in which we are punished for doing the "right" thing

[ironymaiden]

we started getting AT&T TV (it's streaming cable channels) this year. one of the reasons was to support things we like by paying for them.

today i learned that the DVR part of the service only holds content for 90 days and my carefully hoarded shows to watch when i felt ready have been silently disappearing. cue still-relevant xkcd

Comments

[jesse_the_k]

Damn!

(Apple did remove DMR from iTunes music, but audiobook and ebook formats are still DRMed like whoa.)

[yourlibrarian]

Streaming has its issues alright. I was pretty peeved with AT&T -- I signed up to its Live TV service last year after dropping Sling because it kept losing networks. Only a month after signing up our price was jacked up by 30% with no warning. Soon after we were given the notice that we now could have 3 simultaneous streams (something we don't even need) and the very limited DVR space was now essentially unlimited -- with the 90 day caveat. And since HBO Max was going to be bundled free I decided to stick with it until Max launched. Of course by the time it did, YouTube TV, the only real alternative, had also raised its prices with less reason. So we're stuck with it because there are no real alternatives to what it offers.

I'm still not thrilled with them because it's not like getting a complete cable package -- it doesn't get PBS or BBC America, for example (meaning I had no access to Killing Eve). We use the DVR for everything but most of it gets watched within 2-3 weeks. The exception is Mike's programming which he's been known to keep on the DVR for 6 months or more. So he's had to pick and choose what to see -- early on he had recorded a lot of golden era films from TMC, but he never got around to most of them. He'd planned to run some while he worked but it turns out our Internet provider has also dinged us with going over our usage cap if we stream stuff continuously so that's pretty much out the window anyway.

[varina8]

No good deed goes unpunished.

[swingandswirl]

/facedesk/ oh ffs.

No good deed, indeed.