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Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: EppyGA - White Christian Domestic Terrorist on December 28, 2024, 02:39:38 PM
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Well, almost. We bought an 86" Samsung QLED back in November. It's been laying face down on our guest room bed. It's been a project picking out a mount, TV weighs 92lbs, getting the mount hung and the real test was getting the Ethernet and Coax cables to the location.
That was a long drawn out project requiring fiberglass rods, an endoscope camera, strings and poly rope to make it happen. Along the way I found there was a lot of blocking just below where the cables ended up. I actually was going to have them about two feet lower, but that didn't work out and some patch work had to happen. The endo camera was a godsend as I, originally, did not even know if was going to be possible to get the cable down the wall. Perseverance paid off in the end. Now I wait to amass a couple or three hardy souls and more ladders to get it hung.
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We’re adding on a den to our house and hubby will move our big screen TV back there. But he has FINALLY decided to drop cable and subscribe to Hulu instead. He streams it to the TV and loves it.
I haven’t watched cable in years. We were paying for it just for him.
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We’re adding on a den to our house and hubby will move our big screen TV back there. But he has FINALLY decided to drop cable and subscribe to Hulu instead. He streams it to the TV and loves it.
I haven’t watched cable in years. We were paying for it just for him.
The cable I have goes to a rooftop antenna. We stream via YouTubeTV
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The cable I have goes to a rooftop antenna. We stream via YouTubeTV
Ha! Just like we had in 1964. Rooftop antenna and a box on top of the TV with a dial we had to set to turn the antenna to the right orientation for which ever channel we wanted to watch. Whichever of the three.
Do you need to make an account on YouTube to stream their TV?
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Ha! Just like we had in 1964. Rooftop antenna and a box on top of the TV with a dial we had to set to turn the antenna to the right orientation for which ever channel we wanted to watch. Whichever of the three.
Do you need to make an account on YouTube to stream their TV?
It's a Google product, so a Google account. Going to $82.99 a month on the first. No rotor on mine. It gets everything except the NBC as they're offline. Probably 30+ plus channels over the air. It's really there as a backup.
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Well, almost. We bought an 86" Samsung QLED back in November. It's been laying face down on our guest room bed. It's been a project picking out a mount, TV weighs 92lbs, getting the mount hung and the real test was getting the Ethernet and Coax cables to the location.
That was a long drawn out project requiring fiberglass rods, an endoscope camera, strings and poly rope to make it happen. Along the way I found there was a lot of blocking just below where the cables ended up. I actually was going to have them about two feet lower, but that didn't work out and some patch work had to happen. The endo camera was a godsend as I, originally, did not even know if was going to be possible to get the cable down the wall. Perseverance paid off in the end. Now I wait to amass a couple or three hardy souls and more ladders to get it hung.
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Congrats.
Do what makes you happy.
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I was at the consumer electronics show in 2007. I saw a 100" Samsung flat screen tv for the first time. It had a Korean lady standing next to it with a video of her on the tv that was the same size.
I met with the Samsung USA VP at a private showing and I asked him how much it was. He said $100,000. I had just purchased a 50" Sony for $18,000 for a client.
I was buying 300 monitors for a client and using the client's building in Las Vegas as a bartering tool to allow a manufacturer display and entertaining space during CES. I got 300 32" monitors for $1,400 each. They were going for around $2,000.
Fast forward to today... I saw a 100" tv at Costco for 1398.00
If only airplanes had the same price structure/reduction with the same improved quality!
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I was at the consumer electronics show in 2007. I saw a 100" Samsung flat screen tv for the first time. It had a Korean lady standing next to it with a video of her on the tv that was the same size.
I met with the Samsung USA VP at a private showing and I asked him how much it was. He said $100,000. I had just purchased a 50" Sony for $18,000 for a client.
I was buying 300 monitors for a client and using the client's building in Las Vegas as a bartering tool to allow a manufacturer display and entertaining space during CES. I got 300 32" monitors for $1,400 each. They were going for around $2,000.
Fast forward to today... I saw a 100" tv at Costco for 1398.00
If only airplanes had the same price structure/reduction with the same improved quality!
Wow.
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I cut the cable about six years ago, and stream everything. It's been great.
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I was at the consumer electronics show in 2007.
I was buying 300 monitors for a client and using the client's building in Las Vegas as a bartering tool to allow a manufacturer display and entertaining space during CES. I got 300 32" monitors for $1,400 each. They were going for around $2,000.
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Fast forward to today... I saw a 100" tv at Costco for 1398.00
If only airplanes had the same price structure/reduction with the same improved quality!
Circa 2000, I bought a 42 inch plasma tv for $7k. I wanted the 60 inch but it was over $10k.
The thing weighed a ton. It cost $150 to have it delivered and installed. It took 3 big guys to install it. Two to lift it and one to guide it and make the connections. When I sold the house the TV stayed behind at no extra cost to the buyer.
