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I’ve been wondering why I keep getting likes and quotes on a show I stopped watching several years ago. Now I get it.

That's my favorite way to go to sleep. I put on something mindless, that I don't have to pay attention to, and set the timer on the Roku for 30 minutes. We have three Roku TVs and one Roku streaming device attached to the dumbest smart TV ever. I do worry that if we turn off the dumb TV without backing out of whatever Roku app we were streaming, it will continue to run, ad infinitum, eating up data.

Grrr. Just went onto Paramount+ website to delete a few of the programs I don't care to continue from Keep Watching, because they won't let me do it from the TV itself. It deleted every single show on the list as well as my entire watch history, so I now have to open my watch list and then guess what episode I was on or at what point of the movie I stopped, if I'd actually like to continue.

Yes. I am in Arizona, and almost — not all — every library in the state will allow me to get a card. Most of them — not all — let me apply online, but usually the nonresident card is only good for one year instead of three. YMMV. I have Hoopla also, and they also allow stacking. I don’t use it much, though.

If you get membership at other libraries (I belong to about ten) that participate in Kanopy, you can link your accounts together and stack your credits.

I considered getting PBS Passport but when I looked at their offerings, I was unpleasantly surprised at how little legacy programming they have. I want old Masterpiece Theatre and old American Experience and Ken Burns and Ric Burns documentaries, among others. Perhaps it's a licensing issue that prevents them from sharing their full catalog, but I'm not paying for another streaming service that doesn't have what I want to watch. There seems to be more classic TV on Kanopy, which is free through the library, than on PBS.

I went with the one week free trial and the annual plan for $120, which works out to $10/month plus tax for the ad-free version with Showtime. Also, DD taught me that the workaround when they try to show a promo ad in the beginning despite being ad-free is to back out and go right back in. I had Discovery+ as a add-on to Amazon Prime until most, although not all, its programming appeared on Max. Cancelled that. A few shows I used to like are not available on Max, but it's no big deal. Just also want to mention that watching Discovery as an add-on to AP was a misery. Their navigation system is horrendous. I would open up a season of, say, Beat Bobby Flay, and it would literally tell me that the first three episodes were episode 4, the next was episode one, the following two more were episode 3, etc. And they were all single episodes, not copies. Season 35 came after season 37. Fun stuff.

ABC is one of the OG of OTA, so I'm confused. It also says in their FAQ: What defines "additional content?" Whatever they say it is. I went to the ABC app on my Roku, signed out of my old cable account, and looked at what they have on the subject of the Oscars. It was all clips and shorts. Then, I looked at the live TV listings in my browser, and the live Oscar broadcast showed a locked symbol on my local ABC channel. So, my bad. I'm not planning to watch, but I have antenna, so I could. I'm just gobsmacked that regular OTA channels are locking down their content, and not just behind Peacock, Paramount, etc. Cable providers are getting desperate.

I think I read somewhere that if you have Hulu, it will not work with T-mobile internet, so I stayed with Cox for my internet. Hulu may not matter to you. But for a fraction of the $170 that was just the TV part of my massive cable bill, I have ad-free HBO Max, ad-free Hulu/Disney, and ad-free Paramount+/Showtime. Those three combined work out to less than $50/month. I really didn't think I'd find much on Paramount and as I dig through their listings, I'm finding more stuff to watch every day. Now I'm contemplating getting ad-free Peacock, if I can find enough content to justify the expense. Plus Tubi and Kanopy and Hoopla and Pluto for free, and all the local channels using Tablo. I wish Congress would decide to extend the Affordable Connectivity Plan. $30 a month helps. According to the Hulu app, you have to have their live TV plan to get the Oscars. But you should be able to watch via antenna, or on the ABC app, or on abc.com.

