Musings about stuff

Too Many Choices Spoils the Mood Subscription-based channels(like Netflix, PrimeVideo, etc.) have spoilt a particular aspect of the TV experience I'm beginning to miss - the freedom from having to make a choice . I'm talking about the lack of options when selecting what to watch. The channels on cable TV would have pre-determined showtimes indicating what would screen at what time. You had no choice to pause or rewind the film, and simply had to go with whatever they were screening at the time. Many times you'd skim through the remote and land on a channel that is half-way into an action film. It didn't matter why Claude Van Damme is beating a bunch of bad guys and what happened in the prior scenes. You'd just sit & enjoy the rest of the movie. It was fun & interesting! Today, we have the added dimension of Choice. This was supposed to improve our movie-watching experience as we now have the ability to stream whatever we want to watch, pause if we want to ta