Optimum? Nah
I'm down to one cable box and basic service because Mrs. 1OTT insists on not canceling the whole thing. We get some use out of the one box left in the living room and the music channels that you can also stream on the TV and phone. My gut and the bros from reddit made me wary when I had returned the second box in August that Optimum would screw me on the bill. They were right. If I hadn't checked the new bill and called them, I would have been paying for the second box from now til doomsday.
Cable is still good for:
- News 12 Brooklyn (which is also available in some form for free on a FAST channel on the Samsung TV).
- CBS network shows that move to channel 10 when channel 2 runs a local show (Jet football).
- CBS local shows (Jet exhibition football) that move to channel 10 when channel 2 runs a network show.
- Stingray music channels.
- Weather outages: My over-the-air digital signal glitches now and then. It's rare.
- C-SPAN.
- Local public access (kidding).
- Lazy limited channel surfing.
- Antenna TV: Ironically, channel 11 is playing with their signal with ASTC 3.0, so I can no longer view Antenna TV via an antenna on the Tablo. I can get the channel 11's subchannels thru the Samsung OTA and thru cable, but I can't tape it.
The Joys of Taped Sports
I tape the Jets OTA and can watch a game in about 2 hours. Three-hour game minus half-time (13 minutes) and commercials (50 minutes) makes that possible. But the word on the street is that the broadcasters want to add a poison pill to the signal to block taping. Eventually they may charge us for all signals, like the BBC license fee. Please don't do that. It's unAmerican.
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