Are you a hunter or a gatherer? (Streaming vs Cable)

Are you searching through streaming services for movies or still grazing the cable channels?

Pre-streaming we'd surf cable movie channels, stumble upon something interesting, then see it listed when they'd promote their night's schedule or in the physical guide's they'd mail out. Now with the cable/sat service guides, you can just look ahead and DVR what looks interesting.

As soon as the channel programming guide and DVRs came into play, I got into the habit of looking through the weeks ahead on TCM and the indie channels to see what I could DVR.

I was surfing the premium movie channels less and less, but now that the streamer dashboards are getting intentionally less intuitive (Want that show you were watching? Here's fifty rows of movies we'd rather you watch right now.) I find myself going to channels like Pluto or apps like Tubi, where you still have a decent "gatherer" experience.