Cable is a stinking pile of sog stuff. 90% of the channels are garbage and the picture quality sucks. I recently put an old-fashioned $40 antenna in my attic. It pulls in 156 channels (I’m in OC, CA about 40mi from Mt Wilson and 80mi from San Diego).
Compared with the 148 channels Spectrum provided (about 1/2 where duplicates) the quality is better on the few I watch intermittently (PBS, ABC, CBS...)
The crazy thing is my bill dropped from over $200 to $70 (for just internet).
Yea, I’m and idiot for not doing it sooner.
The only thing is, once the streaming market has dominated, there is nothing stopping it to also turning into crap full of advertisements.
I remember when cable was cheap and as-free.
The transition looks good because it has too (to lure customers away from cable). My bet is that it’s only a matter of time till “personilized ads” are forced upon you.
YouTube has definitely become more and more ad-ridden since its inceptions, and the ads are definitely personalized (though badly). There are now videos with multiple ad interruptions, a bit like ye olde TV. I do think one difference here is that on YouTube, if a video is full of ads, I won't keep watching long unless the content is solid and interesting. I, as a watcher, have a choice as to what I watch. Though of course, YouTube could fix that by imposing the same amount of ads on all videos.
I use YouTube Red, no ads, ever. And you get access to the entire Google music library.
Can't beat it for $7.99/month.
I use uBlock Origin. No ads, ever. And you get access to all the music uploaded to YouTube.
$0.00/month
I'm clearly not the only one who came up with such an idea: