Cordcutting Thread

[Axeslinger]

I don't have a sugestion but I found info on the hidden ones.

https://www.roku-private-channels.net/

That thing reads like a “Who’s Chinese?  I’m not Chinese!!! I would never hack your information, Yankee Dog!” sort of page.

[Sighlass]

OK, I did some research on Private channels... Bighead is right, some are adult XXX ... Part of being an adult is knowing not to pollute your mind more than it already is... trash in = trash out....  but there was some other content that looked interesting...

The only thing that worried me was some said it was hard to remove channels (not like others that you just hit option and it had a remove selection).... Will have to investigate this more before I try them.

https://www.rokuguide.com/private-channels

There is bait like this page... which says it streams conservative stuff... but I have no idea whether it is just bait and switch to buy stuff....

https://www.rokuguide.com/private-channels/libertree-tv

[bigheadfred]

OK, I did some research on Private channels... Bighead is right, some are adult XXX ... Part of being an adult is knowing not to pollute your mind more than it already is... trash in = trash out....  but there was some other content that looked interesting...

The only thing that worried me was some said it was hard to remove channels (not like others that you just hit option and it had a remove selection).... Will have to investigate this more before I try them.

https://www.rokuguide.com/private-channels

There is bait like this page... which says it streams conservative stuff... but I have no idea whether it is just bait and switch to buy stuff....

https://www.rokuguide.com/private-channels/libertree-tv

If you are thinking of paying for a channel you should look around more. Chances are you can find the same content on free channels.

[sneakypete]

The reason some of those channels are hidden is that they are for adults only. @Sighlass @The Ghost

@bigheadfred

I useta be an adult.

I think.

[jmyrlefuller]

Will rural college sports fans be able to keep up with the broadband demands of streaming services?

(U)sing the FCC data, we see that only 69.7 percent of rural Alabama, 58.0 percent of Nebraska, 55.9 percent of rural Arkansas, 48.3 percent of rural Oklahoma, and 39.8 percent of rural Arizona have access to minimum-standard broadband. And it’s even less if the FCC data is over-inflated. Those are some very major college athletics areas where die-hard fans won’t have a chance to stream games that are exclusively online.

Meanwhile, college sports are going all-in on streaming their broadcasts online and via streaming services.

https://awfulannouncing.com/ncaa/college-sports-rural-fans-broadband-demands-streaming-services.html

[Wingnut]

Don't we pay a monthly Internet tax and fee's to bring the internet to the rubes?

[bigheadfred]

Don't we pay a monthly Internet tax and fee's to bring the internet to the rubes?

Only if you have internet. Are you logged in?

[bigheadfred]

Hellooo to @carrpediem.

Welcome to TBR.

[Wingnut]

Only if you have internet. Are you logged in?

I'm hard wired.

[EdinVA]

So, the suggestion is on the table that the current internet users pay for the installation of internet access to rural areas so they can watch college football games on ESPN?
Is that about right?
Sounds a lot like socialism to me, besides, there was no discussion of rural area demand or desire to have internet access.
I forget, are we supposed to be for or opposed to the liberal agenda?

[bigheadfred]

So, the suggestion is on the table that the current internet users pay for the installation of internet access to rural areas so they can watch college football games on ESPN?
Is that about right?
Sounds a lot like socialism to me, besides, there was no discussion of rural area demand or desire to have internet access.
I forget, are we supposed to be for or opposed to the liberal agenda?

The way things go we will advance back to the days of Ma Bell. With one big comm company to rule us all. I don't know if that is socialism, New world order, or mere monopolization. But, in the end, we will pay.

[bigheadfred]

I'm hard wired.

Like The Ghost In The Machine?

[sneakypete]

So, the suggestion is on the table that the current internet users pay for the installation of internet access to rural areas so they can watch college football games on ESPN?
Is that about right?

@EdinVA

I
 guess it all depends on your POV,but MY POV is that it is important for everyone in the nation to have access to the internet so they can keep track of what our elected officals are doing,and to smack their knuckles when they get out of line.

Lots of rural areas have no access to local papers,and even if they did,chances are the local papers would be owned and edited by leftist buttheads.

Without the internet the only news they would hear would be what they would get from their teebee stations.

