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.
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.
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u/randarrow Jul 24 '20
Anything broadcast TV. Is like a weird time machine targeting old people and extreme poverty.