Smart TV

[cowgirl8]

Being deprived of most pay channels, or just having a antenna for so long, Netflix is great. There are so many series we did not get to see that have hundreds of episodes and as long as you don't binge on them, you can go years watching just what you want.... Weeds, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy, etc etc, lots of great shows you watch on your time with no commercials... Sometimes our internet is slow so we don't get it in high def, but that doesn't bother me... Our firestick though has gone wonky and keeps turning on...so we have to unplug it until we want to use it.
Have yall heard about the scam going around..You get a call from Dish and they want to upgrade you, then you pay them 150 that you get back.....My mother in law fell for it...ugh. Had to cancel her credit card and change pass words.. I hate these people.

 

[1982vett]

I am presently receiving extreme pressure to buy one of these. After a little research I'm intrigued myself.
They've gotten the price down in the fence builder bracket.
And I might be able to give direct TV the boot.
Does anyone have one. What do you have to say about it.

Do one better...get a SmartCast tv.....you might invent some new words setting it up because you use your smartphone as the remote. but once it’s set up you don’t have to find where ....someone....left the remote. :lol:

 

[HDRider]

We cut our Dtv package waaay back after getting one. If youre going to use it as a smart tv, make sure you have good wifi available.

We went cold turkey on cable when we moved to the farm. We put up an antenna and get a few channels.

We can watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc on a 5 meg DSL connection. Works fine. We watched Netflix and Amazon with a 512 connection, but it was like watching through Vaseline. Hulu would not work.

 

[Brute 23]

We cut our Dtv package waaay back after getting one. If youre going to use it as a smart tv, make sure you have good wifi available.

We went cold turkey on cable when we moved to the farm. We put up an antenna and get a few channels.

We can watch Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc on a 5 meg DSL connection. Works fine. We watched Netflix and Amazon with a 512 connection, but it was like watching through Vaseline. Hulu would not work.

Netflix has an auto adjust function that changes the picture quality to the enet connection or you can manually set it to low or high quality. Hulu does not have that so if you have slow enet you have to manually go in and set it to low quality.

 

[pdfangus]

how are all you supposed country people having all this fast internet?

I use to be able to get along with a verizon hot spot but lately it is so slow that it is worthless.

local internet service is through century Link and it is also slow enough to be worthless.

If we give DT the boot then we are down to local channels and we are far enough out that we don't get all of them since they switched to HD a while back.

Believe me I would like to give DT the boot...and we don't have any premium channels.

 

[HDRider]

how are all you supposed country people having all this fast internet?

I use to be able to get along with a verizon hot spot but lately it is so slow that it is worthless.

local internet service is through century Link and it is also slow enough to be worthless.

If we give DT the boot then we are down to local channels and we are far enough out that we don't get all of them since they switched to HD a while back.

Believe me I would like to give DT the boot...and we don't have any premium channels.

Mine is CL too. One day they sent me a post card offering to take me from 512K to 6 Meg at no more cost. I ask why they even bothered to ask.

 

[Craig Miller]

how are all you supposed country people having all this fast internet?

I use to be able to get along with a verizon hot spot but lately it is so slow that it is worthless.

local internet service is through century Link and it is also slow enough to be worthless.

If we give DT the boot then we are down to local channels and we are far enough out that we don't get all of them since they switched to HD a while back.

Believe me I would like to give DT the boot...and we don't have any premium channels.

Ya and how do y'all know so much about techy things? I don't want anything in my house smarter than me and I'm sure that tv is because it says right there in the name that it's smart. We had an antennae for a while but it must have got popped cause it quit working. We ha e a roku now and watch through Amazon and Netflix. Broadband or dsl-whatever its called-internet from centurylink.

 

[herofan]

I have Netflix and Hulu, so I cancelled the large package of cable, but I kept a small package for networks and local news. Netflix and such are great, but you can’t get current shows can you? If I want to watch the most recent episode of “The Middle,” for example, that’s not available in Netflix is it?

 

[Craig Miller]

No. We like NCIS and it's always a season behind

 

[Brute 23]

AT&T has unlimited enet now that will stream any of the movies and you can get a router from them.

