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I'm just not seeing 35$ a month worth of value. Sit coms? Get a grip, man. I feel like they should pay me to watch them. TV is a wasteland. Some cable channels

I'm just not seeing 35$ a month worth of value. Sit coms? Get a grip, man. I feel like they should pay me to watch them. TV is a wasteland. Some cable channels are pretty good. SciFi, Comdey Central, sometimes FX. (I don't like giving money to Fox, but Always Sunny is the funniest thing ever made.) If they had a way to pick channels and only pay for those, that would be worth looking at. EDIT: Do you still have to watch commercials? I don't see anything about commercials. If there are commercials then not just "no", but "hell, f*ck you for asking, no".

andrewguenther 10y ago
You can't bash on sitcoms and call SyFy "pretty good." In my opinion, half the stuff in SyFy is worse than sitcoms.
- chadgeidel 10y ago
  SyFy has really upped their game in the past year or so. The Expanse, Killjoys, and The Magicians are good TV.
  - losvedir 10y ago
    I'm actually really enjoying The Expanse and The Magicians (to the point where I bought one on Google Play and the other on iTunes). What's really cool is that I bought the current season up front and then get to watch the new episodes the day (or maybe day after?) they're released. I'm not sure if Syfy is the only channel doing that, but before these shows I was used to only being able to buy the season after it was released (e.g. Game of Thrones box set). I'll have to check out Killjoys, given that you've put it between the two other shows that I enjoy. Thanks for the rec.
    - wmf 10y ago
      All networks are releasing shows the next day (except HBO has same day).
  - youdontknowtho 10y ago
    The Expanse is fantastic.
coryfklein 10y ago
Yea, let's see, $35 for content interrupted incessantly with commercials vs $8 Netflix where everything is on-demand and commercial free? That may only be economical for me if I ran out of things to watch on Netflix, and with the rate at which Netflix is producing stellar content that horizon is moving out further every day. Personally, I value this kind of "TV" service around $5 a month, and I estimate it will reach that pricing in ~15 years, at which time I will purchase a subscription.

andrewguenther 10y ago

You can't bash on sitcoms and call SyFy "pretty good." In my opinion, half the stuff in SyFy is worse than sitcoms.

chadgeidel 10y ago
SyFy has really upped their game in the past year or so. The Expanse, Killjoys, and The Magicians are good TV.
- losvedir 10y ago
  I'm actually really enjoying The Expanse and The Magicians (to the point where I bought one on Google Play and the other on iTunes). What's really cool is that I bought the current season up front and then get to watch the new episodes the day (or maybe day after?) they're released. I'm not sure if Syfy is the only channel doing that, but before these shows I was used to only being able to buy the season after it was released (e.g. Game of Thrones box set). I'll have to check out Killjoys, given that you've put it between the two other shows that I enjoy. Thanks for the rec.
  - wmf 10y ago
    All networks are releasing shows the next day (except HBO has same day).
- youdontknowtho 10y ago
  The Expanse is fantastic.

coryfklein 10y ago

Yea, let's see, $35 for content interrupted incessantly with commercials vs $8 Netflix where everything is on-demand and commercial free? That may only be economical for me if I ran out of things to watch on Netflix, and with the rate at which Netflix is producing stellar content that horizon is moving out further every day. Personally, I value this kind of "TV" service around $5 a month, and I estimate it will reach that pricing in ~15 years, at which time I will purchase a subscription.