Do you REALLY want an America dependent on THOSE asshats for all their political news?

Sounds a lot like socialism to me, besides, there was no discussion of rural area demand or desire to have internet access.
I forget, are we supposed to be for or opposed to the liberal agenda?

I dunno,but I am fairly certain we shouldn't be posting while high. It can harsh your buzz.

Besides,keeping the public informed on local,state,and national news is an obligation of government,just like delivering the mail and the interstate highway system.

[jmyrlefuller]

Don't we pay a monthly Internet tax and fee's to bring the internet to the rubes?

Which in turn gets turned over to some corporation with a nice fat contract, which then takes the money, comes up with some excuse not to do the contract, then another corporation gets more money, and comes up with even more excuses.

I mean, the feds have the Post Roads Clause. If the 2nd Amendment applies to more than just muskets (which it does), the Post Roads Clause can be used to build an internet infrastructure. (Of course, that would be if we hadn't dug ourselves into a debt hole in the tens of trillions already for stuff the Constitution doesn't explicitly authorize and if we didn't have unions skimming huge amounts off the top any time there's a federal project.) If you can run an electric wire, if you can run a telephone wire, and pretty much all the areas that don't have broadband yet have those two things, then you can run a fiber-optic cable.

But this crony capitalism, subsidizing corporations that don't deliver on the terms of their deal, it's just not working.

[jmyrlefuller]

Sounds a lot like socialism to me, besides, there was no discussion of rural area demand or desire to have internet access.
I forget, are we supposed to be for or opposed to the liberal agenda?

Oh, there is demand and desire, it's just that the Powers That Be have decided it's supposedly not cost-effective.

Besides (see my post above this one) the Constitution specifically allows for the construction of "post roads." Considering that was the 1780s and back then, post roads were the primary means of transporting long-distance communication, the modern equivalent would be Internet lines. So it is a constitutionally permissible use of public funds. (Unlike a lot of our expenditures.) Though I would find it funny if the U.S. Postal Service decided to become an ISP through that clause. Hey, maybe it could solve some of its financial shortfalls that way!

There are areas near me where they're still on dial-up because there are holes between the cable providers' territories where neither one will provide service. As far as I'm concerned, they don't need to be able to provide 1080p-speed video to three houses on one line, but the current state of rural Internet is atrocious, far worse than it needs to be in 2020. You should be able to watch a 360p video—which is the resolution of a widescreen broadcast on an old-school CRT TV screen—on an Internet connection in America.

[bigheadfred]

Oh, there is demand and desire, it's just that the Powers That Be have decided it's supposedly not cost-effective.

Besides (see my post above this one) the Constitution specifically allows for the construction of "post roads." Considering that was the 1780s and back then, post roads were the primary means of transporting long-distance communication, the modern equivalent would be Internet lines. So it is a constitutionally permissible use of public funds. (Unlike a lot of our expenditures.) Though I would find it funny if the U.S. Postal Service decided to become an ISP through that clause. Hey, maybe it could solve some of its financial shortfalls that way!

There are areas near me where they're still on dial-up because there are holes between the cable providers' territories where neither one will provide service. As far as I'm concerned, they don't need to be able to provide 1080p-speed video to three houses on one line, but the current state of rural Internet is atrocious, far worse than it needs to be in 2020. You should be able to watch a 360p video—which is the resolution of a widescreen broadcast on an old-school CRT TV screen—on an Internet connection in America.

I agree. Where we are at I would think I would have more options, but I don't. We have been with the cable company for about 17 years. But they went from Cableone to Sparklight. We started seeing data spikes and went over the cap twice--300 GB--and there were days when no one was home that some of these spikes were happening. Third time they auto upgrade you. My Dil works for Centurylink and told us she could get us in at a higher speed for the lower speed price. $35 a month. So we decided to do that. DSL. The tech comes out and told us someone had cut the phone line so he couldn't hook us up. Said it was probably the cable people that did it. They said they wouldn't run a line. The landlord said they wouldn't run a line. Didn't even ask the phone company since we don't want that type of phone.

