What a difference from the days of flipping channels?

Now it’s streaming services watch what you want what you want. And some are even free. Tons of free content. But I used to flip through the channels and stopped on something watch her for a little bit, and maybe go around again. Or you knew what was on when it was on. I don’t have cable or satellite anymore.

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FreddieUK · 70-79, M

I'm not sure of how much time commercials take up in the US each hour, but the cost to me of watching 'free' content is 25% or more per hour of my time spent watching something other than the content. Fortunately we have the commercial free BBC and I have a recorder to skip through the ads for the good stuff on commercial TV.

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Gibbon · 70-79, M

@HoeBag it was never free. Even online.

HoeBag · 51-55, F

@Gibbon Alright. Only thing I remember is sometimes I would look up something, there might be an article on Washington post so I would click and either a pay wall or something saying "It looks like you are using an ad blocker".

Thing about the web, one can always find what they want or need for free.

Gibbon · 70-79, M

@HoeBag this is true. Just search and find

HoeBag · 51-55, F

Didn't cable or satellite cost at least $100 a month? of course they would nickel and dime for "good" channels that showed repetitive programming.

THEN people who subscribed would always say, "There is nothing good to watch."

I thought, "Why would people pay $100+ a month to watch nothing?" One can watch "nothing" for free.

Jonjdw · 51-55, M

@HoeBag yes that is why we just need internet now. And if you want to pay for streaming service it can be much less

HoeBag · 51-55, F

@Jonjdw I do not subscribe to streaming, or anything really.

I do not know how it works but was reading that there are tons of them and everything is split up so you have to pay for several just to watch whatever shows you want.

I am not into TV anyways so OTA works for me. TV is just background noise in my house.

Jonjdw · 51-55, M

@HoeBag well, in my house, we have 10 people. All family and we do have Netflix Hulu, Disney. Prime But that’s also for the free shipping. And sometimes off an on we have Peacock or Paramount. Depending upon what somebody wants to pay for or wants to watch. But the smart TV comes with the Roku channel, and it’s more than just a channel. Roku has tons of stuff for free. It all comes free with the TV.

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