You may recognize Craig Newmark as founder of the eponymous craigslist and noted philanthropist, but I know him as a TiVo aficionado and television buff… who just cut the cord and dropped the hardware DVR. Which reinforces for me that cord cutting isn’t always about saving a few bucks but, rather, convenience — including access to top shelf content… that doesn’t always originate via traditional channels.
Craig tells me he subscribes to a number of streaming services and picks up series here and there which, incidentally, is also how my household largely functions. He generally uses the native apps on his LG OLED but also periodically beams to a Chromecast Ultra given the convenient Google Assistant vocal control. For comparative purposes, the primary Vizio television in my home can be voice-controlled by both Alexa (decent) and Google (stellar) — and, as Craig suggests, both the space and our personal approaches are evolving.
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I am in the process of switching to YouTube TV. But I find the forced use of VOD for 'recorded' shows based on the network a little annoying. But the savings makes up for it, so I am pot committed at this point
I'm a tivo user who went to yttv a couple months ago. The forced vod is only on cbs and it's affiliate channels. Everything else is no longer forced vod, as of a couple weeks ago. The switch has been great, but the usability isn't Tivo. Telling everyone to hit the tivo butting, and there is everything you are looking for was great. Finding my recorded content, what did I watch already, what have I partially watched, marking things as watched, it's all missing.
Unlimited DVR, really nice. Not being able to record a specific time, not as nice. Monday and Thursday night football don't have a show "name" so I can't just record all those games without recording every NFL game that comes on tv.
It's getting better, and it has it's advantages, and disadvantages. I also didn't switch due to price, but due to Plex sucking so bad on Tivo, I started looking at driving everything through a Roku.
Yeah, I feel like it will keep getting better. The price was the cable box charges that we really getting to be annoying.
I noticed it on CBS and SyFy on Futurama repeats. Not sure who else may do it. Also I wish they had Nick and Comedy Central. But all life is a trade off and this was worth it