy getting into bed at night and streaming an old SciFi Channel series. Until NBC bought them out, SciFi Channel had some good shows... like Sanctuary, Stargate, etc. Network execs took over, and half the time SyFy channel doesn't even broadcast a scifi show! At least, I've never been able to figure out the SciFi angle in XXX, Fast and the Furious, etc.

And don't even get me started on the Science channel! ARGH!!!!!

January 27, 2012. It was the finale of Chuck. That was the last broadcast television we watched. We'd quit cable television years before.

I'd quit television news and opinion shortly after 9/11/2001. I couldn't take any more hyperbole, speculation, and propaganda.

My wife was never a fan of television news and opinion. We read most of our news, and listen to some on our local public radio station.

We only watched video cassettes and DVDs for a few years, mostly I found those in thrift stores. Then one of our kids, home from college, set us up with Netflix.

I've entirely lost any tolerance I once had for television commercials so the free streaming services don't interest me. I tried Roku for one movie but that was enough. I deleted the app.

It's ironic that when I was young I wanted to be an electronics engineer, probably in television. Two years into college I changed my major to biology. My mom worked in radio mostly and sometimes in television.

My adult children and their cousins don't pay any attention at all to traditional "linear" television or radio. It simply doesn't exist in their universe. They've never had cable or satellite, their televisions have never been programmed to receive over-the-air broadcasts, and they use their automobile sound systems exclusively as bluetooth speakers for their cell phones.

I'll pay to make commercials go away or I won't watch at all if I can't do that or I don't think it's worth the money.

And quite frankly I don’t miss it one bit.

My brother still pays for cable. If he didn’t, I wouldn’t miss it. (His kids would though. They have soooooooo much on the DVR from the kid channels…lol.)

Now we're talking.

1. News
2. Baseball
3. Football

It has been cheap to entice viewers up until now, but their prices are going to increase soon to cable like levels. Like broadcast TV, cheapest tier streaming is going to come with ads.

I have cable on one TV for sports mostly, but my other TVs just have a regular antenna. With the demise of regional sports networks, I won't be surprised if some local pro teams return to local broadcast TV stations. In Pittsburgh, the local pro soccer team and DIII college football are now on a sister station of KDKA (CBS).

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/streaming-services-now-cost-more-082024739.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

It's lost it's Monopoly for absorbing Americans' attention. That's what happens when new technology enters the media industry.

They're still breaking billions. You can't call that close to dead