Throw up a Antenna like I did and get ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, PBS in HD and 5.1 surround sound for FREE legally!!! It looks BETTER then cable as it's not as compressed! That doesn't include other channels I get like MeTV and Antenna TV, etc.
I cut the cord around 4 years ago. I still have Comcast, so not truly CUT. But it's Internet only where I currently pay $50 a month for 105Mbps service. I have my own Cable modem, so no rental fee's on that.
I did luck out and was able to get a Tivo Roamio OTA Box which has 4 tuners with Lifetime service for $299. That was a great deal. So I can record all my programs from the Antenna with full DVR control. I can watch from the family room and continue in the bedroom on a Tivo Mini. ZERO fee's for doing that. Sure there's some upfront costs, but the savings I have pay it all off in no time flat.
I assume NBC programs are on HULU+ (CBS has their own $6 a month all access thing!) So for $13 a month Commercial FREE. You don't want to pay the cheaper $9.99 and have commercials because then it just SUCKS. Do that with a ROKU or AppleTV or a Amazon Fire. They all support HULU+ Even the TIVO does.
You can get one of their new Tivo Bolts for $199 which includes a year of service and then it's like $15 a month. You can stream HULU+ and Netflix and there's even PLEX support. There's Global searching for content. It has Auto commercial skip for certain channels during prime time hours. Hit a button and will skip them all. So it's kind of a All in one solution that way. No ROKU or anything else needed unless you get into some of the other content providers they don't support.
With a Antenna, there's a number of options. I went with TIVO. But there's also Tablo and SimpleTV. They have 2 or 4 tuner options. They need a external HDD to record to, and you need a ROKU or Chromecast or something to be able to watch on your HDTV as they don't directly connect to a TV. Their service fee's are much cheaper then TIVO also. $4.95 a month, $49.99 a year, or $149.99 Lifetime. Lifetime on TIVO is $599!!! That's just crazy high.
Then there's ChannelMaster. They have a DRV with NO service fee's. Just buy it and it works. As I haven't used any of these others, I have no idea how good they are. These are ways to watch on your own time, skip commercials, and doesn't waste your Internet CAP. If a Antenna is not possible, check out HULU+ and see if that would work for you! $13 a month instead of $30 a month, may be a deal for you.
People do! I gun is just a tool. it can't hurt anyone on it's own. You can pick up a baseball bat or a million other things and kill a person. A pressure cooker is a deadly weapon. Should we ban those? Those were used in the Boston bombing. Not a single GUN was used to kill anyone.
Fact is people have been killing people for as long as people have been alive. There was not a single gun used for thousands of years and yet millions have been murdered.
If you think you gun a gun to kill a lot of people, and want to ignore BOMBS. Just do some Googling. Here is one example, Quote "It took just 10 minutes for a man armed with a kitchen knife to unleash terror in a Japanese elementary school in a stabbing spree that left eight school children dead and injured 21 other people." http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80964
You don't hear about these things because it doesn't fit into the Anti-Gun Message!!! See when you don't have access to a Gun, you just use a Knife. A Gun is a equalizer. It'll allow a Woman to protect herself from any MAN. A Gun can protect a Gay person from a gay basher!!!
Gun Free Zone's only make people easy targets. The last place I would ever be around is a ZONE FREE ZONE!!! Criminals don't follow laws, that's why they're criminals.
This is coming from someone who doesn't own a single GUN!!! Though one of my Brothers does and my Dad does. Their guns are locked up in Gun safes.
Who says they don't? I'm sure there's been a number of murders from what a reporter wrote about. In effect got the person killed!
Fact is people have been killing people for thousands of years. Not a single gun in site in all that time. you can kill a person with your bare hands. A Rock, a Knife. Or a Pressure Cooker like in Boston. Not a single GUN was used!!! There has been at least one Mass Murder in a School in Japan and all the person had was a Knife. That's not the only place. You can Google this stuff up. The UK banned Guns, and Murder by Knife went up! Their murder rate is almost as high as ours. Gun's don't kill people, People Kill people
have you heard the saying "Cop's are minutes away when seconds count!" That's how it's normally is. Criminals don't stick around. If you can get the police to your mouse in minutes, consider yourself lucky.
This bill is just to prove how dumb the Gun laws are as it's pretty much word for word!!!
As for the UK. They Banned Guns and guess what, people just went to using knifes and they're murder rates are almost as high. There's been mass murder in schools using a KNIFE!!! Just Google it up. Fact is more people are killed from a number of other things, Drug's, Alcohol, CARS, etc. What not do the same? Oh wait,....
