Posted on 05/08/2023 9:28:45 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
Remember back when 2 Satellite Radio Services were up and running, XM Radio and Sirrius Radio, the government allowed them to merge, I have it in my truck and love it, especially on long drives or anything over about 1 hour.
I think eventually Dish and DirecTv will merge and develop complimentary services, the government should allow it based on so many cutting the cord.
i’m not hip so don’t know i’m a boomer as well. You can stream the entire grouping on channels with sling for $60 per month it’s a good selection. for local sports the HD antenna is about $30 on amazon one time and you get all local channels free
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Ok. still saving 140$ per month…. so more correct to say we dropped satellite tv
Ive heard that people in Canada write $30 as 30$, with the dollar sign after the amount.
It’s mostly live sports for me and the missus. She’s bigger into college football and basketball than I am, and most of the games are on ESPN, Big Ten Network, etc.
Only a few of them are on network TV per season.
Sounds like a plan to me.
I think DirectV has lost even more, frankly. They just don’t care it seems. There’s enough people out there who can’t get streamed internet TV for them to just keep bludgeoning them with ever-increasing costs. There is no upside to satellite TV of any flavor. The downlink station equipment and the launch cost and maintenance of limited operational lifetime cost of any satellite constellation for this type of media where much less costly viable alternatives are available for consumers is available.
I was with DirectV since their beginning. Cost me over $1000 for the equipment and had to set up the dish myself. They ALWAYS increased their prices because they knew I didn’t have any alternative at the time. I dropped them like a lead potato as soon as I got reliable internet and streaming.
Today, my streaming bill over internet is much, much less, has greater reliability not subject to rain and clouds and there’s no expensive equipment that I have to ‘rent’ etc.
I consider the internet a modified form of tv. There is still a screen and you watch and interact with it. Actually can burn up more time than old school tv.
You heard wrong
You know, I was an antenna designer and tester for decades. There really is no difference between a regular TV antenna (LP, or Yagi-Uda type) and what they call an “HDTV” antenna.
I bought a regular old style LP antenna from HD and installed it in the attic of my house, put an antenna-mounted line amplifier at the antenna and it works just fine picking up TV from Atlanta over 60 miles away.
There may not be a difference but they sure have improved. I was worried about installing an antenna - i dont want DH up on a ladder, trying to tune it etc. now you pay about $30 for a small box that plugs into an HDMI port on the tv and sits right next to the TV. great picture and we pull in a ton of channels. Easy as can be
“It’s mostly live sports for me and the missus ...”
I have a son, three son in laws and a lot of guys here at work. They all are big sports fans. I’m not. I’m an oddball. Actually I like watching a game but I can’t remember the players, teams, standings, etc.
Give me a youtube video on how something is made or how something works.
“I know everyone can say “Just cut the cord and stream!” but it’s really not that simple anymore.”
In our case, since we don’t watch sports or the new woke shows, the difficulty was local channels. I solved that with an antenna, and where we live I need on on the roof.
The youtube that is free on the internet is also a free streaming channel, and you can pay a little and get additional content, but to get local channels you jump into the $70 region.
Local channels from anywhere other than an antenna are expensive.
You must not live very far from where your TV signals come from, then.
My son lives in NYC and he has the indoor antenna, too.
I was mainly talking about the longer range, higher gain antennas.
Even still, those TV-located TV antennas aren’t really any different than they have been for decades - just the “HDTV” name change, IMO.
Thank you. That’s similar to my setup. It’s just that from what I understand, is that your local (within a thousand miles) home team baseball games are blacked out. You need Direct TV or a particular streaming service to watch them, which isn’t cheap. It’s a shame that you could live within ten miles of the ballpark and still not get to see the games. It’s crazy. 🥲
I’m learning here! :)
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The content providers are jacking up rates and trying to drive google/youtube’s competition out of business.
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