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I don't disagree with your overall point, but calling cable ad-filled compared to streamers like Netflix, Disney+, and HBO Max is a little unfair because you ar
by slg 4y ago
I don't disagree with your overall point, but calling cable ad-filled compared to streamers like Netflix, Disney+, and HBO Max is a little unfair because you are comparing live TV with on demand TV. As long as you aren't watching live content, which you can't even do with most streamers, it is pretty easy to avoid ads with cable since DVRs have been an option for decades. If you are watching live content like with streamers like Hulu or YoutubeTV, you will see just as many ads streaming as you do with cable.
- colinmhayes 4y agoYoutubeTV is cable, not a streamer.
- slg 4y agoWhat is your definition for "cable" and "streamer"?
- colinmhayes 4y agocable is a collection of tv channels. Streaming is a collection of on demand content.
- mbreese 4y agoThat’s what it means for you. In many contracts it refers to the medium of transmission. Cable requires a coax cable. Streaming comes over the top on an internet connection (which ironically might be provided via a coax cable). I, for example, get my live TV as a bundle of channels from DirecTV stream. It’s called “stream”. It requires no cable box, is a mix of live and on demand, and I can receive it anywhere over the internet (phone, home, work, etc). I’d never consider this cable. I’d also never consider satellite delivered TV cable, even if they are very similar. I think the nuances are a little more subtle than you are admitting.
- slg 4y agoWhat is a TV channel? Several streamers align their content into different verticals. When I log into Disney+, the first thing I see is a selector for Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic. Are those channels? What is a "collection" of TV channels? ESPN+ allows me to watch what is currently airing on ESPN, ESPN2, etc. Their content is primarily live rather than on demand, but they only offer a very limited scope of content that all falls under the same category and only originates from the same family of channels. Are they actually cable? Don't basically all cable companies offer some form of on demand content? Are they all streamers too? Honestly, I don't care about the answers to these questions. They are rhetorical to show that it is hard to draw nice clean lines around these which is part of my original point that ads isn't what defines cable. Ads come with live content, not with the distribution channel for that content.
- scarface74 4y agoYou’re not “avoiding ads” by manually having to skip over them.