10-16-2024, 04:56 PM
(10-16-2024, 04:11 PM)argentus Wrote: I'm in a different zone than you all, but I most definitely understand your angst. Where I live, my choices are $2800/year for DISH, local "cable" that doesn't have a lot of useful channels, but there are a hundred or so throwaways, or the choice we are currently using:
IP TV box that gets almost everything, but there is no overall guide, plus, it buffers freqiemtly, but it's cheap. AND Da Da duuuuum, $16 per month NetFlix. I don't get any ads. I think that would finish it for me. So far, I am entertained. I can get my sports and network garbage on the IP, and movies and a few interesting series on NetFlix. I can't stand U.S. "NEWS" stations. The political crap is overwhelming, and who hasn't already made up their minds? So, I watch BBC, which, for the most part is like an unsmiling person accompanied by a ASL person telling me what was blown up yesterday, with a side order of UK weather, sports and a smaller dash of UK politics. PERfect.
I hope I'm wrong, but the days of "no ads" are disappearing... imagine that "ads" are now a thing to be threatened with! You actually have to pay "more" to exclude solicitation... back when this was new they would have maintained "never!"
It is amazing how little resistance they publicly recognize... trying to maintain that they need the ad revenue to operate... when the operating cost is what you're paying them for in the first place.
Lies.
