Posted on 12/19/2017 12:39:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
I cut loose of the satellite a couple of months ago. If I had a DVR, I would never miss it.
We still use Amazon Prime and YouTube and find enough to watch that way (we only watch maybe 4 hours a week tops anyway.)
Same here. My neighbor cut his 5 years ago. All internet. Heck, he mostly downloads his shows ONLY by torrent.
And you touch on a good point, of how you watch up to 4 hours a week. People with busy lives just don’t have hours and hours a week to devote to all these entertainment options.
People have told me how great Netflix is, I should get it, etc. etc. And I just am not motivated, in part because, I do have a life, other things going on in life, and just don’t feel motivated to sign on. Similar to you, I find things on Youtube, and still have conventional satellite TV, so I am not at a lack of things to watch when I want to chill out and just watch TV.
He hasn't gone to jail yet?
Bump.
Does anyone know if the ISPs will start throttling bits from netflix and others?
I now subscribe to britbox. I missed all the great brit-coms, mysteries and dramas so now I can watch whenever I like. $6.99/ mo. ;o)
Now if only they could put some decent movies on their streaming service, 99.5% suck.
Got a notification that they are raising prices the other day.
“Does anyone know if the ISPs will start throttling bits from netflix and others?”
Probably not. Even leftist Yahoo writes that the claims of providers doing that are fear mongering.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/heres-can-expect-fcc-kills-net-neutrality-153211716.html
They didn't before Net Neutrality so would they now?
I'm here at home all day working and it's never on.
In the evening after dinner, we might plop down at that time to watch something, but my wife will fall asleep within minutes, and then I'll go back to reading my book.
Classic case of the “innovators dilemma”. While the cable companies were focused on maintain subscribers and shoving more channels of worthless crap at us, an innovator came along, initially underperformed but found a niche, and now is an existential threat. If this hadn’t happened in other industries, we’d still be using zip drives and TVs wouldn’t hang on the wall.
Do u happen to know the difference between Britbox, Acorn, PBS, Masterpiece Theatre? They are all British are they not?
“consumers faced with too many choices” except the choice they want: ala carte.
Maybe the evil, controlling government should require all programs to be offered to all services, for a moderate premium.
You do not really believe PBS is British, do you?
Exactly
Seems like PBS gets a lot of funding from left-wing Annenberg Foundation, no? (I don’t actually know) - but seems like I’ve seen them referenced more than a couple of times.
No, I wasn’t thinking.
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