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When the ability to avoid commercials is totally eliminated, that will be a good day. I can eliminate TV from my house and break that addiction. But until then, thats probably why Dish is still worth the money for me as long as IT remains viable, and that's in question. But the main value with Dish is the DVR for me.

So you are saying the entire pay for TV with money rather than your time is dying? The one thing with dish and some of the pay streamers that annoys me is paying a fee, THEN having to watch commercials:emoji_angry:

Its my understanding, that ad supported TV is growing and growing fast. I don't do Netflix. But I read that their ad supported option is very popular.

I think maybe inflation cutting into budgets could be part of that.

But there's also the aspect that about everything I do on the internet is now by subscription. Its very much becoming pay-per-view.

I'm a Lifetime subscriber to this site.

I pay Amazing Ribs $30 per year.

I do YouTube Premium because it also includes YouTube Music. Getting both makes it cost efficient.

I'm a subscriber to Discovery + but I do the " with ads " version for $5 a month. Mrs Okie and I are working our way through the entire Triple D catalog and all of the BBQ Pitmasters are there. Along with some other decent bbq shows.

I have to do ESPN + for college football and baseball. Along with two OU Football news forums.

I pay a small sub fee for the local newspaper and $4 a month for the Wall Street Journal.

I had to sub to Amazon Prime on a 3 month deal to watch the NFL on Thursday nights.

And of course, I have YouTube TV.

There's probably a couple more that I'm forgetting about.

It adds up. Free TV with a few ads is looking really good to me. As I said above, the ads provide a break to go to the kitchen, bathroom , read an email or text message, let the dog out, etc.
 
I forgot about this deal. But reading this reminded me of another sub, I pay $9 per year for The Athletic.

This is excerpt from The Athletic.............. these are two games I'd like to see, but I guess no NFL football for me on Christmas Day, bah humbug

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What Netflix did earlier this year was land the exclusive rights to stream two NFL games on Christmas Day — a three-season deal that also includes a game on Christmas Day in 2025 and 2026.

It’s a significant moment.

‘This is about the next generation of power players’​

In a few days, all of us will witness a new chapter in the NFL and the streaming giant’s sports-media ambitions when Netflix streams the Kansas City Chiefs-Pittsburgh Steelers game at 1 p.m. ET, followed by the Baltimore Ravens-Houston Texans game at 4:30 p.m. ET.

Both games will air on broadcast TV in the competing team cities and also will be available on U.S. mobile devices with NFL+.
 
To me it's Stallones best work.
Agree . Started season 2 last night .
I'm also going through the Sopranos . Never did see it all , so I started from the beginning .

subscriber to Discovery + but I do the " with ads " version for $5 a month
I started it when a bunch of the shows I watched switched to Discovery + . I get the no commercials version . There's a lot to watch on there . I like a lot of the ghost hunting stuff .

YouTube Premium because it also includes YouTube Music.
I recently upped mine to the full 4K . Is that the same as the premium ?
If so I'll have to check out the music .
 
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Agree . Started season 2 last night .
I'm also going through the Sopranos . Never did see it all , so I started from the beginning .


I started it when a bunch of the shows I watched switched to Discovery + . I get the no commercials version . There's a lot to watch on there . I like a lot of the ghost hunting stuff .


I recently upped mine to the full 4K . Is that the same as the premium ?
If so I'll have to check out the music .
I'm pretty sure the full 4K is YouTube TV.

YouTube Premium is just basic Youtube no ads.
 
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Just finished season 2 of Tulsa. Agree that it's probably Stallone's best role since Rocky.
Now starting Lioness season 1. After that, I guess I'll move on to Landman.
 
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Hogan's Heroes

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Was one of my Dad's favorites. He was in Stalag 17. His POW dog tag.

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