What to Watch?

Before my time, I heard about television having just four choices for channels. The black and white screens included antenna for reception and a designated child was the one to make adjustments to the controls. In my childhood, I remember 50 or more channels to choose through cable TV and a remote that I could control with my mouth stick. Today, choices have increased in a variety of ways.

Around the time I was in college, cable television choices expanded to hundreds of channels with specialty choices depending on your interest. Satellite packages also became more popular with similar choices to cable, but with competing price points.

I don't remember exactly when the next change started, but online options for video entertainment started becoming available. Now most households have dropped cable or satellite television and just use online entertainment and what can be received over the air.

Just as their used to be a plethora of TV stations, now it seems like there are just as many streaming options. You can choose between sports options, movies, children's shows, and everything else you can want. I have tried a few different streaming options, but ended up canceling them due to having little content I enjoyed or not worth the monthly price.

Currently, I subscribe to two video streaming services. One is through Answers in Genesis and primarily has creation type documentaries. The other is through Living Waters and has their weekly podcast, full-length movies, and other evangelism type content. They are both interesting, but I hardly watch either of them on a regular basis.

What I find I watch most of the time is free content on YouTube. The commercials get annoying, but they can generally be skipped and you can choose from pretty much anything you want to watch, made by professionals and amateurs alike.

Sometimes, I find myself saving too much to view than I have time to consume. While it's good to learn, you also can't spend every minute of the day glued to a screen. That has been an issue ever since the invention of the television and the current descendants of those black and white screens hasn't changed.

Living the quad life, I'm thankful for a multitude of entertainment and video education choices that I can easily access. On my evening flat times, or when doing afternoon cares, it's an inward debate on which choice to use until I am once again upright. However, with live rail cams available all across the country, a video may still be in the background as I do other work and I listen for a train.

I'm off again to flat time, but I think I'll read a virtual book to start. Having multiple viewing options are great, but so are books.