Jenny
Angel Diva
Drat, the Warren Miller channel is just short clips.
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nopoleskier
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well I've been without TV for over a year.. missing football... so DH bought an air antenna 100$ we have a booster and so far it's working!! way better than Direct TV at 90/month!!
geargrrl
Angel Diva
I'm ruminating on this whole Roku thing. It's looking like ABC (Survivor, Amazing Race) are the only things I can't pull,in online- does this sound right? bravo, Lifetime, Discovery, History and PBS all look like they have online viewing options.
Antenna is not an option- we live under some towers and don't get reception, period.
Do the online shows have ads in them? That is one thing I love about DVR and On Demand....no ads.
Antenna is not an option- we live under some towers and don't get reception, period.
Do the online shows have ads in them? That is one thing I love about DVR and On Demand....no ads.
The funny thing is - my parents held on to their land line for a long time, but in the last couple years, the LAND LINE lost service due to power outages and weather issues that messed up the land lines, and at one point their cell phones worked fine while the land line was out for 4 days straight.
They finally gave up and cancelled the land line once it turned out to be less reliable than their cell phones. I don't know if that was a maintenance issue where they live or a fluke or what. But I haven't had a land line in over a decade.
Cell phone sites have some sort of backup power in almost all cases, as it's a federal requirement. In my experience, Verizon and AT&T do a better job than most smaller carriers about providing good backup power, and most of their sites have generators in addition to battery back up and are equipped to operate through power outages. If you have a serious situation with big earthquakes or massive flooding or something that actually destroys the site - then you're going to be depending on temporary sites (called COW's=Cell On Wheels) that they bring in to the disaster area, but in that dramatic of a case, your land line is quite possibly not much good either.
Now how you're going to keep your phone charged is a different issue, but you can buy solar chargers or backup batteries to keep on hand for that type of situation if you are concerned about it.
Part of the other issue with phones not working well in emergencies is that everyone is suddenly trying to use their phone all at the same time. You are best off trying to get texts through in those situations.
I gave our our old land line number for years and years after we cancelled it to people I didn't want actually calling me but who required a phone number. I kind of felt bad for whoever inherited our old number and then looked it up one day and it's now the number for the local Home Depot. Hahaha.
At least on my cell phone I can add my own caller ID of "DO NOT ANSWER" for the numbers who call me for fundraising and things that escape the telemarketing rules and can keep pestering you. I also refuse to answer calls from UNKNOWN numbers. I figure if it was actually important, they could leave a message.
We can't get any of the Albany stations on an antenna. Sometimes Channel 6, but that's it. We must live in a radio dead zone or something.
Jenny
Angel Diva
Give me a few days and I can look for some of this stuff. We're still learning over here!
Looking at the Roku channels I can see:
Lifetime - full episodes
History - full episodes
A&E - full episodes
PBS - original and featured programs - I've watched a few things on this one
Once I go into Hulu Plus I can find:
Last night's episode of Resurrection - ABC. Also on ABC are episodes of other current shows.
There's also an NBC channel, but I have to find a show that I know what season it's in to know if they're current or not.
Amazing Race does have all sorts of past seasons on the CBS channel (22 of them). What season is Survivor in? I can see season 26 as the most recent, I think. And I'm pretty sure we've determined that we'll have to go to the CBS website if we miss a current show, but we've just started trying to figure that out, now that the fall shows have started.
Discovery seems to be just clips. History channel extremely limited - like, two shows.
As for ads - I'll have to pay attention to see. I mean, I know they're there, but I tune them out so automatically that I don't know off the top of my head. On Hulu Plus, I think there may be one at the beginning, but I can't remember what it's like during the show!
Jenny
Angel Diva
DH will be trying out some online stuff directly from CBS soon, I think. Scorpion was on tonight, and he was at hockey . . .
ETA - neither of us can get CBS stuff on the tablets, we think (iPad and Android). He did say desktop was different and he could have watched CSI there.
ETA - neither of us can get CBS stuff on the tablets, we think (iPad and Android). He did say desktop was different and he could have watched CSI there.
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Jenny
Angel Diva
Here's where I'm kind of dumb, still. We had to buy something to stream with, because we didn't have anything that already did it - like one of the gaming systems. I thought that we'd need something like that to stream directly to the TV, rather than watching our tablets. Otherwise, I think we could have just signed up for Hulu and Netflix and watched them without buying the Roku. So far I've watched a little bit of stuff on each thing - meaning a Roku specific channel (PBS & Smithsonian, I think), Hulu Plus (Daily Show/Colbert report), Netflix (House of Cards), and the antenna. I've also just watched a few things online, which I could have done without any new equipment or subscriptions - Property Brothers and House Hunters International on HGTV, for example.
Jenny
Angel Diva
No - the only thing connected to the TV is the Roku. When I watched the online HGTV stuff it was on my tablet.
FYI - https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog.../the-fcc-just-sacked-the-sports-blackout-rule
Not sure if there's more to the administrative process or if this is a done deal.
I just got Hulu Plus for the Roku (and iPad and computer). I missed last week's premiere for one of the shows I regularly watch, someone died in the premiere, and I couldn't wait an entire 8 days for it to become available to watch online.
Thanks to Hulu Plus, I've also watched my two favorite episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
@geargrrl - I think almost all the network channels now make their shows available online 8 days after they were first broadcast, unless you have a cable or other type of paid (ie, Hulu plus) subscription, in which case you can watch it the next day.
Not sure if there's more to the administrative process or if this is a done deal.
I just got Hulu Plus for the Roku (and iPad and computer). I missed last week's premiere for one of the shows I regularly watch, someone died in the premiere, and I couldn't wait an entire 8 days for it to become available to watch online.
Thanks to Hulu Plus, I've also watched my two favorite episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.@geargrrl - I think almost all the network channels now make their shows available online 8 days after they were first broadcast, unless you have a cable or other type of paid (ie, Hulu plus) subscription, in which case you can watch it the next day.
nopoleskier
Ski Diva Extraordinaire
we raised the antenna up over the metal roof and now get local channels along w/their side channels! Had to work on aiming it to make them come in..
Jenny
Angel Diva
I really don't understand the blackout thing anyway. If you don't feel a tie to your local team, then you're not going to lay out the cash to go to a game, and you can't develop a tie without getting to see them sometimes. So it seems to me to be a vicious circle. And while I probably won't ever go see the Lions, it doesn't mean that I wouldn't buy some of their stuff. (OK, I'll never see them and I'll never buy their stuff, but that's because I'm cheap and I don't care about them, but you know what I mean.)
And I get that they want to sell tickets, but perhaps they shouldn't charge so much if that's the case. I just looked up Detroit vs. Chicago and the best available (looks like second tier) tickets were $395 each. That's a lot of skiing!
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Nice! We looked into this years ago, before DirecTV had local channels. Maybe it's better now that digital tv is available.
Jenny
Angel Diva
I could always give out one that's on digit different than ours - then they'd get the high school attendance office or the golf course . . .
Jenny
Angel Diva
I can now relatively reliably report that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have a commercial at the beginning, a couple partway through, and then another right before they sign off. (I say relatively reliably because I caught myself just automatically tuning out but I think I snapped back to attention in time.) I watch those on Hulu Plus. And you can't fast forward through them, either.
