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Offline kevindavis007

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #175 on: October 12, 2017, 11:42:31 pm »
When I pulled the plug on Dish recently, I went with Roku. I started out with Playstation Vue and ran right into my data cap. I had to throttle it at my router to stay under the limit. I now have unlimited so its no longer a problem.



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I used to have Roku, but I switched to Amazon Fire TV (since we have Amazon Prime), and Chrome cast.
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #176 on: October 13, 2017, 01:50:02 am »
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Question:
Roku offers One America News, is that true? And is there extra cost in subscription?

Roku does show a paid channel for OAN. Cost probably $10/mo. or less.

https://channelstore.roku.com/details/50827/one-america-news-network
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #177 on: October 13, 2017, 02:21:12 am »

Roku does show a paid channel for OAN. Cost probably $10/mo. or less.

https://channelstore.roku.com/details/50827/one-america-news-network

Well, doggone it. How is it that they can't give you a direct price?
Shoot.
But thanks for your help.
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #178 on: October 13, 2017, 03:54:00 am »
Well, doggone it. How is it that they can't give you a direct price?
Shoot.
But thanks for your help.
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$4.99 per month

https://www.rokuguide.com/channels/one-america-news-network
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #179 on: October 13, 2017, 04:34:49 am »
$4.99 per month

https://www.rokuguide.com/channels/one-america-news-network

Thanks so much. I will keep that guide around.

Figuring on buying the 100 dollar Roku box.
Any reason to talk me out of it and into the cheap seats?

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #180 on: October 13, 2017, 04:58:04 am »
Thanks so much. I will keep that guide around.

Figuring on buying the 100 dollar Roku box.
Any reason to talk me out of it and into the cheap seats?

My Roku has earphones. That is the top model (Roku 3 at the time). I got it for free, for prepaying 3 months of SlingTV.

However they all work fine.
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #181 on: October 14, 2017, 10:39:39 am »
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America Fights Back: Record Number of Patriotic Cord-Cutters Tumble TV Stocks
Breitbart, Oct 13, 2017

There is only one way — one! — to finally and forever destroy Hollywood and much of the mainstream media. You have to cut your cable or satellite cord. You have to cancel your pay TV package. The one-legged stool propping up ESPN, CNN, MSNBC, Disney, MTV, and the entire Tinseltown crime syndicate is you paying for cable TV.
If you want to know how this scam works, read all about it here.

If you want to know what do to after you cut the cord for America, read all about it here.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but there is no single act any American can perform that will do more damage to the institutional left than to cut your cable/satellite cord. So please do so today. If that sounds like hyperbole, look at the recent news, look at what cord-cutting is already doing to Hollywood:


Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2017/10/13/america-fights-back-record-number-patriotic-cord-cutters-tumble-tv-stocks/

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #182 on: October 14, 2017, 12:25:58 pm »
I don't know if cord cutters are patriotic. I just think they are tired of paying through the nose for lousy programming.

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #183 on: October 14, 2017, 02:22:31 pm »
America Fights Back: Record Number of Patriotic Cord-Cutters Tumble TV Stocks
Breitbart, Oct 13, 2017


Whoa. ATT alone -400,000 subs in one quarter.
How long can that go on?

Spectrum called again yesterday - Offered my old $80 dollar package to me for $15.00...
Not even at that price. Heck, maybe not even for free.

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #184 on: October 14, 2017, 02:26:27 pm »
Whoa. ATT alone -400,000 subs in one quarter.
How long can that go on?

Spectrum called again yesterday - Offered my old $80 dollar package to me for $15.00...
Not even at that price. Heck, maybe not even for free.

And you know that $15 price is a come-on. Probably for 3 months. Then watch the price jump up to $100 or more. 

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #185 on: October 14, 2017, 02:32:42 pm »
I don't know if cord cutters are patriotic. I just think they are tired of paying through the nose for lousy programming.


I agree.. It is not patriotic, I'm pretty anti-American scum are doing the same thing. It just that people are getting tired of paying $100 for a few channels and lousy programming.
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #186 on: October 14, 2017, 02:33:24 pm »
Whoa. ATT alone -400,000 subs in one quarter.
How long can that go on?

Spectrum called again yesterday - Offered my old $80 dollar package to me for $15.00...
Not even at that price. Heck, maybe not even for free.


Guess they are going to raise their rates.
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #187 on: October 14, 2017, 02:51:42 pm »
Whoa. ATT alone -400,000 subs in one quarter.
How long can that go on?

Spectrum called again yesterday - Offered my old $80 dollar package to me for $15.00...
Not even at that price. Heck, maybe not even for free.

Since AT&T bought DirecTV, they've been reducing support for their U-Verse cable service and pushing subscribers to DirecTV. Instead, most people who drop U-Verse go to streaming instead. When we finally get sick enough of U-Verse losing the signal and rebooting our router for no apparent reason, we'll do the same.
Let it burn.

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #188 on: October 14, 2017, 02:53:43 pm »

Guess they are going to raise their rates.

Yeah - I fully expect the cable bill to go up, and basic cable in the package for 'free' (whether you want it or not).

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #189 on: October 14, 2017, 02:58:51 pm »
And you know that $15 price is a come-on. Probably for 3 months. Then watch the price jump up to $100 or more.

Fifteen bucks for the first year...

But then I remembered... another 7 bucks each for three decoders... so '15' is really '$36'... call it $40 by the time the Gore tax gets added...Sneaky bastards...

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #190 on: October 14, 2017, 03:15:43 pm »
Yeah - I fully expect the cable bill to go up, and basic cable in the package for 'free' (whether you want it or not).


Which will consist of 900 home channels and a channel that you like with 9000 channels you don't need.
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #191 on: October 14, 2017, 07:50:00 pm »

Which will consist of 900 home channels and a channel that you like with 9000 channels you don't need.

Yep. About like when I left. Only worse...  :laugh:
But It won't matter none... now that I know the answer:


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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #192 on: October 14, 2017, 11:15:26 pm »
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #194 on: February 24, 2018, 01:45:34 pm »
Congratulations Sling!    I have it and I love it. 

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #196 on: February 24, 2018, 02:36:51 pm »
We've been happy with Roku so far, except for the remote. So I picked up a couple of universals so we have tv volume (and more) controls on the same RC.

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Re: Cordcutting Thread
« Reply #197 on: February 25, 2018, 02:59:44 am »
I went with Roku several years ago. Don't see any reason to change. Amazon Prime--$10/month and the four stream Netflix package. Which is $14 a month. My son and my mom and my sister have my Netflix password/log in--thus the 4 stream. I recently downgraded my internet from Cable One to the $55 package. They have a data cap. I was blasting wifi across the street to my son and his online gaming forced us into a higher data category $$$. But now his wife works for CenturyLink so they have their own ISP. So I am in the $80 range per month for all of our online entertainment/use.  Using some good old rabbit ears to pick up the local tv stations.

Newer movies we rent at the Redbox.
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Re: Cordcutting Thread
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« Reply #199 on: May 18, 2018, 01:02:05 pm »
Thanks for the link, @kevindavis   I wonder about the 3.1% who listed Oher as their reason for cord cutting. 

As expected, price and rethinking one's budget is the primary reason.  Cable has priced itself out of most people's budgets.  As a senior, I can't be as extravagant as I once was.  Right now I have Netflix, Amazon Prime and Sling.  Combined, they are a heckuva lot cheaper than cable.

I'm getting to the point where I hardly watch tv anymore.  I have a big screen laptop that works fine,  When this tv set dies, I might just not get a replacement.  I don't have family and I seldom have company over.  Why do I have to have an actual tv?