Posted on 03/26/2015 1:07:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The Wall Street Journal recently published a strange piece called “Why Cable TV Beats the Internet, For Now.” Despite pay-TV losing 1.4 million customers last year, it seems the WSJ is device-challenged and unwilling to embrace the obvious future dominance of Internet streaming media. And the war to discount your cost for pay-TV is heating up.
Geoffrey A. Fowler of the WSJ’s Person Tech section describes himself as a “tech columnist and someone who watches enough TV to own a Snuggie.” He acknowledges that cord-cutting allows cheaper choices than pay-TV, but strangely he worries that “Internet TV means juggling gadgets.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Some may think that is an over exaggeration, it is not!
From their site ...
Are you an UK or USA resident? Those citizens are not welcome here (since it’s not legal to provide our content to you, what a pity).
bkmk
I keep my email on Outlook (Microsoft) as they are fighting Obama for privacy. It also keeps all my files and apps backed up free.
Who I use for internet service is irrelevant at that point.
Good strategy.
I could fairly easily switch from cable to DSL. Just a swap of the modem. There may be a service fee but I might be able to get them to waive that.
All I get is a blank page and a disclaimer
I use tracfone and skype
Like what content, some selected shows or what. I've been told it's different from what's shown on cable.
They didn’t with me (I paid for my mother-in-laws satellite). I canceled and THEN they called, emailed, called, emailed, called, called, emailed, emailed wanting to know why I cancelled. I explained it to them several times so I assumed they were stupid and didn’t understand English and told them to F off and if they called once more I’d hunt the caller down and run them over with my Batmobile.
I cancelled because they couldn’t get anyone out to update the box to HD for the new TV we bought her. They kept putting it off (rural area near Little Rock, AR) and I finally just cancelled and called Dish. Dish had someone there the NEXT morning.
Yes, mostly selected shows and achieves on those channels. They aren’t LIVE on cable either. Still very interesting. I thought I was going to miss Gold Rush when I switched to Roku. All you have to do is wait an hour or so and somebody puts it up on Youtube anyways.
Just to clarify. Youtube has its own channel on Roku. You don’t have to watch it from your computer, nor do you even need to have your computer turned on.
From the start line they are OK. I couldn't wait to get rid of them at the finish line. They didn't care if I lost signal in a light rain or snow. Just 'let it pass over they would say". Sometimes it could be days without continuous service.
I could never afford to subscribe to the cable tier which provides H2 (Ancient Aliens / Curse of Oak Island / American Restoration etc.), but Roku gives me essentially the same thing free. Maybe not every episode, but enough to be happy, given the (no) cost.
bkmk
Which one would you pick (if you had to), Cable or Roku at 120 dollars a month?
WOW!
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