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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: wes on October 07, 2019, 03:12:54 PM
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I need some advice from you guys........being the old fucker that I am,I know very little about the concept of a fire stick and all that technical shit.
Anyway,I have Dish TV ..............250 channels for $ 135.00 a month.
THEY ARE SO REPETATIVE I FEEK LIKE CAVING MY TV SCREEN IN.
Is it worth getting a fire stick Netflix Hulu or Amazon ?
TIA
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I need some advice from you guys........being the old fucker that I am,I know very little about the concept of a fire stick and all that technical shit.
Anyway,I have Dish TV ..............250 channels for $ 135.00 a month.
THEY ARE SO REPETATIVE I FEEK LIKE CAVING MY TV SCREEN IN.
Is it worth getting a fire stick Netflix Hulu or Amazon ?
TIA
Yea I have opt but I have a ROKU and all so called cable is the same but with dish you can just pick the channels you want to pay for
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Thanks Dan.........this gonna sound really stupid so get ready......what is a Roku ?
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I had cable with every channel and it was 265 a month with internet got rid of movie channels except hbo package and still paying 213 a month.Ridiculous.netflix is great and Amazon is pretty good I would cancel dish and just get those and maybe keep local channels.
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Buy a firestick and stream any movie you want, there’s a lot of classics you can’t find anywhere else. YouTube even has some free movies
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Thanks Rob and TheShape
I have all the pay stations except HBO which Dish removed.......had it also at one point.
If I didn`t like boxing so much I would have cancelled this crap a long time ago................YOUTU BE boxing from now on I guess.
I`ll Google Netflix and the other channels to get an idea of what kind of programming they have.
I`m totally null and void here as you can ell. :)
Thanks
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I recommend starting with Netflix. It will take you a couple years at least till you get bored with it.
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Thanks Dan.........this gonna sound really stupid so get ready......what is a Roku ?
Its built right in the TV so you have toRoku provides the simplest way to stream entertainment to your TV. On your terms. Access more than 500,000+ movies and TV episodes across free and paid channels. buy a TV with roku
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Cool !!
Thanks a lot,you guys rock !!
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Firestick, isn't that what you used to create fire back in the day Wes? :D
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Get an Hdtv antenna for local stations. Amazon prime has a lot of good content. You can stream most shows from the network websites as well. No need for cable tv
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I like the news channels and college football so I guess I need cable. The netflicks movies never seems to change. I have Amazon Prime and seen some good movies. They all are getting slick making some movies you have to pay for now. That's how cable started. You pay and there were no commercials. Now you pay and get the commercials with it.
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Get an Hdtv antenna for local stations. Amazon prime has a lot of good content. You can stream most shows from the network websites as well. No need for cable tv
The hdtv key only gets you channels 2 through 11 who watches those channels anymore unless its for football
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Get an Hdtv antenna for local stations. Amazon prime has a lot of good content. You can stream most shows from the network websites as well. No need for cable tv
This is what I do.
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Firestick, isn't that what you used to create fire back in the day Wes? :D
WISEASS! LOL :D
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I cannot get cable here,tha`s why I opted to get the dish.
There is no cable on my road........I live in Deliverace country.
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Recently cut the cable cord and have Roku. I also have an Amazon Prime account through my business so I use that too. So much stuff to watch I wished I had dumped cable years earlier.
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I need some advice from you guys........being the old fucker that I am,I know very little about the concept of a fire stick and all that technical shit.
Anyway,I have Dish TV ..............250 channels for $ 135.00 a month.
THEY ARE SO REPETATIVE I FEEK LIKE CAVING MY TV SCREEN IN.
Is it worth getting a fire stick Netflix Hulu or Amazon ?
TIA
Get rid of Dish and Cable TV, a waste of money.
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Wes - think back to when we only had the big three and PBS...
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I hear you guys I~m gonna do it....................I`ll save over $100,00 per month and I won`t be watching the same shit constantly.
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Wes - think back to when we only had the big three and PBS...
