Posted on 10/21/2015 1:51:46 PM PDT by Kaslin
i stated listening to Limgaugh in 1988 i believe...I was stationed there in the military....I remember before the 2002 election that Rush had a bone to pick with HW Bush....Ole man Bush invited him to the White House to sleep in the Lincoln bedrrom and you couldn’t melt suagra in his mouth after that. He was HW all the way...Clinton got elected even though there were many other candidatse far worthy.
Dole came along and he swung off his balls.
2000 came and tons of callers questioned why W. was being pushed down our throats....he twisted into a pretzel why we should vote for him.
After 8 years of Bush he finally admitted through a lortab haze why he supported him....and carried his water.
Almost 7 years of Obama he has finally rid himself of the GOPe.....it has been a long road for him...I have been steady and right the whole time....You wanna say say Rush is a Guru of politics...I say BS...been ahead of his societal evolution for years....not ahead of me...your choice to keep on listening daily....Maybe Rush has seen the light.
ESPN is on Sling tv.
ESPN is on Sling tv.
I have Roku. Picture quality is excellent on big screen.
Do yourself a favor and just find a quiet, small, used mini-tower computer w/ HDMI output and a Blue-ray capable DVD... Mine is an Acer from the Vista era... Buy a wireless nic for it (if you have to), or wired, to connect to your router to get to the internet, and a wireless keyboard... If you have a monster big-screen, you might have to upgrade the vid too (maybe a 2g card), though mine is a 4 footer, and works fine off the stock video... You are all set. You can still get to netflix, Amazon, etc... but anything you want is already freely available on the net.
I am about 4 months free of the cable now, and I will never go back. My outfit cost less than 100 bucks, saves me 70 bucks a month, and requires *no* subscription beyond the internet itself.
Quality is excellent, and normally streaming signal is too (on hi-speed cable)- If the stream gets slow, just start whatever you are watching, pause it, and walk away for 10 minutes to let it load up a ways... Same with movies... But generally, that isn't very necessary. The only thing that sucks is outage - Used to be that if the internet went down I could watch the tube, or visa-versa. Now, if it goes down I have nothing... So I am building a movie library to resolve that problem.
Thanks for the advice. I have heard of Roku.
We had cable, got over 200 channels just to watch Turner Classic and about 4 others. Dumped it. Got Netflix via ROKU. Only think we miss is Turner Classic. Sure wish they’d stream.
Thanks for the info. I will check into this as well.
Is that all you got?
It’s been a long process for me...
I was a “cable slave” from 1991 to 2001 until I got hooked on watching curling, cricket and international badminton. local cable TV had zip/zero/nada for coverage other than a very rare 2am highlights (if that).
Dumped cable and bought a “grey market” Canadian dish (2001-2011) and was much more happier. Years later, I got fed up with the increased costs and outages...dumped that too.
After bumping up my internet speed (plus getting a wireless router and dedicated mini laptop) I realized I can turn my TV into a large internet display! I also ditched the phone line and purchased an OOMA phone. My COX bill got cut in half!!!
Most of my entertainment comes from Netflix (20%) Hulu (10%) and YouTube (70%). The last time I watched network TV was the 2014 NCAA Final Four Championship.
YOU don’t. Some people need entertainment in this dismal world.
Thats pathetic.
I am housebound with medical issues after a lifetime of being extremely active outdoors. Don’t tell me people ‘need’ a freaking dish/cable. I get along just fine without one and have no intention of buying rope to hang myself with.
You don't need internet either, but it looks like you have it. Who do you give your cash to for that?
Yer real judgmental.
I’m happy to hear you are fulfilled in your leisure time and sorry to here about your health problems. Take care.
What else are you willing to justify?
Here’s a hint. It’s not a dish/cable company. In fact, it’s not a company that openly pushes anything political at all.
Doesn’t change the truth of the matter does it? Nope.
Yeah, I suppose I don’t love America enough to not watch TV because most TV people are liberal.
And you don’t love it enough to eat nothing but stuff you grow in your backyard. And what about your computer, does your ISP give to liberals?
Godspeed in your efforts to get people to drop tv, best of luck. But harshly chastising everyone who won’t go along with your POV is kinda a **ck move if you ask me, and not very persuasive. Whatever, God bless you and please get well.
I have a 65” set and Amazon Prime. So I have Fire TV and access Netflix through my Fire TV unit. I have a cap on my internet usage of 350 gigs a month, which I only ever busted the first month of service. Downloading all those Dexter episodes to my DirecTV DVR racked up the gigs. Since then, I never come close to the cap.
The streaming is HD and excellent quality 99% of the time. My internet is 20 mps download and 5 mps upload. A lower bandwidth might increase the occasional compression degradation while a little higher might be perfect.
Hey people can do whatever they want. The fact is, tithing to Dish/Cable directly supports liberal propaganda. And it also goes to elect liberals.
If your entertainment is more important to you than that, so be it.
What’s the name of the company? I’d like to check them out? Maybe I could do business with them.
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