It was the same on the municipal level for me. I can call 311 or write to them, but it was kind of nice to be able to tweet at my neighbourhood and have people interacting with them and me on local issues.

Depends on the stuff and on what you will be watching it.

TV shows that were originally aired in SD will be fine in low resolution. Cartoons can usually be pretty low quality too. Old cartoons in SD on a CRT usually look great.

However stuff made for HD will probably need better quality to be enjoyable.

I’ve been collecting since the days of RealPlayer and still have lots of stuff in SD. Some shows are getting difficult to watch on a giant screen but the advantage of the small files is that they can be read by a toaster.

TLDR: More in lower resolution unless it’s some modern shows or movies where HD is a necessity.

But then you have to deal with physical media or rip it, and also deal with the anti theft protections. Skip all of this and simply download files.

I use Eternity. AFAIK it doesn’t have ads and it’s pretty much what I’m looking for. I tried others but they had ads and I couldn’t tolerate that.