Verizon DSL here,
We can't get that. Verizon did send someone out to estimate the cost of upgrading us to fiber late last year. We were all excited about that possibility until the estimate came in...44 thousand dollars. ;-(
Verizon DSL here,
I was just looking at Playstation Vue the other day - and when I typed in my zip code, it told me, lucky you, it's in your area. Yee-ha.
Has anyone tried it? If it had just a few more channels, it would be perfect. I hate the fact that at least ONE major network - CBS - has resisted almost any effort to re-broadcast anything of theirs, at any price.
But it's given me reason to think, a few Fire TV sticks and I've got almost the same thing as Metrocast.
Cancelled metrocast today, here is one of many reasons people hate cable companies. I am paid up until the 28th two days from now, Metrocast can not send anyone out to disconnect me until June 5th so I have to pay for cable until June 5th, meanwhile I am dropping their equipment off tomorrow the 27th.
I think I am going to give them a hard time about that, it is their problem that they cant disconnect me when I want to be disconnected, not mine.
That's bs. I disconnected one week after paying them for the next month. The customer rep told me I owed them money. I was on the phone for 15 minutes teaching him math and explaining why they owed me a credit. I finally got my credit but that may be because I was keeping internet service and not deleting the entire account.
I started my 7 day free trial of Sling TV and after one day I have to say that I am pretty impressed. I have chosen the FOX owned channel package vs the Disney owned channel package and it even comes with the local Fox 5 station. https://www.sling.com/service/compare
I also got the new Roku stick for my bedroom TV, it is quite a bit faster than my older Roku XS on the living room TV.
I also got a Time Warner login ID (parents cable) so that I can watch ESPN.
Now, as far as the firestick, you were right. The Roku has way more options. Since this stick is in our bedroom, we really don't watch TV that often in there so I'm leaving it as is. Typically we turn it on and watch something OTA for a few minutes and turn out the light.
Look into putting Kodi on your Fire Stick (an application that last I knew was not available for Roku devices). You will be able to watch movies that are still in the theaters, almost any sports game (even ones that are only available through regional sports channels), and the latest tv shows (yes, even premium channel shows).
Look into putting Kodi on your Fire Stick (an application that last I knew was not available for Roku devices). You will be able to watch movies that are still in the theaters, almost any sports game (even ones that are only available through regional sports channels), and the latest tv shows (yes, even premium channel shows).
I've converted all the dvds and blurays to disk.
We can't get that. Verizon did send someone out to estimate the cost of upgrading us to fiber late last year. We were all excited about that possibility until the estimate came in...44 thousand dollars. ;-(
We just now are getting Cable ran to our house..
BUT we will FINALLY have internet at the house and no longer depend on our phones for data and internet.
I haven't played COD World at War online in 6 years.. has much changed?
For those with Amazon Prime (Video) ----
We use it - sparingly. Mostly because for our viewing, it's because the order we check stuff. If it's on other things, we never get to Amazon Prime Video - unless we can't find it elsewhere.
THEN it's useful - if it ain't on the others, it's often on Amazon Prime Video, even though sometimes you have to pay.
THAT said - is there a way to ONLY allow the FREE Amazon stuff to stream? I know that to order anything you pay for, it requires a password, but if I'm going to open up stuff to my kids to use, I know they're smart enough and devious enough to figure stuff out. Like passwords. And my son doesn't seem to think it would be wrong for him to do it. Just, everyone ELSE.
I admit, it's irritating that you typically have to qualify stuff on Amazon specifically for "free" viewing - unlike Hulu and Netflix, for which there are no additional charges.
Can it be done? Can I configure Amazon to stream ONLY the stuff that's free?
If I were you, I would forego the actual cable tv package and just get the highest speed internet that they offer. I am a tv junkie and I have not missed having metrocast cable at all. I get my HGTV, FX, AMC, History, and Nat Geo using the Sling TV app. I use Hulu for my regular tv shows like Gotham, The Middle, etc.. HBO Now for Game of Thrones, Netflix has a ton of original programming, as well as Amazon Prime. Even with paying for all of those, it is still cheaper than what I paid for Metrocast Cable tv.
Yes, you set a PIN to be required for pay content, in addition there is a category of "included with Prime"
Just wanted let people know that doing this technically isn't above board. However unlike torrenting where you are also uploading the file you are downloading, you are much less likely to get caught using a streaming service. But because these links are illegitimate the quality is usually poor, and the scraper plugins for Kodi that are primarily used to view these links are often buggy and unreliable.