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I want to try out the "free week" of Huluplus on the roku but it says I have to register. Ok no biggie
Then it wants a credit card so it can bill me $8 after the free week
Anyway to try the free week THEN decide if I want to pay them $8? I'd rather do that then give them the credit card info and have to deal with them if I cancel.
Then it wants a credit card so it can bill me $8 after the free week
Anyway to try the free week THEN decide if I want to pay them $8? I'd rather do that then give them the credit card info and have to deal with them if I cancel.
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thanks for the info. Just tuned in and Blankety Blank is on
(aka Match game but UK people)
thanks for the info. Just tuned in and Blankety Blank is on
(aka Match game but UK people)
Earlier this week our Dish Network VIP722K receiver malfunctioned and needs to be replaced. In its absence we began watching programming on OTA, FTA and via the Roku 2 XS streaming device. We have been enjoying programming on TWIT, Challenge, Yesterday TV, Revision 3, CHOW, Crackle, Popcorn Flix, Pub D Hub, N2TV, American Pop and many other channels.
Hulu Plus…
Tonight my wife said "We missed our favorite shows last night such as Modern Family, The Middle, Suburgatory, The Neighbors and Castle". I turned on Hulu Plus and there we found all our favorite shows ready in our queue since we have these shows setup as our favorites. NO timers needed! As we watched we noticed that the HD looked better than Dish Network. Hulu Plus does air a 28 second commercial at every scheduled commercial break to help keep the monthly cost down, but we found this is much better than flipping or sitting through the regular 4-6 commercials plus a local commercial during the same commercial break.
Having improved HD via OTA, FTA and Roku, not needing to set any timers, access to lots of additional programming and greatly reduced programming costs we are considering cancelling our Dish Network. With the savings we could purchase additional Roku units.
Hulu Plus…
Tonight my wife said "We missed our favorite shows last night such as Modern Family, The Middle, Suburgatory, The Neighbors and Castle". I turned on Hulu Plus and there we found all our favorite shows ready in our queue since we have these shows setup as our favorites. NO timers needed! As we watched we noticed that the HD looked better than Dish Network. Hulu Plus does air a 28 second commercial at every scheduled commercial break to help keep the monthly cost down, but we found this is much better than flipping or sitting through the regular 4-6 commercials plus a local commercial during the same commercial break.
Having improved HD via OTA, FTA and Roku, not needing to set any timers, access to lots of additional programming and greatly reduced programming costs we are considering cancelling our Dish Network. With the savings we could purchase additional Roku units.
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so for fun I wiki'd the show....it was done in 1990
(looks like it came back in 97-2002)
SO is this like "game show network" for the UK + some extra programming?
yup looks like it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_(TV_channel)
thanks for the info. Just tuned in and Blankety Blank is on
(aka Match game but UK people)
so for fun I wiki'd the show....it was done in 1990
(looks like it came back in 97-2002)
SO is this like "game show network" for the UK + some extra programming?
yup looks like it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge_(TV_channel)
Hulu Plus…
Tonight my wife said "We missed our favorite shows last night such as Modern Family, The Middle, Suburgatory, The Neighbors and Castle". I turned on Hulu Plus and there we found all our favorite shows ready in our queue since we have these shows setup as our favorites. NO timers needed! As we watched we noticed that the HD looked better than Dish Network. Hulu Plus does air a 28 second commercial at every scheduled commercial break to help keep the monthly cost down, but we found this is much better than flipping or sitting through the regular 4-6 commercials plus a local commercial during the same commercial break.
Having improved HD via OTA, FTA and Roku, not needing to set any timers, access to lots of additional programming and greatly reduced programming costs we are considering cancelling our Dish Network. With the savings we could purchase additional Roku units.
I've been pretty adamant in thinking Hulu Plus was not worth it, but after fiddling around that last couple of days with it, I'll have to eat a few words!
When I bought my Sony 3D BluRay player, it came with a 3 month trial of Hulu Plus, so I thought, 'what the hell, it is free', so why not use it. Glad I did. I recently switched from D* to E* and had a lot of things recorded on my D* equipment. So I took a look at Hulu Plus to see what was there that would allow me to see those shows I hadn't watched yet, and how good the video was.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that most of the series that I watch were available, and the video was much better than I remember Hulu ever doing in the past. So I watched the few that Hulu+ didn't have on my D* equipment, and then boxed that up. Since then I also found that the CW series that I like are on Hulu Plus and they are in much better video than the local CW station is doing. So now I've got those all in my Favorites, and have added some Hulu Plus original series to check them out. Using Hulu Plus on my AppleTV mostly and the experience is great!
I've been pretty adamant in thinking Hulu Plus was not worth it, but after fiddling around that last couple of days with it, I'll have to eat a few words!
When I bought my Sony 3D BluRay player, it came with a 3 month trial of Hulu Plus, so I thought, 'what the hell, it is free', so why not use it. Glad I did. I recently switched from D* to E* and had a lot of things recorded on my D* equipment. So I took a look at Hulu Plus to see what was there that would allow me to see those shows I hadn't watched yet, and how good the video was.
