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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
Having a show to binge, all the shows are just there, basically kills the schedule. You might be the type to set down and do a ridged schedule like that, but I am not.
This is what I'm saying. I hear you, and I'm just translating... you are paying someone to take away the binge option. You have the willpower to pay someone to take away the way that you want to watch television and force you to watch it in a way you like less.
What I don't understand is... if you like it less, why do it?
hold the phone, it's not me - remember, this whole situation stems from my wife's desire to have me in visual eye line for 95% of the time we are in the house together and awake.
If she wouldn't have a fit about that, this would be a complete non issue - I'd have a second TV in another part of the house and we'd see each other for about 1 hour a day (for dinner), except when we leave the house together to do things.
No, none of that matters. If you were willing to keep watching shows the way that you do now, nothing would change except the cost savings. Your wife is a red herring here. All that matters is why paying a lot for crippled shows makes you willing to do something that saving money for uncrippled you'd be unwilling to keep doing.
and I would basically have to give up TV for 6+ months to get there.
This is based on a few really bad assumptions.
- That Netflix has no content of its own.
- That you current watch all television that exists.
Very little that we agree upon. Which again is the whole point - shows must be something we will both watch.. otherwise it doesn't matter.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
When House of cards dropped on Netflix, I thought it was kinda cool - bam binge watch awesome, no waiting... but after 2-5 days of watching, now I get to wait 12 months for the next installment. That's to long for me personally.
Sure, but you get that even worse the way that you do things now. that's what I don't understand. Netflix only makes this better in every way, there is no worse.
eh? how is it better - other than forcing myself to only watch one episode a week? So assuming I binge it, it's still 12 more months until Netflix gets the next season, so ...
But you don't have to binge. You can't binge now, so even having the option to is purely a bonus. What you are doing today is not taken away, only more, better options are made available. There is no downside. Costs less, no options lost.
did you miss the part about not having enough self control to not binge - is that blunt enough?
Did you miss the part where I kept pointing out that you HAVE that self control now, that is what is keeping you from binging today, but you do it in a weird way that involves paying someone a lot of money to dole out your shows for you?
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
Having a show to binge, all the shows are just there, basically kills the schedule. You might be the type to set down and do a ridged schedule like that, but I am not.
This is what I'm saying. I hear you, and I'm just translating... you are paying someone to take away the binge option. You have the willpower to pay someone to take away the way that you want to watch television and force you to watch it in a way you like less.
What I don't understand is... if you like it less, why do it?
hold the phone, it's not me - remember, this whole situation stems from my wife's desire to have me in visual eye line for 95% of the time we are in the house together and awake.
If she wouldn't have a fit about that, this would be a complete non issue - I'd have a second TV in another part of the house and we'd see each other for about 1 hour a day (for dinner), except when we leave the house together to do things.
No, none of that matters. If you were willing to keep watching shows the way that you do now, nothing would change except the cost savings. Your wife is a red herring here. All that matters is why paying a lot for crippled shows makes you willing to do something that saving money for uncrippled you'd be unwilling to keep doing.
and I would basically have to give up TV for 6+ months to get there.
This is based on a few really bad assumptions.
- That Netflix has no content of its own.
- That you current watch all television that exists.
Very little that we agree upon. Which again is the whole point - shows must be something we will both watch.. otherwise it doesn't matter.
So you actually feel that all shows that you could agree upon have been watched and that moving to other media wouldn't add any new potential shows? That seems extreme. Possible, but extreme.
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Also, you can consider filling the gap with movies.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
When House of cards dropped on Netflix, I thought it was kinda cool - bam binge watch awesome, no waiting... but after 2-5 days of watching, now I get to wait 12 months for the next installment. That's to long for me personally.
Sure, but you get that even worse the way that you do things now. that's what I don't understand. Netflix only makes this better in every way, there is no worse.
eh? how is it better - other than forcing myself to only watch one episode a week? So assuming I binge it, it's still 12 more months until Netflix gets the next season, so ...
But you don't have to binge. You can't binge now, so even having the option to is purely a bonus. What you are doing today is not taken away, only more, better options are made available. There is no downside. Costs less, no options lost.
did you miss the part about not having enough self control to not binge - is that blunt enough?
