There are several services that you can subscribe to individually. Most of the lean left but the deal is you get to pick the one that rather than being forced.
You need a computer but it does not have to be a super expensive one and a TV, both need an HDMI plug. Effectively you use your TV as a monitor and subscribe to various streaming services
They all have free trial periods and for the most part they are easy to cancel
The four biggies are
Netflix
Amazon Prime
Hulu
CBS All Access
My opinion:
Hulu is worthless.
Netflix is pretty good in that it is easy to tailor the setting to avoid what you don’t want to see and has the easiest interface. Yes there is a lot of offensive material but there are also a lot of Christian movies and stuff from the Hallmark Channel and older movies. For the price it is hard to beat.
Amazon has a HUGE selection of things in prime as well as dozens of ass on “Channels” for specialty interest including sports but the interface is cumbersome. Maybe if you don’t think the Alexa talking box is Satanic it is easier.
CBS All Access should be called CBS Some Access. NOt every show done by CBS is there and not every show has all episodes. It is still pretty good but Netflix still has a better interface
You can subscribe most major sports leagues through their websites. I generally buy a video subscription to MLB each year
There are also smaller streaming services like
MHz from Italy that only streams mysteries.They’ve recently done a remake of the Rex Stout Nero Wolfe mysteries.
Many local TV stations have a website that carries the local news and locally produced programs
(Yes I know about the censorship issues) You can also find a huge selection of older programs and documentaries, of various video quality, on YouTube and other sites.
Should be “Add on channels” not “ass on channels” To my knowledge Amazon doesn’t have a porn channel
Ok, slow down! I get the drift. Right now we use a local isp with the signal from the top of a local mountain - wireless. Slow, no streaming! It’s $50/month. I asked the wrong ?. What I wanted to know is if we went with cable net it would be $45/month, with cable tv another $45/month.
If we subscribed to web/tv it would cost us $40-$50 /month, so why not get the internet/tv package for $90/month and have a larger selection of programs. I don’t see the advantage of streaming tv
Hulu recently did an update that makes it a lot better.
DirectTV NOW is now competing.
https://www.directvnow.com/thegoodstuff2?aa_ref=https://www.google.com/
I like tv shows though.
I get a free MLB subscription from T-Mobile every year. But it is really useless to me since the games I want to see are blacked out in my area. I have taken to using MLBStreams on Reddit...Sorry
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