What you talking about Willis ? :D
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NETFLIX is 10000% libturd brainwashing shows and getting worse every single day with all their new "woke" content
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NETFLIX is 10000% libturd brainwashing shows and getting worse every single day with all their new "woke" content
Exactly what it is in Aus. I was really disappointed with it. Apparently Netflix US has a much broader licensing agreement and a wide selection of real films. Not just the worst of the 80s and their homemade Rainbow Brite shit I paid them for.
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What you talking about Willis ? :D
Oh no you di-int!!! ;D
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Wes,
you're not alone.
I need to learn this Roku and Amazon firestick stuff.
But I have a pretty good deal with Comcast right now.
I have a Triple Play bundle.
It is Cable television with 219+ channels/+On Demand, home phone and internet with 250mbps.
it's two-year deal and I got free installation, free HBO for the two years, and free DVR service, but I have to pay the rental fee for the DVR itself.
The joke is the fees, taxes and other bullshit. They charge me a rental fee for the modem and the three cable boxes.
But it is still a pretty good deal. It's under two-hundred a month. I'll dump it after two years because I hear the price jumps big time.
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I cannot get cable here,tha`s why I opted to get the dish.
There is no cable on my road........I live in Deliverace country.
That's nice, A U free to shoot big city pests :)
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Exactly what it is in Aus. I was really disappointed with it. Apparently Netflix US has a much broader licensing agreement and a wide selection of real films. Not just the worst of the 80s and their homemade Rainbow Brite shit I paid them for.
SBS screen movies for free !.
Four 65 inchers in my shack, but hardly watch any TV , I buy DVD's from Amazon or just get pirated ones !.
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I've had good reception with this antenna from 50 miles away.
Works best if you put it outside.
It's only $25 on eBay.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/361149359595-0-1/s-l1000.jpg)
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I have no tv.
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I've had good reception with this antenna from 50 miles away.
Works best if you put it outside.
It's only $25 on eBay.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/361149359595-0-1/s-l1000.jpg)
Looks like something invented by Mr. Vince Basile.
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WES, I'm dumb as shit when it comes to turning on this 'everything included TV set' of ours and usually rely on one of the young kids to find the football game and turn up the volumn.
So I've resigned myself to the enjoyment of my Kindle Fire and Amazon Prime so that I can watch every form of entertaiment ever created for less than $10 a month.
And that price includes free home delivery of anything I order from Amazon .... And that's a hell of a lot of freely-delivered shit each month.
But ... I've also ordered one of those Ruku things as well as a couple of Firesticks, but they are still packaged up beause I have no idea what the hell they do nor how to install one.
But if your helicopter malfunctions ... give me a call and I'll get ya back up there in a jiffy.
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WES, I'm dumb as shit when it comes to turning on this 'everything included TV set' of ours and usually rely on one of the young kids to find the football game and turn up the volumn.
So I've resigned myself to the enjoyment of my Kindle Fire and Amazon Prime so that I can watch every form of entertaiment ever created for less than $10 a month.
And that price includes free home delivery of anything I order from Amazon .... And that's a hell of a lot of freely-delivered shit each month.
But ... I've also ordered one of those Ruku things as well as a couple of Firesticks, but they are still packaged up beause I have no idea what the hell they do nor how to install one.
But if your helicopter malfunctions ... give me a call and I'll get ya back up there in a jiffy.
Just plug the Firestick into an HDMI port and you are done.
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Wes,
you're not alone.
I need to learn this Roku and Amazon firestick stuff.
But I have a pretty good deal with Comcast right now.
I have a Triple Play bundle.
It is Cable television with 219+ channels/+On Demand, home phone and internet with 250mbps.
it's two-year deal and I got free installation, free HBO for the two years, and free DVR service, but I have to pay the rental fee for the DVR itself.
The joke is the fees, taxes and other bullshit. They charge me a rental fee for the modem and the three cable boxes.
But it is still a pretty good deal. It's under two-hundred a month. I'll dump it after two years because I hear the price jumps big time.
I can relate bro!
I had all mine bundle to by a company here in Nortthern NY called TDS.com
My computer was so slow that at times I would disapear here on getbig because it was too frustrating to even log in.................a lot of comments from nitwits saying I was probably drinking again but that`s OK.
I still have a bundle deal but got rid of the inernet and now I have Hughes Net.........way better probably.........3 times as fast as TDS was.
