On Sat, 15 May 2010 06:19:38 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

aemeijers wrote:
The Daring Dufas wrote:
wrote:
I am droppind Dish Network since they raised the extra receiver fee
from $5 bucks a month to $17 a month and added some other fees in
february and now raised basic service and premium prices too.

I am getting a TIVO and going to download shows on netflix. and use
the TIVO OTA capability.May buy DVDs of favorite shows. If thats not
enough I will get cable

Its sad I am a dish subscriber for over 13 years, sold it as a dealer
for awhile, and now they start gouging on prices. In this economy 12
buck per extra receiver fee is totally unacceptable......

I do most of my TV and movie watching online. In fact, I don't recall
the last time I went to a movie theater, it's been that long ago. I
get my TV and movie fix from several sites.

http://www.hulu.com/

http://www.fastpasstv.com/

http://www.ninjavideo.net/

There are many more sites but these three seem to work the best for me.

TDD

My dish subscription is cheaper than a high-speed connection would be,
in this neighborhood. At 384k, even a 2-minute youtube video is painful
to watch. I wish Discovery and History were available OTA. I'd miss a
few of the other non-OTA channels, but those 2 are probably a third of
my viewing time.


Well, heck, I often forget that everyone doesn't have 10meg cable.

I don't even get 768K from my DSL connection. :-( The brat gets about 18Mb
from his cable connection, enough that he dropped the TV part and only watches
Internet TV.

The
interesting thing about ninjavideo is that if you set up your connection
correctly, it saves the video to your hard drive and you can burn it to
a DVD then put it in your collection. Believe me, you can fill up a hard
drive in a hurry watching movies online. Sometimes I'll start the movie
online, turn off the monitor and come back later then watch it from the
hard drive.

I do the same, but start the recording with a timer that knows all about the
schedule. Oh, that computer is the DishTV box. ;-)