After having my cable bill go up unexpectedly for the second time, I started looking for other options. I’m usually on the go, staying at hotels and watching their crummy stations because there’s nothing better on. I needed something that I could take with me, not something that would sit on my TV stand at home where it’s useless to me. I’m a modern person who appreciates having choices and selection, that being said I want things to be easy too. Maybe I’m a bit spoiled, but I think I just have high standards. Being on the road often, I simply couldn’t justify the seemingly ever-increasing cable bill that was always waiting for me when I got home. I knew it was time to find something better. I called the cable company and told them to cancel my subscription. “Oh no, we’re so sorry to lose you as a customer!” Guess what? I’m not sorry at all, because it only took me a couple days until I came across MacTV Pro. Before going into that, I’ll tell you about what I tried first, why it was a bad idea for me, and finally I’ll tell you some of the reasons that I’m very pleased with MacTV Pro.
My first solution was to rip my DVD collection so that I could take them on the road with me. This took a lot of hard drive space, and a lot of time! Plus, I’m not always in the mood for a movie, especially ones I have seen again and again already. Sometimes I just want to flip around and see what’s on live TV. It’s rare that I have 2 hours of free time to sit down and watch a movie, so my TV watching is usually about thirty minutes or an hour at a time. So, I gave up on the DVD idea. It just wasn’t easy enough, and not practical. It wasn’t long after that I stumbled across MacTVPro when a friend suggested it to me. I was hesitant, but I gave it a shot and I’m glad I did.
One of the first things I noticed about MacTV Pro was that the channels were sorted into categories. I have very specific tastes in what I like to watch. They did a good job with the categories, and I love the fact that I can save my favorite channels to a special list for easy-access. There are thousands of channels to choose from, and the creators of MacTV Pro have already sifted through and taken out the junky ones. Of course, I’m not interested in thousands of channels personally, since I can only watch 1 at a time, but I just wanted to point out that there is something for everyone, a huge selection means there is always something interesting on. With MacTV Pro, you don’t need to sort through thousands of channels because they have already done that for you and organized everything into categories. I looked at the categories that interested me the most, picked out my favorites, and now I have a lot more choices than I ever did with cable service, and I can take it with me anywhere! I’m not stuck watching a dozen boring channels in the hotel when I’m on the road anymore, since I can bring my personal list of favorite channels with me anywhere thanks to MacTV Pro.
Before wrapping things up, I want to mention another great feature of MacTV Pro that I was not even aware of at first. It comes with instructions on how to hook up my Mac to my TV for when I actually do have a bit of time at home. Of course, when I’m not on the road, I’m going to want to watch shows on my living room television rather than my computer screen, and that was my major concern when giving up cable in the first place. It’s now a non-issue, since MacTV Pro can easily hookup to my TV. Have they thought of everything?