Apple Pay works with any NFC terminal already. What standard do you want? Google Wallet still works. Apple Pay is much better. Apple does get a cut. It's a TINY cut of like .005% that they get of of the transaction fee that's already charged. In fact I here that transaction fee is lower then a Credit card because of the much better security!!! Just so you know how Apple Pay works to Google Wallet and a Credit Card, here you go!
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Not only that, but it links Directly to your Bank Account!!!! This is how they get around to having lower fee's. Of course unlike a Credit Card, where you're protected by law against fraud. There's none of that if you use a Debit Card only, or Direct access to your bank account. Target or Home Depot or the others can get hacked again, and money stolen out of your account. and good luck getting it back if you're lucky, in any case waiting weeks. Paypal already does thing, Do some Google Searches and see how that's working out!!!
I also hear that it's Grabbing your health info also!!! Talking about really taking things to far.
Apple Pay is a Snap. This whole CurrectC is a hassle. Better off to just use a Credit Card at that point.
AS for CurrentC. Not only is it all about tracking your Spending habits. But to get the cheaper service, they have to link Directly to your Bank Account. While you have Fraud protection when your Credit Card, You have ZERO with your Debit only card, let alone your direct Bank account. I also hear CurrentC links up and grabs your health info also.
Besides all the hassle of turning on your phone and unlocking it, finding and loading the App, just so you can scan a QR code or you scan a QR code. It can go either way. I don't know who in their right mind would use it.
Really? Another Clueless person. You have no idea How Apple Pay works. Apple is not tracking anything because they can't. That's the whole point. Google does with Google Wallet because when you use that service, You're actually paying Google and then Google makes the payment on your behalf. Which makes sense, since that's all part of Google's Business model on how they make money.
It really is completely Anonymous when you use Apple pay, even from Apple themselves!!! Here's a link that much better explains How a Credit Card works along with Google Wallet and Apple pay.
No, you're completely WRONG! Apple Pay is completely different form anything having to do with iTunes or the iTunes store. Unlike Google Wallet where When you use it, you are paying Google with the Credit Card they have on file for you and then Google pays the Merchant, with Apple Pay, The transaction goes directly to the Bank that issued you your card and the Token is Decrypted at that point. Apple has ZERO Idea where you used it, How much or on what. That's the whole point.
In fact this Link explains it better on how a Credit Card, Apple pay and Google Wallet works.
It has to do with protecting the Real Casino's in the states that allow gambling. Otherwise they go out business. Some have have been shutting down as there's just not enough business. That's a whole lot of TAX MONEY disappearing. People would rather gamble in their own home. A lot of these Online places are out of the country and out of the U.S. reach, let alone no way to TAX them or anything else.
It's just the Nanny state in action, bigger Government crap. Taking care of the masses, Cradle to Grave, because Politicians know better then you do!!!
I have to say that how the U.S. Tortured these BAD people, is a joke! What I mean is they have no permanent physical injury from it. Water boarding is the worst thing going on and really, it's all in the mind. Playing Britney Spears Music and other things like that, I mean come on.
This is NOT tie a persons arm behind their back and then hang them by their arms. Like say John McCain. This is not needles under the fingernails, or cutting off parts, or just cutting on their head and being done with it. Oh no, the poor Terrorist got Water boarded. Then spends the rest of his day getting 3 meals a day, and not just any old food either. Free Health care, free Korans and all the other crap. I mean really??? Because U.S. Prisoners never got ANY of that crap. Lucky to live, let alone 1 mean a day of whatever garbage was put in front of you. American prisoners getting REAL Tortured.
That would mean you could connect to itunes!!! You're still paying for anything that costs money on itunes. This has zero to do about Apple, it's about you paying so much to gain access to that site. That's it.
AOL was the same way, and many company's today are the same. They make it really a snap, Easy to sign up Online, but to cancel, You have to call and then go threw the whole cancellation speech while they try and talk you out of it. Some people just go at it stronger then others.
If These Cable company's weren't a Monopoly in every city, this wouldn't be a issue. If you could pick from TWC or Comcast, now you have Competition. Comcast and U-Verse is really not competition. Cable Internet is a whole lot faster.
