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The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
Do you think there are too many television channels and streaming services? Also, if you had to choose three channels or streaming services to watch/use for the rest of your life, which ones would you choose?
Talk about it….
Not too many imho – the problem is that the channels you want are in a bundle – so you get a lot of channels you have no interest in… why not have a “buffet” of channel selection?
a local channel for news, cooking channel, and maybe old movie channel.
not a tv watcher, but i have had 100 channels at hotels and such, and there was still nothing good on.
I want my Mtv
Yes, too many TV channels are useless as well as Television Apps on Roku, smart TV Amazon firesick and list goes. it is just crazy they are all useless for crap Why are we paying so much for Cable TV with so many useless TV lineup. I only like to watch movies and HGTV and MeTV. Funny how people back to the old days that they were complaining there not enought channels back in 70’s and 80. People spent a lot of money on buying a Satellite dish the old version before DirecTV came out. Those old kind that the dish moves around to find the satellite in the sky. More TV channels becomes more addictive to watching TV all day especially YouTube. We are being trap with just TV shows that are useless.
We watch/record probably 20 channels for our shows and get a dozen premium channels we watch frequently.
We prefer our 100″ screen and awesome sound system vs going to a theater.
Too many channels well yea if you browse them all most are garbage.
There are pros and cons to the number of stations/streaming surfaces, of which:
Pro: There is more programming that can cater to niche or less-represented groups (moreso pertaining to taste than socio-economic or racial leanings, but certainly tings like that, too.) For example my husband and I have always been, since childhood, greatly disinterested in what “The Big Four” chose to put on television.
Con: There is less “Appointment Television”. From the 60s on we were able to, as a society, rely on the very basic entertainment references to float any dying office conversation. We’ve lost that “gather-round-the-campfire” communal experience of fewer stations.
Yes, way too many channels and streaming services. We cut the cable back in 2021. We have YouTube now. Still too many channels with wifi, but still cheaper than what we were paying for cable. Best channels: TCM, BTN, & BBC.
I don’t watch a lot of television, so I only have the bare minimum of channels to choose from, which is still too many. A lot of them are infomercials, and religious, which to me, is a total waste because I don’t watch them. If I had to choose three channels for the rest of my life, I couldn’t do it because I don’t have three favorite channels, I don’t even have one favorite channel. I don’t watch cable news anymore because they are all the same. Right wing, or left wing, they all lie to us, and spin the story to fit their narrative. After a while, I get bored with them.
I bought a new TV and even the TV has its own movie channel. I remember the three Black and White channels we used to have. Anyone else watch the five minutes of Crusader Rabbit that was on every weekday evening. Man are we spoiled now.
Too many channels….. and one night we did an experiment where we flipped through every one of them – one after another- to see if a commercial was showing. Believe It or not, 70% of the time there was a commercial playing .
We turned our cable TV off last month because the costs. And you know it our lives are actually better! We will watch YouTube to see some reruns on some of the old shows and are just happy with that.
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This is America and its a free market.
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YouTube, Amazon Prime, and Netflix.
Too many and that is just the regular ones. I refuse to pay extra for any of the others. I don’t watch too many of the regular ones. Even if they have a movie I would be interested in they tend to stretch a 1 1/2 hour movie into 3 hours to put all the commercials in. Then at the end might put a notice that the movie was cut to fit the time frame.
I don’t have broadcast or cable TV just streaming. Some of the companies running those think Americans now want to watch reality shows. No, actually it’s that reality shows and documentaries are cheaper to produce than narratives.
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Of three services to keep AppleTV+ which is actually inexpensive with some of the best series, Amazon Prime because anyone can put a movie or TV series on it so it will have a lot of content and maybe Paramount+/Showtime because of excellent content.
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However with streaming one can cancel and subscribe to another service, binge what you want to watch there then unsubscribe and go to another service to binge. People do that all the time.
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Cable cutters began complaining several years ago when “fragmentation” began to occur. That meant that the available content began being spread out over more and more services when originally one only needed a few.
Not too many, there can be as many as any company wants, does not mean anyone will watch them, but, have at it. For the 3 if I had to choose, I guess it would be Fox Business, Food Network and TruTV (for Impractical Jokers only).
Don’t own a tv. Haven’t had one since 1993. But sometimes I stream Amazon on my iMac or phone.
I get 38 channels on my roof antenna for free. That’s enough. I can watch Fox 40 news channel and leave for four days and see the same breaking news stories when I get back home. No need for a DVR. Best money you can save.
This area is a goldmine for cable and satellite because of the hills and valleys. Yeah, if I wasn’t in a valley I would have put up an antenna too. But where I live the tower for an antenna would need to be 100 feet and probably not approved. Up on the hill at the shopping center using a TV tuner on a laptop I got all the Sacramento channels and the one on Mt. Diablo.
Never been much of a TV watcher, married to a soccer fan so we have ESPN+Disney (for the kids movies). I have no idea what else is on, would rather read a book or be outside. TV sucks the think juice outta your brains FYI.
TV was better when we had the 3 broadcast networks and most people were watching the same things and talking about what they watched. Today we have many channels but not much to watch.
paying to much money
BROADCAST TV FEE DO NOT HAVE THOSE EXTRA CHANNELS
MY BROADCAST TV FEE IS BIGGER THEN MY BASIC FEE WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO FREE MOVIE CHANNEL TOO,
COMCAST SUCKKKKKKKKKKKKK
13VHF and the rest UHF.. “click click click” I know someone remembers…..
Who the hell pays for cable?