[ale] [ot] what's good on TV - cord cutting

[DJPfulio at jdpfu.com (DJ-Pfulio)]

There is a huge difference in privacy between recording OTA and any
other solution.  Of course, walking into a retail store, paying cash for
a DVD/BR disc is almost as private, provided the BR player and TV isn't
networked.

We shouldn't be forced to choose between privacy and everything else.


On 04/12/2017 10:10 AM, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> Now, when people say cord cutting, in my mind, I also hear "technology
> cutting" too.    On the occasions when I do have time to watch
> something, my immense preference is for something that "just works".
> 
> Being able to come home, open a bottle of wine, start fixing dinner and
> just say "Alexa, play some music by Bix Biderbeck" and ... it just
> works... is infinitely better than dorking about with yet another
> recalcitrant computer for 15 minutes to get music.    (also being able
> to holler "Alexa, add mustard to my shopping list" while my head is
> stuffed in the fridge, and having that show up on my shopping list on my
> phone whilst at Krogers is almost magic. )
> 
> In a similar vein, while impressed at reading the length to which people
> will go to record digital broadcast tv, we have found that a Roku box,
> the Amazon Prime video we already have for free with Amazon Prime
> shipping, and the Acorn subscription for BBC stuff is more than we would
> ever be inclined to watch.   And aside from the $5/mo for Acorn, there
> is no ongoing cost, and it truly "just works".
> 
> On Wed, 2017-04-12 at 09:45 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I saw Rick and Morty the other night. 
>>