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[John]

Ms SixToe and I were discussing this last night after she said the Toob is now $10 a month.

Add all the other subs for Apple+, Paramount+, Hulu, Booloo, AppleCore, Th' Flix, Peacock, Amazon Prime and whatever else, and you're laying out a bunch of money for a lot of shirt you don't watch and just a few things you do. Just like cable, which everyone disliked "because we have 392 channels and I watch maybe 10." Well, now it's pretty much the same thing but on multiple streaming services.

Insane.

This is why I only subscribe to one streaming service at a time (other than YouTube TV). I'll do Neflix for a month, then try Disney, then maybe Hulu. I find all of them disappointing after a week or so, even when I haven't subscribed for a few months and theoretically a lot of new stuff has been added. And I pause YouTube TV for a few months each summer when I'm not having to watch any sports for work.

The only thing I do all year is YouTube Premium. That $13 or so a month is money very well spent. If my TV is on, there's a 90% chance I'm watching something on YouTube.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Ms SixToe and I were discussing this last night after she said the Toob is now $10 a month.

Add all the other subs for Apple+, Paramount+, Hulu, Booloo, AppleCore, Th' Flix, Peacock, Amazon Prime and whatever else, and you're laying out a bunch of money for a lot of shirt you don't watch and just a few things you do. Just like cable, which everyone disliked "because we have 392 channels and I watch maybe 10." Well, now it's pretty much the same thing but on multiple streaming services.

Insane.

Many years ago ...

Switch to DirecTV, it's cheaper than cable! Plus, Sunday Ticket!

Me: OK! (eventually pays more than what I was for cable)

2023 ...

Switch to streaming, it's cheaper than DirecTV! Plus, Sunday Ticket is on YouTubeTV!

Me: OK! (eventually pays more than what I was for DirecTV)

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I've heard Oregon as a grad transfer. Better paycheck (which would also be true at many other of America's gooder colleges).

OrangeBloods has him going pro, not to the Transfer Portal. But <shrug> ...

 

[SixToe]

This is why I only subscribe to one streaming service at a time (other than YouTube TV). I'll do Neflix for a month, then try Disney, then maybe Hulu. I find all of them disappointing after a week or so, even when I haven't subscribed for a few months and theoretically a lot of new stuff has been added. And I pause YouTube TV for a few months each summer when I'm not having to watch any sports for work.

The only thing I do all year is YouTube Premium. That $13 or so a month is money very well spent. If my TV is on, there's a 90% chance I'm watching something on YouTube.

We probably will start doing this. We might like one show (series) on a service, but little or nothing else. When the series ends we don't cancel and either ignore it or scroll around looking for something else interesting.

 

[da man]

Yeah, but Belichick famously wants to control everything and Jerry isn't giving up his meddling this side of the grave.

They said the same thing about Parcells and Jerry.

 

[HanSenSE]

Makes one wonder why we don't have ala carte options. If I could dump, say, home improvement channels for more sports channels, I'm in.

 

[SixToe]

Makes one wonder why we don't have ala carte options. If I could dump, say, home improvement channels for more sports channels, I'm in.

That was kind of the early allure, wasn't it, or it was supposed to be? We could pick what we wanted to enjoy.

I'd certainly trade the raft of game shows and bad 1970s-80s shows for more sports options. Or a network devoted to Giada and pasta.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

I yearn for the days of the old Food Network, when they actually had cooking shows and how-to shows.

Like Grillin' and Chillin' with Bobby Flay and Jack David, whatever show David Rosengerten had, old-school Emeril and Giada, and even early Guy Fieri and Mario Batali.

Now we're down to Pioneer Woman, that obnoxious woman with the farm show on weekend mornings, and the rest seems to be Flay and Fieri game shows, and garbage like Supermarket Stakeout.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Makes one wonder why we don't have ala carte options. If I could dump, say, home improvement channels for more sports channels, I'm in.

The networks don't want ala carte TV. They want to get carriage fees per subscriber to a service, not per viewer. ESPN gets $9 per month from every cable, dish and streaming service that carries their network - even if the person paying for it has never and will never watch that channel. Fox News is getting nearly $3 per month from me via YouTubeTV - even though I have removed it from my channel guide.

 

[John]

I yearn for the days of the old Food Network, when they actually had cooking shows and how-to shows.

Like Grillin' and Chillin' with Bobby Flay and Jack David, whatever show David Rosengerten had, old-school Emeril and Giada, and even early Guy Fieri and Mario Batali.

Now we're down to Pioneer Woman, that obnoxious woman with the farm show on weekend mornings, and the rest seems to be Flay and Fieri game shows, and garbage like Supermarket Stakeout.

The Sorted Food Channel on YouTube is really good. A couple of British chefs and their friends doing a lot of interesting things. Food Wishes and Food 52 are also really good.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Thanks for the tips, I will check those out!

On YouTubeTV, I also found the "Taste Made" channel, and "Recipe" channel. Both are just hardcore cooking channels. Taste Made, especially, will run marathons of series with Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey, just doing nothing but cooking.

Pretty refreshing.

 

[HanSenSE]

Understand one of my Food Network faves, Restaurant Impossible, is off the schedule. Liked seeing the food he'd come up with, and I could watch Tanya Nayek for hours.