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| How to get my senior citz. parents TV without cable? 255$ month cable bill! |
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| cdev:
They give a slight ($5) discount if you include your firstborn child in your offer. (joke) --- Quote from: retiredcaps on March 30, 2021, 04:03:33 am --- --- Quote from: Beamin on March 29, 2021, 09:16:05 pm ---Right now they have TV/Internet and with two leased boxes and fees and BS they are paying 255$ for what little they watch. --- End quote --- Holy. I live in Canada and we supposedly pay the most out of the "developed" nations for our services, but $255 sounds ridiculous. Another option instead of changing up their entire setup and having to be technical support for them because they are used to a simple remote control, I suggest 1) take a look at their bill and maybe share what they have here (minus all the personal info of course). They may be buying packages that they don't need or watch. They may be paying for equipment rental on a monthly basis where buying their own would be cheaper. For example, if they are paying $15 for wifi modem rental/month, it's cheaper to buy one and get rid of the rental. 2) look at different providers in the area. Even if they aren't willing to switch, a phone call to Comcast saying the bill is too high and that competitor ABC offers the same or better at $150 USD might get Comcast to drop their price a bit. That's what I do with success. 3) see if Comcast will lower price if they sign up for a 2 or 3 year plan. In my area, services can be cheaper if you sign up for 2 to 3 years vs month to month. --- End quote --- |
| cdev:
TV broadcasting is still free. Networks like CBS, NBC, ABC, etc, are broadcast over the air waves. (remember them) 100% free. Now I am starting to go grey so I am kind of old school, but I remember, when I was younger, television was completely free. No this is not a conspiracy theory. --- Quote from: rhodges on March 30, 2021, 12:11:23 am --- --- Quote from: BrokenYugo on March 29, 2021, 11:20:38 pm ---Roku? --- End quote --- I was about to mention that. For $29, you can have streaming video over wifi. There are a lot of free offerings and a lot of free oldie TV series. They might really enjoy watching those classic TV shows again. Once you set up a Roku account (free), you can see all the free and subscription options. Some of them have a free trial period, and you can cancel before the first payment date. We did this with CBS, and watched the series of "Picard" (good show, in my opinion), then cancelled without spending a cent. We paid for a month of Disney+ and after watching everything worth watching, cancelled just as easily. I just added Peacock ("NBC"), and found that some shows are free, but some are not. Oh, well, they won't get a penny from us, but maybe they think we will watch their ads on the free shows. --- End quote --- Here in the US the switch to digital TV was such a scam and it must have cost us all trillions upon trillions of dollars. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: cdev on March 30, 2021, 02:12:54 pm ---Here in the US the switch to digital TV was such a scam and it must have cost us all trillions upon trillions of dollars. --- End quote --- IMO they should have switched cable to digital and left the analog broadcasts in place, I suppose they couldn't have predicted the streaming revolution though. I think very few people today are even aware that it's possible to receive HD over the air, and it is of very little value. At least it isn't as scammy as "HD Radio", what a joke that is, proprietary and closed, almost nobody uses it, the only place it ever gained any traction at all is car radios. Analog radio is superior in almost every way. |
| nctnico:
--- Quote from: Beamin on March 29, 2021, 09:16:05 pm ---I'm sure some of you here have this delema: your parents are older, not technically inclined and have an outrageous cable TV bill for a handful of shows news, and movies they watch. They have a nice TV but its not a smart TV. Hooking the computer up to the TV through the HDMI port is not an option, they like their remote control and while they do own a laptop and ipad they use it for basic stuff and I cant really see them doing a remote monitor setup just past their level of tech. So what would you guys do? --- End quote --- Before jumping to any conclusions and throw in lots of different hardware I'd first sort out what kind of subscription they have and bring that back to normal proportions. Likely they are subscribed to many channels they don't need. Maybe they are even paying multiple subscriptions. Also remember that in the end it is their decission to pay so much of their hard earned money to watch TV. |
| pardo-bsso:
Buy the premium package and share it with the neighbours to split the bill? |
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