I'm a trained two-spacer, too, but when I type comments on the Washington Post comment board, the software automatically removes one of the spaces. I hate the way it looks. If Columbo could solve one murder with a minuscule bite mark on a piece of cheese and dozens of other gotchas that probably would never hold up in court, I guess Elsbeth can solve a murder over two spaces at the end of a sentence. I hope the Wendell Pierce character is not a bad guy; just the typical stubborn leadership character who exists to be proven wrong by the hero(ine) protagonist.

I've had AP for a number of years and have actually watched very little on their video side. Their interface has always been clunky and their search function is about as bad as it is on the product side. Since they added ads, I have watched none of it. My current pet named Peeve is my so-called ad-free Paramount+ that forces me to watch an annoying long ad for some Paramount show or movie at the start of a show or movie. I can't FF out of it. And that I have to go on the browser -- and Paramount doesn't work on either Firefox or Brave on my computer so I have to open Safari -- to delete something from Keep Watching.

But Peacock/NBC has nothing I want.* I had free Peacock for a while until Cox took it away, but I had basically never watched it. I don’t want to be forced to pay for their programming because I have Paramount+. * - Might get Peacock long enough to watch the Winter Olympics, maybe. My point about the grocery merger is that they’re falling all over themselves to claim the merger will result in lower prices for consumers. I struggle to think of any time that’s ever happened. Have a question. I signed up for Sling Blue (and have already cancelled), and within a day or two of setting it up, their channel guide included the Showtime I get through Paramount. How does Sling know I subscribe to Paramount/Showtime?

I wonder what it will do to the price. Have to think it can't go anywhere but up. Mergers are for their benefit, not ours. Just like the article the other day where Kroger insists that merging with Albertson's will lower consumer prices, even though in my town it will eradicate any competition. Cue my skepticism.

That’s why I got a Tablo. If you attach an ordinary external hard drive to it, you can record up to two shows at a time and watch them whenever you want. They have two versions — one if you have an antenna already, and one if you don’t. The wireless connection means you can stream live or recorded programs from any TV or device where you’ve installed the app. And best of all, it’s cheap and there are no monthly fees.

I looked through their program listings the other day, and there’s almost nothing I’d watch, even if it was free. (And Cox used to include it for free until they abruptly pulled it.). Plus I still have a bad taste over them trying to force people to subscribe to watch a single NFL playoff game. I might maybe might get it for Olympics coverage, or maybe not. But what kind of penny-ante operation tells you they only take PayPal? I have a rooftop antenna, and discovered Tablo at the end of December. Almost returned it to Best Buy because it kept kicking me out. Somehow it settled down and the reception is indistinguishable from cable or streaming. DD loves that she can FF through the commercials frame by frame during Wheel and Jeopardy and not overshoot the programming. I’ve looked at Sling and it irritates me that ESPN, which I only use for Monday Night Football, is carved out to Sling Orange. OTOH, NFL Network is on Blue, so I could just wait for them to air the replay. 50 hours of DVR space is not very much, though. We already pay $20 for ad-free Hulu and Disney, so adding Hulu Live would cost $70 more, for a bigger channel selection than $40 Sling Blue and unlimited DVR. Because I can’t make a decision, I haven’t picked anything, and every day I delay is $6 I’m no longer paying in cable fees. 😏

The first one I really remember was SB III. Big discussions in seventh-grade math class before the game, led by the teacher, Mr. Eardley. The next year I was much more into football and more well-informed. SI had done a cover story on Joe Kapp, and of course that was the SI jinx for Minnesota.

Game over.

Is he rooting for SF or KC?

No, it's not like basketball. After the first trading of possessions, it's next score wins.

Each team gets a possession. After that, if it's still tied, it becomes sudden death. If one team scores a TD in their first possession and the other team only gets a FG, the TD team wins.

And now we know how important that missed PAT was.

As long as Patrick has 13 seconds, ya never know, but SF seems to have regained some of its mojo.

Of course, no kicking was involved…

I’m pretty sure Taylor was just saying, “I got all jet lagged to hell for this?”

Tony: "This is four down territory." Jim: "Are you out of your fcking mind??" They kick the FG.