If Comcast was crap, you could switch to TWC or whoever else. If enough people jumped ship, things would change! I had it with Comcast. The service was pretty reliable. When I canceled in person they were friendly to me. Now I have U-Verse for Internet only. I pay $135 less per month now. I threw up a large Antenna and get most of my programs that way. It's been great and I no longer have that $170 a month cable big every month. No premium channels either. Just Internet and a duel HD DVR tuner. It was just ME living there at the time. I love how things are now. U-Verse is a lot slower, but I can still stream Netflix in HD, Online gaming, download more then fast enough so it's good enough.
That's a Myth! By the way during the Boston Tea party with people bitching about those taxes that were in the 2-3% range and was to high! These days we are taxed on pretty much everything. I'm waiting for the day when they Tax the Air you breath directly. Half the population pays ZERO in Federal Taxes.
This Depression we're in now has lasted a lot longer then the so called Great Depression. We have far more people on Wel-Fair then ever before. Taxes are still way to high, especially for those paying them all!!! Paying taxes and then just getting all your money back when you do your taxes doesn't make you a Tax Payer.
So a Restaurant Reviewer can only give out all Positive or All Negative Reviews according to you!!!! God forbid if he/she gave out reviews based on real facts!!! As they saw it at that time.
Lots of positive Reviews will cancel out a few bad reviews!!! If you had good food and service, you should have lots of Positive reviews!!!
For example, I look at the reviews at Amazon, and the first ones I generally go to are the 1 Star reviews. When I read them and they are just a idiot and really their fault, and the 1 star is just crap. I can clearly see that!!! So many times 1 star on the most stupid thing that should have been a 4 star at worse, but should have really been a 5 star because the person expected something that wasn't even listed!!!!
After I find what few legit complaints there are, I go look at the 5 star ones and some of the 3 star, etc and can really get a real picture. Then I end up buying it!!! It's always turned out like I expected, Good!!! Just as Advertised!!!
If all you have is a couple Negative reviews and no Positive reviews, that's also pretty telling. It really just means at BEST, it's just OK, and nothing to write home about!!! Not worth your time to write anything Pro or Neg. When you start out that low, it doesn't take much to get someone that had Bad service/food!!! Generally people will complain more then writing a Positive review. If you have great food and great service, etc, people are going to write Positive reviews and those positive reviews will over shadow those few Negative reviews. No one can be 100% perfect.
If you get 99% happy customers, you're doing really good. But that 1% adds up with more and more people. Still if.5% write the Negative reviews out of that 1% group, and 10% write a Positive review from that 99% group, You're doing really good. Those few Negative reviews will end up canceled out. Now if you go suing those few people, you're going to get a hit from everyone. I sure wouldn't go there. I could no longer trust anything I could read about the place being all Positive!!! There's nothing that's 100% perfect!!! Even the BEST 5 star place is going to get a few Negative reviews!!!
My brother has been trying to get his wife off the cable, she likes the real House Wives of whatever?!?! Their young kids pretty much only watch Kids Netflix. They didn't even know what a commercial was until watching TV at someone else's house.
I cut the cord from Comcast almost 2 years ago. I was getting ready to go house shopping so I could move. I just took my DVR down to Comcast, handed it to them and told them I didn't want to pay for TV anymore. They did give me 6 month Discount for Internet service only which I wasn't expecting, which was long enough for my needs. It was pretty simple for me. The Comcast person here in the store was nice and friendly to me and didn't hassle me at all and give me the Internet discount service without asking for it.
When I had their service, it was reliable and generally pretty fast. I just didn't like the $170 a month bill for only ME and 1 TV with the duel tuner HD DVR and Internet service which was only about mid grade service and no premium channels. The costs kept going up, not my pay check, and so I dropped Showtime a number of years ago, but there wasn't much left to cut other then TV it's self, and so I did that!
I'm in my House now. One of the first things I did was throw up a large Antenna. I get all my Broadcast channels that way and record onto my PC for full DVR controls to all my HDTV's in my house. It's great and no monthly bills and a better picture. When I'm outside and look around at all the other houses and not see a single Antenna, I laugh and think SUCKERS!!!!!!
