[SamAdams76]

Death of Cable TV is happening. Good riddance to that vast wasteland of utter degradation and junk, as well as the entire crumbling Fake News empire.

View on demand is here to stay. Cut your cable and give your dollars to streaming services that are deserving of your hard earned dollars.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Still no a la carte menu.

[sauropod]

Is it cheaper?

[Maris Crane]

My feminine side wants to ask a question that many will consider ...stupid.

Is it possible to hack ROKU?

Don’t be mean in answering...if anyone wants to answer.

[napscoordinator]

It definitely is. Still this is very dishonest to compare the channels when the networks are on repeats for summer. I guess anything to get their agenda.

[rarestia]

Good riddance to that vast wasteland of utter degradation and junk, as well as the entire crumbling Fake News empire.

Umm... have you seen how split up the streaming services have become? It's more expensive than ever to "watch TV," but the quality is trash.

[43north]

Ever since I got St. Elon’s wonderful Starlink service I have been streaming. It costs less than Dish, has much more selection, and I get blazing fast Internet service as well.

[TomGuy]

Netflix had the largest slice of streaming time

Netflix became competitive by introducing binge watching, where they would drop all episodes of a season at once. More recently they have gone to weekly episodes on some new series.

Amazon Prime is probably their biggest competitor in streaming. AP does the binge thing of dropping a season of episodes at once. However, they, too, have begun weekly drops on some of their series. AP also has a tendency to bait-and-switch by offering a couple of episodes or seasons and then require subscribing (paying) for more service to finish the series.

Both Netflix and Amazon Prime seem to rely on a lot of foreign series and movies. Some are dubbed in English; others are just closed caption. The quality is waning on both services.

The major networks have tried to jump into streaming, with varying levels of success. CBS has Paramount+. NBC has Peacock. ABC/FOX have HULU. Several of them also support TUBI. Every major outlet is trying to have their own streaming service -- for an additional charge, of course. Even some require a paid subscription to sign up with their service which also have ad-support -- sort of like cable now.

Cable is losing because the number of new series/programming has dwindled, partly because of COVID studio lockdowns. Some series have been reduced to as few a 6 or 8 episodes per year. Cable channels have a tendency to fill in with repeats and then have the audacity to keep raising rates.

[Poser]

YoutubeTV costs the same as cable and provides free cloud DVR without limits. Record everything simultaneously. Play back with 15 second skip ahead and o skip commercials. No cable, TV, or DVR boxes or rent on same. If you have high speed Internet, check it out.

[Arcadian Empire]

People want to watch shows on demand instead of watching shows at the times that networks choose to broadcast them.

[AbolishCSEU]

I’m currently enjoying reruns of Leave it To Beaver, Green Acres on the Roku channel and Dallas on Amazon Prime.

[Revel]

The cable industry, and content providers did it to themselves by raising prices through the roof and forcing people to pay for channels they don’t want.

[V_TWIN]

After probably 20 years I cut off directv a couple months ago and subscribed to a streamingservice.

While I pay almost as much as I did I have more programing.

Streaming leaves a bit to be desired in the user interface and ease of navigation aspect but not enough to ever make me go back that’s for sure.

When directv got in bed with AT&T I new it was the end for them.

And I no longer have an oval shaped lightning rod on my roof.

[sbnsd]

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