Posted on 10/07/2019 3:26:53 AM PDT by Repent and Believe
Till now our traditional Catholic household has always enjoyed life free of television except occasional DVD viewing.
With a new elderly member of the household, with reluctance we are considering setting up limited, low budget, low tech, due to privacy concerns (no Alexia nor two way TV with camera nor google for example) television platform for the member's viewing. The venue sought is very limited at most: news, sports, weather, nature, and occasional clean family-oriented made-for-tv series and movies and documentaries.
We wish to not pay for nor deal with bundles of shows that are objectionable or otherwise will not get used, however, and if needed wish to have parental controls to exclude particular usages, since we already have existed without the temptation-filled activity of television.
We wish to continue utmost discipline in this area so as not to waste a minute in preparing for the life hereafter.
What might be the simplest least invasive and encumbered method to introduce into our home the idea of television under the above criterion?
I suggest Roku. There are a good number of just weather, sports, news channels AND they have a decent number of family oriented/kid safe channels. And the new models are very fast and easy to set up.
Some situations are not cut and dried.....some elderly parents are very sick, bedridden and or in hospice. It may be the last few months on this earth. I chose to make my mom comfortable and happy. If that meant she wanted cable and a variety of viewing options, then so be it. No my house my rules in that situation.
Put up an old-school antenna with a digital tuner and see what you can get.
At my house with that rig I can get 52 channels. Mostly ones like MeTV that show reruns from a time before our civilization imploded.
Some of the Canadian series have REAL Liberal values though.
I recently saw one of their cop shows where a prosecutor was arguing that the best way to decrease crime in Vancouver was to legalize prostitution.
My mom is elderly and enjoys Hallmark.
If you have the latest equipment from your cable provider, you maybe able to do both TV and Internet. Mine does.
One service streams Christian movies but little else (no sports, news).
PURE FLIX
Sports your local stations
News your local stations
Antenna.
If the elderly person is used to watching whatever they want, this will get difficult.
Excellent recommendation. EWTN has a Roku channel.
EWTN via the internet.
Mother Angelica would approve ...
If I were a Vatican II Catholic, yes, I would be pretty worried about my secular commie pope (who is an anti-Christ). Being a truly traditional Catholic, however, I need not worry about the man, but rather seek to convert all men to the true Church and true Popes from Saint Peter through Pius XII our last true pope (d. 1958).
Thank you for your earnest concern.
You are onto something. H-m-m-m-m.
Thanks for your legitimate concern.
Many newer TVs have “parental controls” built in. You set the rating level, TV-G, TV-PG, etc.
As stated by others, over the air antenna is the cheapest way to go if it works for you.
I use the library on a regular basis - I see the DVDs, the playstation games, and whatnot, but it’s always just books for me - and plenty of books are still available.
With Roku can you set it up so that without the password (to change it) you get as few as only one program if you so wish to restrict it to?
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