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My wife and I don't watch a ton of tv, but even with our couple of streaming services one can see how the bill starts to creep towards what traditional cable co

My wife and I don't watch a ton of tv, but even with our couple of streaming services one can see how the bill starts to creep towards what traditional cable costs. I can't imagine watching commercials ever again. I still think the og (Hbo) has the winning combination.

Terretta 4y ago
> HBO has "Had" Thanks to a past life making all this streaming stuff work in the first place, we still subscribe to “ALL THE THINGS!!!” We also tape[1] the shows we like, to more easily watch time-shifted. We could rely on provider DVRs, but when we first set this up, most didn't offer that, or only offered in terrible quality. In recent years, we nearly stopped. In 2021, for example, I didn't tape anything. In 2022, I did again because not all brands' DVRs supported offline viewing, and we're happy about it as we now find ourselves having taped things that have been taken off the services we pay to make their libraries available. We can still watch these, even though they've been memory-holed by the brand. If they keep this up, it will create a new market for an updated TiVo, at least as easy to use as a VCR (which the linked item is not). PS. Note that in US, time-shifting is fair use. Getting it to work is unreasonably difficult. A consumer product that simplified this would be cool but if too easy (a) would need a war-chest to defend itself, and (b) in that defense could put fair use itself at risk. - - - 1. i.e. https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-scribe-4k/ https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-scribe-4k/
- happyjack 4y ago
  I used to use an HD home run prime with rabbits ears and a plex server in my old apartment. They had a beta DVR that would scrub commercials (plex did). In all honesty, I'm pretty burn out by how much content is out there. The most enjoyment I get from tv these days is watching classic drama 90s movies (Denzel Washington, Matt Damon, etc.)

Terretta 4y ago

> HBO has "Had" Thanks to a past life making all this streaming stuff work in the first place, we still subscribe to “ALL THE THINGS!!!” We also tape[1] the shows we like, to more easily watch time-shifted. We could rely on provider DVRs, but when we first set this up, most didn't offer that, or only offered in terrible quality. In recent years, we nearly stopped. In 2021, for example, I didn't tape anything. In 2022, I did again because not all brands' DVRs supported offline viewing, and we're happy about it as we now find ourselves having taped things that have been taken off the services we pay to make their libraries available. We can still watch these, even though they've been memory-holed by the brand. If they keep this up, it will create a new market for an updated TiVo, at least as easy to use as a VCR (which the linked item is not). PS. Note that in US, time-shifting is fair use. Getting it to work is unreasonably difficult. A consumer product that simplified this would be cool but if too easy (a) would need a war-chest to defend itself, and (b) in that defense could put fair use itself at risk. - - - 1. i.e. https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-scribe-4k/ https://www.silicondust.com/product/hdhomerun-scribe-4k/

happyjack 4y ago
I used to use an HD home run prime with rabbits ears and a plex server in my old apartment. They had a beta DVR that would scrub commercials (plex did). In all honesty, I'm pretty burn out by how much content is out there. The most enjoyment I get from tv these days is watching classic drama 90s movies (Denzel Washington, Matt Damon, etc.)