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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. |
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"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. -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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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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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.* 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. 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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On 2/25/2018 9:33 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. The Firestick has a great interface, very easy to use. I have added Terrarium TV on my Firestick. This has all the TV shows you would want. https://troypoint.com/install-terrar...fire-tv-stick/ I have also added Mobdro Mobdro has many, many networks and TV stations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWip-rgCjmc Kodi can also be installed on your Firestick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQogjnEqLhs I have not put Kodi on mine but I have a buddy that uses it. I did use Kodi when I used a Raspberry pi for streaming. I have not used any of the Prime videos, as there is so much available on the apps I posted. Also, a program called Real Debrid, https://real-debrid.com/ It's not needed and has a small cost but it picks the sources that will give you the best sources to stream from automatically, without you picking from a list. Also picks the 1040p and 4k streams. Mikek |
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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 11:28 AM, amdx wrote:
On 2/25/2018 9:33 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. *The Firestick has a great interface, very easy to use. *I have added Terrarium TV on my Firestick. This has all the TV shows you would want. https://troypoint.com/install-terrar...fire-tv-stick/ *I have also added Mobdro Mobdro has many, many networks and TV stations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWip-rgCjmc Kodi can also be installed on your Firestick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQogjnEqLhs I have not put Kodi on mine but I have a buddy that uses it. I did use Kodi when I used a Raspberry pi for streaming. I have not used any of the Prime videos, as there is so much available on the apps I posted. Also, a program called Real Debrid, https://real-debrid.com/ *It's not needed and has a small cost but it picks the sources that will give you the best sources to stream from automatically, without you picking from a list. Also picks the 1040p and 4k streams. ************************* * Mikek "Cutting the cord" (meaning cable/internet service) and going to streaming still requires a relatively fast internet service, does it not? What service would you use? |
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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 10:28:29 -0600, amdx wrote:
On 2/25/2018 9:33 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. The Firestick has a great interface, very easy to use. I have added Terrarium TV on my Firestick. This has all the TV shows you would want. https://troypoint.com/install-terrar...fire-tv-stick/ I have also added Mobdro Mobdro has many, many networks and TV stations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWip-rgCjmc Kodi can also be installed on your Firestick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQogjnEqLhs I have not put Kodi on mine but I have a buddy that uses it. I did use Kodi when I used a Raspberry pi for streaming. I have not used any of the Prime videos, as there is so much available on the apps I posted. Also, a program called Real Debrid, https://real-debrid.com/ It's not needed and has a small cost but it picks the sources that will give you the best sources to stream from automatically, without you picking from a list. Also picks the 1040p and 4k streams. Mikek Thanks Mike. Lots of good info there. I think I gave my wife a firestick for Christmas last year. We've never hooked it up. Amazon has the things on sale now. http://tinyurl.com/y93anfsv |
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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 2/26/2018 12:26 PM, John H. wrote:
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. How much is your Internet service? I don't have that problem. I have just have what's called "expanded basic TV". I can always order something "On Demand" but I can't remember the last time I did. Forget what it costs but it's cheap compared to the Internet service. I don't have phone service via cable. Just use my cell phone. It's a second account on her cell phone service and compared to her cell phone bill, mine contribution to it is peanuts. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:35:02 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote:
On 2/26/2018 12:26 PM, John H. wrote: 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. How much is your Internet service? I don't have that problem. I have just have what's called "expanded basic TV". I can always order something "On Demand" but I can't remember the last time I did. Forget what it costs but it's cheap compared to the Internet service. I don't have phone service via cable. Just use my cell phone. It's a second account on her cell phone service and compared to her cell phone bill, mine contribution to it is peanuts. I pay $55 for internet. |
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On 2/26/2018 12:38 PM, John H. wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:35:02 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: On 2/26/2018 12:26 PM, John H. wrote: 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. How much is your Internet service? I don't have that problem. I have just have what's called "expanded basic TV". I can always order something "On Demand" but I can't remember the last time I did. Forget what it costs but it's cheap compared to the Internet service. I don't have phone service via cable. Just use my cell phone. It's a second account on her cell phone service and compared to her cell phone bill, mine contribution to it is peanuts. I pay $55 for internet. Ok. I pay a little less ... $49/month. The AT&T WiFi in the truck is $20/mo. for unlimited service but it's not anywhere near as fast. I may cancel it. Don't really know why I even got it. |
