Sure if you ignore that Youtube is slowly introduce paid content and the whole music subscription thing and they removing a lot of content that conflicts with paid interests.

And cable is like a closed garden internet. I'm not sure why you don't understand that. You're paying for access like you pay your ISP. That gives you access to some content at no additional cost. That's funded through ads. if you want to pay more then you can have more content and that's funded by your additional payments. Just like the internet. I pay for access but I still see ads. Big deal. I like that because it reduces costs and I'm not a cry baby about having to see ads if they're not shit. That's actually Youtube's problem. You can see the same ad over and over. At least cable you can guarantee you're not going to see the same exact ad two or three times in a row.

And yes Netflix is the best of all the options. I'll agree with that which is why I've subscribing and watching it right now. But it's not a one size fits all solution. It's missing tons of content. So it's a good addition to other sources and given that's streaming only (which is fair enough) it's useless in a lot of situations.

Everything is collection of good and bad. Netflix is great for what it does but it's selection is limited and you can run into bandwidth problems. Cable has more selection and zero bandwidth problems and it let's me watch it 24 hours a day without nagging me if I should choose but it's more controlled unless you want to spend a load on pay per view.

I would probably have cable if I watched much TV but actually I don't. Netflix is cheap enough that it doesn't matter if I don't watch it for a month.

Youtube is fine for random old clips and user content but actually it's a bit shit now that they gave us that busted streaming that makes jumping around more difficult. It let's users spam their video with over lays and it's slowly adding more ads.

My hope is vimeo becomes more than a hipster's video site without it becoming youtube.