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Options - Changing Streaming Choices By Andy Marken We know you’re going to say we’re a freakin’ idiot, but we say we miss our old pay TV bundle. Hear us out… One – When we wanted to watch the news/show we went to the program guide, made our selection and BAM! we were watching it … almost instant satisfaction. Two – We didn’t have to make a gut-wrenching decision – pay full pop for ad-free stuff or sacrifice a few minutes of our time. Three – We didn’t have to play hopscotch … hopping from Netflix to Amazon Prime to Disney + to Apple TV+ to FreeVee to Tubi or Pluto, only to settle for something. Four – We didn’t have to go through the month-long agony. Bundle bill came once a month with one painful whack out of our household budget rather than a thousand little slices out of our budget. No, we’re not going back…not for reality, remodeling/cooking shows. More than a dozen years ago, Netflix created the VOD market and quickly went international with regional versions almost everywhere (190 countries). Reid (Hastings) didn’t turn his back on the world’s biggest home viewing market – the US – but once you capture 50+ percent of the country’s market the rest becomes difficult – and expensive – to capture.