Posted on 12/19/2017 12:39:25 PM PST by nickcarraway
Oh god this is so stupid.
Why do you like cable companies?
Help...would love to watch more YouTube, but can’t figure out how to get Dell inspiron to link to Toshiba HDMI tv
You don’t have ChromeCast? You can easily cast your YouTube videos to your TV.
Soon you may have to pay $3-$5 in bandwidth fees to watch a movie on NetFlix. People will drop it then.
For example, when we dump Comcast TV, we will still use Comcast and their network as an ISP and to access “TV” using youtube, Netflix, etc.
No doubt companies like Netflix will be keeping an eye on this and will complain if the ISPs/Cable companies start to throttle the bandwidth, etc. Maybe companies like Comcast will offer a tiered service — slow speeds for less $, fast speeds for more $ so that they can recover the lost revenue from cable TV. They already do this.
I can get some Masterpiece theatre thru PBS on demand and hadn’t heard of Acorn but I see it’s only 4.99 per mo. and includes programs from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Interesting. American TeeVee has fallen thru the floor for me.
Subscribe to YouTubeTV and it includes a cloud DVR.
“Cable TV” is going to disappear in as much as your TV is delivered over cable and you have in-home hardware devices. It will be replaced by Live TV delivered over an IP network. There will be (and are) “TV subscription packages” available. The primary difference being there is a lot more competition and no geographic boundaries. Current examples include SlingTV, YouTubeTV, Sony VUE, Amazon Firestick TV, Apple TV, etc. I cut the cord and use SlingTV and Amazon Prime w/ Firestick. I do pay a premium to have a 50Mbps network connection. I saved a little over 1/3 vs traditional CATV.
Meijer stores are seig a cord-cutter package that includes a DVR.
I haven’t seen it anywhere else...but I haven’t been looking.
Meijer stores are seig a cord-cutter package that includes a DVR.
I haven’t seen it anywhere else...but I haven’t been looking.
We use an Amazon Fire stick. But supposedly now Amazon and YouTube are wrangling over $$$, so not sure it’s going to still provide YouTube much longer.
Has many different apps — we access Amazon Prime Video this way. Was easy to set up and cheap.
Yea, I was paying big bucks for a satellite package of 250 channels and probably watched a dozen. Since I was paying for Internet anyway, my ISP offered the channels I watch most for $20 a month with on demand and they bumped my download speed up to 100 mbs. Roku has a lot of free channels, some with good old movies, some with really crappy B movies. And I already have Amazon Prime and Netflix so they don’t cost me extra.
That will change when Netflix charges customers for the bandwidth it now has to pay for at market rates.
No....have ROKU...but, it sounds like ChromeCast MAY be useful, especially with problems with the laptop?
I’m ready to drop both now, not much decent on TV, with exception of RFDTV. Hubby is a sports/car nut.
I had to suffer through that crap VOICE junk last night. UGH sickening.
Rather have a good book. If my thumb surgery every rehabs right maybe I can get back to my quilting/crocheting. 7.5 months from surgery and still only have limited use of my Dominate R. hand, it swells, stiff, painful. Who would have thought fixing a Trigger Lock Thumb, and a torn base joint ligament would do this much damage. The doc ended up putting in 2 screws in that base joint, creating a Frozen Thumb and a near Frozen index finger. How am I supposed to SHOOT my CWW revolver with that impairment?
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