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The era of cheap streaming is officially over
(www.cnn.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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Plug for OTA TV and HDHomeRun or Tablo. $3/mo for TV guide data, and a surprising amount of decent content and sports if you’re in a good area.
OTA TV is shit quality and chock full of ads. No thank you. You enjoy, though.
Well to its credit, PBS is free, excellent programming in 1080i, and ad-free.
And when you record stuff, you can skip the ads. Tablo used to offer auto-commercial skip for an additional fee, but they shut down that service. Not sure if HDHomeRun has something similar.
@ch00f @HughJanus
...but you can't do anything about the pop-ups, esp vexing when the cover the sub-titles.
They don't cover subtitles. Closed captioning is sent on a separate data layer and displayed over the image by whatever app you're using to watch.