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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. Those are plenty fast enough to stream TV and if you reloaded it back to what it was when you bought it, it would be as fast as it was then. Most "old and slow" PCs are just slow because they are loaded up with useless software, spyware and other barnacles you collect over the years. PCs make TVs smart and I have been doing it for close to 20 years. At first you needed a TV-out card but these days TVs have VGA ports and newer PCs have HDMI ports. They are naturals for each other. I would suggest your travel lap top for the TV. Then once you have that all set up, when you travel, you can hijack the TV wherever you go. The only time it is a problem is in a "Lodge Net TV" hotel. They have special TVs that I have not been able to hack into. You also find out the free WiFi is not fast enough to stream. When we rent houses, that is never a problem. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:34:48 -0500, 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. What could be easier than a mouse and a real keyboard for entering things you want to search for? I hate trying to poke out text on a TV remote. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:42:18 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: "Cutting the cord" (meaning cable/internet service) and going to streaming still requires a relatively fast internet service, does it not? What service would you use? I have 10mb DSL and that will support 2 streams and regular browsing. |
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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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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:46:05 -0500, wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:34:48 -0500, 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. What could be easier than a mouse and a real keyboard for entering things you want to search for? I hate trying to poke out text on a TV remote. With the Amazon thingy, you just talk to it. Haven't you been watching the Olympics at all? The cute little thing's name is 'Alexa'. |
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On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 1:32:32 PM UTC-5, 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. Those are plenty fast enough to stream TV and if you reloaded it back to what it was when you bought it, it would be as fast as it was then. Most "old and slow" PCs are just slow because they are loaded up with useless software, spyware and other barnacles you collect over the years. PCs make TVs smart and I have been doing it for close to 20 years. At first you needed a TV-out card but these days TVs have VGA ports and newer PCs have HDMI ports. They are naturals for each other. I would suggest your travel lap top for the TV. Then once you have that all set up, when you travel, you can hijack the TV wherever you go. The only time it is a problem is in a "Lodge Net TV" hotel. They have special TVs that I have not been able to hack into. You also find out the free WiFi is not fast enough to stream. When we rent houses, that is never a problem. Back in the days when I traveled and did system installs, I was staying in hotels and always had my traveling toolkit with me. Typically, the hotel TV's picture looked like crap and the adjustments were behind a screwed-down door to prevent the average joe from messing with them. I took care of that issue on the first night. |
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On 2/26/2018 1:32 PM, 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. Those are plenty fast enough to stream TV and if you reloaded it back to what it was when you bought it, it would be as fast as it was then. Most "old and slow" PCs are just slow because they are loaded up with useless software, spyware and other barnacles you collect over the years. PCs make TVs smart and I have been doing it for close to 20 years. At first you needed a TV-out card but these days TVs have VGA ports and newer PCs have HDMI ports. They are naturals for each other. I would suggest your travel lap top for the TV. Then once you have that all set up, when you travel, you can hijack the TV wherever you go. The only time it is a problem is in a "Lodge Net TV" hotel. They have special TVs that I have not been able to hack into. You also find out the free WiFi is not fast enough to stream. When we rent houses, that is never a problem. Thanks but no interest. Plug and play is just fine for me. :-) |
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On 2/26/2018 2:01 PM, Its Me wrote:
On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 1:32:32 PM UTC-5, 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. Those are plenty fast enough to stream TV and if you reloaded it back to what it was when you bought it, it would be as fast as it was then. Most "old and slow" PCs are just slow because they are loaded up with useless software, spyware and other barnacles you collect over the years. PCs make TVs smart and I have been doing it for close to 20 years. At first you needed a TV-out card but these days TVs have VGA ports and newer PCs have HDMI ports. They are naturals for each other. I would suggest your travel lap top for the TV. Then once you have that all set up, when you travel, you can hijack the TV wherever you go. The only time it is a problem is in a "Lodge Net TV" hotel. They have special TVs that I have not been able to hack into. You also find out the free WiFi is not fast enough to stream. When we rent houses, that is never a problem. Back in the days when I traveled and did system installs, I was staying in hotels and always had my traveling toolkit with me. Typically, the hotel TV's picture looked like crap and the adjustments were behind a screwed-down door to prevent the average joe from messing with them. I took care of that issue on the first night. Me too. Used to drive me nuts. Seems like they set them up in "Vivid" or store display mode. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:55:36 -0500, John H.
wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:46:05 -0500, wrote: .. What could be easier than a mouse and a real keyboard for entering things you want to search for? I hate trying to poke out text on a TV remote. With the Amazon thingy, you just talk to it. Haven't you been watching the Olympics at all? The cute little thing's name is 'Alexa'. We have one, I won't have it on in the house. I don't need a spy listening to everything I say and broadcasting it on the internet. |
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On 2/26/18 4:55 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:55:36 -0500, John H. wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:46:05 -0500, wrote: . What could be easier than a mouse and a real keyboard for entering things you want to search for? I hate trying to poke out text on a TV remote. With the Amazon thingy, you just talk to it. Haven't you been watching the Olympics at all? The cute little thing's name is 'Alexa'. We have one, I won't have it on in the house. I don't need a spy listening to everything I say and broadcasting it on the internet. Hell, we can hear and see everything you do through your microwave. ) |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 11:01:27 -0800 (PST), Its Me
wrote: On Monday, February 26, 2018 at 1:32:32 PM UTC-5, 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. Those are plenty fast enough to stream TV and if you reloaded it back to what it was when you bought it, it would be as fast as it was then. Most "old and slow" PCs are just slow because they are loaded up with useless software, spyware and other barnacles you collect over the years. PCs make TVs smart and I have been doing it for close to 20 years. At first you needed a TV-out card but these days TVs have VGA ports and newer PCs have HDMI ports. They are naturals for each other. I would suggest your travel lap top for the TV. Then once you have that all set up, when you travel, you can hijack the TV wherever you go. The only time it is a problem is in a "Lodge Net TV" hotel. They have special TVs that I have not been able to hack into. You also find out the free WiFi is not fast enough to stream. When we rent houses, that is never a problem. Back in the days when I traveled and did system installs, I was staying in hotels and always had my traveling toolkit with me. Typically, the hotel TV's picture looked like crap and the adjustments were behind a screwed-down door to prevent the average joe from messing with them. I took care of that issue on the first night. There is nothing to adjust on a Lodgenet TV. They are burned in to only talk to the lodgenet box. There is a rumor that someone had hacked a universal remote to go in and change the setup but I never had much luck finding out how. It has been a while since we stayed at one of those places so I am fuzzy on all of the details. I think if you had a "agile" RF modulator and a composite video card in your PC it might work for you but all of the other inputs were blocked. The tuner was also locked on one channel and I don't think it is 3 or 4. |
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John H. wrote:
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. My Comcast deal is 2 years and is about $135 a month. TV, bunch of channels, most I never watch, internet and home phone. 3 TV’s. Phone went from ATT of $24 and a bunch of taxes to $10. Extra TV’s add I think $5 each for $10. One TV the X1 box. |
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On 2/26/2018 5:01 PM, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 2/26/18 4:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:55:36 -0500, John H. wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:46:05 -0500, wrote: . What could be easier than a mouse and a real keyboard for entering things you want to search for? I hate trying to poke out text on a TV remote. With the Amazon thingy, you just talk to it. Haven't you been watching the Olympics at all? The cute little thing's name is 'Alexa'. We have one, I won't have it on in the house. I don't need a spy listening to everything I say and broadcasting it on the internet. Hell, we can hear and see everything you do through your microwave.* ) Or in rec.boats |
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On 2/26/2018 5:53 PM, Bill wrote:
