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I don't miss only having 3 channels to watch and having to be home at a particular time to watch something.
It was a shared experience, and! and! the quality was better! Don't believe me? Find any freesat channel right now and compare it to any streaming service.
Streaming services have to serve millions of different customers different content on-demand, and as a result the signal is compressed and dithered to the point of unviewabaility (says me, my family are apparently unaffected by the fuzzy black dots...) even on 4K streams.
Broadcast content? Its just chucked out there over the waves for anyone to catch, and the bitrate and quality are fantastic in comparison.
This is definitely a hot take. Iโm yet to see broadcast content that comes close to streaming content in quality.
Paid streaming, sure - you get the nice bitrate.
Free streaming (or Netflix bottom tier) vs Free Broadcast? Broadcast wins hands down in quality
I've seen silky smooth 60fps 720p streams coming over the air, compared to what I was getting with Netflix through cable.
Also the 'cultural exchange' you'd get if you lived in border regions!
This very much depends on when you're taking about. Over the air television when I was young was absolutely not better quality than any streaming service now. 480i delivered by an analog interference-prone signal definitely does not compare favourably to streaming.
I guess I'm talking about now. Yeah it's interference prone, but when the signal is good, it's amazing
Just pirate the 4k versions if you want to be a video snob.
HD piracy on demand is not that easy. Even popcorn time at its peak would suffer buffering if the media wasn't popular enough
Pirate it ten minutes before demand.
you're asking me for a level of foresight that is simply not possible
Stremio+debrid-link is pretty great, although it isn't free.