I think this bill is pretty funny and clearly pushing the gun control law issues and how dumb they are. Most of these reporters are Liberals. With their Anti Gun agenda. Only reporting the Negatives and completely ignoring all the Positives. Let alone statistics!!!
Well BlackBerry the OS is done for as soon as they released a Android phone, the PRIV. With plans to release more in the future. Who in their right mind would have any faith in BlackBerry at that point?
If that's it, Spend $20 a month and get SlingTV. You get ESPN and ESPN2. If that's not enough Sports for you, for another $5 a month, or $25 a month total, you can get the Sports bundle. That gives you another 9 Sports channels including ESPNEWS. They have 9 different bundles at $5 each. The Sports Extra bundle is one of them.
The downside is you can only stream to 1 TV at a time. It's all LIVE. For the $20 you get 23 LIVE channels. Chanels like AMC, The Food Channel, a couple Kids channels like Disney, CNN etc. A little something for everyone. This is owned by DirectTV.
Sure you get a good price for Cable and TV, for a period of time and then it jumps up and hope you don't notice.
I cut the cord 4 years ago. One of my other brothers a year ago. My Dad moved into my house, he had DishTV I guess, thought he would miss it. he doesn't! I get a lot of my TV from the Antenna. Besides ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, and CW, there's other channels like MeTV and AntennaTV, etc that show a lot of old TV series that are new to you if you've never seen them. He watches a lot of that old stuff. Hogan's Hero's, and Columbo, etc. I have a TIVO and TIVO Mini's and so it can all be DVR and watched at any time. All that is 100% Legally FREE. ZERO monthly costs.
There's other ways to get other content. My Goto is still Netflix. With more and more Original content, it's great and the price is right. You can buy a couple season passes for things yo may really like, Like I get "The Walking Dead" on AMC, from Amazon. I buy a SD season, and I can watch the new Episode the day after it airs on AMC, except commercial free and I own it!!! I get the SD version because it's cheaper and looks good enough. It's still widescreen.
I get enough sports from ABC and FOX, etc for Football, etc. I'm not a huge sports person. You can sign up for MLB and stream that live. There are options. I pay Comcast currently $50 a month for 105Mbps service. That's it. I have my own cable modem. Before I cut the Cord I was paying Comcast $170 a month for much slower internet a TV service with a duel HD DVR tuner. No premium channels either. That was back then. So I'm saving $120 a month currently if I was was still paying Comcast old prices. It would be even higher these days. So no thanks.
Basic math is prices didn't go up. $120 a month is $1,440 per year. In 10 years is $14,400!!!! How long to people keep paying Comcast? 10,20,30+ years!!! Wouldn't you rather keep that kind of money in your own pocket? The key is not signing up for all these other services. You don't need Netflix, HULU_ SlingTV, etc, etc, etc all at once.
If you like Game of Thrones on HBO. That's really about it. Why pay $180 per year ($15 per month!)? Wait for the season to be over, pay $15 for one month and watch the whole season in that month time, which is easy enough and any other content, and then cancel at the end of the month and wait another year and pay for another month. That's 100% legal. It's also a CHEAP way to watch a season of GOT!!!
You get used to things the new way. My 68 year old Dad doesn't have a problem for the most part. He's told me he has to much to watch already. I agree with that!!! I have to much to watch also. I sure don't need 200 channels of garbage and only watch about 20 at most. What a scam. To get that 1 or 2 channels you want. You have to get the BIG package. These company's set it up to get you to spend more money by doing this. I don't play that game anymore.
The Cop's should be happy to have the Camera'a if they're good Cops. People do all kinds of things, BAD things and then try to make it look like the police did something wrong. Yet here they are just wanting to block it all from the public. To me it looks like the same old same old. The police protecting their own, even though they're BAD. Doesn't seem to matter. As far as I'm concerned, if you protect a bad cop, you're just as bad of a cop!!!
All the terrorist has to do is sent a plain old text that says "GO" and the plan already set in motion plays out. Really of what benefit does a Un-encrypted phone give you? If you want Mass spying on everyone's phone, ok, But right now under LAW, with a Court issued Warrant. They can in person make you unlock your phone. When they have real evidence against you. Not go fishing in the hope of finding something from anyone.
I don't have a problem with Copyright in general. I don't think anything should have a Copyright on it of more then 20 years at most. if the person is DEAD, the copyright should end. It shouldn't go on forever so that family members for generations are still collecting it.
My brothers kids pretty much only watch Netflix. He's since cut the cord like I have. His kids didn't know what a commercial was for quite some time until they saw some at someone else's house and thought they were neat.
The point being, Kids are growing up without cable. Or at least used to Netflix type service and the Internet. Won't see any need to sign up for some TV package. This will continue to grow. 100 channels of crap and nothing on. Who wants to pay for that?
