"If only there were some sort of way to … bundle all these channels together. And then pipe them straight to your TV with some sort of … cable."
FOR REAL. I can't believe the streaming services model hasn't imploded already. It's unwieldy and expensive and annoying. I can see the point with sports, because we get better coverage of niche …
"If only there were some sort of way to … bundle all these channels together. And then pipe them straight to your TV with some sort of … cable."
FOR REAL. I can't believe the streaming services model hasn't imploded already. It's unwieldy and expensive and annoying. I can see the point with sports, because we get better coverage of niche sports than we've ever had before. But with shows and movies, it just doesn't make sense.
I love that it's unbundled. I pay for the shows I want; I don't pay for what I don't want and I can watch what I want when I want. I see no downside to the death of cable.
Every time someone argued for unbundling cable I said, over and over again, "you're going to wind up paying the same for fewer channels/options." The big plus of streaming/apps is that you can time-shift everything, it's all OnDemand forever, and that's not nothing. But I kind of prefer the old days when there were 80-some channels (and then 200-some channels) and 95% of those channels I'd only watch three times a year, but they were always THERE.
Good points, but I have so much more free time now that I don't channel surf for 90 minutes straight to avoid ubiquitous commercials and lame reality shows.
"If only there were some sort of way to … bundle all these channels together. And then pipe them straight to your TV with some sort of … cable."
FOR REAL. I can't believe the streaming services model hasn't imploded already. It's unwieldy and expensive and annoying. I can see the point with sports, because we get better coverage of niche sports than we've ever had before. But with shows and movies, it just doesn't make sense.
I love that it's unbundled. I pay for the shows I want; I don't pay for what I don't want and I can watch what I want when I want. I see no downside to the death of cable.
Every time someone argued for unbundling cable I said, over and over again, "you're going to wind up paying the same for fewer channels/options." The big plus of streaming/apps is that you can time-shift everything, it's all OnDemand forever, and that's not nothing. But I kind of prefer the old days when there were 80-some channels (and then 200-some channels) and 95% of those channels I'd only watch three times a year, but they were always THERE.
Good points, but I have so much more free time now that I don't channel surf for 90 minutes straight to avoid ubiquitous commercials and lame reality shows.
On the other hand I am not subsidizing Fox News Or OANN. I get to choose where my money goes.
Completely agree. I was in favor of unbundling and I continued to prefer to pick and choose.