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On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote:
"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote: I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the olympics but that was today. I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27 ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have. I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory. My large HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4 to stream stuff from Amazon. Their prime account entitles you to many movies and archived shows as you mention for free. I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch enough to bother with them. Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat the house with it. Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that plugs into the TV's USB port. It's a 65" and I bought it before having Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs. Accessing the 'net via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine. I just don't watch TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet connectivity. Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits on my desk beside my computer monitor. |
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#3
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On 2/26/2018 8:00 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote: "Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote: I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the olympics but that was today. I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27 ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have. I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory.Â* My large HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4 to stream stuff from Amazon.Â* Their prime account entitles you to many movies and archived shows as you mention for free. I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch enough to bother with them. Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart Â* plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat Â* the house with it. Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that plugs into the TV's USB port.Â* It's a 65" and I bought it before having Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs.Â* Accessing the 'net via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine.Â* I just don't watch TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet connectivity.Â* Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits on my desk beside my computer monitor. Noticed your TV is a plasma type. Those things are power hogs or at least they used to be, especially the bigger ones. The last plasma I had was a 40 something inch and I measured it's current draw at about 5 amps. The 65" I have now is LED. Picture quality is probably not quite as good as a plasma but current draw is about half that of the previous 40 something inch. HD picture quality really doesn't matter using Comcast cable because their signal is so compressed that the full HD isn't processed. The streaming stuff from Amazon is better. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:00:25 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote: "Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote: I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the olympics but that was today. I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27 ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have. I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory. My large HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4 to stream stuff from Amazon. Their prime account entitles you to many movies and archived shows as you mention for free. I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch enough to bother with them. Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat the house with it. Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that plugs into the TV's USB port. It's a 65" and I bought it before having Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs. Accessing the 'net via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine. I just don't watch TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet connectivity. Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits on my desk beside my computer monitor. We use the Roku. Works very well. Gets Amazon Prime. Worth the money. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:00:25 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote: "Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote: I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the olympics but that was today. I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27 ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have. I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory. My large HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4 to stream stuff from Amazon. Their prime account entitles you to many movies and archived shows as you mention for free. I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch enough to bother with them. Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat the house with it. Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that plugs into the TV's USB port. It's a 65" and I bought it before having Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs. Accessing the 'net via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine. I just don't watch TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet connectivity. Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits on my desk beside my computer monitor. Just hook an old PC to it. With a 2.4gz wireless mouse you end up with a TV that is a whole lot smarter than the ones sold as smart. We have both here. The PC connected wins every time in every category. The best combo seems to be my "travel" laptop connected to some no name TV. When the lap top turns off the TV goes to sleep and I have it set to hibernate when you close the lid. Open the lid, the pc comes to life and the TV comes on. You can get to any streaming service that way along with being able to play music or look at your pictures using whatever PC app you like. |