John H. wrote: 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. My Comcast deal is 2 years and is about $135 a month. TV, bunch of channels, most I never watch, internet and home phone. 3 TV’s. Phone went from ATT of $24 and a bunch of taxes to $10. Extra TV’s add I think $5 each for $10. One TV the X1 box. That seems to be the going rate around here for all those services. I pay $73 a month for expanded basic cable TV, a HD DVR box, two small HD cable boxes and Internet service. No phone service and no extra cost channels. Four TV's but one is set up like the following: My little "office" is on the other side of a wall from the living room where the 65" TV and the large HD/DVR cable box is located. I have a small, 23" HD TV on my desk beside my computer monitor. Rather than rent another small HD cable box from Comcast, I bought a HDMI switch box for cheap bucks and ran a HDMI cable through the wall from the living room to the office room. When I want to watch the TV in the office, I just switch the HDMI switch box to the "B" position and it sends the signal from the cable box to the little TV in the office. If I want to watch the big TV, I just put the switch in the "A" position. Then, I added a remote control thing to change the channels from the office. It has a LED that mounts near the sensor on the cable box and a receiver in the office room that you point the cable box remote control at. It duplicates the IR signal from the "clicker" on the LED mounted near the sensor on the cable box in the living room. Works great. It's funny that with three smaller HD TVs, I rarely watch the big one anymore. It's great for football games and baseball but I usually end up watching them on the small ones also. |
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Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/26/2018 5:53 PM, Bill wrote: John H. wrote: 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. My Comcast deal is 2 years and is about $135 a month. TV, bunch of channels, most I never watch, internet and home phone. 3 TV’s. Phone went from ATT of $24 and a bunch of taxes to $10. Extra TV’s add I think $5 each for $10. One TV the X1 box. That seems to be the going rate around here for all those services. I pay $73 a month for expanded basic cable TV, a HD DVR box, two small HD cable boxes and Internet service. No phone service and no extra cost channels. Four TV's but one is set up like the following: My little "office" is on the other side of a wall from the living room where the 65" TV and the large HD/DVR cable box is located. I have a small, 23" HD TV on my desk beside my computer monitor. Rather than rent another small HD cable box from Comcast, I bought a HDMI switch box for cheap bucks and ran a HDMI cable through the wall from the living room to the office room. When I want to watch the TV in the office, I just switch the HDMI switch box to the "B" position and it sends the signal from the cable box to the little TV in the office. If I want to watch the big TV, I just put the switch in the "A" position. Then, I added a remote control thing to change the channels from the office. It has a LED that mounts near the sensor on the cable box and a receiver in the office room that you point the cable box remote control at. It duplicates the IR signal from the "clicker" on the LED mounted near the sensor on the cable box in the living room. Works great. It's funny that with three smaller HD TVs, I rarely watch the big one anymore. It's great for football games and baseball but I usually end up watching them on the small ones also. The big TV, 40” :). Is in the family room with the X1 box. Is a smart Tv as the old one died last year. But the other two are in the breakfast area, so wife can watch while in kitchen and the other is in the office /sewing room. I could put a switch in, but wife is technologically challenged. |
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On 2/26/2018 8:42 PM, Bill wrote:
Mr. Luddite wrote: On 2/26/2018 5:53 PM, Bill wrote: John H. wrote: 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. My Comcast deal is 2 years and is about $135 a month. TV, bunch of channels, most I never watch, internet and home phone. 3 TV’s. Phone went from ATT of $24 and a bunch of taxes to $10. Extra TV’s add I think $5 each for $10. One TV the X1 box. That seems to be the going rate around here for all those services. I pay $73 a month for expanded basic cable TV, a HD DVR box, two small HD cable boxes and Internet service. No phone service and no extra cost channels. Four TV's but one is set up like the following: My little "office" is on the other side of a wall from the living room where the 65" TV and the large HD/DVR cable box is located. I have a small, 23" HD TV on my desk beside my computer monitor. Rather than rent another small HD cable box from Comcast, I bought a HDMI switch box for cheap bucks and ran a HDMI cable through the wall from the living room to the office room. When I want to watch the TV in the office, I just switch the HDMI switch box to the "B" position and it sends the signal from the cable box to the little TV in the office. If I want to watch the big TV, I just put the switch in the "A" position. Then, I added a remote control thing to change the channels from the office. It has a LED that mounts near the sensor on the cable box and a receiver in the office room that you point the cable box remote control at. It duplicates the IR signal from the "clicker" on the LED mounted near the sensor on the cable box in the living room. Works great. It's funny that with three smaller HD TVs, I rarely watch the big one anymore. It's