On Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:29:03 -0400, John H.
wrote:

On Mon, 04 Jun 2018 17:15:14 -0400, wrote:

They finally got me mad enough to kill them and I am Dishless.
The box went down on Saturday (4/26). In spite of paying for the on
site service contract they still shipped me another box that didn't
here until Thursday. I never opened the box. It took 4 phone calls and
a lot of listening to music to finally get them to cancel my account
but I am outta there. I am going to live with OTA and streaming. I
will get my HBO and Show from Amazon, that we already have and we
already have Netflix. My bill will be going down about $80 a month
after I buy HBO/Show.
At least Harry won't be able to accuse me of watching too much Fox
News ;-)
I really wasn't watching much "cable" at all, hence the change.
The only thing I have really missed so far is the outdoor channel and
I am looking for a path. I am sure sportsman and OCH has a deal with
someone. It is really refreshing not watching ad based TV.

Here's something to think about also:

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I am really trying to get away from programming packages with 98
channels I never watch to get two I want to see.
Poking around a little it looks like you can stream segments from the
Outdoor Channel, (not the whole show) for free. Since I really don't
care about the whole show most of the time that might work for me.

I have to record all my favourite shows on the PVR.
Commercial tv has become unbearable due to all the commercials. Now I just fast forward away.
I've talked to the wife about ditching cable but she pays the piper and calls the tunes.

On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 14:31:32 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

I have to record all my favourite shows on the PVR.
Commercial tv has become unbearable due to all the commercials. Now I just fast forward away.
I've talked to the wife about ditching cable but she pays the piper and calls the tunes.

I have a Tivo and ReplayTV but the Replay is pretty much useless
these days. Other than being able to record an A/V feed there is not
much you can do with it.
The Tivo handles anything coming in over the air.

On 6/4/2018 7:05 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 14:31:32 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

I have to record all my favourite shows on the PVR.
Commercial tv has become unbearable due to all the commercials. Now I just fast forward away.
I've talked to the wife about ditching cable but she pays the piper and calls the tunes.

I have a Tivo and ReplayTV but the Replay is pretty much useless
these days. Other than being able to record an A/V feed there is not
much you can do with it.
The Tivo handles anything coming in over the air.



I got one of these,
https://tinyurl.com/yadszwzs
for $32 and a good, high speed thumb drive,
my wife records her soaps on it daily.
Has worked flawlessly for the 2 years we have owned it.
We use this thumb drive, SanDisk Extreme CZ80 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
- SDCZ80-064G-GAM46, I don't know if this is available now.
I bought a second one 9 m0nths ago for another area.
Mikek

On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:11:59 -0500, amdx wrote:

On 6/4/2018 7:05 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 14:31:32 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

I have to record all my favourite shows on the PVR.
Commercial tv has become unbearable due to all the commercials. Now I just fast forward away.
I've talked to the wife about ditching cable but she pays the piper and calls the tunes.

I have a Tivo and ReplayTV but the Replay is pretty much useless
these days. Other than being able to record an A/V feed there is not
much you can do with it.
The Tivo handles anything coming in over the air.



I got one of these,
https://tinyurl.com/yadszwzs
for $32 and a good, high speed thumb drive,
my wife records her soaps on it daily.
Has worked flawlessly for the 2 years we have owned it.
We use this thumb drive, SanDisk Extreme CZ80 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
- SDCZ80-064G-GAM46, I don't know if this is available now.
I bought a second one 9 m0nths ago for another area.
Mikek

Does this come with a program guide or is it like the old Betamax?

On 6/5/2018 11:20 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 17:11:59 -0500, amdx wrote:

On 6/4/2018 7:05 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 14:31:32 -0700 (PDT), True North
wrote:

I have to record all my favourite shows on the PVR.
Commercial tv has become unbearable due to all the commercials. Now I just fast forward away.
I've talked to the wife about ditching cable but she pays the piper and calls the tunes.

I have a Tivo and ReplayTV but the Replay is pretty much useless
these days. Other than being able to record an A/V feed there is not
much you can do with it.
The Tivo handles anything coming in over the air.



I got one of these,
https://tinyurl.com/yadszwzs
for $32 and a good, high speed thumb drive,
my wife records her soaps on it daily.
Has worked flawlessly for the 2 years we have owned it.
We use this thumb drive, SanDisk Extreme CZ80 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
- SDCZ80-064G-GAM46, I don't know if this is available now.
I bought a second one 9 m0nths ago for another area.
Mikek

Does this come with a program guide or is it like the old Betamax?

