On 2/26/2018 8:00 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 2/26/2018 7:48 AM, justan wrote:
"Mr. Luddite" Wrote in message:
On 2/25/2018 10:33 PM, wrote:
I am really serious about cutting the cord. My wife says after the
olympics but that was today.
I am already transitioning to streaming, I am working my way through
the Amazon Prime documentaries They have just about anything that PBS
ever aired. I talked about the American Experience show about the MLK
assassination the other day. Today I am watching Frontline season 27
ep 8. This is contemporary with the 2009 crash and it is pretty
interesting, carving through some of the myths we may have.
I occasionally watch something from Amazon Prime's inventory.Â* My large
HD TV is not "smart" (connected to the Internet) so I use the Sony PS4
to stream stuff from Amazon.Â* Their prime account entitles you to many
movies and archived shows as you mention for free.
I can also access Hulu, Netfix and other sources but I don't watch
enough to bother with them.
Smart tvs are cheap nowadays. I paid 800 for a 60 inch smart
Â* plasma tv at good old Walmart. A side benefit is that I can heat
Â* the house with it.
Mine can become "smart" if I buy a Roku wireless streaming stick that
plugs into the TV's USB port.Â* It's a 65" and I bought it before having
Internet connectivity became built-in on most TVs.Â* Accessing the 'net
via the PS4 is just as effective and it works fine.Â* I just don't watch
TV enough to warrant buying another TV just for built-in Internet
connectivity.Â* Most of the time I just use a little 23" HD TV that sits
on my desk beside my computer monitor.
Noticed your TV is a plasma type. Those things are power hogs or at
least they used to be, especially the bigger ones. The last plasma I
had was a 40 something inch and I measured it's current draw at about 5
amps.
The 65" I have now is LED. Picture quality is probably not quite as
good as a plasma but current draw is about half that of the previous 40
something inch. HD picture quality really doesn't matter using Comcast
cable because their signal is so compressed that the full HD isn't
processed. The streaming stuff from Amazon is better.