Posted on 03/12/2015 12:42:27 AM PDT by 867V309
That is what has stopped me from watching live TV. I watch things like The Vikings or Justified but only recorded so I can fast forward all the commercial crap. Back in the fifties when advertising revenue paid for everything there was talk of “Pay TV” in the future but no one expected that when you paid a monthly fee to watch you would have two or three times as many minutes of advertising per hour as there used to be. Some of the old shows that were one hour including commercials are no rerun as one hour and fifteen minute shows. They have added fifteen more minutes of ads and sometimes I think they have also edited out part of the show. In some cases there is nearly as much advertising as program.
Katrina was the end of Fox News and my relationship. I had already stopped watching it quite a bit. I used to wake up to their morning shows, but eventually it got boring. I could get the news so much quicker online - no reason to wait for it to cycle through.
I was remembering the other day how you used to wait for the news scroll to see updates on stories, sports scores, etc.
Have you read the book (Odd Thomas)? I am on book 2. I liked the kiddo who played Odd Thomas, he did a pretty good job.
I love all of those silly documentaries, and good ones too. Currently I am finishing Poirot. Will have to pick out my next thing to watch.
Netflix streaming series opened up a whole new world to me. I watch foreign series a lot. Good entertainment produced around the world.
When our contract with DirecTV expires this spring, we will drop it. There is nothing on the tube worth watching for $124/mo.
I don’t watch it and haven’t for years.
All that made for TV stuff is like walking into a sewer...and worse all the time.
Not for me.
I have a ROKU as well. We just ditched our cable a couple of weeks ago. We bought our own modem so we would not be renting from Comcast, and upped our internet speed. I told the Comcast rep I didn’t want to haggle with them every six month over cable costs. I got the cable (105mpbs) at the regular price of $78.95. Son and wife will be moving in with us soon, so we’ll need the extra.
We downloaded the SlingTV app on Roku for 21.00 a month and we have Netflix. Sling not for everybody. It has about 14 stations, but it has stations that we watch regularly, and it’s live tv.
Fox News Channel has an app on Roku, and you can watch segments of programs - some the day after. We use Zahipedia to watch Fox News Channel live on the computer:
http://www.zahipedia.net/2009/07/01/watch-online-fox-news-live-free/
All of our tv viewing need are met. My husband is a fan of old movies and tv shows, and we both like home and garden/renovation shows.
So she started watching and I was deep in my project and about two hours went by and I noticed the program was only half done. I asked her if this was some new extended edition of the Goblet of Fire because it started two hours ago and was only half done. (we checked the start and finish time on the channel menu) I checked the internet to see if it was a new version but I found no mention of it in the programming or on the cable channel website.
So I started watching it a little to see if I could catch a new scene or something that would tell me it was a new version.
Then I noticed that the program would run about 5 or 6 minutes then they would have 4 or 5 minutes of commercials. And they kept doing it and doing it and doing it.
The show was a little less than 2.5 hours long BUT it took four hours to show it.
I was astonished. And not long after that I cut the cable off. Because I was done with the constant blather of useless commercials for crap I had no interest in. We audited our viewing habits and did some checking and about the only thing we could not get on the internet that we watched regularly on cable TV was Live NFL football and Live Cable News. We go to Dad's house to watch football with him (it has become a family day with a meal and snacks and beer etc.) and cable news we sacrificed. Now we get much more done and don't miss cable news at all.
Also we found so many more interesting shows on the internet. Tons of Documentaries that we would never have seen on Cable. AND NO COMMERCIALS!!!!!
I had an old Roku and just bought one more up to date.
ROKU/PLEX is a great combination.
The problem is Fox news. If streaming Fox news were available I would chuck cable
mark
I’m using the 22” tv I have right now as a monitor. Cable is used for internet only.
They’re are vying interests there. Government wants to tax, Content providers want to make a profit. I imagine somewhere in there they’ll find a number.
Obama is just trying to get as much money for his administration as he can cause once he establishes it, and then actually uses the money for some social program he knows it will be near impossible to get rid of. As we see with Obamacare. One senses the court understands he can’t do that, but once done, they don’t want to create havoc.
Could I ask what make/model card you use?
Got tired of paying for thousands of channels we never watch. Bought a smart TV, hooked a $70 router up to my computer and can stream amazon, Netflix, youtube, etc. Spent a whole evening feasting on Highway Patrol, Petticoat Junction, Dobie Gillis. Life is good!
My son lets me sponge off his Netflix account. Just started Mad Men. Only drawback is the urge to smoke and drink constantly...
Roku + Plex + HD TV antenna. And kiss cable goodbye.
...hope to do that this month, but how do I keep ESPN cheaply?
Does ROKU come thru your ISP and if it does, how do you keep from going over your monthly usage?
Don’t mean to be dense, just first I’ve heard of ROKU.
Roku receives a wireless internet signal from your internet connected router.
The signal is like any other internet coming over your broadband connection. I have no limitations on monthly cable internet connection
Plex runs off your computer that is transformed into a server by PLEX soft ware. It enables you to transmit programming from your hard drive to ROKU for viewing. Plex also has channels but I only watch one 8Octave that has lots of old movies.
I watch the 70s Battlestar Galactica all the time. It is wholesome, especially the robot dog. Over the air antenna, no calbe for 5 years. Used the savings to fund a small village mission work in Thailand. Use roku to stream significant free entertainment plus our tv streams youtube directly. Youtube is a virtual Alexandria library of how to and how it work videos.
If you are looking for a tv, definitely get on with builtin streaming apps and the youtube app and you’ll never miss cable. Broadcast tv will die off in our lifetime, merge in some way with streaming.
check out SLING TV at https://www.sling.com/
it lets you stream about a dozen cable station onto your tv, crystal clear. we have been using it two months. works well. can cancel at any time. they just added amc and walking dead. if enough people ask, am sure they would add fox news or another consrvative news station.
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