I have been a cord cutter for five or six years now. In the past, I had sling for a couple of years and basically only watched Aggie games on it so I ended up cancelling it. I primarily watch Netflix, Prime (Cinemax, HBO, Showtime, Starz), and on rare occasion HULU (wife watches cheesy crap on this a lot). I decided to give youtubeTV and Philo a trail period, just to see if I would watch it.
I just can't get into it. I hate the format of limited episodes. For instance, I just looked at treadstone on youtubeTV to see if it's something I might want to watch. Episodes 1, 3, 4, and 5 are available, but not 2. Why the hell would I want to watch a show when a critical episode is missing?
That's a recent release, older shows are much worse and only have certain episodes from certain seasons available. It makes these shows unwatchable for anyone that wasn't there DVRing from the start.
I don't get this model and why it's worth $50+ a month unless it's your only option for sports. Sure, it's cheaper, but they've managed to keep the worst parts of cable/satellite. If competition ever gets strong enough that the networks put all of their content on demand, then I'll look at it again. For someone that is so accustomed to the modern on demand platform these fragmented shows have no appeal to me.
Flame away
