| Don't get it So I cut the cord. My Internet now goes up by $10 or more since I get a bundle with FIOS (or Comcast).
Now I have to buy my shows at $1/episode. Watch more than 1 show a day and you're up to $30 a month. And I don't get the glorious HD I've become accustomed to. If I subscribe to Hulu or watch the shows online and get commercials. My DVR ensure I never see commercials.
So now my cost is pretty much the same as if I kept my FIOS + Internet + DVR.
Then there's the additional box I have to buy (be it a computer or Apple or Google TV), configure and use. I'm certainly not going from a 50" Plasma to a 15" laptop or a 4" Droid X.
So tell me again why I would cut the cord?
FIOS + DVR + Slingbox + Droid X = TV anywhere and the cost is pretty reasonable as we pay $122 a month for FIOS Internet 25/15, HD Extreme HD with better and more HD than CrapCast, 1x HD-DVR, 1x HD Box, and 1x SD Box.
If I were to cut the cord, my Internet would jump to $65/month or 1/2 what I am paying now. I would get commercials and be tied to my laptop.
Tell me why I would cut the cord? |
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 dvd536as Mr. Pink as they comePremium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
kudos:4 | said by itguy05:Tell me why I would cut the cord? Eventually DVR's are going to disable FF over commercials then what are you going to do?
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| said by dvd536:said by itguy05:Tell me why I would cut the cord? Eventually DVR's are going to disable FF over commercials then what are you going to do? Use an open source DVR like MythTV. |
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Eventually DVR's are going to disable FF over commercials then what are you going to do?
Roll my own or get rid of it. There's no point in a DVR that I have to watch commericals. |
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| said by itguy05:Roll my own or get rid of it. There's no point in a DVR that I have to watch commericals. So the convenience of watching TV on your own schedule is pointless? I think not. |
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join:2009-01-28
Simi Valley, CA | said by fifty nine:said by itguy05:Roll my own or get rid of it. There's no point in a DVR that I have to watch commericals. So the convenience of watching TV on your own schedule is pointless? I think not. I don't even watch TV (I cannot remember the last time I turned the TV on for a tv show in at least 10-15 years) and I know this. Hell, my mom has not watched commercials if she's paying attention to the TV for YEARS. At least two decades. If it wasn't DVR it was VCR.
And frankly, I don't know why you'd have to watch commercials with DVR. My mom does not. At best fast forward ? I don't watch TV but I cannot imagine that VCR would have this and then DVR - you know, newer technology - not have this. Plus, I've seen it done lack this feature. I'd be curious though, how or why you would not be able to just zip through the commercials... |
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