OTA has bit the Dust

[Foxbat]

The phone jack is for Caller ID…

Because after all, if you still have Satellite, you probably still have a landline (or VoIP connected to your dwelling phone wires).

 

[Bobby]

Because after all, if you still have Satellite, you probably still have a landline (or VoIP connected to your dwelling phone wires).

I actually do have VOIP connected to the phone wires.

 

[John2021]

Because after all, if you still have Satellite, you probably still have a landline (or VoIP connected to your dwelling phone wires).

No landline here

 

[navychop]

My FiOS has a land line function. They charge for it, and then credit off the cost. So I might as well keep it.

Handy for providing a phone number to folks you don't want calling your cell.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

The phone jack is for Caller ID…

And if not hooked up to Ethernet it reports PPV purchases and sends receiver health updates.

 

[rvvaquero]

Because after all, if you still have Satellite, you probably still have a landline (or VoIP connected to your dwelling phone wires).

That's an unbecoming opinionated statement coming from you. I don't know anyone who has a landline still. Even my dinosaur buddy who uses Spectrum TV (pardon my language) doesn't have a landline. I haven't had a landline for over 20 years. I do have DISH satellite by choice. It is still by far the best option out there for me.

I do stream Paramount+ and Prime Video, but hate their format. Every time I go to watch something on either, I have to hunt for several minutes, then figure out which episodes I have or haven't watched. Pain in the butt. With DISH, I just delete an episode as I watch it and don't have to worry about it anymore. Takes about 30 seconds to be watching TV from turning on the receiver.

 

[Foxbat]

I have an AT&T "landline" which is the same phone number I've had since my first house. It comes out of the back of my ADSL modem, but it works the same. And, when people call the house, I get notified on our TV of the Caller ID and #. Even if I could get Fiber we would still have telephone service.

I'm a dinosaur (rawr) and in addition to the Hopper 3, we have a Panasonic answering machine and even a Canon multifunction printer that includes FAX.

 

[Bobby]

I don't know anyone who has a landline still.

And I know several that do. Mostly old folks like me. I had an AT&T landline for many years but they have a bad business plan for our underground copper in my area. After the second time that I had a noisy line I quit them and went to OOMA. Mrs. Bobby wanted to keep that phone number as a house number. We both have cells.

 

[Bobby]

I have an AT&T "landline" which is the same phone number I've had since my first house. It comes out of the back of my ADSL modem, but it works the same. And, when people call the house, I get notified on our TV of the Caller ID and #. Even if I could get Fiber we would still have telephone service.

I'm a dinosaur (rawr) and in addition to the Hopper 3, we have a Panasonic answering machine and even a Canon multifunction printer that includes FAX.

Hah, we are so much alike. I have a Hopper 3, a Panasonic telephone system that includes the answering machine, and even that Canon multifunction printer with FAX!

 

[Foxbat]

I do stream Paramount+ and Prime Video, but hate their format. Every time I go to watch something on either, I have to hunt for several minutes, then figure out which episodes I have or haven't watched.

I'm in the Apple ecosystem and the AppleTV App keeps track of what programs we're watching and which Apps they're available on. Mrs. Foxbat and I have separate Apple IDs on the Apple TV so she can watch her "Tracker" and I can watch my "Pluribus"…

 

[John2021]

Hah, we are so much alike. I have a Hopper 3, a Panasonic telephone system that includes the answering machine, and even that Canon multifunction printer with FAX!

people still use fax machines or is that just us old farts that still do. i have an HP 7602 it has the fax function have not used it once yet!!! i don't think it's even setup. i used to just create PDF files and e-mail em

 

[navychop]

And I know several that do. Mostly old folks like me.

MORE COWBELL!

There IS a whiskey brand labeled "Cowbell," isn't there?

 

[navychop]

BTW, fax machines are in major use in Japan.