When did the internet become your main source of video entertainment

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I cut the cable about 3 years ago and don’t miss it at all. I now belong to 5 streaming services which in total cost ~1/3 my old cable bill. Amazon Prime is my favorite service for entertainment. Wondrium (The Great Courses) is my favorite for learnin’.

I thought I would miss first run network shows, but it turns out the good shows end up on one or more of the streaming services eventually, and I don’t mind waiting.

What surprised me is the high quality of many of the series and movies now created by the streaming service companies. I can no longer use my geezer card and proclaim TV was way better back in the day, when the big 3 networks dominated the airwaves. I’ll have to find something else to complain about (…maybe that noise kids call music these days :rage:).

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Around 2002 but I used the original DVD-service Netflix for awhile after that. Then I used Redbox rarely as well as bought a few dvds over the years.

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Defining video entertainment as what I actively watch versus just having the whatever’s on cable TV in the background, probably ~2007 when I discovered private Asian torrent sites.

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Actually, come to think of it it started a few years earlier than that, probably more like 2007-08, back when TV networks had episodes of their shows available on their web sites for free with ads. I didn’t have a smart TV or streaming device back then, but if I missed an episode of say, Lost and wanted to get caught up, I’d watch it on abc.com on my computer.