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Aeka 2.0 posted:Oh wow, ok. I think its time I give Dish a call, and tell them to suck it. The PC app is real rough currently. Roku works pretty well. If AMC, BBCAmerics, and IFC are all included in the core package I'll keep it. The rewind and DVR features are real weird. I can go back and watch basically any show from Food Network or HGTV, but I can't fast forward thru them. So, I start watching a show, have to leave, and come back to watch the rest. But I can't just resume from 32 minutes in, gotta start from the start. Also ESPN/2 isn't the television stream. No commercials, which is actually not great. If I want sports playing in the background I prefer actual commercials, not the WatchESPN "Currently in commercial" message and elevator music. But if they get BBCAmerica, all is forgiven.
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Sudden Loud Noise posted:Also ESPN/2 isn't the television stream. No commercials, which is actually not great. If I want sports playing in the background I prefer actual commercials, not the WatchESPN "Currently in commercial" message and elevator music. Having watched a lot of this type of poo poo I've found that you eventually get used to it, though I can say that because of this watching this year's Super Bowl (legally) through the NBC Sports XBMC add-on just wasn't the same.
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I'm excited to try Sling TV. Not having cable the fact I would get access to ESPN and TNT for NBA games on Thursday night is worth it for me. Also my wife loves Travem, Food and HGTV.
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Looks like Sling TV is doing a promo where you get a free Amazon Fire TV Stick or $50 off a normal Fire TV if you prepay for 3 months of service. https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1002997141 quote:Redeeming the Promotion quote:Update Call Me Charlie fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Feb 12, 2015 |
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Feb 12, 2015 21:15
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That's a p. nice deal and I think I'll get another fire tv
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I have a Fire TV stick but I might have to pick up a Fire TV with that deal.
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This is a niche application, but for college basketball fans sling tv is fantastic. I'll gladly pay $25 a month for 4 months if it means I get 90% of the top 25 matchups. MLB.tv and NHL Gamecenter have been stellar, and this is the final piece for finally having all the sports I follow off a cable sub. BitesizedNike fucked around with this message at 09:41 on Feb 14, 2015 |
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Feb 14, 2015 09:34
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So what's your total cost and amortized cost over the number of months you've got to have these subs?
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Feb 14, 2015 09:38
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sellouts posted:So what's your total cost and amortized cost over the number of months you've got to have these subs? MLB tv is 25 for the season. NHL is free through my job. So 125 total for the year.
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I've wanted a Fire TV anyways, so looks like Sling TV figured out a way to get me to try their service. I'll give $10 for three months a shot.
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Slowhanded posted:MLB tv is 25 for the season.
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:That's each per 4 people, right? It's $130 this season and usually split between 5 people. There's a thread that gets started every year in Coupons for it.
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Call Me Charlie posted:Looks like Sling TV is doing a promo where you get a free Amazon Fire TV Stick or $50 off a normal Fire TV if you prepay for 3 months of service. I had cancelled when the free trial was over, but this sucked me in. I'm really wanting a Roku 4, but I figured I might as well try the Fire TV for $34 ($84 minus $50 promo) to get access to Amazon Prime music and Pluto.TV in the front room with the Sling TV. Now I have an extra Fire Stick and Roku 1 just floating around. Anyone else having problems with the Maker channel? Other channels load for me, but the Maker channel just sits there.
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Silly Burrito posted:I had cancelled when the free trial was over, but this sucked me in. I'm really wanting a Roku 4, but I figured I might as well try the Fire TV for $34 ($84 minus $50 promo) to get access to Amazon Prime music and Pluto.TV in the front room with the Sling TV. Now I have an extra Fire Stick and Roku 1 just floating around. Is there any reason apart from 4k to upgrade from 3 to 4?
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Sheikh Djibouti posted:Is there any reason apart from 4k to upgrade from 3 to 4? I just prefer the Roku interface to the Amazon one. A lot less cluttered. The Roku 3 has been out for two years now, so I figure they'll have to be upgrading it soon, especially since the Fire Tv and Nexus Player both have search by speech. But, for $34, at the worst, I can swap out the Fire Stick in the bedroom with the Fire TV and use hard wired Ethernet since the Wifi gets a bit wonky with my Fire Stick.
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Ahh OK. Well, if it's anything like the one on the 3, you'll love it. We have apple TV, cable, etc. but the Roku is by far the most user friendly device, in addition to the huge channel selection.
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I am thinking that in between the Roku stick and the Roku TV lines, it will still be a year before the new box.
