So I will remain televisionless, but at least I got half a column out of it. I did not have to buy one TV for ESPN and Food Network, plus a bunch of adapters and pirating cables to drag in NBC and Animal Planet. Comcast can suck it and DirecTV eventually found a place of not being much better, but at least they were willing to let me watch the five or 10 channels in which I was interested on a single television. This means that your TV, in addition to being an unintentional announcement of brand loyalty, also won’t play things you might want to watch if they aren’t on a compatible network. Plus, as I understand it (which I may not, but if I go that route the complaining wouldn’t be nearly as fun) Netflix and Amazon and Hulu and Chromecast and so on don’t like to talk to each other. I hate the phone, I hate that increasing numbers of businesses will not interact with you without the phone, I hate the loyalties required from the producers, and to add the TV to this list of dismay is more than I can handle. Regular readers - all three of them - know how I feel about the smartphone. Then I have to let the fancy TV connect to my smartphone. ![]() If I want one of the fancy TVs cheaply, I have to decide (I am told) which streaming platform I want to watch. ![]() The catch is that TVs have software now, and that software does not work with all forms of media.
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