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What would it take for me to stay a cable or satellite customer?
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You'll have also have to make sure a TV station in your area transmits a TV GOS signal. Toshiba, Panasonic and Mitsubishi models have reportedly included it too - but you'll just have to inspect the specs of a given model. I've seen this feature on Sony and Vizio sets. and the usually authoritative AVS Forum both leave out some newer models. The lists of compatible models posted by TV GOS developer Rovi Corp. What TVs have the TV Guide On Screen feature you mentioned?
Buying one that recorded seemed like the obvious call. That device - a rebranded version of the DTVPal DVR I favorably reviewed in 2009 - offers the same simple recording as a TiVo without a monthly fee (or the higher cost of paying for "lifetime" service upfront).īut when I was making these decisions, we needed an up-converting DVD player, too. Two people wrote in to praise the Channel Master CM-7000 PAL DVRs they'd bought. They are about the last thing I want to watch when I come home. This fellow, an A&E fan, opened that pitch with the unintentionally amusing remark that "There's no close substitute to watching The First 48 or Intervention on a 72" Mitsubishi 3D TV." Well, I wouldn't know about that, as our living room couldn't fit a TV that size anyway.Įqually amusing was one reader's contention that "CNN/FNC/MSNBC are required viewing for many Washingtonians." We have news channels playing full-time on the TVs in the newsroom. Spending ever more each month for the same set of channels I don't have time to watch did not yield value. But so what? Money I spend has to yield something of value. The money you're saving isn't that much." Sure the money we save doesn't make a critical difference in our budget. So wrote a reader who opined that "Life is short, why not go for it. No, really, you can afford the cost of cable or satellite. Add that to the $50 we pay for Fios Internet (plus $22, taxes included, we pay for Verizon's second-most-basic landline phone service) and it's still the lowest home telecom-service cost I've had in about a decade.
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We do rent a movie or two off Amazon's video-on-demand service, adding $4 to $10 to our video budget. The selection online can be so erratic, and, as mentioned, we don't watch all that much online. (Hint: I might if I could watch my team, not some other city's.) We're on the fence about Netflix. I don't subscribe to Hulu Plus, though I did have the luxury of trying it for a few months, then expensing that cost. What about all those online services you mentioned? And the bill would have gone up after the first year. Verizon's Fios didn't have that issue, but its advertised first-year price at the time ($110, I think) didn't include $15 a month for a high-def DVR. What about "triple play" bundles of phone, TV and Internet? Comcast was out - I'd heard too many complaints about their Internet service in my neighborhood. Comcast would have cost $50 a month for the first six months (then $84) DirecTV would have cost $51 a month for the first year (then $72) and Fios would have run $64 monthly. Now, I could have switched to DirecTV, Comcast or Fios for my TV service (and would have had to if I wanted to watch Nationals games in high definition, since Dish has yet to carry MASN HD).īut once I added costs for HD service and an HD DVR - yes, we had a spreadsheet for this - we would have spent about the same.
How did you come up with that $1,120 savings estimate?Įasy: I was paying about $70 a month for my Dish Network TV service before multiply that by 16 months, and you get $1,120. I'll try to answer those questions and critiques - and use this opportunity to post an overdue review of yet another online-video receiver you can plug into a TV.
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My column two Sundays ago about my experience ditching subscription TV for a combination of free over-the-air broadcasts and online video is still generating comments.
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