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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
If my wife and I really cut the cord, I think we'd pretty much never watch TV together again. There are several shows that we both like, but we watch TV when the other is not around, and forcing ourselves to not watch a show on our own schedule, waiting for the other person would quickly become frustrating for both of us.
This issue becomes even worse when you're talking about binge watching something. Let's assume we stopped watching NCIS on a weekly basis, and waited for it to be released on Netflix. Now once it's out, we're going to binge watch it.. the scheduling issues would be frustrating.
This leads right back to my early conversation (different thread) about how she wants to at least see me 95% of the time while we are both home.. which means one or both of us have to use headphones to watch, likely on a small screen, a show.
But the scheduling isn't frustrating now? How does "making it easier" lead to it being harder? Something doesn't add up here. It's being able to watch on demand that makes scheduling easier - in every possible way. You always have the choice of a forced watch time the same as before. So your point can't be true as it only adds options, takes none away.
The weekly schedule keep some shows semi synced for us.. i.e. NCIS is on Tuesdays. If we are both home, we watch it 30 mins after it starts so we can skip the commercials. If either of us is gone, the one that's home will wait until both people are available. Rarely do we need to wait more than 2 days.
Sure you could do this with binging shows as well, but it's much more difficult to get us together for enough periods to get through it.. but individually we could get through it in short order.
Another way to word it is - with the schedule, we have semi-forced time together watching the shows.
The long of it is that it's just a bad situation no matter what - like you wanting more family contact than you get, even from three people in close proximity to you, yet those three what the amount of alone time to be the same as it is now or more. I want more alone time, she wants less.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
The weekly schedule keep some shows semi synced for us.. i.e. NCIS is on Tuesdays. If we are both home, we watch it 30 mins after it starts so we can skip the commercials. If either of us is gone, the one that's home will wait until both people are available. Rarely do we need to wait more than 2 days.
So keep that schedule, easy peasy.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
Sure you could do this with binging shows as well, but it's much more difficult to get us together for enough periods to get through it.. but individually we could get through it in short order.
Another way to word it is - with the schedule, we have semi-forced time together watching the shows.
What you are saying is, you are willing to pay someone to force you to both dislike how you watch television because, given the choice, you'd both rather not do what you are doing, even if you could keep doing it exactly the same, but cheaper?
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
The long of it is that it's just a bad situation no matter what - like you wanting more family contact than you get, even from three people in close proximity to you, yet those three what the amount of alone time to be the same as it is now or more. I want more alone time, she wants less.
Those aren't the issues. The issues seem, from your description, to revolve 100% around some emotional reaction to paying for the shows versus paying less for them. In both cases, you can keep the same schedule. But in one, you've paid more, and in the other you've paid less and have more options (that you can ignore.)
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
Sure you could do this with binging shows as well, but it's much more difficult to get us together for enough periods to get through it.. but individually we could get through it in short order.
Another way to word it is - with the schedule, we have semi-forced time together watching the shows.
What you are saying is, you are willing to pay someone to force you to both dislike how you watch television because, given the choice, you'd both rather not do what you are doing, even if you could keep doing it exactly the same, but cheaper?
I would prefer to get all episodes at once, but also would prefer to see them as they air vs waiting a year. If I lived alone, however, I dont know that I would even watch TV. Im not even sure I would have the internet at this point. The spirit of Big Bear would likely guide me up into the Tennessee mountains.
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@bigbear said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
Sure you could do this with binging shows as well, but it's much more difficult to get us together for enough periods to get through it.. but individually we could get through it in short order.
Another way to word it is - with the schedule, we have semi-forced time together watching the shows.
What you are saying is, you are willing to pay someone to force you to both dislike how you watch television because, given the choice, you'd both rather not do what you are doing, even if you could keep doing it exactly the same, but cheaper?
I would prefer to get all episodes at once, but also would prefer to see them as they air vs waiting a year. If I lived alone, however, I dont know that I would even watch TV. Im not even sure I would have the internet at this point. The spirit of Big Bear would likely guide me up into the Tennessee mountains.
The trick is... you wait before starting the show. Then those of us on Netflix or whatever don't have any "waiting" thing that people keep talking about. That whole effect is less, rather than more.
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My wife and I were just discussing this thread and she mentioned how we lived for our first four years of marriage with no TV at all, not just no cable, but no Netflix or anything either. I had forgotten, we used to watch DVDs on a little Mac Mini, that was all that we had. We'd watch video games that each other played, but had no TV.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
My wife and I were just discussing this thread and she mentioned how we lived for our first four years of marriage with no TV at all, not just no cable, but no Netflix or anything either. I had forgotten, we used to watch DVDs on a little Mac Mini, that was all that we had. We'd watch video games that each other played, but had no TV.
