Posted on 08/10/2017 12:10:13 PM PDT by tje
When LTE-5 gets here, the Cable TV companies can kiss their high speed internet customers goodbye too.
With your obsolete Direct satellite dish, wrap aluminum foil inside and aim it at the sun.
You can heat up hotdogs.
Well Dilbert,
FIOS is just a means of delivering internet, life DSL only faster.
To get movies, TV and other streaming content, you need a Roku, or an Amazon Fire or some other internet set top menu box.
I like the Roku because it has about 3500 channels available. Granted I don’t want 7 tennis channels and I only use about 15 of the available services, but it’s nice to know they are there. Some channels are free and some are pay. I use Netflix, Hulu, Amazon prime and about a dozen free channels.
Prices for the streaming boxes run $35 to $150 depending on features you want. I use a Roku Ultra ($130) as it offers the highest HD video available.
My daughter uses a $30 Roku Streaming Player that plugs into the TV’s HDMI port. Her TV doesn’t support higher than 720p anyway, so she’s happy.
Cutting the cord can be as simple as watching those same videos except on a bigger screen. Then start adding anything you need beyond that . . .
It still torks me off to pay for cable when the original promise was that there would be no commercials. Cable has more ads than regular tv.
It still torks me off to pay for cable when the original promise was that there would be no commercials. Cable has more ads than regular tv.
It’s interesting that the chord cutting has accelerated so much this year, while box office attendance is also down in North America. People are saving a lot of money by getting their news and entertainment online.
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