My nominee for post of the day!
Posted on 11/08/2014 5:22:56 PM PST by Jamestown1630
Yes Hulu has commercials, about half as many as the regular broadcast, but it also has programs that were on yesterday not just last year. I watch movies from netflix but TV shows from Hulu there is also crackle a free service like Netflix but a smaller selection of content that changes each month.
My nominee for post of the day!
Tom Rutledge, the CEO of cable TV company Charter Communications, told Wall Street this week he was “surprised” that 1.3 million of his 5.5 million customers don’t want TV. They just want broadband internet. They’re actively NOT subscribing to TV in addition to the web. http://www.businessinsider.com/charter-cable-ceo-surprised-that-customers-want-internet-not-tv-2013-11
I tried Hulu and Crackle. Both insert commercials.
The problem I found when viewing with ROKU or WD TV was that Hulu and Crackle would lock up after the commercial and not return to the movie/tv program. If I tried to restart and advance the video to the prior location, it would glitch out and show several commercials.
Hulu and Crackle turned out to be more trouble than they were worth.
Watch if you cancel, Comcast in our area was a spiteful bunch...first they just disconnected service electronically when we cancelled. A few days later I noticed the coax wires cut in several places and hanging off the side of our house. Wife was home a week later and said the guy came by and yanked the service cable completely off the side of the house and left the wire at the bottom of the pole, still attatched at the pole. Irked by that a bit, I pulled the wire off the pole and discarded it...must have broke something because Comcast was there a couple hours later doing repairs...
I’m not familiar with the HBO offerings but Amazon does have a great selection of current shows for free. And several current network shows up to the previous season for free. You can watch current season’s offerings at the network website, usually a week to 10 days after the new episode has aired.
I have been collecting TV shows for a long while. I put them on an NAS External Hard Drive (WiFi). I also have WD TV box that can read the NAS drive and play the contents. I also use PLEX software that runs through WD TV and ROKU.
Now, I can ‘process’ a tv show (cut out commercials, etc), put it on the NAS drive and view it on the LCD TV.
TVs and Computers can finally talk to each other.
Did the same to Time Warner two months ago-about the only thing I miss is watching the news. When cable because my most expensive bill I couldn’t take any more. I am keeping my Internet service so any shows I do care to watch I just d/l and put them on a USB flash chip, plug into the TV and I’m all set.
In case someone hasn’t posted it yet, bear in mind that if you totally ditch the phone company and switch to internet phone (VOIP), if the power or internet goes out so does your phone service. In an emergency that would not be good and a land line usually still works.
bfl. thanks.
We are too.
We’ve already been through that. Power goes out here maybe once per year, usually during a Spring or Summer thunderstorm. Even if you have telephone through a bundle, if the power goes out, the ‘phone only lasts about 8 hours. Sometimes our power has been out for a couple of days.
(I’d like to have an old copper pair ‘pots’ system; and will try to have that when we move next; but the telecoms are phasing them out, wherever they can.)
For now, we have little Tracfones, which we keep only for emergency; so we’ve got thousands of minutes saved up.
If you keep them charged, they work fine during an outage, and they are very inexpensive. The only time they’ve failed on us, was during an earthquake a few years ago. The earthquake was extremely unusual for our area; and everyone calling everyone they knew, clogged up the lines.
We don’t live “big”. The way we do things probably wouldn’t work for people who need to be in touch all the time, everywhere. But living small works for us.
We’re trying to go smaller, all the time :-)
-JT
We cut the cable. As for the phone, we added a ten dollar a month account to our cell phone service, ported our home phone number to it, and forwarded the number to one of our cell phones. We’ll phase it out eventually.
Place the laptop-looking antenna inside a window - I have mine overlooking an open stretch of lawns for better reception. Plug it into wall outlet and into TV. Plug TV into wall. Run a scan with your auto control. That simple and you pick up all the major local channels plus several retro stations.
bkmk
Explore the channels Roku offers. They have a ton of news stuff ... including Fox material.
We've got both of those, in addition to Netflix, which is our primary source of TV programming.
I don't think I've watched Hulu more than a couple of times. I was way turned off by the commercials. That's what I got away from when we ditched cable.
I have time Warner and want to get rid of the 150.00 per month .. Currently also have ATT phone and old DSL. ATT wants me to switch so badly to their Universe service. Says that we can Only pay for one cable box and stream with high speed wifi to TV their service and cut cost of cable TV . I almost bought the phone and Unverse high speed for 59.00 per month as it’s about 100 times faster then my DSL service plus it’s about 50% less Than my current phone and DSL service.
Still don’t know what to do. We are also set to get GOOGLE service in My area in 2015. So ATT and TIME WARNER, Surewest are trying to cut deals to save customers. My wife is addicted to DVR shows and that is the cost of having three DVR devices with TW.
Not sure how all these added costs compare to getting the channels you watch with a cable subscription.
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