I’ve labeled RTL (German for-profit non-cable TV channel) and YouTube as “free”, but you pay for them both with ads. Nearly as many minutes of ads as minutes of content on YT these days, it’s become unusable except for livestreams. Rant for another day.
Are we getting sufficient value from the 18€/mo we pay the German TV tax (ÖRR)? From a movie standpoint, not as much as from our streaming subscriptions. (Mr Radish watches live sports in the ÖRR every week, so it’s a rhetorical question; our household uses the ÖRR.)
Note: Kino means “cinema”. Freising finally got one last year. They sell beer.
I was surprised that cable and subscription streaming are roughly equal, 54 to 57. But then I broke it down by method. “Streaming” here includes films provided by the ÖRR in a Mediathek, and can be done comfortably on the couch or while cooking or stitching.
I feel bad that I spend so much more time sitting on the couch–even though it’s all obviously high-quality foreign films (Japanese rubber monsters and lies) and for several months last year there was literally nothing else we were legally allowed to do besides sit at home.
With that in mind, maybe 2022 shapes up differently.
