| Morgan Jones on 8 Dec 2014 14:00:27 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] No TV Over the Air? |
We’re selectively impatient: if you have something that runs iTunes the entire season or individual episodes of The Walking Dead can be bought for relatively short money. Also if you have a friend that has Comcast he/she can add you as a user on his/her account and you can use that login to watch The Walking Dead on AMC’s website. Or so I am told. The CW streams a few episodes of their shows online for free—we’ve been keeping up with The Arrow there. My wife and I are with John: for the most part we are patient enough to wait for shows to be available on Netflix. We have the 3 dvd plan and it provides us plenty of content for a few hours a week of TV watching. A major upside we are just noticing since we started streaming from AMC/CW’s websites is Netflix is, blissfully, commercial free. A major downside to Netflix is a lot is not available streaming. Considering the bargain price I don’t mind waiting for DVDs and I’m told Handbrake works very well for making short term copies of content to play from a device attached to your TV. The primary use of over-the-air broadcasts in our house is for my wife to watch sports. There are online subscription services for that that I know little about though as I understand it they black out the local games. We live in the city, use a long since discontinued but highly rated Terk antennae and get a passable but mildly annoying to maintain signal. We get a lot more channels digitally than we did when the signal was analog. -morgan On Dec 8, 2014, at 4:40 PM, John Karr <brainbuz@brainbuz.org> wrote: > I stated: '... and some DVD and streaming service purchases'. A Netflix > DVD subscription or the free delivery that your Prime subscription gives > you on purchased product will let you watch Walking Dead if you're > patient. > > If you consume a lot of TV, or aren't patient, you may not be cut out to > be a cable cutter. HBO will be selling digital subscriptions next year, I > expect the other premium networks to all follow. > >> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 3:49 PM, John Karr <brainbuz@brainbuz.org> wrote: >> >>> I don't have cable and I don't have rabbit ears. The tiny amount of >>> network tv I watch I just wait for on Hulu. If the programming you watch >>> isn't available on Hulu or takes too long to get there (Hulu's premium >>> subscribers get some content sooner) you might look for it directly on >>> the >>> station's or network's websites, and at least one of the legacy >>> broadcast >>> networks is trying to sell digital subscriptions. >>> >> >> >> The problem with that is that almost all such networks *require* a cable >> or >> satellite login, as authentication. If you don't have such a subscription, >> you can't log in and watch "The Walking Dead" episodes from AMC's website, >> for example. >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- >> http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- >> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug