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Originally Posted by billethkid
We rely on the DVR. We record everything and anything we intend to watch. Hence we view at our convenience and not have to endure commercials.
Some programming now has what they call smart resume. You hit fast forward and it starts again after the commercials.
Until streaming gets more convenient (a relative term) with suitable DVR capability we choose to pay a little more for the convenience.
I believe streaming is still in it's early evolution and will operate similar to today's packaged providers at some point. And yes the price will go up along with the convenience.
IMHO.
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Interesting, everything you pointed out as negative does not happen with us at all. I guess we all have different experiences.
1. We have a DVR, but never use it any more since we can go back and watch anything we want on demand from the original streamer or one of the many other sites offering shows 2 or 3 years old. I am a geek, and I do have a media server (computer) that is dedicated to being a DVR and storage for all the movies we might ever want to see (400 or 500 at this point), but we mostly just stream them from Apple, or other sites, our DVR is very lonely at this point.
2. I don't think I have seen more than a commercial or two in 10 years of streaming. I don't know what you have streamed with commercials. The last commercial I watched was on HULU years ago and a simple increase from $10/mth to $12 or $15 per month (I don't recall) eliminated those.
One thing that may explain the difference is we watch almost NO first run commercial TV shows from networks like ABC, NBC, CBS. Fox, etc. Most of what we watch is from Prime, Netflix, HULU and HBO, Showtime and BritBox.
Again, we watch very little TV anyway - maybe 2 to 3 hours some nights just before bed. I have no interest in Sports, and 99% of commercial TV is boring to me.