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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
by 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.