It's fun to gather together and get cozy and watch a TV show with the kids on weekends. At other times Rita can watch anything she wants to on cable. If I don't like it, I can go to my room and watch the news on my laptop. It's just not complicated. ---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
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. ;-) It sounds complicated. 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, richard@... mailto:richard@... [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 [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <noozguru@...> mailto: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 Bell Media president says using VPNs to skirt copyrigh... 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 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 [email protected] mailto:[email protected], <noozguru@...> mailto: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 Bell Media president says using VPNs to skirt copyrigh... 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 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..