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On 2/26/2018 11:18 AM, wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:00:25 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote: "Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote: I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the olympics but that was today. I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27 ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have. I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory. My large HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4 to stream stuff from Amazon. Their prime account entitles you to many movies and archived shows as you mention for free. I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch enough to bother with them. Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat the house with it. Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that plugs into the TV's USB port. It's a 65" and I bought it before having Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs. Accessing the 'net via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine. I just don't watch TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet connectivity. Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits on my desk beside my computer monitor. Just hook an old PC to it. With a 2.4gz wireless mouse you end up with a TV that is a whole lot smarter than the ones sold as smart. We have both here. The PC connected wins every time in every category. The best combo seems to be my "travel" laptop connected to some no name TV. When the lap top turns off the TV goes to sleep and I have it set to hibernate when you close the lid. Open the lid, the pc comes to life and the TV comes on. You can get to any streaming service that way along with being able to play music or look at your pictures using whatever PC app you like. I don't collect or save old PCs. When they crap out or become so obsolete they can't run current apps efficiently I buy a new one. I "do" have an older Win 7 laptop that I no longer use regularly but I keep it as a backup or possible traveling computer. Somewhere I have an old XP laptop as well but it is painfully slow compared to Win 7 and Win 10. I wouldn't even bother with it. |
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#7
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:26:30 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/26/2018 11:18 AM, wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:00:25 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote: "Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote: I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the olympics but that was today. I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27 ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have. I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory. My large HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4 to stream stuff from Amazon. Their prime account entitles you to many movies and archived shows as you mention for free. I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch enough to bother with them. Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat the house with it. Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that plugs into the TV's USB port. It's a 65" and I bought it before having Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs. Accessing the 'net via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine. I just don't watch TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet connectivity. Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits on my desk beside my computer monitor. Just hook an old PC to it. With a 2.4gz wireless mouse you end up with a TV that is a whole lot smarter than the ones sold as smart. We have both here. The PC connected wins every time in every category. The best combo seems to be my "travel" laptop connected to some no name TV. When the lap top turns off the TV goes to sleep and I have it set to hibernate when you close the lid. Open the lid, the pc comes to life and the TV comes on. You can get to any streaming service that way along with being able to play music or look at your pictures using whatever PC app you like. I don't collect or save old PCs. When they crap out or become so obsolete they can't run current apps efficiently I buy a new one. I "do" have an older Win 7 laptop that I no longer use regularly but I keep it as a backup or possible traveling computer. Somewhere I have an old XP laptop as well but it is painfully slow compared to Win 7 and Win 10. I wouldn't even bother with it. Besides, the little Roku thingy is much smaller and easier to mess with. |
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On 2/26/2018 11:34 AM, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:26:30 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/26/2018 11:18 AM, wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:00:25 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote: "Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote: I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the olympics but that was today. I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27 ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have. I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory. My large HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4 to stream stuff from Amazon. Their prime account entitles you to many movies and archived shows as you mention for free. I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch enough to bother with them. Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat the house with it. Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that plugs into the TV's USB port. It's a 65" and I bought it before having Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs. Accessing the 'net via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine. I just don't watch TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet connectivity. Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits on my desk beside my computer monitor. Just hook an old PC to it. With a 2.4gz wireless mouse you end up with a TV that is a whole lot smarter than the ones sold as smart. We have both here. The PC connected wins every time in every category. The best combo seems to be my "travel" laptop connected to some no name TV. When the lap top turns off the TV goes to sleep and I have it set to hibernate when you close the lid. Open the lid, the pc comes to life and the TV comes on. You can get to any streaming service that way along with being able to play music or look at your pictures using whatever PC app you like. I don't collect or save old PCs. When they crap out or become so obsolete they can't run current apps efficiently I buy a new one. I "do" have an older Win 7 laptop that I no longer use regularly but I keep it as a backup or possible traveling computer. Somewhere I have an old XP laptop as well but it is painfully slow compared to Win 7 and Win 10. I wouldn't even bother with it. Besides, the little Roku thingy is much smaller and easier to mess with. I still don't really understand how people who want to get rid of services like Comcast cable TV and Internet and go to streaming only are going to have access to the Internet. I think I posted the results of the tests I did that compared download speeds of AT&T's 4G WiFi service that I have in my truck and the download speeds of the Comcast (cable) WiFi router in my house. Comcast was consistently 3 to 4 times faster, sometimes even more. The AT&T test (I did several for each) often reported that although web browsing would be ok, videos may be slow, especially if more than one device was connected to the WiFi server. The Comcast speed report consistently said that it's speed would allow web browsing and HD video downloads to several devices at the same time. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:52:26 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/26/2018 11:34 AM, John H. wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:26:30 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/26/2018 11:18 AM, wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:00:25 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote: "Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote: I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the olympics but that was today. I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27 ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have. I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory. My large HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4 to stream stuff from Amazon. Their prime account entitles you to many movies and archived shows as you mention for free. I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch enough to bother with them. Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat the house with it. Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that plugs into the TV's USB port. It's a 65" and I bought it before having Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs. Accessing the 'net via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine. I just don't watch TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet connectivity. Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits on my desk beside my computer monitor. Just hook an old PC to it. With a 2.4gz wireless mouse you end up with a TV that is a whole lot smarter than the ones sold as smart. We have both here. The PC connected wins every time in every category. The best combo seems to be my "travel" laptop connected to some no name TV. When the lap top turns off the TV goes to sleep and I have it set to hibernate when you close the lid. Open the lid, the pc comes to life and the TV comes on. You can get to any streaming service that way along with being able to play music or look at your pictures using whatever PC app you like. I don't collect or save old PCs. When they crap out or become so obsolete they can't run current apps efficiently I buy a new one. I "do" have an older Win 7 laptop that I no longer use regularly but I keep it as a backup or possible traveling computer. Somewhere I have an old XP laptop as well but it is painfully slow compared to Win 7 and Win 10. I wouldn't even bother with it. Besides, the little Roku thingy is much smaller and easier to mess with. I still don't really understand how people who want to get rid of services like Comcast cable TV and Internet and go to streaming only are going to have access to the Internet. I think I posted the results of the tests I did that compared download speeds of AT&T's 4G WiFi service that I have in my truck and the download speeds of the Comcast (cable) WiFi router in my house. Comcast was consistently 3 to 4 times faster, sometimes even more. The AT&T test (I did several for each) often reported that although web browsing would be ok, videos may be slow, especially if more than one device was connected to the WiFi server. The Comcast speed report consistently said that it's speed would allow web browsing and HD video downloads to several devices at the same time. For me, cutting the cord would be cutting the TV and telephone cords. The internet cord would stay whole. The TV cord is over $100/month, and that's without a bunch of movie channels. The telephone cord is another $40/month. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:52:26 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 2/26/2018 11:34 AM, John H. wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:26:30 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/26/2018 11:18 AM, wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:00:25 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote: "Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message: On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote: I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the olympics but that was today. I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27 ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have. I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory. My large HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4 to stream stuff from Amazon. Their prime account entitles you to many movies and archived shows as you mention for free. I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch enough to bother with them. Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat the house with it. Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that plugs into the TV's USB port. It's a 65" and I bought it before having Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs. Accessing the 'net via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine. I just don't watch TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet connectivity. Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits on my desk beside my computer monitor. Just hook an old PC to it. With a 2.4gz wireless mouse you end up with a TV that is a whole lot smarter than the ones sold as smart. We have both here. The PC connected wins every time in every category. The best combo seems to be my "travel" laptop connected to some no name TV. When the lap top turns off the TV goes to sleep and I have it set to hibernate when you close the lid. Open the lid, the pc comes to life and the TV comes on. You can get to any streaming service that way along with being able to play music or look at your pictures using whatever PC app you like. I don't collect or save old PCs. When they crap out or become so obsolete they can't run current apps efficiently I buy a new one. I "do" have an older Win 7 laptop that I no longer use regularly but I keep it as a backup or possible traveling computer. Somewhere I have an old XP laptop as well but it is painfully slow compared to Win 7 and Win 10. I wouldn't even bother with it. Besides, the little Roku thingy is much smaller and easier to mess with. I still don't really understand how people who want to get rid of services like Comcast cable TV and Internet and go to streaming only are going to have access to the Internet. I think I posted the results of the tests I did that compared download speeds of AT&T's 4G WiFi service that I have in my truck and the download speeds of the Comcast (cable) WiFi router in my house. Comcast was consistently 3 to 4 times faster, sometimes even more. The AT&T test (I did several for each) often reported that although web browsing would be ok, videos may be slow, especially if more than one device was connected to the WiFi server. The Comcast speed report consistently said that it's speed would allow web browsing and HD video downloads to several devices at the same time. You don't need to get "the bundle" to get internet from Comcast but they usually throw in basic cable for free. I would not have Comcast here. They are too unreliable. Fast internet when is running does not offset the times when it is totally down. I use DSL from the Telco and I have Dish that is $170 a month I would like to lose. I can get HBO, Sho and one other streaming host like Hulu for around $30. We are already buying Prime and Netflix. It is actually amazing how much in on You Tube for free. It is not just cat videos and people taking a baseball to the nuts these days. |
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