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Circa 2000, I bought a 42 inch plasma tv for $7k. I wanted the 60 inch but it was over $10k.
The thing weighed a ton. It cost $150 to have it delivered and installed. It took 3 big guys to install it. Two to lift it and one to guide it and make the connections. When I sold the house the TV stayed behind at no extra cost to the buyer.
And now you can buy 55" flat screens for less than $300.
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I cut the cable about six years ago, and stream everything. It's been great.
We were on Dish for a long time primarily because we were in an Internet-poor area. It worked well and we liked the user interface. Then we moved to a less rural area. Fast Internet and pizza delivered right to our door! Now we stream everything. Several separate subscriptions to keep track of and different user interfaces kind of sucks. But overall cheaper and I don't have to try to get snow off the roof-mounted dish. A off-the-air antenna for the Packers and as a backup if the Internet goes out.
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I remember my first 40" flat screen was almost $1400. Now they are a couple hundred at most. I still have it. It's got some dark lines on the screen so it is now my garage tv.
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I tried taking a 27" tube tv to Goodwill 15-20 years ago, and they wouldn't touch it. You could get a 20" flatscreen for under $100.
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I tried taking a 27" tube tv to Goodwill 15-20 years ago, and they wouldn't touch it. You could get a 20" flatscreen for under $100.
We took ours to a local assisted living facility and gave it to them to use in a patient room that didn't have enough income to have one.
They were thrilled.
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Well hubby called Spectrum today and officially canceled cable TV.
Apparently so have a lot of other people:
https://x.com/veeragoni/status/1873813390600343798
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I cancelled both my cable TV and cable internet and got less expensive alternatives.
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I cancelled both my cable TV and cable internet and got less expensive alternatives.
He signed us up for Hulu.
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I cancelled both my cable TV and cable internet and got less expensive alternatives.
What did you replace the Cable Internet with? I'm paying way too much to a company I hate, Comcast/Xfinity, and it's just for internet only. As stated previously, I cut cable TV several years ago, but need internet, so......
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What did you replace the Cable Internet with? I'm paying way too much to a company I hate, Comcast/Xfinity, and it's just for internet only. As stated previously, I cut cable TV several years ago, but need internet, so......
A new-to-the-neighborhood (I'm On) spent the summer laying fiber-optic cable and then offered real deals on real fast internet, to steal customers from Mediacom. Mediacom has buried coax and can't compete with fiber on speed.
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What did you replace the Cable Internet with? I'm paying way too much to a company I hate, Comcast/Xfinity, and it's just for internet only. As stated previously, I cut cable TV several years ago, but need internet, so......
You can try the T-Mobile or Verizon 5G Cubes. Depends on where you are in relation to their towers and the saturation. I have a friend that is happy with theirs. I tried T-Mobile and just couldn't get any speed from it.
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What did you replace the Cable Internet with? I'm paying way too much to a company I hate, Comcast/Xfinity, and it's just for internet only. As stated previously, I cut cable TV several years ago, but need internet, so......
Can you get FiOS there?
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TV is up....
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TV is up....
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Is it my imagination or is it slightly crooked?
Kidding! ;D
I only thought of that because I took a picture of one of our new concrete slabs and sent it to my sister and she said, “That looks crooked!” But it was just the optics of the picture. The slab is perfectly level, straight and square.
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Can you get FiOS there?
Yes, but it's just as expensive as Commiecast.
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Yes, but it's just as expensive as Commiecast.
But is FIOS better than what Commiecast offers?
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Larry looks good full size...
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Is it my imagination or is it slightly crooked?
Kidding! ;D
I only thought of that because I took a picture of one of our new concrete slabs and sent it to my sister and she said, “That looks crooked!” But it was just the optics of the picture. The slab is perfectly level, straight and square.
Not crooked, but it is tilted down 15 degrees so we don't have to look up so much since it is pretty high on the wall. It was my wife's request that it be high rnough over the mantle that she could still put picture frames on the mantle.
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Yes, but it's just as expensive as Commiecast.
Look at some of the cellular options.
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Not crooked, but it is tilted down 15 degrees so we don't have to look up so much since it is pretty high on the wall. It was my wife's request that it be high rnough over the mantle that she could still put picture frames on the mantle.
it's tilted for drainage. yeah, that's it. drainage...
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Not crooked, but it is tilted down 15 degrees so we don't have to look up so much since it is pretty high on the wall. It was my wife's request that it be high rnough over the mantle that she could still put picture frames on the mantle.
Ah I see.
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But is FIOS better than what Commiecast offers?
It may be. I've had FIOS before, so I'll have to check.
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Look at some of the cellular options.
I will. My cell coverage here isn't the greatest for some reason. It's not like this is the boonies any longer.