 I was still looking at options and called Sparklite and told them if we exceeded our cap to cut us off. They said they would double our cap for the same price we are paying now. $55/month. So I stayed. We ended the bundle, cable/phone/internet, years ago, and just kept the internet. Cable to a wifi router. We have great speed with a tiny bit of buffering sometimes. Like when all 3 tvs are on, someone is on the laptop, and the grandkids are on their tablets. They can multitask like me. "Watch" tv and their tablet at the same time. All us viewing our own content. The wife has her cellphone, which is surgically attached. She has to have it now per her job.

[roamer_1]

There are areas near me where they're still on dial-up because there are holes between the cable providers' territories where neither one will provide service. As far as I'm concerned, they don't need to be able to provide 1080p-speed video to three houses on one line, but the current state of rural Internet is atrocious, far worse than it needs to be in 2020. You should be able to watch a 360p video—which is the resolution of a widescreen broadcast on an old-school CRT TV screen—on an Internet connection in America.

Heh. You should try out here by me... cable makes it maybe 10 miles out of town. DSL a little further, but all that mostly near the highway. Cell service is nonexistent off the valley floor, especially so once you have a mountain range in the way... Other than that, 33.6 dialup if you are lucky. A whole lot of it is 14.4... Out in the sticks it is SAT or HAM for internet, and spotty AM/FM radio, HAM and CBs

[Sighlass]

I tried a couple of Conservative Roku channels and neither would play...

https://www.rokuguide.com/private-channels/libertree-tv

Libertree showed up in my channels but would not even load...

Gave me this --> The channel code provided is associated with a channel not available in your region.

https://channelstore.roku.com/details/270464/the-conservative

This channel would load, but none of the videos would play. It acted like they would play for about 2 seconds, then it kicked back out to the main video list on the channel...


BTW... why is this not a pinned topic...

[corbe]

   I may have posted this before but It's been great for me for about a year now.  The only time it crapped out on me was Game 7 of the World Series last year (Bandwidth overload) right when the Nationals were stealing the Astro's codes.

https://ustvgo.tv/

[roamer_1]

   I may have posted this before but It's been great for me for about a year now.  The only time it crapped out on me was Game 7 of the World Series last year (Bandwidth overload) right when the Nationals were stealing the Astro's codes.

https://ustvgo.tv/

WOW @corbe !!!

Thank you very much.... Streaming OANN !!!! Something I have been looking for forever! If only for that, that puppy is going in the bookmark bar of my media machine!

Beauty Day!! Three beers for you!
 

[corbe]

 Glad ya like it @roamer_1 I owed ya anyway with that Win 10 hack you gave me last summer, it proved invaluable. It's how I've been watching my Rockets this season but I'm gonna go ahead and get a VPN this week and setup NBA League Pass from the Ukraine or India, to avoid any blackouts, though.

[roamer_1]

Glad ya like it @roamer_1 I owed ya anyway with that Win 10 hack you gave me last summer, it proved invaluable. It's how I've been watching my Rockets this season but I'm gonna go ahead and get a VPN this week and setup NBA League Pass from the Ukraine or India, to avoid any blackouts, though.

I have been looking to stream OANN for YEARS! You da man!

 

[Sighlass]

   I may have posted this before but It's been great for me for about a year now.  The only time it crapped out on me was Game 7 of the World Series last year (Bandwidth overload) right when the Nationals were stealing the Astro's codes.

https://ustvgo.tv/

Nice Share... thanks... they not too happy about my adblock though.

[Gefn]

I was told to get a Roku but they were sold out at my store so I got a Fire stick. Not as good, I think.

[sneakypete]

I was told to get a Roku but they were sold out at my store so I got a Fire stick. Not as good, I think.

@Gefn

You can buy them directly from ROKU. I bought mine,and a couple I gave to friends who would have never bought "new fangled tech" for themselves,but would use it once they got it. Some of the best money you will ever spend.

I was thinking the new "hold to speak" feature on the ROKU remote was a gimmick,but I am loving the hell out of it. Saves a bunch of time and typing. For example if you missed "The Blindspot" this week and wanted to catch up,you just press the button,say "The Blindspot",and your tv screen will show you ever channel broadcasting it,and if they are free or charge a fee per episode. They even tell you how much the fee will be for each channel that charges you.

Best of all,your vocal searches are saved on the ROKU search engines so you don't have to do it again each time you want to watch that program.