I was pleasantly surprised to see that most of the series that I watch were available, and the video was much better than I remember Hulu ever doing in the past. So I watched the few that Hulu+ didn't have on my D* equipment, and then boxed that up. Since then I also found that the CW series that I like are on Hulu Plus and they are in much better video than the local CW station is doing. So now I've got those all in my Favorites, and have added some Hulu Plus original series to check them out. Using Hulu Plus on my AppleTV mostly and the experience is great!
I have 3 WDTV's and we use Hulu Plus to watch several shows, as the HD quality is very good and no annoying network pop ups and such. Well worth the $7 bucks a month, when we can also use it on a phone or tablet while traveling and such. I don't know that I would pay anymore, since it still has commercial breaks.
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Wasn't exactly sure where to post this. Just had a customer come in inquiring about internet. He has HughesNet and had heard good things about mine. He asked if we provided email addresses and it kinda caught me off guard. I said he should be able to keep whatever email he had been using....my sister in law is still using a BellSouth email addy and they haven't been around here for many years. He said he had gotten a letter from HughesNet stating that they had until Nov 16th to save, move, forward, whatever, their Hughesnet emails because they would lose them after that date.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
I have never heard of a company simply mass-deleting email accounts (the customer still has his HughesNet service). From what I understand, in the past, the company who was ditching their email service simply sold the customer base to a company like Google.
Anyone else getting this letter. He said he would show it to me tomorrow when I go out there and set up his internet.
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The TPN Map Excel Presents all DIRECTV Channels:
Understanding the TPN Map
Making Sense of the TPN Map Display Conventions
National (50-States or wide/NAT+PR beams)
Local (Local-Into-Local or narrow/Spot beams)
Local (Local-Into-Local or narrow/Spot beams)
Additional tabs provide:
OTA the (Over-The-Air) Database
VOD (Video On_Demand) Records
Offline Records
Engr Records
Net Decoder a graphic presentation of all satellites and transponders
VOD (Video On_Demand) Records
Offline Records
Engr Records
Net Decoder a graphic presentation of all satellites and transponders
Domestic Satellites
@99W...... D11, D14
@101W.... D16
@103W.... D12, D15
@110W.... D5
@119W.... D8
@99W...... D11, D14
@101W.... D16
@103W.... D12, D15
@110W.... D5
@119W.... D8
Understanding the TPN Map
Making Sense of the TPN Map Display Conventions
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For the naysayers who did not think this service would make it, just added another 4.9M subscribers and that was after the removal of 1.2M Russia subscribers.
This is even better, Paramount+ revenue grew 120% and Subscription revenue grew 74% year-over-year ( 2nd quarter 2021/ 2nd quarter 2022) to $830M, principally reflecting paid subscriber growth on Paramount+.
Now compare that to Peacock with only 13 million paid, 13 million free.
This is even better, Paramount+ revenue grew 120% and Subscription revenue grew 74% year-over-year ( 2nd quarter 2021/ 2nd quarter 2022) to $830M, principally reflecting paid subscriber growth on Paramount+.
Now compare that to Peacock with only 13 million paid, 13 million free.
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So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
Paramount+ has always had the CBS shows on the CBS local channel and yes with commercials. What they are doing now is releasing the OnDemand versions of the show which I believe they don't release until after the shows air on the west coast. And they will be commercial free if you subscribe to the ad free version of Paramount+.So, this means that those of us with Commercial Free subs, won't be Commercial Free, unless we wait till after the show is over ?
Which would make same day, not that big of a deal.
I wasn't up at 3:00 am to check but they are there at 8:00 am today.
The new curated multiview is now live.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
While on many of the sports channels and non sports channels there is a multi view option button. It will pull up a side bar with many different multi view options.
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
Apple TV 4K
Apple TV 4K. New Siri AI and hands-free control. Stunning picture and immersive HomePod surround sound. Works with your Apple and smart home devices.
www.apple.com
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
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Direct YouTube Link - NVIDIA Told me How to Benchmark RTX Spark
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I created this thread on the original Edgecutter Cutting Edge Forums site. It's simply a place for those to review the latest software available for those using Windows 10 and Windows 11. To date it has received 112,559 views. I have been asked by staff to continue this thread here.
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To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
For niche use cases, yes I agree. Kali for ethical hacking and security testing, and running a Cacti server for network monitoring are the two things I have experience in. Plus thousands and thousands of other things, but for every day use I just can't see it. The owner of the GMRS repeater that I pay to access is changing the Tx DPL tones tomorrow, while Chirp is available on Linux, the software to program my MXT500 is not.To each there own but I've found that Windows can't do much more than Linux can. Can't have everything.
I run Fedora and Ubuntu in VMWare, honestly I don't care much for the UI of either of them and I don't feel like spending days/weeks to customize the UI to make it look Windows-like when I could just use Windows. The cartoonish dock at the bottom of the screen reminds me of Apple products.
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming youWTF… …What the Foxbat!
I know. Here's what Scott has in store for me if I get out of line:wow what a kick in the balls!!! the wife blames you when things don't work now scott's blaming you
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OMG to freaking funny
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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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