No OTA TV?
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
The weekly schedule keep some shows semi synced for us.. i.e. NCIS is on Tuesdays. If we are both home, we watch it 30 mins after it starts so we can skip the commercials. If either of us is gone, the one that's home will wait until both people are available. Rarely do we need to wait more than 2 days.
So keep that schedule, easy peasy.
lol - HAHAHA yeah... you know binging doesn't work like that.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
The long of it is that it's just a bad situation no matter what - like you wanting more family contact than you get, even from three people in close proximity to you, yet those three what the amount of alone time to be the same as it is now or more. I want more alone time, she wants less.
Those aren't the issues. The issues seem, from your description, to revolve 100% around some emotional reaction to paying for the shows versus paying less for them. In both cases, you can keep the same schedule. But in one, you've paid more, and in the other you've paid less and have more options (that you can ignore.)
No I can't keep the same schedule. At a bare mimimum I have to wait until summer when Netflix gets the show.
My wife has already been talking about getting rid of cable... So I'm guessing we'll cut it during xmas break and see how the first part of next year is only with streaming services.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
The long of it is that it's just a bad situation no matter what - like you wanting more family contact than you get, even from three people in close proximity to you, yet those three what the amount of alone time to be the same as it is now or more. I want more alone time, she wants less.
Those aren't the issues. The issues seem, from your description, to revolve 100% around some emotional reaction to paying for the shows versus paying less for them. In both cases, you can keep the same schedule. But in one, you've paid more, and in the other you've paid less and have more options (that you can ignore.)
No I can't keep the same schedule. At a bare mimimum I have to wait until summer when Netflix gets the show.
My wife has already been talking about getting rid of cable... So I'm guessing we'll cut it during xmas break and see how the first part of next year is only with streaming services.
Just unplug the Cox set top box and hide it. Way easier than cancelling service and readding it.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
My wife and I were just discussing this thread and she mentioned how we lived for our first four years of marriage with no TV at all, not just no cable, but no Netflix or anything either. I had forgotten, we used to watch DVDs on a little Mac Mini, that was all that we had. We'd watch video games that each other played, but had no TV.
You're not a millennial, but you definitely behalf like them in some respects.
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@jaredbusch said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
The long of it is that it's just a bad situation no matter what - like you wanting more family contact than you get, even from three people in close proximity to you, yet those three what the amount of alone time to be the same as it is now or more. I want more alone time, she wants less.
Those aren't the issues. The issues seem, from your description, to revolve 100% around some emotional reaction to paying for the shows versus paying less for them. In both cases, you can keep the same schedule. But in one, you've paid more, and in the other you've paid less and have more options (that you can ignore.)
No I can't keep the same schedule. At a bare mimimum I have to wait until summer when Netflix gets the show.
My wife has already been talking about getting rid of cable... So I'm guessing we'll cut it during xmas break and see how the first part of next year is only with streaming services.
Just unplug the Cox set top box and hide it. Way easier than cancelling service and readding it.
yeah we'll see.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
The long of it is that it's just a bad situation no matter what - like you wanting more family contact than you get, even from three people in close proximity to you, yet those three what the amount of alone time to be the same as it is now or more. I want more alone time, she wants less.
Those aren't the issues. The issues seem, from your description, to revolve 100% around some emotional reaction to paying for the shows versus paying less for them. In both cases, you can keep the same schedule. But in one, you've paid more, and in the other you've paid less and have more options (that you can ignore.)
No I can't keep the same schedule. At a bare mimimum I have to wait until summer when Netflix gets the show.
You are not following, at all. You wait the mandatory delay time for a new show, then you get access all at once, then you decide on the watching schedule. Want it "every Tuesday at 8PM" just like before? Then you do that. You lose nothing. Literally nothing. You don't notice the delay up front because you've not seen the show yet. And once that initital delay is absorbed (again, a "you don't notice" delay) then you get your old schedule back PLUS more options.
There is no downside here except the water cooler effect.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
My wife and I were just discussing this thread and she mentioned how we lived for our first four years of marriage with no TV at all, not just no cable, but no Netflix or anything either. I had forgotten, we used to watch DVDs on a little Mac Mini, that was all that we had. We'd watch video games that each other played, but had no TV.
You're not a millennial, but you definitely behalf like them in some respects.
