I watch loads of TV and also stream lots of things as well.

AS soon as HBO go has a subscription instead of having to have cable/sat i will not have any use for it anymore other than for college football 4-5 months at a time a year. All i use is hulu and netflix with some hbo go shows and i am all set.

Plus i have a smart tv that has most of the apps built into it, and it works great. Roku would be a better fit for me than a x1 for a whole lot less.

That's what I use ad breaks for. But just use a DVR. At the moment, I use Sky's On Demand service and have to sit through adverts AND have to wait longer for shows to come from the US than my brother who just watches them illegally, but somehow I manage

So I should go out and spend $150 or more to fully take advantage of a service I am already clearly overpaying for?

The way I go about it now is much more convenient and doesn't effect my wallet.

Saving to TiVo or downloading the episode, all the same to me. One just costs money on top of my already paid subscription.

I didn't see a rebuttal to my counter=argument. Just some off-point banter.

Cool that you do that, but you have yet to explain how avoiding commericals is fleecing anyone. And using a DRV to avoid them is not conducive to your argument.

Have you abandoned it?

If you feel you are overpaying, then why subscribe? I happen to agree that cable is too expensive. I don't subscribe anymore, I use Netflix.

I'm not knocking you for the downloads either. I was just pointing out a solution to the commercials, which I also dislike watching. 

No other way for me to watch my absolutely awful New York Mets. I tried MLB.TV but since I live in NY the games are blacked out. SO am paying out the ass for the Mets and 2-3 TV shows, all because I am forced to pay for Telemundo and all these other non-English channels and even Yankees crap on YES.

I also have Netflix, which is great.

Now, if HBO could just get a subscription based thing going and SNY could as well. I could avoid all this Cablevision garbage and TV networks wanting more cash from my pocket to NOT watch their programs that I am for some reason being forced to pay for.

I have a cable box in my room...I used it exactly once in the last half year. When I watch movies with my family they are downloaded since the quality is much better than what we can receive (480p vs 1080p) and there are no advertisements. All the shows that interest me are lagging 1 year (Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead) or YEARS behind (One Piece, Naruto etc.) and censored beyond recognition.

Now that I think about it, I basically only watch live sports with my cable box.

EDIT: I buy Game of Thrones and Walking Dead once they are released on BluRay, though.

I try to buy blurays if there's a show I want to watch. Only thing I've been watching on T.V. is Big Bang Theory reruns.

Do you not see a clear difference between streaming stuff illegally and not looking at the adverts?

I am more concerned about the attitude, that people thing that they can make their own rules. I have a friend who has decided that they can watch a whole series of TV, then decide if it is worth it to buy the DVD, that is not the way the system works