Tired Of Direct TV

speakerman1

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I just ordered a Roku for the sound room TV for a trial run. If I like it good bye direct tv. As long as I have the internet I will have tv. My DVR is always messing up. It is wireless the Roku. So we shall see. Over 350 channels free. Jerry what do you think?

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I watch little TV. Netflix streaming on my sons PS3 and instant gratification from iTunes movies has been perfect for me.
 

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I canned the cable ten years ago and now I have converter boxes and OTA only.

And Beta, CED, Laserdisc, VHS, DVD. If I got the most garbage do I win something?
 

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I like being able to pick what I want to watch from the computer. Then going to my TV. Using the headphone jack to run through my stereo. Getting a hum off of it. Can't find the audio outputs on the TV. Everything is input. I am learning though. I got the Amazon prime. Free shipping and streaming videos and music. Watching Moody Blues now.

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Rex there are so many things to pick from it isn't funny. At 1st I was doing every thing from the TV then learned I could surf from the computer which is easier than using a cursor to type in things. LOL

Just bought a Sony Blu-ray, 3d player with wifi. So I will use it in the living room. In the Master bedroom will go with the 720 roku. It is cheaper. I can't get 1080 on that TV. So good bye Direct.

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I've still got a fault or two along the antenna line and only get the two stations I can get unamplified, the PBS and ABC channels, both in UHF. I was on the internet for the third year at midnight. I didn't post and Happy New Year greetings, I no longer know who the hell is on those countdown shows, not since the Bay City Rollers and it's one more year you could go in.

I told everybody in shorts today that if if were a REAL January 1st I'd be suspecting you were looking for beer.

Right now I'm living with 2 channels and it hasn't killed me. There has been so much more to do. I have nine dollars, one for a refill co-payment tomorrow but I have all the food I wanted until tomorrow, utilities and rent paid, all the tapes and other items I wanted from online sources are paid for and bath towels, a rake and one more Napa cassette organizer.

R.E.M and Dead Kennedys on VHS, Joni Mitchell-Shadows And Light on laserdisc, Mel Bay Guitar Method book one.

I'm watching a 13" Sharp with the raster off CCW and it belonged to my father. The sound from the side firing speaker is not too bad.

One last dressed up budget pizza for the month and back to normal.

One last thing. Dad and Mom got my niece one last present before he died-earrings and a necklace with the first letter of her name on it. I asked my Mom and her father if she had a jewely box (no). I said I'd solve that so I did and also got an enameled daisies pin. I know she will be pleased. A twelve year old girl has to have such things.
 
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