It has a program guide, a little different in that you need to go
channel by channel. Say you pull up channel 13.1 on the guide it will
show you the next 15 hours of programs on that channel, then you need to
go to channel 13.2 and see what's on that for the next 15 hours.
It functions very well, never had a burp, even though a harddrive is
recommended for the storage device, I think they even say don't use a
Flask Drive. As I said, wife uses it daily for a couple of soaps and
then occasionally to record when we aren't home or if two programs are
on at the same time.
Look over the reviews at Amazon, https://tinyurl.com/yadszwzs
I want to make it clear this only for over the air digital channels,
it will not work on cable. Although one review says something about an
unsupported firmware download.
Mikek

On 6/4/18 5:15 PM, wrote:
They finally got me mad enough to kill them and I am Dishless.
The box went down on Saturday (4/26). In spite of paying for the on
site service contract they still shipped me another box that didn't
here until Thursday. I never opened the box. It took 4 phone calls and
a lot of listening to music to finally get them to cancel my account
but I am outta there. I am going to live with OTA and streaming. I
will get my HBO and Show from Amazon, that we already have and we
already have Netflix. My bill will be going down about $80 a month
after I buy HBO/Show.
At least Harry won't be able to accuse me of watching too much Fox
News ;-)
I really wasn't watching much "cable" at all, hence the change.
The only thing I have really missed so far is the outdoor channel and
I am looking for a path. I am sure sportsman and OCH has a deal with
someone. It is really refreshing not watching ad based TV.



Gee, a guy like you should be able to make his own bootleg satellite
dish and receiver/decoder from a galvanized metal trash can cover and
those parts you swiped from obsolete IBM line printers. Get to work!

On Mon, 4 Jun 2018 18:32:03 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 6/4/18 5:15 PM, wrote:
They finally got me mad enough to kill them and I am Dishless.
The box went down on Saturday (4/26). In spite of paying for the on
site service contract they still shipped me another box that didn't
here until Thursday. I never opened the box. It took 4 phone calls and
a lot of listening to music to finally get them to cancel my account
but I am outta there. I am going to live with OTA and streaming. I
will get my HBO and Show from Amazon, that we already have and we
already have Netflix. My bill will be going down about $80 a month
after I buy HBO/Show.
At least Harry won't be able to accuse me of watching too much Fox
News ;-)
I really wasn't watching much "cable" at all, hence the change.
The only thing I have really missed so far is the outdoor channel and
I am looking for a path. I am sure sportsman and OCH has a deal with
someone. It is really refreshing not watching ad based TV.



Gee, a guy like you should be able to make his own bootleg satellite
dish and receiver/decoder from a galvanized metal trash can cover and
those parts you swiped from obsolete IBM line printers. Get to work!

I didn't even fool with that when it was something you could do. (You
use to be able to hack the "H" card pretty easy) The actual dish and
LNA is something you pick up on the side of the road. I still have
mine but they did say they wanted the LNA back.
I am thinking about turning the dish around and pointing it at the
country club across the river. With a mike on the LNA arm I imagine I
could aim it at their speaker towers when they have live bands over
there and get a free show. You can already hear them but it is not
very good quality sound by the time it gets here.
The other thing old satellite dishes are good for is extending WiFi.
Two dishes aimed at each other with a WiFi antenna at the focus is
supposed to "get out" around 10 miles with LOS.
We are really just interested in about 800 feet tho. (a camera at the
boat ramp, connected to the web from my house). They are not
interested enough to buy another service from the telco or Comcast.

Wrote in message:
They finally got me mad enough to kill them and I am Dishless.
The box went down on Saturday (4/26). In spite of paying for the on
site service contract they still shipped me another box that didn't
here until Thursday. I never opened the box. It took 4 phone calls and
a lot of listening to music to finally get them to cancel my account
but I am outta there. I am going to live with OTA and streaming. I
will get my HBO and Show from Amazon, that we already have and we
already have Netflix. My bill will be going down about $80 a month
after I buy HBO/Show.
At least Harry won't be able to accuse me of watching too much Fox
News ;-)
I really wasn't watching much "cable" at all, hence the change.
The only thing I have really missed so far is the outdoor channel and
I am looking for a path. I am sure sportsman and OCH has a deal with
someone. It is really refreshing not watching ad based TV.


We recently canned Netflix and picked up Dish pay as you go. Our
phone is a wireless home phone. Every service we pay for can be
used at home or away now.
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