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| A question for fellow "Cable Cutters"; Has anybody tried one of these things? | |
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| Freeman | Oct 30 2015, 06:11 AM Post #16 |
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Paid content is usually the demise of relatively popular programs. YouTube lets you make your videos pay-per-view. One channel, which was quite popular in the planted aquarium hobby, went this route after wild success. The majority of the community boycotted the idea and they have fallen off and are no longer talked about. Just throwing it out there. I have no problem watching an AD myself. It is like commercials. There are many content providers that I respect and want to support. As for 'cutting the cord', I just have high speed internet and surf the world wide web. There isn't much you can't find, legally, online. And for everything else, you can do it illegally. |
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| Rondawg | Oct 30 2015, 12:59 PM Post #17 |
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Cable Companies are a perfect example of how monopolies are bad for customers as a whole. Especially when you factor in the power their money has on lawmakers that create laws to benefit them. That stifles the free market & is a perfect example of cronie capitalism. Most of the channels I like to watch are loaded with commercial sponsors already. That shold be enough to support them, and was for decades. But then ya throw in a cable company middleman that shakes down consumers for giving them the privilege of watching the shows plus commercials! It wouldn't be so bad if you could pick and choose a few channels and pay for just those that ya watch regularly. But no.....they make ya pay extra for a bunch of crap that ya have asolutey no interest in so you can have access to a handful of channels ya like! |
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| suzukitom | Oct 30 2015, 02:41 PM Post #18 |
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Re: paid content on internet. A good example of how paid and free models will continue to co-exist is this site. The site relies in part on paid ads which make it possible to pay for the web hosting environment, which supports the continued posting of freely donated content, by the members of this site. It is fair to say that fans of Geo Metros would be unlikely to ever want to pay in order to access content on this site, especially since they collectively wrote all the content.
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| dayle1960 | Oct 30 2015, 08:30 PM Post #19 |
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I downloaded an app called Adblocker Plus on my laptop, and I never see ads on Youtube. Yet on my desktop computer I have not downloaded Adblocker Plus and I am forever having to view a few seconds of ads prior to the video starting up. I wish there were some way I could get my local channels and DirecTV channel 671 so I could watch the St. Louis Cardinals during the baseball season. Other than those few channels, I would tell DirecTV to go and take a hike. $130/mo. is too darn much for Lefty indoctrination and horrible programming. Gotta be a better way to get a-la-carte television. Anybody got ideas how I can accomplish that? |
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| Rondawg | Oct 30 2015, 08:49 PM Post #20 |
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That's my question too & the reason I started this thread! |
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| 2000Firefly1.3L | Oct 30 2015, 08:55 PM Post #21 |
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the day this paragraph will be spoken out loud at your arraignment hearing for grand theft of CDs and VHS tapes |
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| mt999999 | Oct 30 2015, 09:05 PM Post #22 |
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I'm pretty sure that people give VHS tapes away... I still keep my VCR hooked up so I don't have to buy a DVR... ![]() The Redbox machine always harasses me to rent Blu-rays instead, but I see no point in buying a Blu-ray player. Way more cost, for damn-near the same exact quality. Everything is still released on DVD and Blu-rays. The way it's going, soon there won't be any films released on any kind of "hard copy" media. It will all be downloaded or streamed in the not-so-distant future. I'm a DVD/VHS hold-out! ![]() It seems like software makers are shying away from CD's and expect everyone to download software. The new Macbooks and Imacs don't even have optical drives!
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| Rondawg | Oct 30 2015, 10:15 PM Post #23 |
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I remember way back in prehistoric times, every Sunday nite at midnite a radio station (WPLR outta New Have Ct.) would play a new album. Each side, straight thru, commercial free. I would stay up and record them on a cassette tape. I had a tape box fill of music that I "hacked" that way. I guess by today's standards that would be considered Piracy? |
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| metro1.0 | Dec 30 2015, 02:22 AM Post #24 |
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I don't pay for tv, but I did pay for an antenna.. I live out in the country and the reception is awful but I bought a good antenna and get some channels OTA.. and new channels pop up ever so often. all broadcast stations and except for the purchase of the antenna all free |
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| Freeman | Dec 30 2015, 06:44 AM Post #25 |
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Sports aside, I found a good streaming alternative for cable TV. It works on most devices including the Amazon Firestick (What I use it on) and most PC operating systems. http://kodi.tv/download/ Legality is up to you to decide. It is a repository based streaming program. They often update TV shows hours after release, at most a day or two. My wife was watching The Walking Dead the day after release this season. |
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| johnbmx4christ | Dec 30 2015, 10:51 AM Post #26 |
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We run kodi on every device. We have a computer on the living room tv and a gbox in the bedroom. |
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| starscream5000 | Dec 30 2015, 05:44 PM Post #27 |
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Got 70 MPG?
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I am also a Kodi user. I have it on my phones and PC. I usually just connect my PC to the TV via HDMI and watch it that way. |
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| CMX ONE | Dec 30 2015, 07:12 PM Post #28 |
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Can't think about cutting this cord, Xfinity/Comcast has the PAC 12 Network and a contract with the Portland Trail Blazers... Tried the NBA League Pass and it was great, well all except the local market BLACKOUT!!! Will never give the NBA LP another dime. Stuck with Xfinity/Comcast |
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| Rondawg | Dec 30 2015, 07:32 PM Post #29 |
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Kodi with Genesis, Phoenix addons rock! (ummm.....ahhhhhh........ cough, hack.......so I am told) |
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| GeoZone | Dec 30 2015, 08:29 PM Post #30 |
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That's all I need to know. Not that I ain't for "stickin' it to the man" but I try to stay on the right side of the law. Thanks for laying it down. I'll stick with my subscription services. For those of you who want to stay legal. I use Netflix and Amazon Prime. I pay 8 bucks a month for the netflix, I have a TV antenna which brings in the news, spanish stations, some old tv crap, PBS (which is the only thing I watch on it except the news) and religion channels. If I ever want to watch anything else I stream it via Chromecast off the network site (like the superbowl or the Peanuts Christmas special). I can get EVERYTHING off cable by simply using my Dad's password for his internet (I say it's legal because he watches it here sometimes and I help him with pretty much EVERY THING).
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That's all I need to know. Not that I ain't for "stickin' it to the man" but I try to stay on the right side of the law. Thanks for laying it down. I'll stick with my subscription services. For those of you who want to stay legal. I use Netflix and Amazon Prime. I pay 8 bucks a month for the netflix, I have a TV antenna which brings in the news, spanish stations, some old tv crap, PBS (which is the only thing I watch on it except the news) and religion channels. If I ever want to watch anything else I stream it via Chromecast off the network site (like the superbowl or the Peanuts Christmas special). I can get EVERYTHING off cable by simply using my Dad's password for his internet (I say it's legal because he watches it here sometimes and I help him with pretty much EVERY THING).

7:31 PM Jul 10