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Sheikh Djibouti posted:Ahh OK. Well, if it's anything like the one on the 3, you'll love it. We have apple TV, cable, etc. but the Roku is by far the most user friendly device, in addition to the huge channel selection. I agree, I really enjoy the Roku 3 we have now. The only three things I don't like about it: 1. No Pluto.TV app. 2. Roku 3 Youtube app has been upgraded recently and it is definitely a step back. Fire Stick still has the old app. 3. No Amazon Prime music support. Just Amazon music, I believe. All of these things are minor and can easily be added sometime, but it took awhile for Youtube to officially get to Roku again once it was yanked the first time, so who knows? Bizarro Kanyon posted:I am thinking that in between the Roku stick and the Roku TV lines, it will still be a year before the new box. Possibly since besides speech search and 4k, there's really not a reason to have a Roku 4 besides whatever speed gains they'd get with newer chips, and the Roku 3 is still pretty fast. But, I still hope they do. I'd love if they built a Boxee Box type device that allowed local file playback with the Roku interface but I doubt that would ever happen.
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I set up the week trial for Sling TV and after 2 days, I cancelled. The video quality was fine. The biggest issue I had was the fact that I had forgotten how much crap is on tv. TNT was showing the 3 Matrix movies. tBS had 4 hours of Friends. hGTV was property bros after property bros. Food Network had 4 episodes of Guy Fieri shows in a row. Almost 4 years of not having cable or satellite, I had forgotten how horrible the TV landscape was.
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Bizarro Kanyon posted:I set up the week trial for Sling TV and after 2 days, I cancelled. The video quality was fine. The biggest issue I had was the fact that I had forgotten how much crap is on tv. TNT was showing the 3 Matrix movies. tBS had 4 hours of Friends. hGTV was property bros after property bros. Food Network had 4 episodes of Guy Fieri shows in a row. This happened to me. So much of it is just poo poo to have running in the background of whatever you're doing on a random Saturday, and of course most of it has dirt-cheap rerun rights so it's on Netflix anyway. I didn't cancel cable just because of how much it cost, I disliked the whole thing. Still gonna get it for ESPN when college football comes back.
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TheScott2K posted:This happened to me. So much of it is just poo poo to have running in the background of whatever you're doing on a random Saturday, and of course most of it has dirt-cheap rerun rights so it's on Netflix anyway. I didn't cancel cable just because of how much it cost, I disliked the whole thing. See, for me, it's worth it for AMC. I was having trouble convincing the wife to get on board with canceling cable because she loves the walking dead and wants to watch it live, so I'm willing to spend $20 a month on this just for that show to avoid paying for cable anymore
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This probably sounds like a dumb idea for cutting cable, but I recently, and accidentally, stumbled across a few websites that seem to suggest picking up a (relatively) old fashioned HDTV antenna for my HDTV. Has anyone here actually tried doing this? It seems like a cheaper alternative to streaming a lot of stuff, and I suppose if I had a recordable DVD player (kinda like a VHS), I could capture most of the shows I wanted to see and watch them later. It would probably also be cheaper to just rent some shows from Redbox or maybe even buy them when they get released to DVD or BluRay (at least when comparing it to the long term cost of having cable subscriptions for some very expensive channels, and some movies do seem to look better on BluRay than they do in theaters, and definitely better than they do on HDTV). I feel so old and stupid after typing that out. Then again, I also did inbound sales for a cable company for awhile, so I have to admit that I'm extremely leery of getting into one of those contracts. I quit that job a few months ago, and I'm much happier now working as a delivery driver for 27 hours a week. I'm also making $100 more a week than I did when I was working 40 hours. Yay! I should probably see if I can work part time somewhere else and see if I can convince them to let me work 20 hours in a 2 day period, that way I can still have one day off a week, and earn around $550 a week. I could certainly make more money doing skilled jobs, but I like to smoke weed (and on that note, "wax" can really help you save money on that stuff, and it's much more discreet when you vape it) and drop acid. Jakcson fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Jakcson posted:This probably sounds like a dumb idea for cutting cable, but I recently, and accidentally, stumbled across a few websites that seem to suggest picking up a (relatively) old fashioned HDTV antenna for my HDTV. Isn't that what most people do when they cut cable? The first thing I did was buy an amplified antenna, and everyone I know who cut cable has one. Not sure what's so old fashioned about them, its not some novel idea.
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nickutz posted:Isn't that what most people do when they cut cable? The first thing I did was buy an amplified antenna, and everyone I know who cut cable has one. ...aside from the fact that TV was originally broadcast and meant to be received via antenna? I'm not trying to be snarky, but... I'm pretty sure the concept of not having rabbit ears on your TV is a relatively new concept. On a more serious note, is there any particular reason why HDTV and high speed internet access isn't free for everyone that pays taxes in the USA? If we can afford to spend trillions of dollars on things that aren't improving our economy, and quadrillions on nations that end up trying to destroy us, why can't we spend a couple billion on entertaining American Citizens? Jakcson fucked around with this message at 05:14 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Feb 23, 2015 05:10
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Jakcson posted:On a more serious note, is there any particular reason why HDTV and high speed internet access isn't free for everyone that pays taxes in the USA? If we can afford to spend trillions of dollars on things that aren't improving our economy, and quadrillions on nations that end up trying to destroy us, why can't we spend a couple billion on entertaining American Citizens? What do you have against job creation?
