They may bite me. I am tired of them not showing up and using the excuse that they "tried to call". They were perfectly capable of calling me at 11 this morning to try to come early, but when it comes to calling me to actually show up at my house during the appointment window, no dice. ::)
It's almost as bad as the UPS guy who "can't find the address" on the days he's running particularly late.
(Also, it would be great if they could figure out what buttons they need to press to make CableCARDs work without sending a person out)
Satellite TV my friend. Let me know if you are interested.
Quote from: DolfanBob on July 17, 2012, 05:13:24 PM
Satellite TV my friend. Let me know if you are interested.
I haven't looked carefully, but I seriously doubt I've got line of sight to all the necessary satellites for either Dish or DirecTV, anyway. Not without a series of unfortunate incidents involving my neighbor's trees anyway. Besides, I have about a thousand dollars worth of TiVos I'd have to sell if I switched.
I gotcha. You cant live in Sherwood Forest and get Satellite TV.
Quote from: DolfanBob on July 17, 2012, 05:13:24 PM
Satellite TV my friend. Let me know if you are interested.
Exactly. I just wish DirecTV would do something about their slow donkey HD DVR's. I've heard the new models are much better, but they want far too much to send me new ones.
I'm upset with Dish dropping AMC. The Walking Dead is awsome.
Quote from: DolfanBob on July 17, 2012, 05:13:24 PM
Satellite TV my friend. Let me know if you are interested.
I got my satellite TV from DolfanBob. He got me a great deal. Mention me and I get a rebate which I will use to buy you lunch at a fine restaurant.
Quote from: RecycleMichael on July 17, 2012, 08:53:18 PM
I got my satellite TV from DolfanBob. He got me a great deal. Mention me and I get a rebate which I will use to buy you lunch at a fine restaurant.
If I hurry can it be a chicken fried steak at Blue Dome Diner?
Quote from: DolfanBob on July 17, 2012, 05:13:24 PM
Satellite TV my friend. Let me know if you are interested.
Over the Air + Hulu and/or Netflix my friends
Quote from: BKDotCom on July 18, 2012, 09:03:53 AM
Over the Air + Hulu and/or Netflix my friends
I can't give up HBO, I'm addicted to GOT and VEEP
In addition to Hulu and Netflix you will need something to record over the air shows. Sometimes you can watch shows on the Network's website when they are not available on Hulu or Netflix (Like Downton Abbey at pbs.com) is you didn't catch them live or weren't able to record them. Personally I find the content on Netflix is wanting.
Quote from: BKDotCom on July 18, 2012, 09:03:53 AM
Over the Air + Hulu and/or Netflix my friends
Talk about going back to rubbing two sticks together. "Meh" to each their own.
Quote from: DolfanBob on July 18, 2012, 10:30:50 AM
Talk about going back to rubbing two sticks together. "Meh" to each their own.
Far less compressed than satellite or cable, and it's free.
Do you also have a land-line?
<hippie talk>cut the cords man!</hippie talk>
Quote from: BKDotCom on July 18, 2012, 04:28:02 PM
Far less compressed than satellite or cable, and it's free.
Do you also have a land-line?
<hippie talk>cut the cords man!</hippie talk>
How is it free? You still have pay for the internet. And the cable cos are starting to get wise to this via capping. All that stream chews up a TON of bandwidth.
Cox fellow showed up and made everything work, so I'm happy for the moment. Apparently, it's not great to have water in your drop from the pole. ;)
DB, last week in the WSJ there was an article about a projection TV system that just finds public domain material at minimal cost. So, it's not HD because none of the program quality is very good. Sooner or later, the integration of the various delivery forms will enable us to customize our own programming.
Meanwhile, the hopper.
Four letters: XBMC. ;)
Quote from: nathanm on July 18, 2012, 08:26:04 PM
Four letters: XBMC. ;)
I do the HTPC/AppleTV route so I loaded that and found out it supported basically nothing I used. Not even a working netflix plugin. Worthless.
Quote from: sgrizzle on July 18, 2012, 08:35:25 PM
I do the HTPC/AppleTV route so I loaded that and found out it supported basically nothing I used. Not even a working netflix plugin. Worthless.
WDTV Live
http://wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=330
Quote from: sgrizzle on July 18, 2012, 08:35:25 PM
I do the HTPC/AppleTV route so I loaded that and found out it supported basically nothing I used. Not even a working netflix plugin. Worthless.
There was once a working Netflix plugin, but Netflix has actively taken steps to block it. Sometimes they fix it before Netflix kills it again. Hulu works, as does Amazon, YouTube, most of the TV network sites, and a whole host of other things, including some that I'd rate more highly than Netflix. I don't know whether they work on the AppleTV, but they work on my Ubuntu box. I haven't tried recently on Windows.