 

[Jogeephus]

Its gonna be interesting to see what the big companies do if they repeal net neutrality.

 

[bball]

Its gonna be interesting to see what the big companies do if they repeal net neutrality.

This is a VERY real issue with significant implications for anyone who uses the web.

 

[Brute 23]

They have already said in a couple years enet will be floating around every where. It has already started in large cities. It will fan out from there.

 

[Craig Miller]

Its gonna be interesting to see what the big companies do if they repeal net neutrality.

This is a VERY real issue with significant implications for anyone who uses the web.

I have seen a couple things on this with no explanation. What is it?

 

[wbvs58]

To not have to replace my existing TV's we bought an Amazon Fire TV device and love it. We have Amazon Prime, Netflix, Sling TV, and HULU I believe. All are still way cheaper than Dish or Direct.

You can also modify the stick and do a few things which may not exactly be legal but it sure is nice knowing you, in your own way, are boycotting Hollywood.

I just don't know if I could sleep with something called a" illegally modified Amazon fire stick " in the house.

Isn't the wall that Trump is building going to keep all those illegals out?

Ken

 

[Jogeephus]

Its gonna be interesting to see what the big companies do if they repeal net neutrality.

This is a VERY real issue with significant implications for anyone who uses the web.

I have seen a couple things on this with no explanation. What is it?

By removing this regulation they are giving a monopoly control over how the internet traffic flows. As it stands they cannot throttle back things like Netflix or Youtube or make you pay extra to prevent choppy internet service of these alternative media choices.

Personally, I like these other choices because I think it wrong to be forced to pay $30/month just so they can afford to pay NFL players huge salaries. Of course, these companies say they would never do this but if you recall these were the same companies that fifty some odd years ago offered us cable television and promised that if we went to cable television we wouldn't have to watch those three 30 second commercials that interrupted your viewing every 15 minutes.

It will be interesting to see if they keep their word and see how short people's memories are.

 

[Jogeephus]

You can also modify the stick and do a few things which may not exactly be legal but it sure is nice knowing you, in your own way, are boycotting Hollywood.

I just don't know if I could sleep with something called a" illegally modified Amazon fire stick " in the house.

Isn't the wall that Trump is building going to keep all those illegals out?

Ken

Yep, the wall is going to fix everything and Mexico is even going to pay for it. Its the art of the deal you know.

 

[callmefence]

I just don't know if I could sleep with something called a" illegally modified Amazon fire stick " in the house.

Isn't the wall that Trump is building going to keep all those illegals out?

Ken

Yep, the wall is going to fix everything and Mexico is even going to pay for it. Its the art of the deal you know.

What news are y'all watching. I've heard nothing about being the wall being called firestick.
Don't even make sense. You know good and well DT gonna put TRUMP on it.

 

[Brute 23]

Its gonna be interesting to see what the big companies do if they repeal net neutrality.

This is a VERY real issue with significant implications for anyone who uses the web.

I have been reading up on that deal since I saw it on here. That is a tough one. There are very legit reasons for both sides on that deal.

 

[bball]

This is a VERY real issue with significant implications for anyone who uses the web.

I have seen a couple things on this with no explanation. What is it?

By removing this regulation they are giving a monopoly control over how the internet traffic flows. As it stands they cannot throttle back things like Netflix or Youtube or make you pay extra to prevent choppy internet service of these alternative media choices.

Personally, I like these other choices because I think it wrong to be forced to pay $30/month just so they can afford to pay NFL players huge salaries. Of course, these companies say they would never do this but if you recall these were the same companies that fifty some odd years ago offered us cable television and promised that if we went to cable television we wouldn't have to watch those three 30 second commercials that interrupted your viewing every 15 minutes.

It will be interesting to see if they keep their word and see how short people's memories are.

This is about as good a summation as I have seen.. I have read where they talk of having internet 'packages'. If a site you wish to view isnt in your package, youre SOL...

I prefer to maintain net neutrality because I feel the web is one of the last resources to seek out objective truth and news without a taint or spin...if providers 'regulate' what we have access to; well, I don't feel that's a good thing.