My husband and I resolved to reduce our home entertainment budget for 2019. To that end, immediately after Thanksgiving and upon a couple of recommendations gleaned from various tech podcasts I subscribe to, I ordered a Roku Premiere+ and installed it the first week of December. Within a couple of days of installation, I signed us up for Hulu (with live TV and cloud DVR) and Philo, maintaining our existing Dish, Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions in place so we could do a one-to-one comparison for the entire month of December. By the middle of the month, we were no longer using Dish at all. The day after Christmas, I cancelled our Dish and officially cut the cord, saving over half the cost and ending up with more entertainment options. Netflix may be next on the chopping block but that will have to wait until we finish out January now since I neglected to cancel that streaming service before the autopay went through. The real challenge will be next year’s F1 season for Terry.
Tag: video streaming
There’s something rotten in the state of online video streaming, and the data is starting to emerge — Tech News and Analysis
Unfortunately ISPs gloss over the real debate, which is whether transit providers, content companies and CDNs should have to pay to peer — that is, pay for the right to deliver all of the traffic that an ISP’s users are demanding — given that the end user has paid the ISP to deliver the content the user has asked for?
It’s a long article but full of insights into the battle for broadband going on v out of sight and mind of most consumers.
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Article: Why You Should Be Freaking Out About The End Of Net Neutrality
Why You Should Be Freaking Out About The End Of Net Neutrality
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/14/net-neutrality_n_4597831.html?utm_hp_ref=technology
More on the death of net neutrality. I anticipate my Netflix streaming will be slowed by Time Warner in the near future.
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