Well back in the day when I thought smart tv would be my oister I brought a dish smart vu 10, now ancient, set it up, but never installed it.

Later on I heard about the amazon stick and thought about getting it but never did.

As all my family moved round netflix, I ran youtube and podcasts and yes the on demand streaming services.

Then about a month ago I got covid, and was forced to sit outside away from the family and watch tv.

Slowly I started to enjoy it and swore to all mighty jesus I'd actually keep it up and join the family.

For 2 weeks I managed to keep that up.

But have now dropped back into my old ways.

My family watch tv and such they stop start to miss the adds which I enjoy they watch different programs.

They switch channels constantly, etc.

They talk over the audio description.

I have a mainstream tv but to be honest while I will always have one I don't know if I will ever truely watch tv.

If I do I want to go the amazon root having used their speakers for library books and games.

My brother has not watched mainstream tv for ages either.

When he got his new house his arial was in need of a redo and retune.

But between his netflicks, youtube, on demand, several other tv demand and other services and his home server with a nas and plex media he says he just doesn't have the time to bother with the mainstream channels.

Pluss mainstream on an arial in a storm aint any good.

Tv via fibre net is better.

The basic networks here got updated so the 100mb  up and 20mb down is 100 up and 300 down which while its not gigabyte speed is fine enough for what we use here.

Hi, Don,

I know what you mean about cable TV. I used to have it a few years ago but I dumped it because it got too expensive. I no longer watch TV because there's hardly anything worth watching these days. If I want to watch something, I'll go on youtube to see it.

Rosemarie

Having been a Comcast customer for several years I finally got tired of their price increases and told them good bye. I thought I would miss all those channels but now my wife and I watch very little TV and if we do we stream what we watch. Hooking up a flat panel antenna gets all the local channels about 16 channels in total. My wife and I have also averaged 300 books a year from Bard and have found we enjoy listening to books more than we ever did watching TV. I do watch the local news along with the national news on the TV but am even thinking of giving that up as it seems it is all bad news.
So save yourself a lot of money and dump cable TV you won't miss it as much as you think you will.