10-02-2014, 11:53 PM
Congratulations on your change. If you have your computer networked into your television set and its close enough to see your t.v., you will really enjoy sharing YouTube videos with the family and showing them pictures you're editing in Photoshop on the big-screen. I completely stopped cable many years ago and have not regretted it since.
I noticed, however what I consider a disappointing trend taking over network websites, in that most major networks have altered the way they stream online videos now so you have to have a cable subscription to watch them online. Cute, but I don't subscribe for a cable subscription because I choose not to support the "watch what WE want when WE want you to" dichotomy. I also don't feel this is fair to users who choose not to have a cable subscription and wouldn't mind so much watching their online ads to see my show when I want - the cable company gets paid for every commercial you watch you know. So in reality, major networks are double dipping by charging cable companies to carry their service which gets passed on to you the consumer, then also charging for advertisers for their commercials. Anyway, as I see it, I'd be paying an average of $60-$120 per month for a company that tells me what to do and when to do it... that's ludicrous customer service, and the major networks need to learn to evolve instead of relying so heavily on their current commercial to time-slot based system because more and more people like you and I will eventually leave these archaic systems in the stone age. Not even a DVR could keep me attached to cable... again, why in hell would I pay to watch commercials? What exactly am I paying for with a cable subscription? The right to watch a network? I pay $7.99 a month with Netflix and can watch what I want when I want with no commercials... what has your local cable company done? Upped their prices due to network greed (networks raised their prices to cable companies to carry them), offered a digital tier for more money so if you want DVR and HDTV, you have to pay extra... free on netflix by the way, then they riddle it with commercials where they make even more money. Hilarious that anyone in this day and age is still so naive to pay for a cable television subscription when, let’s be frank here, you can download anything you want to see in minutes, if you can't just find it outright streaming on various websites in HDMI quality! If you can't figure out how to do that, then you really deserve to pay for your $120-dollar a month cable subscription that tells you what to watch, when to watch it, charges you a premium for quality service (HDTV) making you believe it’s a luxury instead of a feature, then makes you suffer through commercials in which they make more money off you.
I should mention that I currently pay for Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon Prime, a combined total of what I'd pay for the lowest cable setting with absolute shitty broadcast resolution, but I get no commercials, don't have to set my goddamn DVR because I can just pick and choose what I want to watch, and get to watch my shows in HDTV.
TL;DR: Screw major networks! They need to get with the times.
I noticed, however what I consider a disappointing trend taking over network websites, in that most major networks have altered the way they stream online videos now so you have to have a cable subscription to watch them online. Cute, but I don't subscribe for a cable subscription because I choose not to support the "watch what WE want when WE want you to" dichotomy. I also don't feel this is fair to users who choose not to have a cable subscription and wouldn't mind so much watching their online ads to see my show when I want - the cable company gets paid for every commercial you watch you know. So in reality, major networks are double dipping by charging cable companies to carry their service which gets passed on to you the consumer, then also charging for advertisers for their commercials. Anyway, as I see it, I'd be paying an average of $60-$120 per month for a company that tells me what to do and when to do it... that's ludicrous customer service, and the major networks need to learn to evolve instead of relying so heavily on their current commercial to time-slot based system because more and more people like you and I will eventually leave these archaic systems in the stone age. Not even a DVR could keep me attached to cable... again, why in hell would I pay to watch commercials? What exactly am I paying for with a cable subscription? The right to watch a network? I pay $7.99 a month with Netflix and can watch what I want when I want with no commercials... what has your local cable company done? Upped their prices due to network greed (networks raised their prices to cable companies to carry them), offered a digital tier for more money so if you want DVR and HDTV, you have to pay extra... free on netflix by the way, then they riddle it with commercials where they make even more money. Hilarious that anyone in this day and age is still so naive to pay for a cable television subscription when, let’s be frank here, you can download anything you want to see in minutes, if you can't just find it outright streaming on various websites in HDMI quality! If you can't figure out how to do that, then you really deserve to pay for your $120-dollar a month cable subscription that tells you what to watch, when to watch it, charges you a premium for quality service (HDTV) making you believe it’s a luxury instead of a feature, then makes you suffer through commercials in which they make more money off you.
I should mention that I currently pay for Hulu Plus, Netflix, and Amazon Prime, a combined total of what I'd pay for the lowest cable setting with absolute shitty broadcast resolution, but I get no commercials, don't have to set my goddamn DVR because I can just pick and choose what I want to watch, and get to watch my shows in HDTV.
TL;DR: Screw major networks! They need to get with the times.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin