to this puppy...
The PC is a AMD Dual-Core E300 1.30GHz, 4GB DDR3, 1TB HDD, DVDRW, Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit, for $288 at Walmart with aNvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti vid card and a Philips 1080P 47 inch LCD.
You hear that COMCAST? Lower your rates or you will lose even more people including me!
Creative destruction, and less central control. What’s not to like?
My teens consider network TV like great-grandpa’s old Victrola.
A screen=internet to them.
That is a good thing
When the day comes that I can get my favorite channels through the internet or airwaves or however, I dump the cable company. They have enjoyed a government-assisted monopoly for years, and I will gloat when they go out of business.
I could see a day where NBC goes the way of Time Magazine. Sold for a dollar.
to this puppy...I don’t get how this will ever be bad for cable companies. If they don’t sell enough cable tv subscriptions they’ll simply raise the cost of internet...it still has to come through their cable. Same with FIOS or other technologies. Or am I missing something?
I want a day when I only have to pay for the channels I want.
Any cable drop outs here? I did, tried Apple TV, a waste of time. Any other alternatives out there?
Any cable drop outs here? I did, tried Apple TV, a waste of time. Any other alternatives out there?
Maybe TV people should stop covering half the screen with logos and flashing/moving ads that pop up right at the moment of suspense in every show.
I canceled my cable when I retired, to cut expenses. Without cable, I am doing just fine. Put an antenna in the window to pull in the signal, antenna looks like a closed laptop, in other words it looks elegant not ugly. Pulls in 19 channels incl. all the local stations and the three sub-stations that play oldies TV, local college sports, and the country music station. Bought the antenna for under a hundred bucks at Best Buy, it’s attached to a flatscreen and all you need is two plugs in the wall. BTW I pay for WiFi as part of my phone bill and I’m using the WiFi and my laptop to access FR and You Tube and watch movies and many TV shows thru Amazon Prime, costs $79. a year.
As soon as a TV show is over it’s available at a “link site” for streaming or download. (”letmewatch” is the big one at this time.)
Episodes on the link sites have no commercials. It’s great not to have to sit through the ads but since the networks can’t seem to shut these sites down why don’t they try for legislation to get the ads included so they can charge a few more bucks for the ads?
Half a loaf is better than none.
I gradually lost interest in watching tv a while ago. It just required too much of an investment in time. The last show I watched was about the mid 90’s. I still had a tv but didn’t do anything with it, until I gave it away in 2004. Since then, all of my information comes from the internet. I don’t miss it.
Got cable, don’t watch it, keep paying Comcast. Why?
Fine by me. My disgust with cable is the way that a large portion of the high “cost of the bill” was actually due to the network carrying fee for a lot of vile, left-wing trash channels that in many cases I didn’t even subscribe to, much less watch.
In other words, even though I was only watching a tiny few limited networks, I was basically “subsidizing” a whole host of deviant, liberal garbage. I cut the cord then and there. To blazes with them. I’ve been vastly better off ever since, amassing collections of dvd sets to watch. Preferably older shows and movies, reflective of when America’s culture wasn’t such an abject sewer. Haven’t gotten around to streaming yet.
I have Comcast and they just socked me with a $12 general increase, bringing my tab for basic cable and internet to $130 per month.
I went in person to pay my bill and I told the rep this would be the last month I'm paying and will be switching to Dish plus DSL for internet. Immediately he said, "Wait a minute, let me see if I can help you".
He offered me the same channels plus about 20 more, internet included for $69 per month for 6 months, at which time it would increase to $89 per month. He said also, "come back in in 6 months and I'll see what else I can do for you to keep that bill down".
I felt like some what of a dumb ass for not complaining sooner. It seems that with the hint that you might go elsewhere, their rates become negotiable.
I really did not want to switch to Dish and DSL but was prepared to do so.
Comcast is a monopoly with every politician in their pocket.
Price is one factor.
So are commercials — even more annoying is the in-program advertisements, many of which are animated.
Another is programming — there isn’t a single channel I’d want to watch a majority of the shows it airs, even if I don’t count those that display when I’m not available to watch (work, travel, etc).