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by ghaff 820 days ago
I guess in my case, there's just very little that I feel I have to watch. So a few streaming services is fine and every now and then I'll buy/rent something a la carte either digital or physical. And once in a great while I wish I had live TV but not enough to pay for it. (I can't get anything over the air.) So, overall, it feels like a vast improvement and much cheaper.
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I feel the same way, but people I know like their TV and I don't judge them for that. I have my own idle happinesses. If my favorite things to do were available on the same terms as modern television, I'd probably be pretty unhappy about it.
Fair enough. Certainly, many people watch sports and/or like to have the TV on as background. And then they end up, as you say, either adding on a lot of services so they have access to "everything." (Or they have to spend effort managing their subscriptions.)