Free TV (Page 2): Jerry, I missed all of this. In 2002 I gave up TV. I had purchased a satellite system and was paying $29/mo. for their basic service. At the end of the year, I found...

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Jerry, I missed all of this. In 2002 I gave up TV. I had purchased a satellite system and was paying $29/mo. for their basic service. At the end of the year, I found that I had watched about 30 total hours of TV. At times the TV would be on but I'd be in another room processing photographs or tweaking software. Noting where my interests were focused, the money could be used more effectively elsewhere. So, out went the service and the TV.
--Bob

jerryc41 wrote:

When I was a kid, we had free TV. Now, I pay Spec... (show quote)

tomad Loc: North Carolina

jerryc41 wrote:

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Jerry, you're getting ripped off! Can you get Dish TV there? I get around 200 channels including the networks and local channels for under $100 on Dish. Then I have Amazon Prime and a Fire Stick that allows me to stream Prime content plus free content from a host of other channels like IMDB TV, TUBI, etc all for less that $110 per month including the annual prime membership!

DaveD65 Loc: Queen City, Ohio

jerryc41 wrote:

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Jerry, It's time to cut the cable; get a Roku box and look into Sling Tv. Here in Cincinnati I pay $49.00 (Spectrum) for very fast Internet, Sling is only $35.00 and the Roku is a one time purchase. That cut my old Spectrum bill in more than half. We all local stations and much more live(inside antennae) its like 80 some stations live. Then we are over-whelmed with what is available on Roku and Sling.

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

rmalarz wrote:

Jerry, I missed all of this. In 2002 I gave up TV. I had purchased a satellite system and was paying $29/mo. for their basic service. At the end of the year, I found that I had watched about 30 total hours of TV. At times the TV would be on but I'd be in another room processing photographs or tweaking software. Noting where my interests were focused, the money could be used more effectively elsewhere. So, out went the service and the TV.
--Bob

+1

We had a TV but I didn't watch it. The only reason I kept it was because my wife liked to watch antique roadshow. She probably watched it 10 times a year. It was on broadcast TV so it didn't cost anything (beyond the capital cost of the TV). When I needed a display for a slide show at an event, I took the TV and used it with my laptop.

My current wife likes to have the TV put her to sleep. I can sleep through it. A sleep timer turns it off. TV signals come in online so it's part of the computer overhead.

wareagle

I use AT&T TV (about $70/month) and get everthing I watched on cable. With roku I get so much free TV there are not enough hours in a week to see everthing I would like to see.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

tomad wrote:

Jerry, you're getting ripped off! Can you get Dish TV there? I get around 200 channels including the networks and local channels for under $100 on Dish. Then I have Amazon Prime and a Fire Stick that allows me to stream Prime content plus free content from a host of other channels like IMDB TV, TUBI, etc all for less that $110 per month including the annual prime membership!

Dishes and trees don't get along well. We had a dish before good cable was available, and we just about cleared the trees. Rain, snow, and clouds interfered.

An interesting fact about that satellite box. If you decide not to use it, you can't give it anyone else. We had two of them, but they were registered to us, and that was it. End of the line.

Advark

We have a Roku device however, the the interface is
more than archaic, it is stone age. Hate using it.

Lee

Advark

I need to add that we watch more Public TV
than perhaps any other channel. Except
perhaps my wife's love of QVC

Lee

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Advark wrote:

I need to add that we watch more Public TV
than perhaps any other channel. Except
perhaps my wife's love of QVC

Lee

I never watch QVC - not much sales resistance.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

I miss the 'rabbit ears" days, and turning the knobs to get a clear picture!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

DickC wrote:

I miss the 'rabbit ears" days, and turning the knobs to get a clear picture!

Yes. That took skill, manual dexterity, and precision .

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

jerryc41 wrote:

Yes. That took skill, manual dexterity, and precision .

And adjust the tinfoil on the rabbit ears!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

DickC wrote:

And adjust the tinfoil on the rabbit ears!

I never went so far as to add material to the "ears." We lived close enough to NYC when I was a kid, that reception wasn't difficult. When I moved 100 miles north, it was a different story. Rabbit ears weren't even for sale in this area.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

jerryc41 wrote:

I never went so far as to add material to the "ears." We lived close enough to NYC when I was a kid, that reception wasn't difficult. When I moved 100 miles north, it was a different story. Rabbit ears weren't even for sale in this area.

We used to live in north Denver around 1950, me and neighborhood kids would go to the fire station, they had a tv, first I'd ever seen, the firemen would let us lay down on the floor in front of them and watch it. It was as big as a refridgerator and had a screen about 8" square. The only things that were on was Captain Video, Texas wrestling, and the news but we would lay there all day and watch the same thing over and over!!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

DickC wrote:

We used to live in north Denver around 1950, me and neighborhood kids would go to the fire station, they had a tv, first I'd ever seen, the firemen would let us lay down on the floor in front of them and watch it. It was as big as a refridgerator and had a screen about 8" square. The only things that were on was Captain Video, Texas wrestling, and the news but we would lay there all day and watch the same thing over and over!!

Captain Video was one of my favorites.