great for football games and baseball but I usually end up watching them on the small ones also. The big TV, 40” :). Is in the family room with the X1 box. Is a smart Tv as the old one died last year. But the other two are in the breakfast area, so wife can watch while in kitchen and the other is in the office /sewing room. I could put a switch in, but wife is technologically challenged. So am I now-a-days. I just bought a WiFi outdoor security camera. I didn't want "Ring" or "Nest" or "Google Home" versions that you have to set up an account for. Just a simple WiFi camera that will connect to the home network. It's made by a company called MyDlink. Anyway, first thing I found out is that Firefox no longer supports it and I use Firefox exclusively and not the Microsoft Edge browser. So, I decided to access it via my phone. I downloaded the Android "MYDLINK app. as instructed, it found and connected to my WiFI router but it doesn't work. Keep getting error messages saying the video was "lost". Don't know why. Reloaded everything again ... same thing. Gave up for now. I'll try again tomorrow. |
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On 2/26/18 8:56 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/26/2018 8:42 PM, Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 2/26/2018 5:53 PM, Bill wrote: John H. wrote: 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. My Comcast deal is 2 years and is about $135 a month.** TV, bunch of channels, most I never watch, internet and home phone.** 3 TV’s. Phone went from ATT of $24 and a bunch of taxes to $10.* Extra TV’s add I think $5 each for $10.** One TV the X1 box. That seems to be the going rate around here for all those services. I pay $73 a month for expanded basic cable TV, a HD DVR box, two small HD cable boxes and Internet service.* No phone service and no extra cost channels.* Four TV's but one is set up like the following: My little "office" is on the other side of a wall from the living room where the 65" TV and the large HD/DVR cable box is located.* I have a small, 23" HD TV on my desk beside my computer monitor. Rather than rent another small HD cable box from Comcast,* I bought a HDMI switch box for cheap bucks and ran a HDMI cable through the wall from the living room to the office room.* When I want to watch the TV in the office, I just switch the HDMI switch box to the "B" position and it sends the signal from the cable box to the little TV in the office. If I want to watch the big TV,* I just put the switch in the "A" position. Then, I added a remote control thing to change the channels from the office.* It has a LED that mounts near the sensor on the cable box and a receiver in the office room that you point the cable box remote control at.* It duplicates the IR signal from the "clicker" on the LED mounted near the sensor on the cable box in the living room.** Works great. It's funny that with three smaller HD TVs, I rarely watch the big one anymore.* It's great for football games and baseball but I usually end up watching them on the small ones also. The big TV, 40” :).* Is in the family room with the X1 box.** Is a smart Tv as the old one died last year.** But the other two are in the breakfast area, so wife can watch while in kitchen and the other is in the office /sewing room.** I could put a switch in, but wife is technologically challenged. So am I now-a-days.* I just bought a WiFi outdoor security camera.* I didn't want "Ring" or "Nest" or "Google Home" versions that you have to set up an account for.* Just a simple WiFi camera that will connect to the home network.* It's made by a company called MyDlink. Anyway, first thing I found out is that Firefox no longer supports it and I use Firefox exclusively and not the Microsoft Edge browser.* So, I decided to access it via my phone.* I downloaded the Android "MYDLINK app. as instructed, it found and connected to my WiFI router but it doesn't work.* Keep getting error messages saying the video was "lost". Don't know why. Reloaded everything again ... same thing.* Gave up for now.* I'll try again tomorrow. A shot in the dark...many routers offer two different bands on different frequencies. Perhaps your wi-fi camera wants one band and not the other. The camera or its software might connect, but it won't work. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:01:03 -0500, Keyser Soze
