Hulu set to keep existing as standalone streaming service and app (for now)

Disney still has a lot of tech to unite and bundles to push.

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[Fatesrider]

We are OG Hulu folks, and have the BUNDLE OF MOUSE. Plus HBO de jour.

Better and cheaper than Cox…barely. Price is stupid for Live TV.

I have to admit I don't miss live TV at all. I spent the first half of my life watching it, and always resented the issue about schedules. DVR's helped free that up by a lot, but then the commercial bloat became huge.

But once the FCC gave all that bandwidth away and went to digital signals, I've not lived in a zone that can pick up OTA at all in 30 years. That began to wean me off of live TV. But it was the commercial bloat that did it.

Back when I first started watching TV, an hour long show had 5 minutes of commercials. When I said "Fuck this" and went with online stuff about 15 years ago, there was 22-25 minutes of commercials per hour long show. It got so bad that when I realized I forgot what the hell I was watching after the longest commercial break toward the end of the show, I decided I didn't need that shit anymore and cut the cord before "cord cutting" was even a thing.

So, no more live TV and no regrets.

I have Cox as an ISP, but I dumped the "TV" side of that ages ago because they had 100's of channels, almost all of it some kind of live competition bullshit (Reality TV that had nothing to do with reality, of course) and pretty much nothing to watch and almost all of that was commercial. I have a list of rotating streaming channels I'll binge for a month then come back to in a year when the selection's have rotated out to new ones. It's a bit more work to stay ahead of it, but there's a new technology that will put a notice right in your face if you need it to be there to tell you when to do things, instead of a disregarded calendar on the wall with circles and notes I can't read from my chair.

Works out great. No stress. No hassles. No ads.