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| quote: Originally posted by cne32507:
Learn something new every day:
Hobbs comment about OTA + ROKU: Seems if you have a ROKU TV (a tv with ROKU built-in, as opposed to an add-on stick or box), you can access OTA thru the ROKU interface instead of changing inputs. That is something I didn't know. Thanks.
Yep, both my TVs with built in ROKU have what looks like a ROKU channel, for Live TV on the ROKU home page. No changing inputs required. There are several ROKU TV makers I think. My TVs are TCL branded. I'm very happy with both. 55" I got at Walmart and 43" in the bedroom came from Amazon a couple of years ago. I'm particularly impressed with the sound quality of the 43" one in the bedroom. It replaced an older 40" TCL ROKU TV and I don't even need to use a soundbar on the 43 like I did with the 40. Sound is really that much better. I have the built in speakers on the 55 disabled because I play everything from it on my Sonos home theater speaker set up. I wouldn't hesitate to go with TCL again although I'd never previously heard of them ... just shop the features wanted and needed because newer TCLs get better all the time and they have several models with slightly different specs. |
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| quote: Originally posted by scratchy:
For the cable cutters, Who is providing broadband services for the Roku, Hulu, etc? The largest portion of your QAM cable bill goes to the content providers, not necessarily to the Charters, Coxes and Comcasts. Eventually the streaming services will have to pony up to the content owners. This is especially true if advertising is successfully blocked.
We have 400 mb broadband through Frontier which we pay $59.99 per month for. There is no tax on broadband so that's our total bill. Prior to cutting the cord we were paying Spectrum about $180 per month so we are more than ahead when counting the cost of the various streaming services. |
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