wrote: On 2/26/18 4:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:55:36 -0500, John H. wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:46:05 -0500, wrote: . What could be easier than a mouse and a real keyboard for entering things you want to search for? I hate trying to poke out text on a TV remote. With the Amazon thingy, you just talk to it. Haven't you been watching the Olympics at all? The cute little thing's name is 'Alexa'. We have one, I won't have it on in the house. I don't need a spy listening to everything I say and broadcasting it on the internet. Hell, we can hear and see everything you do through your microwave. ) Maybe one of those new fangled ones but not mine. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/microwave.jpg |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 18:30:55 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: That seems to be the going rate around here for all those services. I pay $73 a month for expanded basic cable TV, a HD DVR box, two small HD cable boxes and Internet service. No phone service and no extra cost channels. Four TV's but one is set up like the following: My little "office" is on the other side of a wall from the living room where the 65" TV and the large HD/DVR cable box is located. I have a small, 23" HD TV on my desk beside my computer monitor. Rather than rent another small HD cable box from Comcast, I bought a HDMI switch box for cheap bucks and ran a HDMI cable through the wall from the living room to the office room. When I want to watch the TV in the office, I just switch the HDMI switch box to the "B" position and it sends the signal from the cable box to the little TV in the office. If I want to watch the big TV, I just put the switch in the "A" position. Then, I added a remote control thing to change the channels from the office. It has a LED that mounts near the sensor on the cable box and a receiver in the office room that you point the cable box remote control at. It duplicates the IR signal from the "clicker" on the LED mounted near the sensor on the cable box in the living room. Works great. It's funny that with three smaller HD TVs, I rarely watch the big one anymore. It's great for football games and baseball but I usually end up watching them on the small ones also. Dish receivers have an RF out that you can distribute around the house on coax for the "B" tuner and control it with RF remotes. The "A" tuner is also on that coax on a different channel. I also have a Tivo that goes out on a HDMI splitter to the bedroom and the living room. I never really watch TV out in the pool area but I have 2 PC connected TVs out there that pretty much just play music. I put a monitor in our Bud Light sign and it runs from the lap top, pretty much just showing a slide show of whatever we choose. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/New%20tiki%20screen.jpg I can stream to that too if I want. |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 17:01:03 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 2/26/18 4:55 PM, wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:55:36 -0500, John H. wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 13:46:05 -0500, wrote: . What could be easier than a mouse and a real keyboard for entering things you want to search for? I hate trying to poke out text on a TV remote. With the Amazon thingy, you just talk to it. Haven't you been watching the Olympics at all? The cute little thing's name is 'Alexa'. We have one, I won't have it on in the house. I don't need a spy listening to everything I say and broadcasting it on the internet. Hell, we can hear and see everything you do through your microwave. ) Maybe one of those new fangled ones but not mine. http://gfretwell.com/ftp/microwave.jpg That succa belongs in Fat Harry's cellar kitchen. -- x ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
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On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 20:56:56 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: So am I now-a-days. I just bought a WiFi outdoor security camera. I didn't want "Ring" or "Nest" or "Google Home" versions that you have to set up an account for. Just a simple WiFi camera that will connect to the home network. It's made by a company called MyDlink. Anyway, first thing I found out is that Firefox no longer supports it and I use Firefox exclusively and not the Microsoft Edge browser. So, I decided to access it via my phone. I downloaded the Android "MYDLINK app. as instructed, it found and connected to my WiFI router but it doesn't work. Keep getting error messages saying the video was "lost". Don't know why. Reloaded everything again ... same thing. Gave up for now. I'll try again tomorrow. My cameras go to a 4 channel, (expandable to 8) security type DVR. I have a terrabyte of video I have never seen ;-) I also have a box of X10 stuff I got from Ebay that I have never fooled with but there are a few cameras in there too. I did play with one on the bench to see how well it worked but I never set it up. This thing will RF out about 100' so I was thinking if the car hoppers came back, I would hide one in the car somewhere for a good close up of the weasel. I also have a PC based DVR in one of my WYSE thin clients that I have never fooled with. I can get to either of the DVRs with anything on the network using a small application. Nothing has ever happened here worth looking at the video. I can get some great pictures of Deuce in the pool tho I guess. |
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