Did you miss the part where I kept pointing out that you HAVE that self control now, that is what is keeping you from binging today, but you do it in a weird way that involves paying someone a lot of money to dole out your shows for you?
how do I have it today? I don't because the shows are coming out now. The show isn't bingable today.. it will be in 7 months.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
Also, you can consider filling the gap with movies.
same issue - finding movies we both like.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
When House of cards dropped on Netflix, I thought it was kinda cool - bam binge watch awesome, no waiting... but after 2-5 days of watching, now I get to wait 12 months for the next installment. That's to long for me personally.
Sure, but you get that even worse the way that you do things now. that's what I don't understand. Netflix only makes this better in every way, there is no worse.
eh? how is it better - other than forcing myself to only watch one episode a week? So assuming I binge it, it's still 12 more months until Netflix gets the next season, so ...
But you don't have to binge. You can't binge now, so even having the option to is purely a bonus. What you are doing today is not taken away, only more, better options are made available. There is no downside. Costs less, no options lost.
did you miss the part about not having enough self control to not binge - is that blunt enough?
Did you miss the part where I kept pointing out that you HAVE that self control now, that is what is keeping you from binging today, but you do it in a weird way that involves paying someone a lot of money to dole out your shows for you?
how do I have it today? I don't because the shows are coming out now. The show isn't bingable today.. it will be in 7 months.
Sure, and you use money and self control to keep yourself from binging it. I do not, I wait and binge.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
Also, you can consider filling the gap with movies.
same issue - finding movies we both like.
Right, but you've already exhausted the history of movies? You are waiting for new movies to be made to have things to watch?
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You say that I sound extreme with things, but this feels so much more extreme than me. I dislike nearly all television and movies, yet never have this level of issue finding things to watch with people.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
When House of cards dropped on Netflix, I thought it was kinda cool - bam binge watch awesome, no waiting... but after 2-5 days of watching, now I get to wait 12 months for the next installment. That's to long for me personally.
Sure, but you get that even worse the way that you do things now. that's what I don't understand. Netflix only makes this better in every way, there is no worse.
eh? how is it better - other than forcing myself to only watch one episode a week? So assuming I binge it, it's still 12 more months until Netflix gets the next season, so ...
But you don't have to binge. You can't binge now, so even having the option to is purely a bonus. What you are doing today is not taken away, only more, better options are made available. There is no downside. Costs less, no options lost.
did you miss the part about not having enough self control to not binge - is that blunt enough?
Did you miss the part where I kept pointing out that you HAVE that self control now, that is what is keeping you from binging today, but you do it in a weird way that involves paying someone a lot of money to dole out your shows for you?
how do I have it today? I don't because the shows are coming out now. The show isn't bingable today.. it will be in 7 months.
Sure, and you use money and self control to keep yourself from binging it. I do not, I wait and binge.
Waiting is self control, paying to watch now is possibly a lack there of - damn that makes me look super lame right now.
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If Netflix and Amazon don't have shows you can binge watch together, I can't imagine anything else that exists in the world that would.
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@tim_g said in YouTube TV:
If Netflix and Amazon don't have shows you can binge watch together, I can't imagine anything else that exists in the world that would.
And you can be sure they are good enough or they wouldn't have them... unlike cable TV where they just throw wtf ever at you in the worst way possible.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
You say that I sound extreme with things, but this feels so much more extreme than me. I dislike nearly all television and movies, yet never have this level of issue finding things to watch with people.
You have several things in your favor - your family agrees that TV mostly sucks. I'm guessing that you have all the time YOU desire to watch whatever you desire to watch. I do not. I have around 4 hours a day to watch on average. I'm with my wife for at least 3 of those hours.. so that's 3 hours I don't get to watch what I want, instead I have to watch what we want to watch.
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@tim_g said in YouTube TV:
@tim_g said in YouTube TV:
If Netflix and Amazon don't have shows you can binge watch together, I can't imagine anything else that exists in the world that would.
And you can be sure they are good enough or they wouldn't have them... unlike cable TV where they just throw wtf ever at you in the worst way possible.
That's my feeling. I'm at a point where I solidly consider cable television the "garbage tier" of stuff not good enough for the good networks (Netflix and Amazon) to be willing to pay for.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
You say that I sound extreme with things, but this feels so much more extreme than me. I dislike nearly all television and movies, yet never have this level of issue finding things to watch with people.
