Broadband Challenge Make-Up

I’ve been using online as my main source of movies and television for the past 3 years. When I decided to go back to school, I decided to get rid of the expense (both time and financial) of cable. It was a year into school before I found ninjavideo.net … my hub for television/movies/and cartoons. They have a bunch of different ways to load content. Now that I’m finishing up at school, I’m just starting to consider whether or not I should get cable again. You know what? I’m thinking I don’t really need to get it. And I haven’t listened to radio, really, since first year when I worked as a cook in a pizza shop (and radio was the background noise).

Online TV is better than regular TV because there are hardly any ads. Some websites show pre-roll ads or ads every 5-10 minutes. But not the ones I use. On occasion, I’ve watched shows with pre-rolls, and I found it pretty annoying. For me, I don’t mind watching an ad as long as it’s short. If it’s entertaining, so much the better, but I don’t really care in the end. I just want to watch the content.

The only real drawback to watching TV online is where I’m sitting when I watch it. I’m usually condemned to sitting in my office chair. Every once in a while, my girlfriend and I take my entire computer (Apple desktop) and put it on the foot of my bed so we can relax and watch in comfort. It’s a really clumsy situation, though, and there’s always the clean-up process afterwards. It’s probably just another of the reasons behind the trend towards integrating Internet connections into televisions.

The only chance I get to listen to music is in the morning at work (where we collectively choose between songs on YouTube) or on my CD player when I’m doing housework. In each case, I avoid advertising completely (we avoid the YouTube pop-ups because we only use the music as background sound … we don’t watch the videos).