I get U-Verse at my house, their 18mbps service, it's not that fast, but fast enough to stream HD content! I pay $35 a month. After the first year and the price doubled, I called again, they transfered me to their retention department where I threatened to go to Comcast. I would have to! At that point it wouldn't have cost much more for Comcast service and yet gotten much faster Upload and download speeds! They dropped it back down to just under $35 for another year. I'll do the same next year. That's a $135 a month savings or over $1600 per year. I've had the OOMA Box and service for VOIP for my Home phone service for a number of years. It's sounded better then my Orignal AT&T Landline. That was making better use of my Internet service to save money. I have had that Home phone number for like 18 years. When I moved, I just plugged my OOMA box into my new Internet service and still have my same long time Home Phone number. I had my Dad move into my house has he lost his house after losing his job a couple years before that. I got his phone number transferred to my OOMA Box. So it costs me about $14 a month for the 2 VOIP lines I now have. The Prefix numbers that are used for a town are really meaningless these days. Mine if from my old town, his is from his old town, but a number he's had for over 25 years. using OOMA phones, he has his own phone, I have my own phone. Different Rings for each line and mail boxes for each line, Free Long distance anywhere in the U.S. and more, lots of extra's. Making better use of my cheap Internet service!!! Why anyone would pay $40 or whatever it is to Comcast for VOIP service?!?!?! Suckers!!!!!
I'm a cable cutter and watch most of my TV using a Antenna and a couple duel HD tuners allowing me to record up to 4 shows at once and watch one already recorded, or record 3 shows and watch one LIVE, etc. Using Media Center on my PC and a Xbox 360 at each TV as extenders. It's great, flexible, can watch in one room and resume in another. Can watch on all my HDTV's at once from that 1 PC everything is recorded on.
I got tired with paying for TV with most of the channels I didn't watch and that included the Most expensive ESPN and other sports channels I could care less about. If you want SyFy you have to get one of the higher more expensive packages. What a joke.
So a few shows I get on Usenet Automatically, and watch with PLEX. I don't have to do anything. The first show of his I got a SD version and it took like 3 days before I had a copy. Later that week the HD version downloaded. The second show I got the same day and in HD. So things do seem to be picking up!!!!
I like the show. I do get his Humor. If it could get into more places LEGALLY, like I get a season pass of "The Walking Dead" from AMC from Amazon. The Episodes are released on Monday after their Air the night before on Sunday. It's also commercial free, so it's not a bad deal. I support a show I like and it's not delayed for a week or more. We need more of this. Move with the times.
I'm a fan of Wil Wheaton. I hope the show turns into a big hit for him. I've like him on the "Big Bang Theory". I thought he was just fine on STTNG also. Instead of turning into another Child Star that just couldn't make the transition. Or one that just got on Drugs and Alcohol and out partying every night. I've never heard of any of that Negative stuff like you do with so many others. The show is new. I hope it's given a chance to grow. Find out what really works, and what doesn't so much.
My VCR actually had a Automatic Commercial Skip feature built in. After it finished recording, it would then rewind and go back though marking where the commercials started and ended, so when you went back to play, it would on it's own FF though commercials. It wasn't 100% perfect, but it worked pretty good.
How about some people are just weak minded? Easily influence? Of course Games could have a effect, but then so would Movies, Music, hell People!!! Come on does games get people to join cults?
Maybe people have been killing people for as long as there have been people!!! There was a Mass murder earlier this year I bet most people have no idea about. A Man when into a School in Japan and stabbed a bunch of kids and teachers to death!!! Not a single gun Involved!!!
You can go into a Home Depot and find all kinds of things to kill people. You start looking around and think how can I kill a bunch of people, and looking around, things used for normal things become deadly weapons!!! There were zero guns for thousands of years, and yet people killed people!!! The Places with the highest gun laws have the worse crime!!! When you know people can't defend themselves, they've now become easy targets!!!
There's a good saying, "The police are minutes away when seconds count"!!! Around here, it seems like the police are a hour away! Countries with low Gun crime, they have other much higher crime. Higher knife killings, higher Rapes, etc.
Mexico has a very strict Gun laws!!! Most people can't own a gun, period!!! There's 1 Gun store in the whole country, where you can get a basic rifle with a hard to get permit. Yet look at the mass killings with Guns going on in that country!!! The people can't defend themselves. All the criminals have guns!!! They're bring that crap into this country. Look, there's now warning signs in the U.S. in Arizona and Texas!!! A criminal doesn't give a crap about some law!!! We have laws up the butt that aren't enforced already!!!
