Yesterday I watched Spain - Belgium on a live stream on Prime Video. The same stream was available on Netflix and YouTube.

It was like live TV, but properly enshitified. Instead of professional journalists and commenters, you get streamers reacting to the game, improper comments, like and subscribe notices, publicity every time the ball stops, paid viewer comments overlayed on the broadcast. A complete shitstorm.

I realized that this is what the future of live TV looks like. So I think I'm done with it.

Believe it or not, a LOT of people really want this. It’s a lot to do with “choice paralysis”. They can’t choose what to watch, but they want to watch something. I’ve gotta admit I’d like to just be able to go to a sci-fi channel and watch something random.

next thing they'll think up is a free tier supported by just ads

Tell me you want to be a cable service without telling me.

All we need now is to bring the feeds into our home for free. Maybe an antennae device of some sort?

I've recently been getting into free IPTV streams. There are 1000s and 1000s and free streams from all over the world in pretty much every language with over 2000 in English alone. Most are not geo blocked. You can find a list here: https://iptv-org.github.io/

Y'all, the greatest joy in my media universe is the 24/7 MST3K channel that's on one of these things. Guaranteed laugh within 2 minutes. I don't need to select the episode. I don't want each episode in a row. I want random.

I haven't seen any live-tv for 30yrs now, I'm baffled they still exist somehow?

Full circle, except gated off now. I'll count that as a win for the company.

Next week - Live talk shows without video! You can order a special subscription package to your car. Now only currency 9.99

they've already had this for a bit with WWE on netflix.

It's just cable with Tivo. you can pause, rewind, all crap. WWE was the test case (it's like the TV version of the porn industry) so now they'll woo over other cable networks and sporting events. And then...oh you got cable without having to buy a tivo box. on the bright side, it'll make pirating and restreaming live sports a heck of alot easier.