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New PSVUE update for the ROKU is a big improvement.
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is the title of this thread supposed to be cord cutters unite?
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spike wrote:is the title of this thread supposed to be cord cutters unite?
Yes but i pulled a strat and i've stuck with it. Unit works too. We're like a crew. A group. A gang....a unit and we can't be messed with.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:Amazon Music just launched a great promo: three months for just $1. I signed up in a heartbeat.
What is it after that?
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Amazon Music just launched a great promo: three months for just $1. I signed up in a heartbeat.
What is it after that?
$7.99/mo for Prime members, but you can cancel at any time.
How is it better/different than Spotify?
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just added Showtime to my Amazon, and I can access it through the TVs running Roku as well... $8.99/mo through there..
Roku wanted $10.99/mo. Direct TV wanted $15/mo..
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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tragabigzanda wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:
Monkey_Driven wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Amazon Music just launched a great promo: three months for just $1. I signed up in a heartbeat.
What is it after that?
$7.99/mo for Prime members, but you can cancel at any time.
How is it better/different than Spotify?
Basically the same as Spotify premium.
That's what I thought. Cool deal.
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Interesting side effect: less tv watching, more sex. :shake:
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LoathedVermin72 wrote:
Bi_3 wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Cable quality is dogshit. Streaming absolutely trounces it.
Turns out Fios was medium bitrate 1080i, Amazon’s HBO is high bitrate 1080p.
Yep, that's the norm. Amazon also has a good amount of stuff in 4K.
and they're good about the experience. on two separate occasions, i've had movies streaming through Amazon buffer for about 20 seconds total. and both times they sent me refunds for my rentals without me even contacting them bc it didn't even bother me that much.

i'm sure the refunds happen when the buffering is due to their servers and not your ISP, but still, not bad.
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My cable goes off at midnight. I have youtube tv now for live television.
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i'm basking in the warm glow of cable tv right now
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doug rr wrote:i'm basking in the warm glow of cable tv right now
andy griffith?
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:i'm basking in the warm glow of cable tv right now
andy griffith?
rachel maddow..same haircut though
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doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:i'm basking in the warm glow of cable tv right now
andy griffith?
rachel maddow..same haircut though
my parents watch her
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:i'm basking in the warm glow of cable tv right now
andy griffith?
rachel maddow..same haircut though
my parents watch her
mine don't
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doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:i'm basking in the warm glow of cable tv right now
andy griffith?
rachel maddow..same haircut though
my parents watch her
mine don't
when was the last time you talked to them?
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:
lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
doug rr wrote:i'm basking in the warm glow of cable tv right now
andy griffith?
rachel maddow..same haircut though
my parents watch her
mine don't
when was the last time you talked to them?
about a month ago
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