Posted on 01/27/2014 1:28:23 PM PST by Former MSM Viewer
No skill required. It is just plugging in HDMI cables for the video, phone cords for the OBI. Oh and power cords for everything. That has a power adapter. So do you have like 5 minutes to save well over $100 a month?
Sorry to hear that. But as I noted if you have at least minor DSL it would probably work. Try Earthlink they seem to be able to do what others won’t.
It’s because a lot of people cancel their service then turn it back on to get new
Customer discounts. Once again things are ruined by people trying to game the system. Even my satellite installer recommended I shut it off then sign up again in my gf’s name.
We cancelled DirecTV in 2008. They called daily for weeks, trying to entice us back with bogus *special deals*. I still get a monthly snail mail plea from them. The manager I spoke with was also snotty.
Will never go back. We are in a valley and get poor OTA reception, but Netflix w/Roku for streaming and 1 DVD at a time and Hulu Free on my monitor, plus You Tube, are all we need. News online and various conservative talk on the radio. Do not miss the sat TV at all.
Yup and you should check out http://www.crackle.com/ also!
Absolutely.
The problem is for DSL in my area you must be within 3 miles or so of the phone company. I'm about 7 miles out. My only phone line option besides dial up would be a data circuit and that involes considerable money because of the way the lines have to be configured and tolerances involved. But it would be very high speed LOL. My dad used to set up & maintain such lines working for Ma Bell. The only high speed service I could possible get would be Hughesnet and then only if I cut a lot of trees because I'm on the nothern slope of a high ridge.
Hubby watches some shows/movies on Crackle.
Had Hulu streaming for a few months, but they have some problems for us, likely bandwidth. It plays better on my monitor than on the TV, so I just went back to free for the 2 shows per season I get hooked on. Commercials on both, so it is just a matter of viewing comfort and I don’t mind the monitor for 42 minutes 2x/wk.
When we got Kindles for each other about 2 months apart last year, we had Amazon Prime, but aside from the availability of current episodes/shows (that you still pay for) and the instant free shipping, it just didn’t appeal.
We don't use Amazon Prime either. We had the same deal for awhile when we bought Kindle Fires for the family. We use Amazon now to get the shows that are tough to find on the Free Internet. Our main purchase from them is the Walking Dead. You can get a fairly good digital download for about 3 bucks an Episode.
And when you figure the cost of Cable/Sat dish a month you can buy lots of episodes in a single month and still be less than half of an average monthly bill for either.
Our costs for TV used to exceed 100 bucks a month.
Now we spend less than 25 bucks a month on average which includes the cost of Netflix and any digital downloads we get from Amazon. Best part is most of what we watch has NO COMMERCIALS!
I find that as I age, I don’t care if I am watching Season 3 while Season 4 is running. We have so many series we are catching up on, it can take us 6 months to get through them and by then, the next season is available. Same on Hulu Free: I’ll get busy and not be able to watch for a couple of weeks and then, there are 2-3 episodes (of 2 shows) available that I haven’t seen and since I usually can only watch 1/day, I rarely even get caught up. Which is fine. My memory is still good enough that I can recall where things are at in the show.
With BookBub and various alerts from forums and even from Amazon itself, we get most ebooks free or for .99. We like genre books and with all the indies out there, there is rarely a shortage of mind candy. I used to spend $60/month or more at the bookstore and then I began using Amazon for the 4-for-the-price-of-3 paperbacks and spent $25-$30/month. Now, I _may_ spend $10/month and that is only if I indulge in an *expensive* $6 download, which is rare. I really like that I can get a free download of a book I read in paper when the sequel comes out. I can refresh my memory and often, by the time I skim the 1st one, the sequel is running a promotion.
Our library notified us that they have a deal with Amazon and most other online book sellers that allows you to borrow books for free and the library gets credit for it.
We are checking into it.
One word “Direct”
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