Are you able to get over-the-air broadcast TV with an antenna?
Nightfox
I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal.
Also I use a bunch of the
free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.
I currently use Youtube TV as my primary service, but they are raising prices.So wondering what others are using. I selected them years ago for the live tv, and local channels (abc,nbc,cbs).Secondary services I use are: netflix, prime videoDropped some others to save money, but of
course they are coming out with new stuff I want to see :-( ---
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Are those named in homage to things piratey?
indoor antennas failed for me. Maybe I should try external, i just cannot climb under the house to run cable; and wife would have a "cow" if she saw or found out I climbed the tower. LOLAre you able to get over-the-air broadcast TV with an antenna?
Nightfox
I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal. Also I use a bunch of the free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.
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Nightfox wrote to Cozmo <=-
I have a few of those too - Plex TV, Roku, Pluto, and I recently signed
up for Tubi. I don't use them very often, but perhaps I should use
them more, as there's lots of stuff to watch with those. I probably
watch enough TV as it is though..
paulie420 wrote to Amessyroom <=-
For everything else, I rely on my .torrent stack. Its made up of
several applications; a VPN, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr,
Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.
For everything else, I rely on my .torrent stack. Its made up of several applications; a VPN, qBitTorrent, Jellyfin, Jellyseerr, Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Lidarr and Homarr.
I need to check out the Arrs - I'm doing it all manually now, finding
out what I want to see, then going to tracker sites. Once the content is here, I'm using DLNA to stream to Roku devices.
OTA is compressed video as well, but uses more bandwidth per channel and
thus supports real-time encoding at higher (perceived) fidelity. I think
I recently dumped my cable, was getting way to expensive for the amount of time i watched it. I bought a antenna to pick up local stations. I get about 30 stations but it all depends on where you live and if you have a lot of trees and buildings blocking your signal. Also I use a bunch of the free streaming services like Pluto, Roku TV and Plex Tv. Plenty of decent stuff on there to make me happy.
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Good for you. We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years
ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet only. We went from 8 mbps down to 400 mbps. It is so nice. We still only use digital antenna and get 40 channels on the mountain here. Sometimes now
we watch freevee for judge Judy or old tv shows. Love ME tv. My brother speaks highly of Pluto, we will try it.
Have a good day cozmo.
We use Pluto because it came with the LG TV we bought. We had the TV for a yearbefore we connected it to the internet. LOL. Pluto seems easy to understand. Itreminds me of a kind of tuner. Lots of good one show only channels. I rememberGood for you. We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet only. We went from 8 mbps down to 400 mbps. It is so nice. We still only use digital antenna and get 40 channels on the mountain here. Sometimes now > Ri> we watch freevee for judge Judy or old tv shows. Love ME tv. My brother > Ri> speaks highly of Pluto, we will try it.
Have a good day cozmo.
Pluto and roku TV are pretty decent. Cable was more of a convienance more th > anything but, definitely not worth the price. I love Crime TV on my local OT > channels.
Have a good one!
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Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming
is much more wholesome. Where I live now, they are just starting to run cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except
maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.
Bogomips wrote to Cozmo <=-
Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming
is much more wholesome.
Where I live now, they are just starting to run
cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except
maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast.
Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.
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Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming is much more wholesome. Where I live now, they are just starting to run cable
lines
up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except
maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that
I
am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.
I don't think Cable is worth the price anymore at least for me. There are so many free
options out there to use. Hopefully the lines will reach you soon and you'll be able
to
stream and use the free services without worring about data.
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Bogomips wrote to Cozmo <=-
Ive used an OTA anntenae <sp> for almost 10 years now. The programming is much more wholesome.
I was hoping to get local news and PBS on an indoor HDTV antenna, but
all I get was CBS, lots of religious and Spanish-language programming,
and some interesting retro sitcom channels.
With a Roku, the antenna input is called "live TV" and includes a ton
of streaming channels. If I was on a serious budget, I could get by
watching free streaming with basic internet service quite well.
Where I live now, they are just starting to run
cable lines up the road. I'm not sure I would be interested. Except maybe the internet part. My 10 gigs of Hotspot runs out fast. Especially now that I am retired and have alot of time on my hands now.
300-600 megabits/second and a 1.2 terabyte/month would be an adjustment
from hotspot internet...
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Also, with cable a portion of your bill is automatically given to certain networks, even if you don't watch them or agree with their progamming.
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By: Cozmo to Rixter on Sat Feb 22 2025 11:00 am
Good for you. We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet only. We went from 8 mbps down to 400 mbps. It is so nice. We still only use digital antenna and get 40 channels on the mountain here. Sometimes now > Ri> we watch freevee for judge Judy or old tv shows. Love ME tv. My brother > Ri> speaks highly of Pluto, we will try it.
Have a good day cozmo.
Pluto and roku TV are pretty decent. Cable was more of a convienance more th > anything but, definitely not worth the price. I love Crime TV on my local OT > channels.
