We cut the cord and cut our bill in half. It has been a couple of months and there is nothing that I miss about cable.
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We cut the cord and cut our bill in half. It has been a couple of months and there is nothing that I miss about cable.
Seriously. You pay for a bunch of channels you'll never watch and are still stuck with commercials. Twentieth Century redux, much?
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I cut the cord in 2009. Well, technically, it wasn't mine to begin with. I moved out, didn't get cable, went with Netflix and Amazon, and never looked back.
Commercials will make their way to digital services soon. Just you wait.
Both CBS All-Access and Hulu have commercial and commercial free plans. Plus, with most services, you get an ad for something they're pushing before the start of whatever you're watching.
Hulu never came to the UK. It’s a shame since there were some interesting things on that one.
That's correct...you have to give payment info as part of the sign-up for the free month. Just did it with CBS-AA myself.
Bleh. It's been three years, so I forgot.
I don't think you had to, originally. Now that they're building content, they want that sweet, sweet Credit Card info.
First post premiere reactions seem to be very positive (no spoilers):
https://twitter.com/merrillbarr/status/1216949126186668032?s=21
https://twitter.com/teambanzai/status/1216947917350567936?s=21
https://twitter.com/merrillbarr/status/1216949126186668032?s=21
https://twitter.com/teambanzai/status/1216947917350567936?s=21
The difference is that you can subscribe and drop as you see fit. So you can watch whatever you want on Amazon, for example (Jack Ryan, The Expanse, Man in the High Castle for me) and then drop it, subscribe to CBSAA and binge DSC, Short Trek, and Picard, then swap out again.
There's a way to manage costs with these subscription services that doesn't have to come down to "YOU GREEDY BASTARDS" hatred. Let's face it, a show like Picard or Mandelorian isn't going to get made on regular cable ever again. Too expensive to produce, and not enough detectives and fire trucks to draw interest.
There's a way to manage costs with these subscription services that doesn't have to come down to "YOU GREEDY BASTARDS" hatred. Let's face it, a show like Picard or Mandelorian isn't going to get made on regular cable ever again. Too expensive to produce, and not enough detectives and fire trucks to draw interest.
100% accurate. In fact, in those same discussion threads are people already complaining that there is gunfire and fisticuffs in the promotional material. "Where's my conference room scenes, dull philosophizing, and contemplative tea drinking, you JJ Trek / violence-loving bastards!!!1!!"
What’s on cable that is 20 time better than picard to justify $140 a month!?
How much TV do you watch?!
How much TV do you watch?!
Where can I get that extra long version? Sounds like some interesting prime directive balancing to be done
Dammit the UK premiere is today? And I'm off work and probably could have gone if I'd known??
*sigh*
*sigh*
Tomorrow I believe, but tickets were on an invite only basis
Ah okay then.
Cable box + TV + electricity = $$
Internet (and/or phone) connection + internet modem + electricity + (optional internet router, depends on what the modem features) + computer/phone/smart TV (replace every 2 years whenever the maker doesn't put in a connectivity app for a new channel or just stops supporting it) = a bit more $$
The emperor's new cord?
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