Maybe 5 years ago, I saw an ad for the Roku tv streamer that said I could get Amazon Prime and Netflix on my tv with it. We had just gotten back from a trip and we went to the store and got a new tv. The old one was heavy and big. The replacement had a larger viewing area but was quite light in weight. My friends laugh at the replacement because it is comparatively small, but we aren't getting a 75" tv for our 70 " living room.
Months go by without our looking at broadcast tv. Streaming from Netflix, Amazon, Wisconsin Public TV and Acorn can all be watched on our computers but the living room is set up to conveniently watch on the television set. We haven't watched broadcast for years. My friend worries that our tv ad consumption is dangerously low but we are doing fine. My cinematic enthusiast friends enjoy Kanopy and the Criterion channel, but we have not got much interest in old movies even though we do use them sometimes.
We have found some tv series and movies that are more to our taste with streaming. We are not drawn to monsters, murders depicted in detail or magic where the hero clicks his finger and thereby instantly teleports himself to another planet. We are not fascinated by fake sex and have had enough simulated humping. I suspect being old has provided us with so many sensational explosions that we are now jaded. We enjoy facing the problems of ongoing everyday crime in Britain while it worries about Nazi invasions with Foyle, and the insensitivity of Dr. Martin. We have traveled the Andes and watched Nature programs.
