Cut the Cord and switched to an Antenna for TV
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Eddie, depending on your Roku model, you might have volume control on it. Check the right side of the remote for volume buttons. You can also use a roku app on your phone instead of the remote. That works well too.
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Been doing this since 2013 and it works well and keeps me happy. We also do Netflix and AppleTV. Don't miss cable/sat at all and it saves a lot of $$.
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Speaking of ROKU, some of my savings gained from the antenna goes towards buying batteries for the ROKU remotes, particularly the ones paired to the sticks. I have never seen remotes gobble batteries so much. AAA batteries. We set them on solid surfaces because I read they were motion activated, but I do not know that for sure.
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Good going Eddie... it is not like you can't go back if you want.
Never left antenna... just added a digital converter with rebate to the old Zenith Color Console...
60 channels and always something on...
I looked around for the old freebee antenna that came with TV's back in the day... I thought I had one in the closet along with the round UHF one.
The only tricky part is the antenna has to be just right on top of the TV... I mean just right... works fine until someone dusts or moves it... I have witness marks now so no big deal.
If I think back to how much 50 years of cable would have cost it would be staggering.
Managing rental property many of which are low income it always amazed back in the day that it was essential each room have phone and cable jacks. I never have had a Section 8 family without cable and a nice TV for the time... projection, flat and even curved...
To this day some think I am pulling their leg when I say I have never lived in a home with cable... and still have a working rotary landline...
The point is I hate recurring charges... it is like a treadmill you never get off.
Since I put in solar about a year ago I have not paid for a single kW through net metering... there is still the monthly service charge but the $100 utility credit for the power outage covered most of my first year...
Now if I could just get rid of the exorbitant Water/Sewer bill!
Never left antenna... just added a digital converter with rebate to the old Zenith Color Console...
60 channels and always something on...
I looked around for the old freebee antenna that came with TV's back in the day... I thought I had one in the closet along with the round UHF one.
The only tricky part is the antenna has to be just right on top of the TV... I mean just right... works fine until someone dusts or moves it... I have witness marks now so no big deal.
If I think back to how much 50 years of cable would have cost it would be staggering.
Managing rental property many of which are low income it always amazed back in the day that it was essential each room have phone and cable jacks. I never have had a Section 8 family without cable and a nice TV for the time... projection, flat and even curved...
To this day some think I am pulling their leg when I say I have never lived in a home with cable... and still have a working rotary landline...
The point is I hate recurring charges... it is like a treadmill you never get off.
Since I put in solar about a year ago I have not paid for a single kW through net metering... there is still the monthly service charge but the $100 utility credit for the power outage covered most of my first year...
Now if I could just get rid of the exorbitant Water/Sewer bill!
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I may have a future remote problem as the Zenith Space Command takes a battery that is no longer on store shelves... good thing is the battery tends to last for several years...
If the day comes I will just have to get up and to make changes.
The original Zenith Space Command doesn't even use batteries... have a portable set in the garage... no batteries required... it works by sound.
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I have never had a Water/Sewer bill!!! I also only have OTA with Netflix. I have never had cable. There is no cable here. I can't handle the infomercials during TV shows, so I got a TIVO with lifetime service.
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We recently got high speed internet connection;dropped Direct TV($182/month;and Verizon telephone at $82.00,slow internet at $50.00)
High speed cost $50/month+$40.00 for unlimited phone and Sling for $54.00.Big savings and lots of T.V. to watch.Still have an antenna for the local stations.
High speed cost $50/month+$40.00 for unlimited phone and Sling for $54.00.Big savings and lots of T.V. to watch.Still have an antenna for the local stations.
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City limits and water/sewer bill not optional...
Monthly charge BEFORE a drop of water is used is $150... so $1800 annually.
Summer water can add as much as $300 month.
It is just not here but other places like South Lake Tahoe... 2000 gallons a year... yes 2000 gallons annual use last year and still $1300... having the service turned off means water company pulls meter... to reset meter costs thousands of dollars...
This is how the district keeps year round revenues when use is primarily Summer months.
Monthly charge BEFORE a drop of water is used is $150... so $1800 annually.
Summer water can add as much as $300 month.
It is just not here but other places like South Lake Tahoe... 2000 gallons a year... yes 2000 gallons annual use last year and still $1300... having the service turned off means water company pulls meter... to reset meter costs thousands of dollars...
This is how the district keeps year round revenues when use is primarily Summer months.
I grew up with OTA as the only option. As a kid I was the remote control and got yelled at when I rotated the channel dial too fast - click click click click click - YOU ARE GOING TO FAST YOU WILL BREAK THE TV! I also got to adjust the antenna rotor.
When we had a house in town we had cable. 500 channels of the simpsons playing at 1 hour offsets, and only 8 hours of programming broadcast 3 times a day and for each time zone! Only $100 a month! No thanks.
Moved back to the country and went back to OTA. Get 39 channels, all network channels and most of them are broadcast at higher definition than what you get on cable/sat. Windows Media Center used to be the goto PVR until micro$oft discontinued it. My big splurge was getting a TiVo OTA for $70/year for the guide and silent PVR. I hardly ever watch live TV anymore and with commercial skip never watch any commercials. No specially channels but thats what YouTube is replacing.
The negative to living in the country is that streaming is near impossible and internet service is worse than what you get in 3rd world countries at 1000x the cost.