[AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR

[Stephen Offiler]

I'm with Mike M!  Over the 12 years I've lived in my current home, we've
been back and forth with DirecTV, cable TV, brief periods with both, and
now for the last couple years, none of the above.  The future of home
entertainment is streaming from the Internet.  We use the cable now for
nothing but Internet service which is somewhere around $60 a month.  And we
pay $8 a month for Hulu Plus.  (Seems like almost everyone does Netflix,
but somehow we get along fine with just Hulu.)  We don't have rooftop
antenna, because according to some website that analyzes your terrain
versus the signals from local towers, I'd need a really tall mast and a
fancy amplified antenna to grab about two channels.  I guess I live in a
hole.

The huge upside to streaming, that I have not heard anyone mention yet, is
that the whole Internet acts effectively as your DVR.  You can watch
anything the Internet offers, and unlike either cable or satellite DVR's,
there's no need to decide upfront what you want to record.

Downside to streaming is pro sports.  Or at least so I am told.  I'm not a
fan of any conventional sports like baseball or football or basketball so I
can't say for sure but I hear that it's either expensive or impossible to
stream sports.  I think that's where the rooftop antenna comes in.  And you
can get fairly inexpensive DVR's for antennas these days (TiVo OTA for $50
and $15 a month subscription fee).

SO



On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:50 PM, Mike <meulenms at gmx.com> wrote:

> As I said before Charlie, I recently cut the cord, and couldn't be
> happier. I have a roof top antennae, ($40) , and I have have Netflix and
> Hulu, each $8.00 per month. We have not run out of stuff to watch, and
> were quite frankly getting sick of the PC crap the networks were
> cramming down our throats. My wife gets up early for work, and by the
> time we get evening chores done, we have about 1 hour for TV. It will be
> years before we run out of content, if ever. It saved me about $1000 per
> year, that's  a nice tractor implement each year. :)
>
> Mike M
>
> On 9/1/2015 7:16 PM, charlie hill wrote:
> > Steve,  I threatened to leave Dish Network off and on for years
> > and they would never do anything to help me.  I called and
> > asked for some new equipment and they refused to supply that.
> > I was there customer for probably 20 years or close to it myself.
> > Finally they sent me a letter telling me they were changing their
> > satellites and my equipment wouldn't work any longer.  I called them
> > and told them the only way I would agree to their changes was if they
> > did something about the amount of money I was paying them. It had
> > gone up over the years from about 70 bucks to over 100.  They kept
> wanting
> > to come and put in new equipment.  I refused unless they would cut the
> > price down to something close to what they were offering to new
> customers.
> > They wouldn't budge.  Finally the day came when channels started not
> > working.
> > I called them up and cancelled my service.  They begged me to stay but
> never
> > would offer to lower the price.  After I cut them off they started
> trying to
> > induce me to come back.
> >
> > I was going to switch to Direct TV for a couple of years but now with
> AT&T
> > buying them
> > out I'm not sure I want to go there either.   I've got access to fiber
> optic
> > cable but
> > for what I had with Dish Network on Cable would cost me over $150.00 a
> month
> > and I still
> > wouldn't be watching more than about 20 channels.  They structure their
> > "packages" so that
> > you can't get all of what you want in a certain category without buying a
> > high end package.
> > It's ridiculous.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve W.
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 2015 6:18 PM
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> > Subject: Re: [AT] OFF Topic: 4 month Verizon WAR
> >
> > charlie hill wrote:
> >> I've recently dropped Dish Network for the same reason.
> >> My problem is, the few stations I do want to watch are only
> >> available on satellite or cable and some of them aren't even
> >> on our local cable.
> >>
> >> Charlie
> > Many shows are available online as well.
> >
> > I have Dish here but hardly watch it I was all set to cancel it but told
> > the wife it was up to her as she watches a few shows. She called to
> > cancel and shocked the company, "You've been with Dish for over 20
> > years"!!  We can't let you go, how about we drop the price by $30.00 a
> > month...
> >
> > I've switched to watching shows online. Fewer commercials and you can
> > pause it when you wish.
> >
> > I just started watching Downton Abbey. Great show IF you know some
> > history. It follows an English aristocratic family from just prior to
> > WWI as they deal with the changes around them.
> >
> > LOTS of other shows out there as well as entire networks
> >
>
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