That's weird, I'd say the opposite. I have the "modern technology" effect of being in my 40s. Millenials are the anti-tech generation who went backwards from email to texting, from Internet to cell networks, from cutting cords to legacy television. It's the hipster effect.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
The weekly schedule keep some shows semi synced for us.. i.e. NCIS is on Tuesdays. If we are both home, we watch it 30 mins after it starts so we can skip the commercials. If either of us is gone, the one that's home will wait until both people are available. Rarely do we need to wait more than 2 days.
So keep that schedule, easy peasy.
lol - HAHAHA yeah... you know binging doesn't work like that.
Right, so don't binge. Again, all I'm hearing is you saying "I'm paying someone to make my options bad so that I can't do things the way that I want to."
Things I don't understand are...
- Why does arbitrarily paying someone to make your options suck make things better?
- Why does paying for cable make you not treat your DVR like Netflix?
- Why do you want the end result if you clearly don't like the end result?
None of it makes sense to me. You are willing to pay to make things worse so that you have to do things in a way you'd never do if you hadn't figured out how to be stuck in that mode, except you aren't stuck, so it makes even less sense.
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@nerdydad said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
My wife and I were just discussing this thread and she mentioned how we lived for our first four years of marriage with no TV at all, not just no cable, but no Netflix or anything either. I had forgotten, we used to watch DVDs on a little Mac Mini, that was all that we had. We'd watch video games that each other played, but had no TV.
No OTA TV?
I've not had access to that since 1994. You need a TV, a tuner, and an antenna to do that. I've owned a TV most of the time since 1994, but only most, far from all. I've never owned either of the other two, ever. I've never owned a VCR (my parents did, but not me) ever. From 1994 - 2008 I owned Laserdisc players and DVD players, nothing else. In 2008, right at the end of the year, we bought a BluRay player and earlier in 2008 we got Netflix.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@nerdydad said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
My wife and I were just discussing this thread and she mentioned how we lived for our first four years of marriage with no TV at all, not just no cable, but no Netflix or anything either. I had forgotten, we used to watch DVDs on a little Mac Mini, that was all that we had. We'd watch video games that each other played, but had no TV.
No OTA TV?
I've not had access to that since 1994. You need a TV, a tuner, and an antenna to do that. I've owned a TV most of the time since 1994, but only most, far from all. I've never owned either of the other two, ever. I've never owned a VCR (my parents did, but not me) ever. From 1994 - 2008 I owned Laserdisc players and DVD players, nothing else. In 2008, right at the end of the year, we bought a BluRay player and earlier in 2008 we got Netflix.
The tuner was built into the TV. You just had to plug in an antenna into the TV and search for channels.
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@nerdydad said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@nerdydad said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
My wife and I were just discussing this thread and she mentioned how we lived for our first four years of marriage with no TV at all, not just no cable, but no Netflix or anything either. I had forgotten, we used to watch DVDs on a little Mac Mini, that was all that we had. We'd watch video games that each other played, but had no TV.
No OTA TV?
I've not had access to that since 1994. You need a TV, a tuner, and an antenna to do that. I've owned a TV most of the time since 1994, but only most, far from all. I've never owned either of the other two, ever. I've never owned a VCR (my parents did, but not me) ever. From 1994 - 2008 I owned Laserdisc players and DVD players, nothing else. In 2008, right at the end of the year, we bought a BluRay player and earlier in 2008 we got Netflix.
The tuner was built into the TV. You just had to plug in an antenna into the TV and search for channels.
In the 1990s that was the case. Has not been for a very long time. I've owned a total of one TV in my life that had a tuner, and I only had possession of it for about one year, and it was a CRT. I owned that around 1998.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@nerdydad said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@nerdydad said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
My wife and I were just discussing this thread and she mentioned how we lived for our first four years of marriage with no TV at all, not just no cable, but no Netflix or anything either. I had forgotten, we used to watch DVDs on a little Mac Mini, that was all that we had. We'd watch video games that each other played, but had no TV.
No OTA TV?
I've not had access to that since 1994. You need a TV, a tuner, and an antenna to do that. I've owned a TV most of the time since 1994, but only most, far from all. I've never owned either of the other two, ever. I've never owned a VCR (my parents did, but not me) ever. From 1994 - 2008 I owned Laserdisc players and DVD players, nothing else. In 2008, right at the end of the year, we bought a BluRay player and earlier in 2008 we got Netflix.
The tuner was built into the TV. You just had to plug in an antenna into the TV and search for channels.
In the 1990s that was the case. Has not been for a very long time. I've owned a total of one TV in my life that had a tuner, and I only had possession of it for about one year, and it was a CRT. I owned that around 1998.
Ohhh...that sucked.
