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IVe been with Comcst for several years now and don't seem to get the service I need and deserve,,,Anything out there that won't make you go bankrupt? Paying almost $250 a month could go to some mighty fine fishing gears stead of making cable tv company's rich
Just drop cable its all propaganda anyways
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If I'd learn to read,, they'd all get broke,,,lol
, they won't even come out and change defective equipment, they want you to bring it to them.
Unlimited service on my phones, dropped satellite service about 5 months ago and never looked back. Television as they know it is dead.
Ever wonder why they are redoing all the old shows? Talks of Murphy Brown, Fraser, Cheers, and others coming back? Roseanne came back and ratings went up. The problem is that the generation familiar with those shows (like me) is the only ones with television now. They are losing every day.
Pay only for a basic cable package and get yourself a ROKU ($25.00). With that you can get most of the normal TV stuff, including tons of free movies and serials. And it offers an "ala cart" pay method if you want to include such things as NetFlix, HBO, etc.. However, with the ROKU, you have to have a Router so that you can get the signals from various satellites.
I ordered a new Dish HD antenna. They wanted me to take the old one down. I told em where to put the dish.Quote:
Originally Posted by wannabe fisherman
Dish installers can't climb. My old dish was on a our tv tower, about 25-30 ft up.
Dish contracted the install out. The contract installer placed the new antenna below the old antenna. I told the contract installer to take the old antenna down. He balked. I then told him to take the new one down and take it back to Dish with him.
Needless to say, I have a new antenna and the old one is gone.
Morale of the story: no short cuts in life and don't accept half ars work.
150 a month for tv / internet....spectrum
It’s so so I suppose ....
Roku and sling for sports.
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I dropped all the dish and cable long time ago.Got an antenna and get all the local channels free.
Netflix thru the dvd player and friend gave me a firestick.I jailbroke it and installed kodi and can stream tons of tv shows and movies free.
Got Spectrum, too. $175/mo TV/Internet (no pay channels)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ketchn
Problems I have are "price creep" and the occasional sound drop/pixel loss/signal skip (live TV or DVR'd shows). Also just found out that I can probably lower my monthly bill by turning in the old Time Warner equipment for Spectrum equipment ... which is on my "to do" list.
Personally, I was happy with Insight ... then that changed to Time Warner ... and now it's Spectrum ... and I've got a couple hundred channels that I either have no use for or can't access. Biggest gripes I have are : too many commercials too often - and - the channel lineup is in triplicate (same programs on three different channels of the same network at the same time, and my TV shows them all at the same quality ... HD channel or not).
I did that one also, saved about $10 on equipment rental. what a joke! If there's any worse cable than Spectrum, got it right this time "G", LOL, it would be Comcast from what I've heard about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CrappiePappy
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Same here with Charter. I have Dish at lake (basic).
I don't even bother with TV anymore, commercials drive me crazy. I get all the entertainment I want just from the internet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Takeum
Tell me more about Roku please. What do you get with it? I’m thinking about just getting basic or dropping Direct totally. We are wanting to get WiFi and use something like Roku or Netflix.Quote:
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I mostly use Roku. Too much crap on the internet, excluding c.com.
I watch free stuff from Amazon and U tube mostly.
I spend most my time piddling with stuff, couch tater, not!
Wifi is all you need and a antenna, I went from $250 to $50.00 plus Netflex and prime. Total cost $70.00 a month.
You will need to buy some in home antennas for your tv sets, they are cheap. Call me, I will fill you in.
I got rid of cable tv several years ago, got a roof antenna - FREE TV!! -- Cox internet is $63.99/month - love youtube etc.
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Sell, all your Cable tv stocks, They are history. People are changing by the millions, I can't stand commercials anymore. Only live tv I watch is the news. P.S- sometimes!
We had Cable for years and payed thru the nose. Switched to AT&T and Direct TV basic package 85.00 a month. when there's a storm it goes out for a little while. I can stand that compared to hot summers and any rain at all cable going out then having to talk to a person that can't speak or understand English to try and help you. Hope they go bankrupt.
We dropped dish network 2 years ago and went to a external tv antenna. Have used roku and local tv stations for entertainment. No way will i go back to cable or satellite. Watch all of youtube it has to offer to view.
Local tv services beside networks are me tv,antenna tv,cozi, cw, escape, h and i,decades, movies, light, comet, grit,local weather channel, and explorer. All this with antenna in one position.
Always something to watch on you tube has a lot of westerns,comedy, drama etc. Virginian, gunsmoke, big valley, high chapparal , amosnandy
Today i was looking at roku's new listings, which they add new channels every week it was up to i believe 1165 channels most free too. Pluto network on roku has over 100 channels alone.
Buy the way tvs now are coming with roku installed all you need to do is have a router. Amazon fire is another tv based internet service.
YouTube, Amazon prime, and a few others for me. Unlimited data on my phone is far cheaper than my old satellite service. DirecTV has no problem jacking rates and letting you know but, when they run a sale, the surely won't tell you.
I live in the sticks so options are limited. I purchased a device that lets me cast my phone directly to my TV. I gave up sports years ago so that isn't an issue.
There is more cool programs online then ever was on TV. Watched a program last night on the Nazi POW that left the camp in New Mexico and spent 40 years on the FBI most wanted before turning himself in during 1985.
Ttexastom that’s the way we have done it for probably the last 4 years. Sometimes we browse through Netflix or Hulu or another streaming service through Roku if there is something there we want want to watch for a while we subscribe but great part you can cancel anytime. We may watch a series or something for a month then cancel no big deal we have gone in and out many times just to watch an added program for a while. And at even then 8 bucks a month no big deal and we never keep subscribed for more than a month usually. Only bad part internet out here in the country cost a bunch. We pay about 60 bucks a month for that but need it anyway.
What works best depends on where you live. Outside antenna where I stays will not work. I would need a 150 foot tower. The new digital broadcast signals are low power and cell phone has severe latency problems in out area, so phone hot spot has very limited use. Satellite works cause I have a shot at the sky on an old tv tower (which worked well till things went full digital).
Roku is the least expensive option, as long as you have basic cable and a router (for WiFi). No need for antennas. I don't have any.