Posted on 12/19/2013 7:19:08 PM PST by NoLibZone
Cable is to TV what the dial up is to online access.
We no longer need Cable to see what we want and when we want to.
Streaming TV allows us to dump cable.
Get a Roku or a Smart TV.
Get Netflix for $8.00 and Hulu Plus for $12.
And stations such as METV even stream on local sub channels that you can access for free!
I don't have a TV. But I have FiOS at home and Comcast at work, and both work quite well.
Comcast and Verizon should just be pipes for internet content. TV should be just another thing you do on the internet, not a separate realm. The idea of a set number of channels with scheduled programming is so antique! Over time, it will wither away. Web video is a superior concept.
Given their druthers, folks want to watch whatever they want whenever they want to watch it. Web-based video is the way to satisfy that need. You want to watch a movie? Fine, click and watch. You want to watch a live feed of an event? Same story.
Roku and Apple TV and similar are built on the web. Down the road, they and similar will replace TV as we know it. The sooner the better!
Of course, this annoys Verizon and Comcast, since they, believing in the old cable TV model, have invested heavily in TV program production, in hopes of additional revenue on top of their role as communications utilities. They are due for a rude realignment.
That's right. As far as Roku and similar are concerned, cable is just a pipe to the internet. Whatever TV programming plan you may have with your cable provider is irrelevant. Any pipe to the internet will work, as long as it's fast enough. E.g., fiber will theoretically work even better than cable. What you want is the fastest possible internet connection.
Roku makes the older TVs that have HDMi Plugs a smart TV.
The newer TVS that are smart dont need Roku and can get the online streams.
My purpose is two fold:
First to remove the clout of the liberal cable companies and second to save money.
Yes you still need internet service to stream to either a Roku or Smart TV.
This can be done using cable of FIOS.
But we don’t need to support the bundled shows and their liberal agenda.
It the price I pay for not being able to see any neighbors. I used to have adequate DSL, but it went south when they extended the range and added hundreds of more customers to infrastructure that was barely keeping up.
I find that the digital world holds less interest than it used to and my desire to accumulate movies and consume media/hollywierd generated propaganda has waned.
Me too.
Roku sent me an email yesterday to say that after the first of the year you can watch youtube on roku.
I work for a much larger outfit than Comcast and other than being a customer I have no connection to Comcast whatsoever.
I wasn't sticking my tongue out at you. I was only trying to point out how geographic location can return much different Customer Service results from digital content providers.
In my neck of the woods, it is a slang term for what every man is born with but no woman is. Really.
I can believe that.
Here in Maryland Comcast acted like the monopoly that they were. You call them with a problem that sometimes they caused and many times they couldnt care less, they acted like they were the government.
Then the county let Verizon put their fiber optic cables underground (or above lines) and suddenly comcast had competition.
Just the equipment is like day and night. Comcast cable online TV guide and menus are near worthless.
Awesome! Good news! :)
Free sports online are awful because they're pirated. If it wasn't for live sports, I'd ditch cable in a heartbeat.
Actually Wingy they got the YouTube app now, why wait? :)
Maybe FReepers can start a channel. Starting with something online, maybe on Youtube, for example.
Many people work with other people online to make films and music. (One of my kids even has done it.)
BFL
Show me the money! Whadya mean free? You’re paying for your Internet connection. How much per month? $50, $75? (6 month promotions don’t count.)
Click on episode one (for example)
right click and “open in new window” version 3 (any “sponsor” links are fake)
click on “continue as free user”
click on the white square where it say ‘click to play’
After a while you figure out the tricks and don’t even think about them.
You don’t need to sign up for, register, download or install anything.
I assume you have a video player with the needed codecs, if not I recommend VLC.
I get as far as as, “You must create a Free Account in order to STREAM or DOWNLOAD this video”, and can’t get beyond there... I don’t see a version 3 or “continue as free user” or a white square...
Are you opening it in a video player first? Or in a web browser?
You go to that page, click on ‘episode 1’ and get that uh?
Sounds like you don’t have your pop-up blocker on.
Try right ckicking on ‘episode 1’ and ‘open in new window’.
Norton 360 says the VLC file v3.0.0.1 is too new, released just days ago, and only has few users. It’s rated as unsafe. Crap.
I have VLC v2.1.3 and Norton says it’s safe, so I’ll install that one.
Well, are you getting the show now ?
Or still just the pop-ups?
VLC won’t help with that.
I can open and watch it in IE9.
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