[Magdalen] Cable internet.

[Romain Kang]

Last I checked, Comcast charges the same for Internet only as they do
for basic cable + Internet.  So it does seem like a racket. And we get
decent over-the-air signal from the national networks, which is usually
more than enough for our occasional use of realtime TV.

FWIW, our TV is hooked up to an indoor antenna, and the Blu-Ray player
can use its LAN connection to the Linux DVR + file server.  Watching OTA
or playing a DVD is a snap for my wife. (Pulling videos from Linux is a
mystery to her, but I imagine she would figure it out if there were
more content that interested her).  Otherwise, I might seem the
controlling party in this setup.

Romain

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 01:15:10PM -0500, Scott Knitter wrote:
> I'm also about to give up the idea of watching actual TV (turning to a
> channel and watching what's on). My rather controlling partner has
> wired things so all watching is done via Roku streaming. To me, that
> means we're totally wasting the portion of our cable bill that pays
> for actual cable TV.
> 
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:52 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> > S/O renegotiates every so often, usually about every 18 months......he'll
> > threaten to drop service and they offer him another deal at a substantially
> > lower cost. It's always worked.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA