It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but customers are losing

Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by nvarsj on Friday November 19, 2021 @03:47PM (#29282235)

Is that true?

I remember most people, including myself, would get the full DirectTV/Cable subscription, hook up TiVo, and just record/watch on demand whatever you want. Those days seem impossible now. It certainly feels like things have regressed.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by jjav on Saturday November 20, 2021 @02:18AM (#29286211)

Indeed. I used to have cable, over 100 channels for $30 and MythTV hooked up to record whatever I wanted.

To replicate that today I'd need to subscribe to many different services all with separate monthly fees and way less conveniece (a single unified interface through MythTV was magical).

So I don't watch any TV anymore, oh well. More time to code.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by patrickk on Saturday November 20, 2021 @04:09AM (#29286616)

> To replicate that today I'd need to subscribe to many different services all with separate monthly fees and way less conveniece (a single unified interface through MythTV was magical)

Plex shares or even Pseudo TV Live partially could replicate this. But it’s a grey area obviously.

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Re:It's hard to say who's winning the streaming wars, but cu... by ghaff on Friday November 19, 2021 @04:09PM (#29282531)

Well, anything that was part of the cable package--which increasingly was not where a significant amount of top TV (and certainly films) were available from, especially without adding on a lot of premium content like HBO.

I canceled my cable TV as I increasingly realized I simply was watching either live or recorded on my TiVo stuff once in a blue moon.

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