New NSA Boss, Continue to do the Same thing, this time more under wraps!!! Double down, the odds of getting caught or going to jail is slim to none!!! All that will happen is moved someplace else in Government!!! Things continue on getting worse and worse.
Thanks to all of those that like BIG GOVERNMENT!!! This is the results and it's only going to get worse.
I wised up a couple months ago! I got tired of my $170 Comcast cable Bill. All it was, was Internet, and HD TV service with a Dual Tuner DVR box. No Premium anything. I got rid of a Premium channel years ago because of the rising prices. So I cut the cord2 months ago and haven't looked back.
I moved into my new House last month, I just got my new huge Antenna setup and I get like 15 Digital HD channels (More if I wanted Spanish and whatnot). I use Media Center on my Windows PC to record and so I have free Channel Program listings and DVR capabilities. I'm using a dual HD tuner that plugs into Ethernet. I get U-verse Internet for under $40 a month. Basically I'm saving a little over $1,500 a year doing this!!! I was already paying for Netflix and Amazon Prime. I've giving Hulu+ a try, but I have more content then I know what to do with. Using 'PlayOn' software I can stream other channels on the internet like Syfy, and whatnot.
I look around where I live now, not a Antenna in site and I'm thinking SUCKERS!!! I now have my Dad on board, he's been a long time DISH Subscriber. My brother wants to do the same, it's only his Wife stopping him right now. She like BRAVO. My Favorite show 'The Walking Dead' on AMC I can't get now, BUT I can get a Season Pass on Amazon and watch each new episode as it comes out. Way worth it, and commercial free!!! Again, SUCKERS!!!
This is also why there are CAPS, trying to stop the Cable cutting. Which is why I have the Antenna. No need to stream CBS,ABC,NBC,CW, PBS, etc in HD, I get a better picture with my Antenna. It's not as compressed!!! Think about it. I could go on and on about my setup and hardware, but it pays off in no time flat.
When you go from a $170 Cable bill to under $40,.. just think about that!!! My Dad was paying $40 just for home phone service that hardly gets used. He's just had that number for so long, I'm getting him switched over now where it'll be FREE for him and he gets to keep the same phone number he's had for 20+ years.
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I also hear that it's Grabbing your health info also!!! Talking about really taking things to far.
Apple Pay is a Snap. This whole CurrectC is a hassle. Better off to just use a Credit Card at that point.
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http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/20/how-apple-designed-apple-pay-to-avoid-the-pitfal ls-of-traditional-payment-systems
AS for CurrentC. Not only is it all about tracking your Spending habits. But to get the cheaper service, they have to link Directly to your Bank Account. While you have Fraud protection when your Credit Card, You have ZERO with your Debit only card, let alone your direct Bank account. I also hear CurrentC links up and grabs your health info also.
Besides all the hassle of turning on your phone and unlocking it, finding and loading the App, just so you can scan a QR code or you scan a QR code. It can go either way. I don't know who in their right mind would use it.
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It really is completely Anonymous when you use Apple pay, even from Apple themselves!!! Here's a link that much better explains How a Credit Card works along with Google Wallet and Apple pay.
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In fact this Link explains it better on how a Credit Card, Apple pay and Google Wallet works.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/10/20/how-apple-designed-apple-pay-to-avoid-the-pitfalls-o f-traditional-payment-systems
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It's just the Nanny state in action, bigger Government crap. Taking care of the masses, Cradle to Grave, because Politicians know better then you do!!!
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This is NOT tie a persons arm behind their back and then hang them by their arms. Like say John McCain. This is not needles under the fingernails, or cutting off parts, or just cutting on their head and being done with it. Oh no, the poor Terrorist got Water boarded. Then spends the rest of his day getting 3 meals a day, and not just any old food either. Free Health care, free Korans and all the other crap. I mean really??? Because U.S. Prisoners never got ANY of that crap. Lucky to live, let alone 1 mean a day of whatever garbage was put in front of you. American prisoners getting REAL Tortured.
Cry me a river.
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If Comcast was crap, you could switch to TWC or whoever else. If enough people jumped ship, things would change! I had it with Comcast. The service was pretty reliable. When I canceled in person they were friendly to me. Now I have U-Verse for Internet only. I pay $135 less per month now. I threw up a large Antenna and get most of my programs that way. It's been great and I no longer have that $170 a month cable big every month. No premium channels either. Just Internet and a duel HD DVR tuner. It was just ME living there at the time. I love how things are now. U-Verse is a lot slower, but I can still stream Netflix in HD, Online gaming, download more then fast enough so it's good enough.
