tomp wrote:
It depends on if you want source mateial that is not on any broadcast. It extends past what cable can provide and goes into Netflix and Amazon presentations over the web such as the SciFi show The Expanse on Amazon Prime TV.
I get that -- it's just that I have no interest in any of the cable or FIOS offerings. Never had. What turned me off to cable TV a long time ago was the promise that with cable there would be no commercials to deal with.
That promise lasted only about two years. When away on business and I am forced to view TV via cable (or satellite) there are just as many annoying commercials as there is on over-the-air broadcasts.
To add insult to injury their stuff is compressed -- not so with over-the-air.
So -- why underwrite cable services when the revenue from advertisers does just that? I have friends that do not realize they can get over-the-air digital TV and are shocked that the option is available to them.
Retail salesmen for the most part do not realize that option is available.