Have a good one!
|02-=|10Cozmo|02=-
... Enter any 12-digit prime number to continue.We use Pluto because it came with the LG TV we bought. We had the TV for a yearbefore we connected it to the internet. LOL. Pluto seems easy to understand. Itreminds me of a kind of tuner. Lots of good one show only channels. I remember
they had a Star Trek Classic channel that ran the old Star Trek Shows 24/7 and
we left it there for weeks. That is kind of nice.
Have a great weekend Cozmo!
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We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years ago we did get cable available and we just went with internet...
My family was rather late to the cable scene as well, though not /quite/ as late as you. We didn't sign up until '90, and the only reason that happened was because I signed up for TV and Internet for myself and split the connection between my den and the living room. My Ma quickly became a fan of Turner Classic movies and Lifetime. For me, it was all about the
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By: anthk to All on Thu Mar 20 2025 09:56:04
Hey, guys.
We never had cabletv out here in the sticks, but 2 years ago we did
get
cable available and we just went with internet...
My family was rather late to the cable scene as well, though not /quite/
as
late as you. We didn't sign up until '90, and the only reason that happened was because I signed up for TV and Internet for myself and split the connection between my den and the living room. My Ma quickly became a fan of Turner Classic movies and Lifetime. For me, it was all about the Sci-Fi Channel, Cartoon Network
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but do you mean you got a cable TV and internet package from the cable company in 1990?
Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but do you mean you got a cable TV and internet
package from the cable company in 1990?
Yup. Cable had been available in my area since 1980-81.
Including cable internet?
Including cable internet?
Can't speak for the early '80s, but it did exist when I got it in '90.
Yup. Cable had been available in my area since 1980-81.
Including cable internet? It would be surprising that cable internet would have been available in 1990.. I don't remember hearing of that back then.
Including cable internet? It would be surprising that cable internet would
have been available in 1990.. I don't remember hearing of that back then.
In most places in the states, I don't think it was, unless he possibly means IDSN service for internet. In 1990, I don't remember the Internet even being a thing that most people were aware of. The "GUI WWW" was not really yet a big thing then.
I had dial-up internet then, and internet at work, and it was all text -- email, ftp, telnet, usenet news, and gopher sites.
In most places in the states, I don't think it was, unless he possibly means IDSN service for internet. In 1990, I don't remember the Internet even being a thing that most people were aware of. The "GUI WWW" was not really yet a big thing then.
In most places in the states, I don't think it was, unless he possibly
means IDSN service for internet. In 1990, I don't remember the Internet
even being a thing that most people were aware of. The "GUI WWW" was not
really yet a big thing then.
it's a bit disingenuous.. like saying 2.5Gbit internet was available in the 90's (it was.. to ISPs)
in truth (adjusted for inflation, 1995) just the cablemodems for service back then were >$1000
and (again for inflation) 1993? $11000 for the modem
it took @Home in 1997 to make cablemodem available in a meaningful way.
Yup. Cable had been available in my
area since 1980-81.
Nightfox wrote to Mortar <=-
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By: Mortar to Nightfox on Tue Apr 15 2025 11:13 pm
Including cable internet?
Can't speak for the early '80s, but it did exist when I got it in '90.
Interesting. I hadn't even heard about the internet until 1995, and I thought it was all dialup for home users at the time. I didn't think there was any broadband internet until at least the late 90s.
it took @Home in 1997 to make cablemodem available in a meaningful way.
I didn't think there was any broadband internet until at least the late 90s.
...unless he possibly means IDSN service...
The "GUI WWW" was not really yet a big thing then.
I wasn't aware of the internet until 1995. In 1990, I knew of services like AOL, Prodigy, CompuServe etc. though.
There was cable here with dial-up...
The "GUI WWW" was not really yet a big thing then.
Actually, it wasn't a thing at all. The first widely used WYSIWYG browser was
Mosaic in 1993.
Nightfox wrote to Mortar <=-
Interesting. I hadn't even heard about the internet until 1995, and I thought it was all dialup for home users at the time. I didn't think there was any broadband internet until at least the late 90s.
Interesting. I hadn't even heard about the internet until 1995, and I
I remember people talking in 1993 about shell accounts at netcom, being able to bounce around the world on one phone call. About that time, my company got a 56k leased line from UC Berkeley. I had a shell account, tried playing with tools like SLiRP to connect Windows to the net, then
Dumas Walker wrote to MORTAR <=-was
The "GUI WWW" was not really yet a big thing then.
Actually, it wasn't a thing at all. The first widely used WYSIWYG browser
Mosaic in 1993.
I didn't think it was but couldn't remember for sure which year it was
I first tried out Mosaic. I knew it was between 1993 and 1997, because
of where I was living, but that was about it. ;)
I remember people talking in 1993 about shell accounts at netcom, being
able to bounce around the world on one phone call.
What I remember as my first browser was called NetScape, probably 1994/95 I think. Still on dial-up at that time.
I didn't think it was but couldn't remember for sure which year it was
I first tried out Mosaic. I knew it was between 1993 and 1997, because of where I was living, but that was about it. ;)
What I remember as my first browser was called NetScape, probably
1994/95 I think. Still on dial-up at that time.
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