I am, or will next month subscribe to MLB.com so I can watch almost every Chicago Cubs ball game.
That's a rough way of life.
Yeah, really. You can almost be absolutely certain with the Cubs, that show isn't going to have a happy ending. (At least it hasn't for the past hundred years or so)....
...[ ]...re-broadcast of u.s. tv shows over Philippine cable channels are sometimes delayed by two months to years. HD channels are a premium subscription. SD channels are for basic, el cheapo subscription.
Yeah, I feel you about that. It almost sucks to that point over here. I missed, "Agents of SHIELD" the other night. When I tried to watch it on the ABC website, they told me I needed a cable subscription to stream it. Keep in mind this is an OTA broadcast TV show we're talking about.
Netflix.
I did pay for Hulu for a couple months simply because I forgot to cancel my free trial. My AppleTV won't let me watch any Hulu without a subscription, but during my subscription, I really could not find anything outside of being able to watch on my Apple TV that was worth it over 'free'. Perhaps I just don't know what I'm talking about here, but Hulu Plus seems like the greatest waste of money I have ever done for online purchases.
Dear God, do you have an Apple TV too.....?
Anyway, I know you can't get broadcast TV where you are.
(*) Amazon has a competing service, "Amazon Instant Video". I resorted to it once, that was almost once too many times.
By the time they get you to install the software, (which they feel necessary to run at startup), and pumping DRM into what is allegedly, "yours". It's really just visiting, more or less a glorified rental.
The new movie rentals, (I think) are about 5 times the price of a Redbox rental! Besides, who doesn't like to get out of the house once in a while?
(*) That's really an iTunes like, "a la cart service", not a "buffet" like Netflix.