Quote from: nathanm on July 18, 2012, 06:14:17 PM
Cox fellow showed up and made everything work, so I'm happy for the moment. Apparently, it's not great to have water in your drop from the pole. ;)
It seems to cause a rusted out center conductor in the fittings. Same thing will happen with Satellite if you don't use the propper fittings.
How is the Apple T.V. working out for you that have it. I was always a Windows user until recently getting a Apple Mac here at the office. And I love it. Of course a few things have not worked exactly as a PC but as little as that may be, I have no idea why everyone does not use a Mac.
Quote from: DolfanBob on July 19, 2012, 09:22:49 AM
It seems to cause a rusted out center conductor in the fittings. Same thing will happen with Satellite if you don't use the propper fittings.
How is the Apple T.V. working out for you that have it. I was always a Windows user until recently getting a Apple Mac here at the office. And I love it. Of course a few things have not worked exactly as a PC but as little as that may be, I have no idea why everyone does not use a Mac.
I resisted forever going Mac. Everything felt really foreign at first, but once you get used to it, you are right: you wonder why anyone still uses Windows.
Quote from: Conan71 on July 19, 2012, 09:24:24 AM
you wonder why anyone still uses Windows.
It runs all the idiotic software I'm made to use. And the computers that run it are well under half the price. ;)
A Mac Pro equivalent to what I'm typing this on (3.2ghz quad core, 12GB memory) runs about $3,000. That $2,000 difference bought me a 46" LCD TV, a 32" LCD TV, a 17" LCD monitor, a bunch of Williams pinball machine parts, assorted other computer-related stuff, an LEDWiz LED controller, a button-keyboard interface, a couple of sheets of birch plywood, and the beer necessary to get some folks to help me build a pinball cabinet so I'd have somewhere to put all that stuff. ;D
Quote from: nathanm on July 19, 2012, 01:37:48 PM
It runs all the idiotic software I'm made to use. And the computers that run it are well under half the price. ;)
A Mac Pro equivalent to what I'm typing this on (3.2ghz quad core, 12GB memory) runs about $3,000. That $2,000 difference bought me a 46" LCD TV, a 32" LCD TV, a 17" LCD monitor, a bunch of Williams pinball machine parts, assorted other computer-related stuff, an LEDWiz LED controller, a button-keyboard interface, a couple of sheets of birch plywood, and the beer necessary to get some folks to help me build a pinball cabinet so I'd have somewhere to put all that stuff. ;D
Spendthrift.
I would have wisely spent that $2000 on a carbon fiber bicycle frame. ;D
Quote from: Conan71 on July 19, 2012, 01:42:54 PM
Spendthrift.
I would have wisely spent that $2000 on a carbon fiber bicycle frame. ;D
350 to 400 gallons of Avgas
Both of those seem like excellent choices. Maybe not for me, in the case of the avgas, because I have no plane to put it in. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to go buy 400 gallons of gas and pump it onto the ground. ;D
Quote from: nathanm on July 19, 2012, 01:52:38 PM
Both of those seem like excellent choices. Maybe not for me, in the case of the avgas, because I have no plane to put it in. It wouldn't make a lot of sense to go buy 400 gallons of gas and pump it onto the ground. ;D
Yeah, but your Honda would have loved it!
Quote from: nathanm on July 17, 2012, 05:02:38 PM
They may bite me. I am tired of them not showing up and using the excuse that they "tried to call". They were perfectly capable of calling me at 11 this morning to try to come early, but when it comes to calling me to actually show up at my house during the appointment window, no dice. ::)
It's almost as bad as the UPS guy who "can't find the address" on the days he's running particularly late.
(Also, it would be great if they could figure out what buttons they need to press to make CableCARDs work without sending a person out)
They just bought two TV stations here in town, so at least their economy is improving.
Quote from: nathanm on July 19, 2012, 01:37:48 PM
It runs all the idiotic software I'm made to use. And the computers that run it are well under half the price. ;)
A Mac Pro equivalent to what I'm typing this on (3.2ghz quad core, 12GB memory) runs about $3,000. That $2,000 difference bought me a 46" LCD TV, a 32" LCD TV, a 17" LCD monitor, a bunch of Williams pinball machine parts, assorted other computer-related stuff, an LEDWiz LED controller, a button-keyboard interface, a couple of sheets of birch plywood, and the beer necessary to get some folks to help me build a pinball cabinet so I'd have somewhere to put all that stuff. ;D
Mac Pros are for software developers and graphic designers, not for a PC
Quote from: Conan71 on July 19, 2012, 01:42:54 PM
Spendthrift.
