Cut the Cord and switched to an Antenna for TV

[ultrarunner]

Probably more common that thought.

One of the Docs had the same thing but was able to get several years back refund... his sister a lawyer.

 

[RalphVa]

The volume buttons on the side of my Roku remote are for controlling the volume on the headphones that you can plug into the remote. Never tried them for volume on the TV.

Volume control on my Roku works the TV as well, but I miss the mute for commercials.

Ralph

 

[goeduck]

Volume control on my Roku works the TV as well, but I miss the mute for commercials.

Ralph

Same here. All work the TV volume (4 different ROKUs of 3 different styles bought at different times) and I cannot believe they did not include a mute. You can kind of use the pause to mute, but why pause a commercial?

 

[Ford850]

The Roku mobile app I mentioned above has volume and mute options.

 

[IXLR8]

I wish we could go OTA for TV. But ever since TV signals went digital, we no longer receive any OTA signal. By the time we sort out the pricing of all the options, cable, satellite, internet... overall cable is the cheapest. Still stupid expensive, but the cheapest.

 

[drssg]

It used to be that cell phones were practically given away to promote the sale of cell phone service. I could swear that TVs are moving in that direction for promoting online streaming services.

While shopping for my last TV, it occurred to me that I didn't even need a TV. I just needed a large monitor that would accept output from my TiVo. I checked the computer store, and a large monitor was considerably more expensive than a similar size TV!

When I turn on the new TV, it defaults to a home page, where you select the streaming service that you'd like to use. I had to dig through the configuration settings just to make it work like a normal TV, and display the channel I was watching the last time the TV was on.

It still gets a little screwy after a power outage.

 

[Oaktree]

The Roku mobile app I mentioned above has volume and mute options.

Trouble is, it's one more thing sitting on the end table (as well as unnecessarily IMHO complicating things). As it is we've got 4 remotes: tv, Roku, DVD player and amplifier. As it is, one or another is always getting knocked on the floor or buried under something. We just use the amplifier remote to turn down the volume during commercials.

I wish we could go OTA for TV. But ever since TV signals went digital, we no longer receive any OTA signal. By the time we sort out the pricing of all the options, cable, satellite, internet... overall cable is the cheapest. Still stupid expensive, but the cheapest.

Same here. We've compared other options and cable comes out the best/cheapest for what little tv we watch. We just have the lifeline/basic tv package...a bunch of OTA channels and a handful of non-broadcast channels (Ion, H&I, ETWN, CSpan, Create, etc.) that we rarely if ever watch. The tv/phone/internet bundle is just over $100/mo. A lot of money, but not a budget buster. Most of what we watch is CBS, my wife has a couple shows on CBC she likes.

 

[lman]

Same here. We've compared other options and cable comes out the best/cheapest for what little tv we watch. We just have the lifeline/basic tv package...a bunch of OTA channels and a handful of non-broadcast channels (Ion, H&I, ETWN, CSpan, Create, etc.) that we rarely if ever watch. The tv/phone/internet bundle is just over $100/mo. A lot of money, but not a budget buster. Most of what we watch is CBS, my wife has a couple shows on CBC she likes.

I'm in Indiana and I'm rural enough that cable is not available. Nothing but corn fields here. The only options for TV are OTA or satellite. I'm lucky that I have slow DSL. Fortunately I was able to get my antenna high enough to receive OTA channels.

 

[Oaktree]

I'm in Indiana and I'm rural enough that cable is not available. Nothing but corn fields here. The only options for TV are OTA or satellite. I'm lucky that I have slow DSL. Fortunately I was able to get my antenna high enough to receive OTA channels.

We didn't get cable until late 2012, most of the town still doesn't have it. Too much distance, too many mountains in the way for OTA. Even in the analog days what few stations we got were snowy.

 

[MossRoad]

I'm in Indiana and I'm rural enough that cable is not available. Nothing but corn fields here. The only options for TV are OTA or satellite. I'm lucky that I have slow DSL. Fortunately I was able to get my antenna high enough to receive OTA channels.

Hello from South Bend! :laughing:

Whereabouts are you near?