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Re:Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just p... by wccrawford on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @09:26AM (#31410220)
One of the advantages of local storage is that internet outages don't necessarily affect your ability to watch some shows. One of the main advantages that streaming has for me over live TV is the ability to watch things when I want to, without restrictions.

Don't even get me started about commercials. Amazon Prime has been putting up movies without commercials, and then adding commercials later. This has bit our movie group a few times lately. Very frustrating.

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Re:Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just p... by julianlam on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @09:58AM (#31410737)
> One of the advantages of local storage is that internet outages don't necessarily affect your ability to watch some shows.

This came to a head for me not too long ago when my internet went out for a little while. I told my wife we could just watch the antenna TV, and she simply couldn't grok the idea that TV signals were coming to the house without the internet working.

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