Put on some reading glasses and earphones and hold your phone about 3 inches from your nose and you suddenly have a 72 inch widescreen TV with Dolby digital sound.
I wouldn’t recommend the iPhone for viewing movies and TV programs for any extended viewing. But for viewing here and there, once in a while, it will suffice.
HOWEVER, with an iPad, it’s terrific - and it’s super convenient. Sometimes I can’t get in to watch a program because of others in the house grabbing the TV (and we’re talking about several people and several TVs). I seem to be low man on the totem pole ... :-) ...
The iPad works great for me.
My wife and I are in our seventies. We have the tablets and smartphones, but when it’s time for us to watch a favorite TV show or good movie, we retreat to our home theater. HD projector shooting on to a 10 foot screen with a great sound system. Far better than holding the smartphone up to your nose.
Incentive: Add up the cost of a cellphone with a data plan and your landline phone and the cable & internet bill then x it by 5 years.... shocking! I estimated mine at $12 to 15 thousand! I coulda bought a new car or used it as a down payment on a house!
You will then cut the cable tv and ditch the landline and get the internet only then the get T-Mobile $30 plan with 5gb 4g data that slows to 3g afterwards if used up before the month is over. You get only 100 mins but you can get the google voice app to use your data for phone calls.
Uses 1mb to 3mb for one minute of calling.
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans
$35 + $45 (includes tax)= $80 a month and you have phone and internet and tv (need wifi enable tv with multiple wifi and hdmi ports)
Go here among other sites for many shows. http://watchseries.lt