I already have way to much content to watch. I don't have time to miss Cable TV!!! With the Internet, you're no longer limited like it the past with a few Analog OTA channels. Now there's more Digital OTA channels and the Internet.
Man are you libtards so hateful with Fox News. It's like the boogeyman to you. You'd rather believe the lies mainstream news tells you all the time and shown to be lies many, many times.
I was going to agree with you until you stuck that crap in.
That's the thing. I've heard in the past that only 4% of Comcast users watch the Sports Channels, yet it's the most expensive channel and everyone is subsidizing it!!! What would happen if people actually had a choice. Would you want to sign up for ESPN and Fox Sports and the others or say screw it and instead of 100% of everyone paying it's only the 4% that are now paying. Would their Sport package fee now cost them $50 a month just for that, plus the normal cable bill for all the other channels?
I cut the cord. I have no interest to sign up to SlingTV so I can get live ESPN & ESPN2. I get enough Sports from the Broadcast channels I get for free with a Antenna. I'm not going to pay for SlingTV, or for MLB.TV or NFL.TV or anything else Sport related. To me, people making MILLIONS playing a kids game is silly. Tax payers subsidizing a Stadium and so forth is just wrong!
I just really don't care about sports of any kind.
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I cut the cord around 4 years ago. I still have Comcast, so not truly CUT. But it's Internet only where I currently pay $50 a month for 105Mbps service. I have my own Cable modem, so no rental fee's on that.
I did luck out and was able to get a Tivo Roamio OTA Box which has 4 tuners with Lifetime service for $299. That was a great deal. So I can record all my programs from the Antenna with full DVR control. I can watch from the family room and continue in the bedroom on a Tivo Mini. ZERO fee's for doing that. Sure there's some upfront costs, but the savings I have pay it all off in no time flat.
I assume NBC programs are on HULU+ (CBS has their own $6 a month all access thing!) So for $13 a month Commercial FREE. You don't want to pay the cheaper $9.99 and have commercials because then it just SUCKS. Do that with a ROKU or AppleTV or a Amazon Fire. They all support HULU+ Even the TIVO does.
You can get one of their new Tivo Bolts for $199 which includes a year of service and then it's like $15 a month. You can stream HULU+ and Netflix and there's even PLEX support. There's Global searching for content. It has Auto commercial skip for certain channels during prime time hours. Hit a button and will skip them all. So it's kind of a All in one solution that way. No ROKU or anything else needed unless you get into some of the other content providers they don't support.
With a Antenna, there's a number of options. I went with TIVO. But there's also Tablo and SimpleTV. They have 2 or 4 tuner options. They need a external HDD to record to, and you need a ROKU or Chromecast or something to be able to watch on your HDTV as they don't directly connect to a TV. Their service fee's are much cheaper then TIVO also. $4.95 a month, $49.99 a year, or $149.99 Lifetime. Lifetime on TIVO is $599!!! That's just crazy high.
Then there's ChannelMaster. They have a DRV with NO service fee's. Just buy it and it works. As I haven't used any of these others, I have no idea how good they are. These are ways to watch on your own time, skip commercials, and doesn't waste your Internet CAP. If a Antenna is not possible, check out HULU+ and see if that would work for you! $13 a month instead of $30 a month, may be a deal for you.
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Fact is people have been killing people for as long as people have been alive. There was not a single gun used for thousands of years and yet millions have been murdered.
If you think you gun a gun to kill a lot of people, and want to ignore BOMBS. Just do some Googling. Here is one example, Quote "It took just 10 minutes for a man armed with a kitchen knife to unleash terror in a Japanese elementary school in a stabbing spree that left eight school children dead and injured 21 other people."
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=80964
How about this one! Quote "A man wielding a knife wounded 22 children and one adult outside a primary school in central China as students were arriving for classes on Friday, the police said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/world/asia/man-stabs-22-children-in-china.html?_r=0
You don't hear about these things because it doesn't fit into the Anti-Gun Message!!! See when you don't have access to a Gun, you just use a Knife. A Gun is a equalizer. It'll allow a Woman to protect herself from any MAN. A Gun can protect a Gay person from a gay basher!!!
Gun Free Zone's only make people easy targets. The last place I would ever be around is a ZONE FREE ZONE!!! Criminals don't follow laws, that's why they're criminals.
This is coming from someone who doesn't own a single GUN!!! Though one of my Brothers does and my Dad does. Their guns are locked up in Gun safes.
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Fact is people have been killing people for thousands of years. Not a single gun in site in all that time. you can kill a person with your bare hands. A Rock, a Knife. Or a Pressure Cooker like in Boston. Not a single GUN was used!!!
