But I have changed because of life circumstance.
I am one cheap mother fucker. I rarely buy anything new, and I never buy cutting edge anything. I had my time in the 1980's and 1990's when I was young and hip (even if unremarkable in looks). But now, I fix broken things to upgrade the antiques that I have.
And such is the case with my television.
I had a 25 inch hdtv that I did buy new (but only when it was on the lowest price I'd ever seen for this size ever) and I was watching Netflix and Hulu and Slingtv through that for the last several years.
I did acquire a Chrome thing and it was awful - simply awful -and the second version was even worse.
Then I got an Amazon Firestick.
And all things were changed after I had acquired for free a 42 inch television that had been struck by lightning and was no longer operable. After surveying the cost of parts, I replaced both the power board and video boards (brand new parts, not used) and for $75 total, I have a wonderful 42 inch hd television that gladly accepted the firestick and suddenly I was living high on the hog.
I started adding my hulu and netflix and slingtv to the apps for my firestick and then added youtube. Now I must say I much prefer the computer/web browser version of youtube, but I've become accustomed to the limited usability of the basic firestick "program" that goes on the firestick.
What has now happened is I watch three times as much youtube as I used to - I see so much great individual work and other programming that I just cannot get enough content. I am not able to sign up for YouTube tv because of something about local programming, but Slingtv is fantastic and costs so little even with some additional items that I likely now won't switch. But the free youtube is fantastic.
I strongly suggest you start watching youtube on your big screen tv and surf it to find the wonderful content there.
I do forecast that YouTube will likely replace netflix - I watch so much less of Netflix that I'm thinking of cancelling soon.
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