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Jakcson posted:...aside from the fact that TV was originally broadcast and meant to be received via antenna? I'm not trying to be snarky either but getting an antenna is like "cutting cable 101" for many people. And on your "serious note" it's because private business laid the lines that connect your house to the internet, not the federal government. Sometimes local municipalities will build out their own high speed broadband or city-wide wifi though and that's usually not free either.
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I'm combining two posts into one to save bandwidth, mostly because I'm selfish and I don't waste my own time loading this page. withak posted:What do you have against job creation? I have nothing against letting qualified people doing the jobs they are qualified to do. Speaking as someone that was overqualified to do many jobs, and was not considered for many of those jobs for that reason, I have to say "HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH gently caress YOU" Your small penis and your lack of self esteem has not negatively impacted my self esteem. I sometimes wonder why the myth of the large African-American penis exists, if not to intimidate Americans. Is it true, or is it not? nickutz posted:I'm not trying to be snarky either but getting an antenna is like "cutting cable 101" for many people. To be fair, I was a radioman in the US Navy, and I totally understand what you are getting at. Your argument is not with me, though. quote:And on your "serious note" it's because private business laid the lines that connect your house to the internet, not the federal government. Sometimes local municipalities will build out their own high speed broadband or city-wide wifi though and that's usually not free either. Sadly, that is true. We sometimes have to make sacrifices in order to encourage private companies to do things that our government will not do for us. But once they are no longer necessary, feel free to discard them. That is the nature of the predator. Jakcson fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Feb 23, 2015 05:35
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The government doesn't owe us free internet just like they don't owe us free water or electricity. Hey at least if the Gov gave us all free unlimited broadband they wouldn't have to bother with the formality of pesky court orders to get our browsing data from the ISP's. For thread content: Sling TV is pretty cool. I did the trial with the sports and news extra packs, ended up not keeping it because I can add cable tv to my internet sub for the same price as sling with more channels and on demand. edit: what.. nickutz fucked around with this message at 06:02 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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nickutz posted:The government doesn't owe us free internet just like they don't owe us free water or electricity. If the government didn't owe us free internet, why would President Obama promise us free healthcare? Why does "ObamaCare" even exist as something anyone can say? edit: How can I get this free broadband? I am one of those minimum wage American workers with a bachelor's degree. Please tell me how I can earn more more money. Earning less than $11k a year kinda loving sucks. I put blue and red chicken in ur mouf... now help me, PLEASE. I want to be a millionaire; you can maek me filfy rifh, canfth you??? How do bubulz wurk? Jakcson fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Feb 23, 2015 05:59
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Jakcson posted:If the government didn't owe us free internet, why would President Obama promise us free healthcare? I'm not sure i get this gimmick account, is it just low effort trolling?
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StorrowS posted:I'm not sure i get this gimmick account, is it just low effort trolling? I think he was just having an awesome night partying in front of his computer.
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nickutz posted:And on your "serious note" it's because private business laid the lines that connect your house to the internet, not the federal government. Sometimes local municipalities will build out their own high speed broadband or city-wide wifi though and that's usually not free either. See: Phone Lines. Obama I think even mentioned looking into treating the Internet like a required utility, which would be great because cable companies are loving me so hard I can't even get it up anymore unless I've got coax tied around my balls.
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Hdtv is free whether you pay taxes or not.
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Don Lapre posted:Hdtv is free whether you pay taxes or not. No nipples though.
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PuTTY riot posted:No nipples though. The death of the independent UHF station is almost criminal in this regard.
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Jakcson posted:Please tell me how I can earn more more money. Earning less than $11k a year kinda loving sucks. Jakcson posted:I could certainly make more money doing skilled jobs, but I like to smoke weed (and on that note, "wax" can really help you save money on that stuff, and it's much more discreet when you vape it) and drop acid. Jakcson posted:I like to smoke weed (and on that note, "wax" can really help you save money on that stuff, and it's much more discreet when you vape it) and drop acid. Jakcson posted:I like to smoke weed and drop acid.
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BigFactory posted:I think he was just having an awesome night partying in front of his computer. This is what I get for taking acid and not disconnecting my computer from the internet. I don't even remember posting that, but I'm honestly shocked that I didn't get put on probation or banned for that (it probably helped that one of my posts in this thread had actual content). I'm a huge dumbass sometimes. Sorry. edit: Woah, my posts in a certain other thread were much worse. I need to stay away from people and the internet when I'm high and/or drunk. edit2: Winners don't use drugs. Don't be like me. And get an HDTV antenna for your TV. Jakcson fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Feb 23, 2015 |
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Jakcson posted:This is what I get for taking acid and not disconnecting my computer from the internet. This whole thing was amazing, btw.
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