I no longer care what is on tv anymore. I partly blame FR for fueling my contempt for big entertainment. Good Bad or Indifferent the quality of the content doesn’t move me to want to watch anything. Ditto the movies, spectator sports, the so called news and whatever else is considered a staple of the mass media. I imagine this attitude should save me a great deal of money in years to come.
Fox News had a constant “BONG!” every 15 minutes announcing a new “breaking news” story in their running byline. It was not true breaking news—it was only to manipulate you into paying closer attention to their channel. Of course, it made me turn it off in disgust. They had manipulated me for a while and then I realized my stupidity in believing they would ever have something important there.
We are saving a ton of money with videos from the library, watching 77 FREE stations from our antenna, and the large amount of free content on Amazon Prime for the flat yearly fee. We even get free same day delivery on a number of items, when getting $35 or more. We also are watching a bunch of free 4K resolution Amazon shows (4X the resolution of HD). Amazon made its own shows using that format, and we had ‘t realized that until we plugged in our Prime access into our new Roku 4K TV.
The 4K content never showed to us on our computers when watching Prime. It took a 4K TV to make it appear.
A very nice surprise for a $249 Black Friday television.