There has been at least one Mass Murder in a School in Japan and all the person had was a Knife. That's not the only place. You can Google this stuff up. The UK banned Guns, and Murder by Knife went up! Their murder rate is almost as high as ours. Gun's don't kill people, People Kill people
have you heard the saying "Cop's are minutes away when seconds count!" That's how it's normally is. Criminals don't stick around. If you can get the police to your mouse in minutes, consider yourself lucky.
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As for the UK. They Banned Guns and guess what, people just went to using knifes and they're murder rates are almost as high. There's been mass murder in schools using a KNIFE!!! Just Google it up. Fact is more people are killed from a number of other things, Drug's, Alcohol, CARS, etc. What not do the same? Oh wait,....
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It's clearly means to prove a point.
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The downside is you can only stream to 1 TV at a time. It's all LIVE. For the $20 you get 23 LIVE channels. Chanels like AMC, The Food Channel, a couple Kids channels like Disney, CNN etc. A little something for everyone. This is owned by DirectTV.
That's a option.
https://www.sling.com/package#extra-packages
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I cut the cord 4 years ago. One of my other brothers a year ago. My Dad moved into my house, he had DishTV I guess, thought he would miss it. he doesn't! I get a lot of my TV from the Antenna. Besides ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, PBS, and CW, there's other channels like MeTV and AntennaTV, etc that show a lot of old TV series that are new to you if you've never seen them. He watches a lot of that old stuff. Hogan's Hero's, and Columbo, etc. I have a TIVO and TIVO Mini's and so it can all be DVR and watched at any time. All that is 100% Legally FREE. ZERO monthly costs.
There's other ways to get other content. My Goto is still Netflix. With more and more Original content, it's great and the price is right. You can buy a couple season passes for things yo may really like, Like I get "The Walking Dead" on AMC, from Amazon. I buy a SD season, and I can watch the new Episode the day after it airs on AMC, except commercial free and I own it!!! I get the SD version because it's cheaper and looks good enough. It's still widescreen.
I get enough sports from ABC and FOX, etc for Football, etc. I'm not a huge sports person. You can sign up for MLB and stream that live. There are options. I pay Comcast currently $50 a month for 105Mbps service. That's it. I have my own cable modem. Before I cut the Cord I was paying Comcast $170 a month for much slower internet a TV service with a duel HD DVR tuner. No premium channels either. That was back then. So I'm saving $120 a month currently if I was was still paying Comcast old prices. It would be even higher these days. So no thanks.
Basic math is prices didn't go up. $120 a month is $1,440 per year. In 10 years is $14,400!!!! How long to people keep paying Comcast? 10,20,30+ years!!! Wouldn't you rather keep that kind of money in your own pocket? The key is not signing up for all these other services. You don't need Netflix, HULU_ SlingTV, etc, etc, etc all at once.
If you like Game of Thrones on HBO. That's really about it. Why pay $180 per year ($15 per month!)? Wait for the season to be over, pay $15 for one month and watch the whole season in that month time, which is easy enough and any other content, and then cancel at the end of the month and wait another year and pay for another month. That's 100% legal. It's also a CHEAP way to watch a season of GOT!!!
You get used to things the new way. My 68 year old Dad doesn't have a problem for the most part. He's told me he has to much to watch already. I agree with that!!! I have to much to watch also. I sure don't need 200 channels of garbage and only watch about 20 at most. What a scam. To get that 1 or 2 channels you want. You have to get the BIG package. These company's set it up to get you to spend more money by doing this. I don't play that game anymore.
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I won't comment on downloading movies, but your experience seems poor. By the way I have around 800 DVD, HD DVD and Blu-Ray Movies.
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If the store could create another Physical product to sell for nothing, you might have something.
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Does anything go into the Public Domain any more?
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Re: Adapt or be left behind
The point being, Kids are growing up without cable. Or at least used to Netflix type service and the Internet. Won't see any need to sign up for some TV package. This will continue to grow. 100 channels of crap and nothing on. Who wants to pay for that?
I already have way to much content to watch. I don't have time to miss Cable TV!!! With the Internet, you're no longer limited like it the past with a few Analog OTA channels. Now there's more Digital OTA channels and the Internet.
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I was going to agree with you until you stuck that crap in.
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Re: There may be some truth in the claim
I cut the cord. I have no interest to sign up to SlingTV so I can get live ESPN & ESPN2. I get enough Sports from the Broadcast channels I get for free with a Antenna. I'm not going to pay for SlingTV, or for MLB.TV or NFL.TV or anything else Sport related. To me, people making MILLIONS playing a kids game is silly. Tax payers subsidizing a Stadium and so forth is just wrong!
I just really don't care about sports of any kind.
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