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This Depression we're in now has lasted a lot longer then the so called Great Depression. We have far more people on Wel-Fair then ever before. Taxes are still way to high, especially for those paying them all!!! Paying taxes and then just getting all your money back when you do your taxes doesn't make you a Tax Payer.
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Lots of positive Reviews will cancel out a few bad reviews!!! If you had good food and service, you should have lots of Positive reviews!!!
For example, I look at the reviews at Amazon, and the first ones I generally go to are the 1 Star reviews. When I read them and they are just a idiot and really their fault, and the 1 star is just crap. I can clearly see that!!! So many times 1 star on the most stupid thing that should have been a 4 star at worse, but should have really been a 5 star because the person expected something that wasn't even listed!!!!
After I find what few legit complaints there are, I go look at the 5 star ones and some of the 3 star, etc and can really get a real picture. Then I end up buying it!!! It's always turned out like I expected, Good!!! Just as Advertised!!!
If all you have is a couple Negative reviews and no Positive reviews, that's also pretty telling. It really just means at BEST, it's just OK, and nothing to write home about!!! Not worth your time to write anything Pro or Neg. When you start out that low, it doesn't take much to get someone that had Bad service/food!!! Generally people will complain more then writing a Positive review. If you have great food and great service, etc, people are going to write Positive reviews and those positive reviews will over shadow those few Negative reviews. No one can be 100% perfect.
If you get 99% happy customers, you're doing really good. But that 1% adds up with more and more people. Still if.5% write the Negative reviews out of that 1% group, and 10% write a Positive review from that 99% group, You're doing really good. Those few Negative reviews will end up canceled out. Now if you go suing those few people, you're going to get a hit from everyone. I sure wouldn't go there. I could no longer trust anything I could read about the place being all Positive!!! There's nothing that's 100% perfect!!! Even the BEST 5 star place is going to get a few Negative reviews!!!
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I cut the cord from Comcast almost 2 years ago. I was getting ready to go house shopping so I could move. I just took my DVR down to Comcast, handed it to them and told them I didn't want to pay for TV anymore. They did give me 6 month Discount for Internet service only which I wasn't expecting, which was long enough for my needs. It was pretty simple for me. The Comcast person here in the store was nice and friendly to me and didn't hassle me at all and give me the Internet discount service without asking for it.
When I had their service, it was reliable and generally pretty fast. I just didn't like the $170 a month bill for only ME and 1 TV with the duel tuner HD DVR and Internet service which was only about mid grade service and no premium channels. The costs kept going up, not my pay check, and so I dropped Showtime a number of years ago, but there wasn't much left to cut other then TV it's self, and so I did that!
I'm in my House now. One of the first things I did was throw up a large Antenna. I get all my Broadcast channels that way and record onto my PC for full DVR controls to all my HDTV's in my house. It's great and no monthly bills and a better picture. When I'm outside and look around at all the other houses and not see a single Antenna, I laugh and think SUCKERS!!!!!!
I get U-Verse at my house, their 18mbps service, it's not that fast, but fast enough to stream HD content! I pay $35 a month. After the first year and the price doubled, I called again, they transfered me to their retention department where I threatened to go to Comcast. I would have to! At that point it wouldn't have cost much more for Comcast service and yet gotten much faster Upload and download speeds! They dropped it back down to just under $35 for another year. I'll do the same next year. That's a $135 a month savings or over $1600 per year. I've had the OOMA Box and service for VOIP for my Home phone service for a number of years. It's sounded better then my Orignal AT&T Landline. That was making better use of my Internet service to save money. I have had that Home phone number for like 18 years. When I moved, I just plugged my OOMA box into my new Internet service and still have my same long time Home Phone number. I had my Dad move into my house has he lost his house after losing his job a couple years before that. I got his phone number transferred to my OOMA Box. So it costs me about $14 a month for the 2 VOIP lines I now have. The Prefix numbers that are used for a town are really meaningless these days. Mine if from my old town, his is from his old town, but a number he's had for over 25 years. using OOMA phones, he has his own phone, I have my own phone. Different Rings for each line and mail boxes for each line, Free Long distance anywhere in the U.S. and more, lots of extra's. Making better use of my cheap Internet service!!! Why anyone would pay $40 or whatever it is to Comcast for VOIP service?!?!?! Suckers!!!!!
