I cut the cable tv cord when I moved cross country.
I bought a Sony Bravia, it seriously sucks. When it was upstairs I had to hard reboot it about once a week. Literally, pull the plug from the wall, and let it sit for about a minute, replug it in turn it on and let it do its thing.
I’m in the middle of a remodel, and I decided to place the Sony downstairs in the basement, where I was living, and I don’t have to reboot it anymore. Because it has a Roku I think, I don’t know this for sure, it’s new thing is I can turn it off, but it’ll turn itself back on. I unplugged it.
I bought a new TV for upstairs. It is a Vizio I had one of those in California I kid you not I think it was 14 years old and the TV was on all the time. Now it’s not on all the time. I did attach a Roku device to it because there are certain things that the smart TV doesn’t get. They don’t have a PBS app, you can watch PBS on YouTube. No. They also don’t seem to have a BritBox app. You can watch that on YouTube. No.
At this point I am paying for Paramount+, that’ll be the last month this month, and BritBox, and this oddball little app called friendly TV. It’s literally old television and Hallmark movie channels. I really enjoy Hallmark mysteries. I am not ashamed to say that I am a cozy lover.
But I now also use a Mohu antenna. It doesn’t look really good. But it allows me to watch local television. Here’s the thing I’m old. Do you remember in the I think it was the 80s or the 90s they came up with appointment television I am seriously OK with that. Remembering to sit down at 9 o’clock to watch NCIS on Monday, I’m OK with that, I can plan my day around it.
Streaming is fine, and I don’t need 7000 things to watch because frankly all of it is OK but not memorable. I went from over $100 a month satellite television cost to now I pay a grand total of 15 bucks a month for television. Which I can cancel it anytime . I might be at the end of BritBox for a bit.
My niece recommended that murder show with Steve Martin and Martin Short, and I watched three episodes and they were enjoyable, and I have no desire to go back to finish it up. I don’t care about the characters. The storytelling is unique and at the same time dull.
But this should surprise no one because at this point to put myself to sleep at night I’m listening to broadcast of mystery stories from the 40s. Like Richard Diamond, Sherlock Holmes with Basil Rathbone.