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susandennisIt's a lovely, quiet Sunday morning here. Julio is looking for trouble and Biggie just hopped into my lap and sat for a spell which is rare for him.
My treadmill work is done. I had a lovely breakfast. Lunch and dinner are decided and done except heating up.
The baseball game is at 1.
All is under control and fine and dandy.
This is the week I make the TV decision. My plans are to turn in the cable cards out of my TiVos and cancel the TV portion of my cable account. I get that half the world did this eons ago but not me.
I got my first TiVo in 2000. That's a lot o' TV history. (Yes, one can use a TiVo OverTheAir but not if they live in this building.) The TiVo heyday is now in the past but still, there's bits I'll miss. The automatic skipping of commercials I'll miss the most. It didn't always work but when it did, it was pretty fucking slick.
But I've had a month now of YouTube.TV and while it does not automatically skip commercials and has nearly no decent organization of 'recorded' shows, it is easy and nimble and gives me more watching options for less $$. Plus, its prime has yet to come.
So, I think, once regular season baseball is over on Wednesday, I'll pop out the cable cards and take them to the cable office and do the deed. Next year, assuming all is the same as this year (which is not an assumption I'd bank on), I'll likely kill YouTube.TV and pick up Fubo, which carries the Mariner games, for the season and then flip back at season end.
Overall, I will get way more TV year round for less and more flexibility. The end of an era.
My treadmill work is done. I had a lovely breakfast. Lunch and dinner are decided and done except heating up.
The baseball game is at 1.
All is under control and fine and dandy.
This is the week I make the TV decision. My plans are to turn in the cable cards out of my TiVos and cancel the TV portion of my cable account. I get that half the world did this eons ago but not me.
I got my first TiVo in 2000. That's a lot o' TV history. (Yes, one can use a TiVo OverTheAir but not if they live in this building.) The TiVo heyday is now in the past but still, there's bits I'll miss. The automatic skipping of commercials I'll miss the most. It didn't always work but when it did, it was pretty fucking slick.
But I've had a month now of YouTube.TV and while it does not automatically skip commercials and has nearly no decent organization of 'recorded' shows, it is easy and nimble and gives me more watching options for less $$. Plus, its prime has yet to come.
So, I think, once regular season baseball is over on Wednesday, I'll pop out the cable cards and take them to the cable office and do the deed. Next year, assuming all is the same as this year (which is not an assumption I'd bank on), I'll likely kill YouTube.TV and pick up Fubo, which carries the Mariner games, for the season and then flip back at season end.
Overall, I will get way more TV year round for less and more flexibility. The end of an era.
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