I had their tech guy here so often it was getting silly...............he finally told me that I was so far off the grid that my internet would always be this slow...............that sealed it for me I dropped them quick wasn`t paying another dime for such terrible service.
Good luck,maybe we`ll learn this shit together. :)
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WES, I'm dumb as shit when it comes to turning on this 'everything included TV set' of ours and usually rely on one of the young kids to find the football game and turn up the volumn.
So I've resigned myself to the enjoyment of my Kindle Fire and Amazon Prime so that I can watch every form of entertaiment ever created for less than $10 a month.
And that price includes free home delivery of anything I order from Amazon .... And that's a hell of a lot of freely-delivered shit each month.
But ... I've also ordered one of those Ruku things as well as a couple of Firesticks, but they are still packaged up beause I have no idea what the hell they do nor how to install one.
But if your helicopter malfunctions ... give me a call and I'll get ya back up there in a jiffy.
Hey Bill,what is this Kindle Fire and Amazon Prime thingy you`re talking about ? LOL ;D
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Get rid of Dish and Cable TV, a waste of money.
I like Dish. If there's nothing on at the moment I just listen to Sirius/XM that comes with it. If you can't find anything to watch OR listen to it's probably you.
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I like Dish. If there's nothing on at the moment I just listen to Sirius/XM that comes with it. If you can't find anything to watch OR listen to it's probably you.
Themusic I love,other than that too repettitive for me but the Sirius stations are awsome.
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Looks like something invented by Mr. Vince Basile.
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Themusic I love,other than that too repettitive for me but the Sirius stations are awsome.
I listen to Hair Nation, Boneyard, Liquid Metal, Octane and Lithium when I lift, 70's, 80's, 90's and 2000's while online and Symphony Hall or Spa while sleeping. :)
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Looks like something invented by Mr. Vince Basile.
If made by Vince it would contain rare earth elements, titanium, rare isotopes, finely machined parts with extreme tolerances, and cost $10,000.
This antenna is made for $2 by peasants in China from plastic derived from trashed Christmas lights. Works good though.
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I've had good reception with this antenna from 50 miles away.
Works best if you put it outside.
It's only $25 on eBay.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/361149359595-0-1/s-l1000.jpg)
Is that some magnetic wave emitter created by Marvin Martian?
How does it make the three Vince Basilesque modules levitate next to it bottom right?
They all emit a forcefield as well, is this Basiles new breakthrough?
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I've had good reception with this antenna from 50 miles away.
Works best if you put it outside.
It's only $25 on eBay.
(http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/361149359595-0-1/s-l1000.jpg)
It is a total thing for hobbyist to try to receive broadcast signals from distant cities.
When it was analog tv it was simple for TV and for FM, it still is simple. The process is call "DXing"
You need to live where there is no Home Owner Association. You put up a tower with an antenna rotator. Around 20 to 50 feet. You then mount an antenna type called "Log Periodical". You may have also connected an amplifier made for the purpose to boost the signals...This antenna is very directional...you would use the rotator to turn the antenna while watching the signal fade in and out and determine the best direction to aim it. It was fairly simple in Houston to watch the Beaumont, Austin and Victoria Stations...Good conDitions would get Dallas.
This would work by the process of "Tropospheric Scatter"...Imagine you are driving in the Hill County at night on a two lane highway...You are driving up a hill...and you can totally see the headlight from an oncoming car on the other side of the hill. The air molecules scatter the light to over the hill where you see it...The Part of the air called the Troposphere does the same thing to the radio waves that are TV and FM radio signals, with the curve of the Earth being the "hill"....With a highly directional antenna and if needed, an amplifier, you can "see" the radio waves from over the horizon. This is also how the "White Alice Stations" up in the Arctic worked.
When TV went digital it became harder because you can't conveniently monitor the signal condition. Your TV either works with the signal...or it doesn't. In theory you could use a receiver and use instruments to monitor the distant signal and tweek the aiming to improve you chance of getting it to work.
FM is still analog and is easy as pie to play with...once you put up the tower, rotator,, and antenna. Guys I know who play with this in Corpus Christi pick up Houston FM Stations easily.