You have several things in your favor - your family agrees that TV mostly sucks. I'm guessing that you have all the time YOU desire to watch whatever you desire to watch. I do not. I have around 4 hours a day to watch on average. I'm with my wife for at least 3 of those hours.. so that's 3 hours I don't get to watch what I want, instead I have to watch what we want to watch.
I get that, but those things don't pile up. Basically you don't get to watch whatever you want to watch. That's fine, but it is what it is so discount it. Neither system helps or hinders that. That's just how your life is.
Now the other issue is that you have very limited viewing time. That's a bonus since apparently there is nothing out there worth watching. It would take extremely little to fill that limited time then.
Maybe you need to get your wife into video games.
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
You say that I sound extreme with things, but this feels so much more extreme than me. I dislike nearly all television and movies, yet never have this level of issue finding things to watch with people.
You have several things in your favor - your family agrees that TV mostly sucks. I'm guessing that you have all the time YOU desire to watch whatever you desire to watch. I do not. I have around 4 hours a day to watch on average. I'm with my wife for at least 3 of those hours.. so that's 3 hours I don't get to watch what I want, instead I have to watch what we want to watch.
I get that, but those things don't pile up. Basically you don't get to watch whatever you want to watch. That's fine, but it is what it is so discount it. Neither system helps or hinders that. That's just how your life is.
Now the other issue is that you have very limited viewing time. That's a bonus since apparently there is nothing out there worth watching. It would take extremely little to fill that limited time then.
Maybe you need to get your wife into video games.
LOL - I've tried.. we owned a Wii and some other system, she hated both.. played like 10 mins I think.. and then it just collected dust.
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@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
You say that I sound extreme with things, but this feels so much more extreme than me. I dislike nearly all television and movies, yet never have this level of issue finding things to watch with people.
You have several things in your favor - your family agrees that TV mostly sucks. I'm guessing that you have all the time YOU desire to watch whatever you desire to watch. I do not. I have around 4 hours a day to watch on average. I'm with my wife for at least 3 of those hours.. so that's 3 hours I don't get to watch what I want, instead I have to watch what we want to watch.
I get that, but those things don't pile up. Basically you don't get to watch whatever you want to watch. That's fine, but it is what it is so discount it. Neither system helps or hinders that. That's just how your life is.
Now the other issue is that you have very limited viewing time. That's a bonus since apparently there is nothing out there worth watching. It would take extremely little to fill that limited time then.
Maybe you need to get your wife into video games.
LOL - I've tried.. we owned a Wii and some other system, she hated both.. played like 10 mins I think.. and then it just collected dust.
Well sure, you set her up for failure with a Wii!
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It's about the games, not the systems. What games did you have her try?
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@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
@dashrender said in YouTube TV:
@scottalanmiller said in YouTube TV:
You say that I sound extreme with things, but this feels so much more extreme than me. I dislike nearly all television and movies, yet never have this level of issue finding things to watch with people.
You have several things in your favor - your family agrees that TV mostly sucks. I'm guessing that you have all the time YOU desire to watch whatever you desire to watch. I do not. I have around 4 hours a day to watch on average. I'm with my wife for at least 3 of those hours.. so that's 3 hours I don't get to watch what I want, instead I have to watch what we want to watch.
I get that, but those things don't pile up. Basically you don't get to watch whatever you want to watch. That's fine, but it is what it is so discount it. Neither system helps or hinders that. That's just how your life is.
Now the other issue is that you have very limited viewing time. That's a bonus since apparently there is nothing out there worth watching. It would take extremely little to fill that limited time then.
Maybe you need to get your wife into video games.
LOL - I've tried.. we owned a Wii and some other system, she hated both.. played like 10 mins I think.. and then it just collected dust.
Well sure, you set her up for failure with a Wii!
Mine only likes wii and mario type games. It's hard to get her to play anything that isn't really retro, but put Super Mario Brothers 3 on and she has to play.
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@reid-cooper said in YouTube TV:
It's about the games, not the systems. What games did you have her try?
Well - it's all about the games that WE want to play together, because that's the whole crux of the problem.
and it was years ago.. I don't recall.
