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the youtube TV model (which is also the Sony Vue (they're gone! heh) / Sling model) is nothing like the cable TV model, because these companies do not provide a
by zzzeek 5y ago
the youtube TV model (which is also the Sony Vue (they're gone! heh) / Sling model) is nothing like the cable TV model, because these companies do not provide any last mile physical infrastructure. therefore you can switch between any number of providers with no effort. Assuming the other providers can get their fucking act together techinically/user-experience-wise (YTV is like vastly better UX-wise, looks like PS VUE has already been shut down, sad), there's no way a single provider can gouge captive customers for $180 a month, because you can switch freely. meaning it becomes a market again! even liberal democrats like me like markets when they are appropriate.
my physical cable to my house is provided by Altice One, I have no option to switch that at all (no there's no FIOS or fiber option here). that's a monopoly.
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y ago> the youtube TV model (which is also the Sony Vue (they're gone! heh) / Sling model) is nothing like the cable TV model, because these companies do not provide any last mile physical infrastructure. Last mile infrastructure is not what I find objectionable about cable TV, and last mile infrastructure isn't going anywhere anyway. I want this to die: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast_programming and I don't care what medium is used to transmit it. Whether it's a coaxial cable, radio transmission from terrestrial tower or satellite, or the internet, it makes no difference to me. The format itself is what I find awful. > Sony Vue (they're gone! heh) Yeah, because broadcast programming is a dying format for boomers. I celebrate the demise of all of it, and any company that produces it.
- ghaff 5y agoIf you don't want to watch broadcast TV (I don't), don't watch it? I guess I don't get the hate. There are a ton of things I don't watch or listen to. And broadcast TV probably does now and then produce something I do want to watch on-demand.
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y agoI don't watch it. > I don't get the hate. I live in a society with people who do watch it. I don't like the way broadcast TV turned people into numbed couch potatoes watching hours of ads a day.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoThe ads are not any more of a problem than the content and the shitty content is available in many formats.
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y agoThe content itself is often ads. All of those pawn shop shows might as well be infomercials.
- ipaddr 5y agoAs opposed to netflix users who are more likely not to binge because not having ads and having the next show play makes it less easy to binge?
- BrazzVuvuzela 5y agoOne does not redeem the other.
- hashimotonomora 5y agoWouldn’t a liberal naturally be in favor of individual liberties and freedoms, and by extension of the free markets?
- ipaddr 5y agoLiberal means progressive which means giving up individual rights while controlling the market to protect individuals from bad choices.
- ByteJockey 5y agoOutside the US, yes. Inside the US, the term swapped to refer to social-liberalism rather than classical-liberalism during the great depression.