Why would I do that? I can watch what I want over the Internet. I had
Dish from 2001 to 2003. Comcast came through and redid the dilapidated
cable system they bought from AT&T and offered 5 HD channels where Dish
only had 2. When I had Dish installed in 2001 I was the first HD
customer the installer had set up. As it was after he left I set it up
correctly. ;-)
Fall of 2013 Comcast encrypted basic cable so I fired them. The
customer rep told me she would rather do without her cellphone than be
without cable. Yeah, right!
Try watching "Sense8" on Dish.
On 06/08/2015 06:42 PM, rich...@rwilliams.us [FairfieldLife] wrote:
It's not all that complicated. If you get Dish you can watch the
national and local news in real time every morning. And, in the
evening you can watch the latest episodes of your favorite show.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
I you would have told people 25 years ago that someday their cable
bill would be $300 they would think you were crazy. But that's what a
lot of people who still have cable have been paying a month. I still
my provider trying to sell me TV and once when they reacted as if I
was from Mars because I didn't want TV. The paradigm has changed and
it is pissing off the telecom CEOs.
Paying monthly for cable or satellite is a small price to pay for home
entertainment compared to going theater movies, music concerts, and
shopping in a mall. In come cases, you threaten to cut the cable and
you might start a riot at home. Plus, nobody wants to live with
someone that can't even afford cable TV. Go figure.
So what I can't figure in that article is why the 20 year old daughter
would sign up for cable TV when they could get what they want to watch
streaming and when they want?
What you need to understand is that most of us aren't allowed to
commandeer the living room TV remote and force your SO and the kids to
watch some obscure depressing movie. It just doesn't work that way in
a family.
Your situation might be different if you live alone or in a boarding
house and do your viewing up in your bedroom.
Dinosaurs don't like to see their world a changin'.
Non sequitur.
On 06/08/2015 05:03 PM, ultrarishi wrote:
Well, the spousal unit and I are hooked after 1 episode. Hopefully
this will be a good ride. We've had pretty good luck with the
Netflix created series and some of the Amazon ones as well. I've
been burned before, but even their bad stuff is better than most
network and cable offerings.
On the subject of folks downloading stuff from Netflix I offer this
article: Bell Media president says using VPNs to skirt copyright
rules is stealing
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-media-president-says-using-vpns-to-skirt-copyright-rules-is-stealing-1.3099972>
image
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-media-president-says-using-vpns-to-skirt-copyright-rules-is-stealing-1.3099972>
Bell Media president says using VPNs to skirt copyrigh...
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-media-president-says-using-vpns-to-skirt-copyright-rules-is-stealing-1.3099972>
Watching U.S. Netflix in Canada by using location-hiding services
such as VPNs is stealing and needs to be more frowned upon, the new
president of Be...
View on www.cbc.ca
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-media-president-says-using-vpns-to-skirt-copyright-rules-is-stealing-1.3099972>
Preview by Yahoo
Basically the kid of the head of a Canadian cable company can't get
her content without circumventing ridiculous border restrictions
created by lawyers in Hollywood.
Also, I think many of the folks who are torrenting stuff from Netflix
is for the masses who would love to get but it's not available in
their country yet. Places like Australia are getting a hugely pared
down version of the catalog that Americans have access too.
There is also that group of folks that just refuse to pay for it period..
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote :
I you would have told people 25 years ago that someday their cable
bill would be $300 they would think you were crazy. But that's what a
lot of people who still have cable have been paying a month. I still
my provider trying to sell me TV and once when they reacted as if I
was from Mars because I didn't want TV. The paradigm has changed and
it is pissing off the telecom CEOs.
So what I can't figure in that article is why the 20 year old daughter
would sign up for cable TV when they could get what they want to watch
streaming and when they want? Dinosaurs don't like to see their world
a changin'.
On 06/08/2015 05:03 PM, ultrarishi wrote:
Well, the spousal unit and I are hooked after 1 episode. Hopefully
this will be a good ride. We've had pretty good luck with the
Netflix created series and some of the Amazon ones as well. I've
been burned before, but even their bad stuff is better than most
network and cable offerings.
On the subject of folks downloading stuff from Netflix I offer this
article: Bell Media president says using VPNs to skirt copyright
rules is stealing
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-media-president-says-using-vpns-to-skirt-copyright-rules-is-stealing-1.3099972>
image
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-media-president-says-using-vpns-to-skirt-copyright-rules-is-stealing-1.3099972>
Bell Media president says using VPNs to skirt copyrigh...
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-media-president-says-using-vpns-to-skirt-copyright-rules-is-stealing-1.3099972>
Watching U.S. Netflix in Canada by using location-hiding services
such as VPNs is stealing and needs to be more frowned upon, the new
president of Be...
View on www.cbc.ca
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/bell-media-president-says-using-vpns-to-skirt-copyright-rules-is-stealing-1.3099972>
Preview by Yahoo
Basically the kid of the head of a Canadian cable company can't get
her content without circumventing ridiculous border restrictions
created by lawyers in Hollywood.
Also, I think many of the folks who are torrenting stuff from Netflix
is for the masses who would love to get but it's not available in
their country yet. Places like Australia are getting a hugely pared
down version of the catalog that Americans have access too.
There is also that group of folks that just refuse to pay for it period..
