I pay $43 per month for the Dish Welcome pack. I have a TiVo for locals. I pay Cox $83.99 per month for internet and have Amazon Prime ($120 per year) and UP thru Prime for $5.95 per month. My Dish is much cheaper than streaming.
Bye Bye Dish
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I’m doing the same with Directv . Will be streaming cable channels 60 for $20 a month with Philo TV and locals via outdoor antenna.
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With a Tablo you can do all that and more, guide is 2 weeks, commercial skip, DVR everything that is available to get OTA and the biggest is every TV in the House can pick up the Tablo as long as you have a streaming box hooked up to that TV, no more box fees.
Whatever happened to"don't let the door hit you on the back end!"?Guess people have gotten more civilised.HAHAHAHA
If I could get decent OTA reception, I'd have gone with a Tablo. I tried the Recast for a while, but the re-pack ruined my reception.
Mbps. Capitalization matters folks, because 200 mbps means... well it is slower than 1 baud where a baud is equal to something like a watt per cubic slug or something. m = milli or micro, M = mega. b = bit, B = byte.
/rant
Gaining fiber provides many more options, which is great.
This streaming business is now getting out of hand. Too many broadcast groups starting new "plus" channels.
A particular streaming nuisance is that you can't switch channels quickly without waiting to choose a different service and then load/buffer (using ROKU here). With a sports package, you can't quickly flip between games. Picture in picture with another service is also a no go.
Having a Hopper 3 with Dish is a good experience overall. However, here in Hawaii Dish doesn't provide all channels that you get on the mainland. I've mentioned in another post that, for example, with NHL Center Ice we only get a rotating 7-9 channels this year - most with no games. We have to stream NHL.TV.com in order to see virtually everything this year.
If Dish can't get this resolved, I'll be exploring the cable alternative that we have on this island once my commitment runs out. Unfortunate since I switched from C band to Dish back in Oregon when Costco first started selling Echostar equipment in the mid 90's. I signed up with Dish here on Maui when we relocated back around 2000/2001 and have been fairly satisfied overall.
A particular streaming nuisance is that you can't switch channels quickly without waiting to choose a different service and then load/buffer (using ROKU here). With a sports package, you can't quickly flip between games. Picture in picture with another service is also a no go.
Having a Hopper 3 with Dish is a good experience overall. However, here in Hawaii Dish doesn't provide all channels that you get on the mainland. I've mentioned in another post that, for example, with NHL Center Ice we only get a rotating 7-9 channels this year - most with no games. We have to stream NHL.TV.com in order to see virtually everything this year.
If Dish can't get this resolved, I'll be exploring the cable alternative that we have on this island once my commitment runs out. Unfortunate since I switched from C band to Dish back in Oregon when Costco first started selling Echostar equipment in the mid 90's. I signed up with Dish here on Maui when we relocated back around 2000/2001 and have been fairly satisfied overall.
That May or May Not be the only cut ...
Mine does, the standard 1.2tb, but even having been all streaming for 3 years now, we have only gone over a couple of times, and have never paid for it.
Dish does have a great DVR.
For many, it isnt about being able to afford it, or not. Personally, I just found a better value going streaming, with more content that we actually wanted to watch.
Not everyone will have the same reasons of course, and it isnt for everyone.
I don't and I have Spectrum Cable for internet. They went up $5.00 a month but we went from 100mpbs to 200 mpbs. So it was worth the price hike to double the speeds.
I have never had a Dish DVR because with on demand there is no need to record and streaming is the same deal, I could care less about the NFL,NBA,MLB etc.
I have a Dish DVR and stream and like having both. Both have positives and negatives. I especially like the skip forward/backward feature on the DVR. Granted most streamed programming is commercial free, but when not, you HAVE to watch the commercials. And the skip back feature for streaming is just clunky (to me), so much so that I rarely use it
Now my wife would be perfectly happy dropping Dish and stream only, but as long as I'm paying the bills, we will have both. lol
Not a sports fan here, either. Couldn't care less about the NFL, etc. I'm not even sure I'm going to watch the Super Bowl this year.
Can you explain why that is that much of an improvement? Do people really use their guide to figure out what they want to watch multiple days in advance? I truly don't get it. I use the guide to see what's coming up in the next hour or so, maybe 3-4, but that's rare.
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