I would have wisely spent that $2000 on a carbon fiber bicycle frame. ;D
Marshalls (obligatory reference)
Quote from: sgrizzle on July 20, 2012, 09:56:51 AM
Mac Pros are for software developers and graphic designers, not for a PC
It's approximately equivalent to what I have on my desk. I don't have a Xeon in this machine, but the graphics cards make up for the pricing differential.
I think I just made the girl in retentions go into a spitting fit.
Had to be transferred to the supervisor.
Quote from: Townsend on February 05, 2013, 02:08:44 PM
I think I just made the girl in retentions go into a spitting fit.
Had to be transferred to the supervisor.
harhar, I did that last week. I was able to broker a deal that got me 15 dollars off my average bill from the last 12 months, with better services.
I threatened to switch to Dish or Uverse. I don't even have access to Uverse.
Quote from: Hoss on February 05, 2013, 02:51:12 PM
harhar, I did that last week. I was able to broker a deal that got me 15 dollars off my average bill from the last 12 months, with better services.
I threatened to switch to Dish or Uverse. I don't even have access to Uverse.
I actually said "there's no reason to get upset. It's just TV."
Quote from: Townsend on February 05, 2013, 02:57:41 PM
I actually said "there's no reason to get upset. It's just TV."
I didn't really get upset. After the month I've had, that was too petty anyway. I just told them I'd switch. They would either deal or wouldn't.
They dealt. ;D
I recently went to U-Verse internet. I got a better monthly deal brokering it through DirecTV since I'm already a subscriber. I was told the installation, router, modem, or whatever else they used to install the internet would be $200 but after four weeks that would be refunded to me.
Now I get emails from U-Verse saying that if I change over to U-verse TV (ain't gonna happen) I'll get my $200 back. I wonder if DTV was aware that's how AT&T intended to do an equipment refund to their customers?
Quote from: Conan71 on February 05, 2013, 03:27:01 PM
I recently went to U-Verse internet. I got a better monthly deal brokering it through DirecTV since I'm already a subscriber. I was told the installation, router, modem, or whatever else they used to install the internet would be $200 but after four weeks that would be refunded to me.
Now I get emails from U-Verse saying that if I change over to U-verse TV (ain't gonna happen) I'll get my $200 back. I wonder if DTV was aware that's how AT&T intended to do an equipment refund to their customers?
Why I quit dealing with AT&T. The bait and switch. I have cell phone with them, but only because I started service back when they were still called Cingular.
Quote from: Hoss on February 05, 2013, 03:21:04 PM
I didn't really get upset. After the month I've had, that was too petty anyway. I just told them I'd switch. They would either deal or wouldn't.
They dealt. ;D
The representative started raising her voice and asking "Why would he say that?" after I told her what the previous rep told me. It's so unimportant to me that it wasn't worth her blowing a rod.
I asked to be escalated so she could go get some water or whatever.
Quote from: Townsend on February 05, 2013, 03:44:19 PM
It's so unimportant to me that it wasn't worth her blowing a rod.
I asked to be escalated so she could go get some water or whatever.
Ripping off your graphic yet again:
(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5242/5352265976_b48a4da9de.jpg)
Is that twice in a week now?
Quote from: Conan71 on February 05, 2013, 03:49:41 PM
Ripping off your graphic yet again:
My name's not Rod.
Quote from: Townsend on February 05, 2013, 02:57:41 PM
I actually said "there's no reason to get upset. It's just TV."
The saying in the biz is "Babies aren't going to die, it's just cable"
Quote from: swake on February 05, 2013, 04:25:48 PM
The saying in the biz is "Babies aren't going to die, it's just cable"
Thanks, I'll use that on the next call.
Girl to supervisor when transferring call " So... then he like, threatened to kill a baby or something"
Quote from: Conan71 on February 05, 2013, 03:27:01 PM
I recently went to U-Verse internet. I got a better monthly deal brokering it through DirecTV since I'm already a subscriber. I was told the installation, router, modem, or whatever else they used to install the internet would be $200 but after four weeks that would be refunded to me.
Now I get emails from U-Verse saying that if I change over to U-verse TV (ain't gonna happen) I'll get my $200 back. I wonder if DTV was aware that's how AT&T intended to do an equipment refund to their customers?
I don't have netflix, but an attractive pal or two have it and it gives me good reason to go over because the vast amount of choices and the convenience. I have Dish and were it not for the SIRIUS feed, the sports, and the HBO stuff I'd just have basic cable and netflix. It won't be long before we can customize our TV using our smart phones.