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I got tired with paying for TV with most of the channels I didn't watch and that included the Most expensive ESPN and other sports channels I could care less about. If you want SyFy you have to get one of the higher more expensive packages. What a joke.
So a few shows I get on Usenet Automatically, and watch with PLEX. I don't have to do anything. The first show of his I got a SD version and it took like 3 days before I had a copy. Later that week the HD version downloaded. The second show I got the same day and in HD. So things do seem to be picking up!!!!
I like the show. I do get his Humor. If it could get into more places LEGALLY, like I get a season pass of "The Walking Dead" from AMC from Amazon. The Episodes are released on Monday after their Air the night before on Sunday. It's also commercial free, so it's not a bad deal. I support a show I like and it's not delayed for a week or more. We need more of this. Move with the times.
I'm a fan of Wil Wheaton. I hope the show turns into a big hit for him. I've like him on the "Big Bang Theory". I thought he was just fine on STTNG also. Instead of turning into another Child Star that just couldn't make the transition. Or one that just got on Drugs and Alcohol and out partying every night. I've never heard of any of that Negative stuff like you do with so many others. The show is new. I hope it's given a chance to grow. Find out what really works, and what doesn't so much.
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Maybe people have been killing people for as long as there have been people!!! There was a Mass murder earlier this year I bet most people have no idea about. A Man when into a School in Japan and stabbed a bunch of kids and teachers to death!!! Not a single gun Involved!!!
You can go into a Home Depot and find all kinds of things to kill people. You start looking around and think how can I kill a bunch of people, and looking around, things used for normal things become deadly weapons!!! There were zero guns for thousands of years, and yet people killed people!!! The Places with the highest gun laws have the worse crime!!! When you know people can't defend themselves, they've now become easy targets!!!
There's a good saying, "The police are minutes away when seconds count"!!! Around here, it seems like the police are a hour away! Countries with low Gun crime, they have other much higher crime. Higher knife killings, higher Rapes, etc.
Mexico has a very strict Gun laws!!! Most people can't own a gun, period!!! There's 1 Gun store in the whole country, where you can get a basic rifle with a hard to get permit. Yet look at the mass killings with Guns going on in that country!!! The people can't defend themselves. All the criminals have guns!!! They're bring that crap into this country. Look, there's now warning signs in the U.S. in Arizona and Texas!!! A criminal doesn't give a crap about some law!!! We have laws up the butt that aren't enforced already!!!
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Thanks to all of those that like BIG GOVERNMENT!!! This is the results and it's only going to get worse.
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I moved into my new House last month, I just got my new huge Antenna setup and I get like 15 Digital HD channels (More if I wanted Spanish and whatnot). I use Media Center on my Windows PC to record and so I have free Channel Program listings and DVR capabilities. I'm using a dual HD tuner that plugs into Ethernet. I get U-verse Internet for under $40 a month. Basically I'm saving a little over $1,500 a year doing this!!! I was already paying for Netflix and Amazon Prime. I've giving Hulu+ a try, but I have more content then I know what to do with. Using 'PlayOn' software I can stream other channels on the internet like Syfy, and whatnot.
I look around where I live now, not a Antenna in site and I'm thinking SUCKERS!!! I now have my Dad on board, he's been a long time DISH Subscriber. My brother wants to do the same, it's only his Wife stopping him right now. She like BRAVO. My Favorite show 'The Walking Dead' on AMC I can't get now, BUT I can get a Season Pass on Amazon and watch each new episode as it comes out. Way worth it, and commercial free!!! Again, SUCKERS!!!
This is also why there are CAPS, trying to stop the Cable cutting. Which is why I have the Antenna. No need to stream CBS,ABC,NBC,CW, PBS, etc in HD, I get a better picture with my Antenna. It's not as compressed!!! Think about it. I could go on and on about my setup and hardware, but it pays off in no time flat.
When you go from a $170 Cable bill to under $40,.. just think about that!!! My Dad was paying $40 just for home phone service that hardly gets used. He's just had that number for so long, I'm getting him switched over now where it'll be FREE for him and he gets to keep the same phone number he's had for 20+ years.
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