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  1. #1
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    Cutting the cord

    Last week I bought a couple of Roku Express Plus boxes @ $30.00 apiece Today I signed up for a 14 day free trial on YouTube TV.

    Hopefully we'll figure it out and I can cancel the AT&T uVerse TV and phone accounts and just keep the internet.

    Its going to be a learning experience I expect but I've heard good things about YouTube TV and it has an easy recording feature

    Anyone else done this yet?
    Dave

    Today is un-returnable !

  2. #2
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    I have been using ROKU and smart TVs for several years after getting rid of Directv. Since YouTubeTV and HULU both tie you to a geographic area for local channels I have both. I use HULU at my East Texas house and YouTube TV at the Houston house. Both work very well but they do have some differences. Do a comparison on streaming services to find what will work best for you.
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

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    Try Pluto TV.. it’s Viacoms “freebie “.. lots of channels and CBS news.. free.. but commercial like OTA..

  4. #4
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    Been streaming for about six years. Antenna for local channels, Roku for streaming. Most watched channels are Pluto, Netflix, Amazon Prime and HBO Max.

    We streamed for a few years, then three years ago, we moved from the 'burbs to the outback and lost Verizon Fios, had to rely on satellite for two years. Yuck. Expensive!! But in September, fiber to the node came by and I'm back streaming.

  5. #5
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    We cut the cord about a month ago. High speed internet and you tube TV. Ruth seems happy with it and that's all that matters. I don't watch the damn thing. I quit TV over 10 years ago
    "The only thing that we learn from torture is the depths of our own moral depravity"

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    YouTube has a lot of old movies I can watch without paying...Adblock makes it commercial free...As an entertainment backup system I have a lot of old DVD's to watch...I still pay for internet through Suddenlink......Ben
    The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...

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    I look forward to the day I can. When Elon can get me streaming at the cabin, I’m unplugging.
    "Back after 5 years. I thought you had died.

    don"


    Splitting my time between the montane and the mesas

    The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
    But I have promises to keep,
    And miles to go before I sleep,
    And miles to go before I sleep.

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    Elon is going to hook me up at the East Texas place some time soon. He took my deposit money a month or two ago.
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

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