If you are considering dropping your cable tv subscription and moving to streaming as an alternative there are a number of things that you need to understand before you cut the cord.
Although cable justifiably gets a bad rap because it is overly expensive and the content on the 150 stations you might have in your package is normally duplicated and often shows that have been off the air for 10 years. To pay $100 …
If you are considering installing an antenna for OTA Broadcasts you will have a lot of choices when it comes to antennas. The first thing that you want to do is find out what type of signal you have in your area. A good site for this is www.TVFool.com because they will allow you to put in your GPS coordinates and the height of the antenna and get a pretty good reading on what …
If you are a cable tv subscriber and are considering cutting the cord because of cost and moving to an antenna I have a word of advice before you do. One thing that most people never think of when they have cable is the idea that one day they might move to Antenna only or they might go to Antenna and a Streaming Service.
Streaming Services such as Hulu, Youtube, Amazon Prime and a few …
If you are in an area that provides internet over your cable tv company’s line then you have probably looked at the costs involved. The first thing you should know is that if you are a large data user the major internet providers are going to limit your data download amount with what is called a Data Cap. Although there are FCC rules that force cable and phone providers to provide open access and …
If you are considering reducing your cable or dish bill by going with Antenna based TV then you will have some change in your life. However there is a lot of great free content that you can get if you are within the broadcast area and you may have options over your broadband to supplement your local stations with free and paid streaming options.
Most Major Networks like Fox CBS ABC NBC also …
There are many new standards and television that are about to happen. Most cable systems are preparing to move their broadcast to streaming solutions and over the air antenna base television we’ll see new standards in IP distribution in the new ATSC 3.0 standard.
So what does this mean for most of us? It may mean that the new televisions we have just purchased to be compatible with digital technology will need to be replaced …
If you are like most Americans this February you will be watching the Super Bowl but will you be watching it in HD?
If you have cable or dish television many of these services say they provide HD television but most of these providers distribute dumb down version of HD quality television.
The Super Bowl will be broadcast on CBS television network which means if you are in a metropolitan area, suburbs or maybe even …
If you are under 30 statistics show that there is a good chance that you don’t even purchase TV Subscriptions from your Cable Provider. For the rest of us that number right now is in the 20% area with many millions of customers every few months on all provider’s networks who are choosing only to get Data Plans and not subscribe to TV Broadcasts.
Does this mean that people no longer want to watch TV? …
If you wonder what you are going to do when Data Caps come to your Home Town you aren’t alone. For millions of Americans that rely on online streaming of content to either supplement or replace TV Subscriptions an in your face campaign has been launched to increase your monthly costs exponentially.
Our family has been Comcast customers for decades even before there was Internet Service but at that time the quality of content on cable …
If you are old enough you remember the transition from Antenna to Cable and Dish and now to Streaming services. If you wanted to watch a movie you went to the movie theater and watched what was playing or maybe there was a Movie on a Major Network a couple times a week. We then had the opportunity to record what we watched with VCR Tapes and then CDs, DVDs and the Blueray Disks.
If …