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Review: CBS All Access a bad fit for me

We cancelled our cable a few years ago, opting instead for a digital antenna and a Roku streaming player, reducing our monthly bill to just the cost of Netflix and HuluPlus, which gives my family and me access to the shows on ABC, NBC and Fox we enjoy (and a few other networks, to boot). Netflix and HuluPlus, for us, are great, and local channels through the digital antenna were much crisper (though we have to reposition it every few weeks to keep channels. I still don't understand why.) But every now and then, I'd feel a little nostalgia for when we had more viewing options. So, after several months of seeing the CBS All Access app in our Roku Channel Store, I decided to give it a try. Overall, I figured we'd get enough use out of it to justify $5.99 a month. As it turns out, though, we didn't. We watched a few episodes of " The Big Bang Theory ," but then sat there looking at it thinking, "Now what?" In the time we'd been watching CB