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the shopping channels don't charge the carrier  - FREE

the music channels are not high fidelity , but cost pennies

I think we've discussed streaming options before, but YouTubeTV works well for me and anyone else who primarily watches sports and occasionally news channels along with some other common channels. It's only $50 / mo and can be shared with up to 6 people (within close geographic proximity) and up to 3 devices can be used simultaneously.

Supposedly wifi networks could become obsolete by 5G, but I haven't met anyone who's done that yet.

One of the issues with just buying the 15 channels you want is networks won't sell you the one station you want out of their catalog.  They want to leverage them.   You want the food network, here is animal planet, HGTV, Discovery, etc that comes with it.  

I understand why we can't cafeteria cable channels, but I wish we could.  I just live with the profusion of ridiculous channels.  

Since I live in a condo, I don't have choice anyway, and frankly what we have is pretty good.  I get SEC N and can listen to Paul Finebaum all day, and his erudite callers.

Whatever became of Australian Rules Football?

true, but you'll need a 5G antenna in your Roku box or your smart TV or your Fire Stick and your laptop and tablet and desktop and any other device

Exactly.  I don't consume video over my phone, I hate the small size and find it practically worthless.  I understand some people like it, which is fine.  

I consume video almost exclusively on television sets.  Occasionally on the laptop, but really only when I'm searching up DIY videos and such.  Never on a phone or tablet.

We were in Costco yesterday, I was getting an eye appt, and whilst waiting for this and that was assailed by the TV section.  They had an 84 INCH monster up there for something like $2200.  It was a WALL.  Even up close I could not make out pixels, I know they were feeding it 4 K.

This S is amazing to me, and the QLED stuff is even more so.  I have a 65" class 1 K TV that I still think is "just fine".  I'm looking for what to do with my stock market gains.  (Perhaps I should check it out today.)

The wife bought me a piano at Costco the day before that, I may have mentioned, a new fangled piano kind of thing.  It has good action.

We were in Costco yesterday, I was getting an eye appt, and whilst waiting for this and that was assailed by the TV section.  They had an 84 INCH monster up there for something like $2200.  It was a WALL.  Even up close I could not make out pixels, I know they were feeding it 4 K.

This S is amazing to me, and the QLED stuff is even more so.  I have a 65" class 1 K TV that I still think is "just fine".  I'm looking for what to do with my stock market gains.  (Perhaps I should check it out today.)

I would point out that the picture you see in those displays won't be the level of quality you'll actually see when you're watching TV, *even* if you're watching 4K content.

Any broadcast content (whether OTA, cable/satellite, or streaming) is heavily compressed to reduce the bit rate they have to transmit. It's compressed to the point where the 4K stuff is not really THAT much better than 1K to your eyeballs.

These demonstration videos, or any 4K content you get on UltraHD Blu-Ray discs, however, will be as high of a bit rate as they can make it, since they don't have to send it over a pipe or over the air. So if you watch a lot of movies stored on discs, you'll get a better experience with 4K, but if you're watching anything broadcast it won't be much better.

The technology for 4K is far better, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the broadcasts will take advantage of that technology.

I'm looking for what to do with my stock market gains.

With coronavirus, you still have those?