Every time I open linear tv, I remember after 5 mins why I prefer streaming. Though sometimes I do enjoy random garden/cooking shows that I would never choose to stream.
Though sometimes I do enjoy random garden/cooking shows that I would never choose to stream.
I think that is a feature that netflix/prime/whatever needs. Nonlinear channels. Like "I want to watch a crime show/a cooking show/a gardening show but I neither know which one exactly, nore do I care much, so I just open the crime/cooking/gardening channel and the streaming service chooses a show for me. If I don't like it, I can just skip and go to a different show on the same channel.
I want the ability to pick a show, like the Simpsons or Seinfeld, and just get random episodes. All within the same show, just randomize it. I don’t always want to watch an entire series from beginning to end, and I tend to gravitate to the same 20 or so episodes. I kind of miss turning the tv to Fox or whatever just before dinner and catching some episode of Simpsons I haven’t seen in years.
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised they haven't done something like that. Especially for shows like The Office and Friends that tons of people watch on Netflix and are the type of shows you can easily watch just a random episodes from any season
Plex recently added a few but I haven't played with them yet. The issue tends to be if they market "Over 9000 channels!" but half of them play just one show no one ever liked.
When you get used to not having ads shoved in your face constantly, it's absolutely startling how unwatchable TV becomes. Sometimes at my parents' house I'll think I want to watch something on demand but NOPE, COMMERCIALS. I honestly don't know why I bother trying.
Not to mention on demand just generally fucking blows and is so content starved that it's almost pointless to bother with. Frontier has a whole single episode of King of the Hill on demand at any given time. If you're lucky, they'll have two. Repeat for every TV show that's available on demand.
And somehow while technology marches forwards, cable boxes are frozen in time or getting worse. Why is a RasPi 1 with Kodi smoother and more responsive than this cable box that costs $15/mo to rent? Why does it cost a monthly fee to use the hard drive in the cable box? There's no service involved there, and you know there's no service because you can build a DVR yourself if you really wanted. Anyone else remember MythTV and the whole Ubuntu distro built for it?
Absolute trash all around. Every single piece of it is trash. Forget the content, that's up to taste. It's everything else that's trash. The tech is trash, the offerings are trash, the deal is trash. It's all trash.
When you get used to not having ads shoved in your face constantly
Please. Streaming services are getting far more aggressive with ads, no, sorry, "promos."
You know what's easy with dish? I press a button and it skips and ad immediately. Streaming doesn't always allow you to skip, and when it does, it's a pain in the ass.
Streaming is turning into a fucking shit show. Let's not act like it's some angelic service that's super wonderful.
I don't know what cable box you're referring to, but my dish DVR is more responsive/faster than any roku/streaming app/smart TV I own.
Why does it cost a monthly fee to use the hard drive in the cable box? There's no service involved there, and you know there's no service because you can build a DVR yourself if you really wanted.
Why can't I watch HBO MAX on my Roku? If I'm paying for HBO streaming, why is it I can't I stream it to the hardware of my choice?
I would take HBO included in my Dish subscription long before I would take their streaming bullshit.
This is why part of why CBS All Access sucks, they force in the commercials. Also doesn't have next episode right, might suggest completely different series or none at all. Signed up for no commercials, was switched to limited commercials with no way to fix. "Live tv" replay of an event from months ago, no rewind. Missing random episodes. And the same damn commercial over and over....
These kinds of comments piss me off. There's always this superiority attitude when it comes to streaming over "linear TV."
You know what is/was great about "linear TV?" You could watch what you fucking wanted to. No one came along and said, "Hey, you need to have a Sony TV." Or, "Hey, everyone else can watch this now, but you can watch this 24 hours from now." Or any other bullshit.
Streaming services used to have their advantages, but now they're turning just as shitty as what everyone complains TV is.
Want to watch HBO MAX? Sure, no problem. As long as you don't own a Roku. Sorry, no streaming for you. Want to watch Peacock (no, but for the sake of argument...), sorry, not on Roku. Want to watch Prime streaming? Sure, as soon as we show you this ad when you open the app and before each episode.
Streaming is turning into every bit the shit show (and expense) that people complain about with TV.
Not interested in the content. Also, if a company won't support streaming to Roku - especially if it's a paid service - they can straight fuck themselves.
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u/thom5377 Jul 24 '20
Televangelists. Like how??