Red,

I was ready to make the  Roku move when I was living up north…  which model do you have?

I left Netflix when they raised their price.

I think you you would do about as well with basic cable…

I've actually been looking at Roku myself. Been reading up on it but have not been able to talk to anyone that actually use it. I actually have Charter right now but have been increasingly dissatisfied with the service and in particular the current cost. Keep thinking there has got to be something better.

Butch

If I get one I'll probably go with the roku 2 xs, it's a little pricier but I think it's worth the difference.

http://shop.roku.com/

I know what you mean BH, I basically kept directtv for Sons of Anarchy, Justified and Hell on Wheels.  I use not to watch a lot of TV, I had a couple of shows I loved, Sopranos/The Shield but other than that I wasn't in front of the TV.  Then I got the DVR from Directtv for the ex and I started tivoing shows and wound up watching stuff that basically was crap, but it was convenient "entertainment".

I keep thinking about a kindle or some type of e-book, some of these new devices occasionally give me a killer headache so I'm hesitant to spend the $$ on something that I may wind up not using.  The ex had an i-pad and I played around on it some, it didn't seem to cause any eye/headache problems, but then again I never used it for extended periods like I would if I were reading a book.

I've done without directtv for a week now (cable isn't an option out here in the boonies) and there hasn't been any withdrawal.  ACC basketball is on the local stations, if it's another sports event I can keep up with it on ESPN.com.  Racing sucks so even when it starts back I'm not going to miss anything. I do miss American Restoration though, Rick Dale is my current hero.

I figured worse case scenario I would wait for the dvd's of the shows I do like, but then while messing around after posting the first post I came across Amazon video on demand and it appears I can get current seasons for about $3 an episode.  Yeah, that's not cheap, but I'll pay that for SOA/Justified/Hell on Wheels

Work is pretty busy now, thankfully, so I don't really need to be watching TV but I may try to get a roku for the 2nd TV over the next couple of weeks, it appears to have a built in wi-fi connection, so I don't think I'll have any additional expenses like I did with the TiVo.  Although it does look like I'll need a faster/newer router to support the download of info.

All my TV's are from 2003 when I built the house, they're fine for what I use em for, I've never been one to have to have all the latest bells & whistles, but I may break down and buy a "smart" TV after tax season.  That kind of scares me though, I already have a phone that is smarter than me, if I get a TV smarter than me I'm afraid they'll take over

I'm f'd up in the head (but maybe we all are a little) I looked up my car value on KBB the other day, it has 180K miles on it and it's worth maybe 1,500 or 2K, it's giving me a little trouble but not quite enough to get rid of, although I'll probably get rid of it sometime this year.  That same night I'm looking at smart TV's and they're around $1,200 I just can't quite wrap my head around paying approximately the same amount of money for a TV, when I don't really need a new one, when the car I drive on a daily basis isn't "worth" much more money.  At the same time, it's cool to have all this fun "stuff" to entertain, smart phone, DSL, satellite TV, etc. but hell, those add up to a car payment each month, and I could live without them, but damnit, if y'all have it I want it too.  I mean, I might miss out on seeing Snooki kill an alligator in Alaska using fish caught off the coast of Washington for bait while Larry the Cable Guy & Sarah Palin do color commentary.

You can find quite a lot of the network shows via the different

network websites.  so long as you don't have an internet provider

which wants to charge you if you use more than a certain amount

of band width per month, you should be able to watch many

of the shows on line.  I have Clear, and can watch all of the

shows I want.  So i could tell Comcrap, shitty AT&T, all

the rest of them to kiss my ass. 

NCGENT said:

Julia in Atlanta said:

  So i could tell Comcrap, shitty AT&T, all

the rest of them to kiss my ass. 

 

i also told AT&T to kiss my ass….

I loathe and despise AT&T, NCGENT.

Unfortunately i am locked into a cell contract with the miserable cocksuckers.  But I told them to take their TV & Internet and shove

it up their asses. 

My cell phone was originally Bell South Mobility,

and they were WONDERFUL.  Then they were bought

out by fucking Cingular, and became a royal pain, and then

when it became AT&T, hell, I'd do just as well with 2 tin cans

and string.  Every time my contract is almost up I seem to lose

a phone and end up getting roped back in to another contract

in order to not have to pay through the nose for a fricking

phone.

I'M CURSED!! 

Big Heretic said:

Julia Darling,

I will bring my bottle of gorilla glue on Saturday and we will just glue that pesky phone to your hand and then you won't loose it.

Everybody is a comedian.    How about we set it to vibrate and glue it

someplace else? 

CNBF here we come!!!  if that double wide is a rocking,

dont come a knocking.