with SD and HD broadcast available this sufficiently supplements our TV watching. We've dumped cable more than a year ago, i'm mostly a Movie watchers, my wife movies plus watches lots of series and to get the right plan for us we were over $150 a month for cable. iTunes + broadcast + $1 rentals & rip for us anyway is WAY cheaper than cable..
the only gaping hole that i see in what Apple offers is live sports and live events unless they are on local broadcast (olympics was.. ).. i'm having to go to the bars to watch my ppv boxing matches.. but that's fine.. little socializing is good... other stuff i try to find online with is not ideal..
also on iTunes..
- you get a discount on shows if you purchase the series rather than show by show..
- from an appleTV you don't have to wait for a show to download.. you can stream it on demand.. this actually replaces DVR functionality.. typical wait for me is about 10 seconds to watch (7Gb/s).. 20 secs for HD.. and you can watch anything on demand at any time.. don't have to worry about storage space etc.. anything they have can be streamed at an instant right away..
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