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Comment Re:"peak TV"? It all peaked, brother. (Score 1) 137

Good antenna and streaming with a SmartTV will blow basic cable out of the water. Got a good deal on an outdoor antenna (indoor one wasn't getting much) and paid to have it installed on our roof, get all the local channels and then some, and RokuTV has tons of streaming channels that are free

Comment Re:Just now? (Score 2) 137

THIS.

My wife loves hockey but without cable or pricey streaming, you can't really get the games.

She was even considering paying for NHL streaming but the price was INSANE AND the games she wanted to watch would often be subjest to blackout because they were home market games, and we live in the Detroit Metro area.... Bally Sports+ was the only real option, and there's still a few games (+playoffs) they don't how at all, had to jump to SlingTV last year for the NHL Playoffs after dropping Bally until this season. Of course, getting Bally to work right sometimes is a major test of patience....

Comment Duh (Score 5, Insightful) 137

Cable companies (along with the networks) priced themselves out of hand with ridiculous fees and price gouging, so people said screw that and cut the cord. Then Netflix and Hulu started to lose programs to every studio wanting it's own exclusive piece of the streaming pie and it started to turn into Cable 2.0 where you needed multiple services to see the shows you wanted. People then started to try to get smart again and started subscribing to a service for a month or three, watching the exclusives they wanted, then kicking the service to the curb and moving to the next streaming service to repeat the process...

Used DVD stores helped take up a lot of the slack by people buying the discs and not needing a streaming service to watch their old favorites whenever they wanted to without having to worry that the streaming service they have has lost the rights to the shows...

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