What does cord cutting mean to you?
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We have cell phones and internet, Netflix and Amazon Prime. The little we are able to use any of them, they are more than enough. If anything else, Kodi works nicely too. Honestly we could get by without Netflix, but it's nice to have their children's channel or whatever it's called.
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@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@reid-cooper said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
Cord cutting is the home / consumer version of convergence.
Please expand upon that - provide details.
Convergence, the industry movement to get off of old individual systems that were not tied to TCP/IP and moving towards a unified (converged) TCP/IP network that everything talks over.
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@dbeato said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
What I have done the following:
- Phone Moved to Google Voice
- Cable Replaced by Netflix and Amazon Video. If I want to see any shows I just go to their website.
- Internet Speed Upgraded to 300 ove r 300
So you watch only from your laptop/desktop? or you stream it via chromecast? Yeah no thanks, I want it on my be screen and I really dislike chromecast - real f'n remote please!!!!
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@tim_g said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
We have cell phones and internet, Netflix and Amazon Prime. The little we are able to use any of them, they are more than enough. If anything else, Kodi works nicely too. Honestly we could get by without Netflix, but it's nice to have their children's channel or whatever it's called.
i've never dived into the illegalness that is Kodi.
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@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@tim_g said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
We have cell phones and internet, Netflix and Amazon Prime. The little we are able to use any of them, they are more than enough. If anything else, Kodi works nicely too. Honestly we could get by without Netflix, but it's nice to have their children's channel or whatever it's called.
i've never dived into the illegalness that is Kodi.
I thought that that was a media player. What's illegal about it?
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@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dbeato said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
What I have done the following:
- Phone Moved to Google Voice
- Cable Replaced by Netflix and Amazon Video. If I want to see any shows I just go to their website.
- Internet Speed Upgraded to 300 ove r 300
So you watch only from your laptop/desktop? or you stream it via chromecast? Yeah no thanks, I want it on my be screen and I really dislike chromecast - real f'n remote please!!!!
Chromebit goes directly on your TV.
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@reid-cooper said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@reid-cooper said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
Cord cutting is the home / consumer version of convergence.
Please expand upon that - provide details.
Convergence, the industry movement to get off of old individual systems that were not tied to TCP/IP and moving towards a unified (converged) TCP/IP network that everything talks over.
I don't get it. you have to be connected in some way - who cares what that way is.. Now if you were saying you had anywhere access, then you'd be getting somewhere, but that's not what we are getting either, not entirely at least.
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@dashrender No, I can do this but I have also two Vizio 4k compatible TVs with Chromecast and other services that comes with it. I can change to whatever I want from there.
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@scottalanmiller Kodi is a media player but the Exodus package for the app is illegal due to the fact that Movies and Shows are released without payment and is kinda off BitTorrent p2p video streaming.
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@dbeato said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@scottalanmiller Kodi is a media player but the Exodus package for the app is illegal due to the fact that Movies and Shows are released without payment and is kinda off BitTorrent p2p video streaming.
But that's not Kodi. There are loads of things you shouldn't install on Windows too, but that doesn't make Windows itself illegal.
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@scottalanmiller Correct, it is noted that is a plugin outside of Kodi and that is not part of it. So yeah you can use Kodi without any problem.
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@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@tim_g said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
We have cell phones and internet, Netflix and Amazon Prime. The little we are able to use any of them, they are more than enough. If anything else, Kodi works nicely too. Honestly we could get by without Netflix, but it's nice to have their children's channel or whatever it's called.
i've never dived into the illegalness that is Kodi.
Kodi is great and nothing about it is illegal. It's like a software Roku times 1000 that you can put on almost any device.
Lots of good free legal stuff for it. I never mentioned any illegal intentions.
Lots of illegal stuff too, but same applies to anything.
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@dbeato said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@scottalanmiller Kodi is a media player but the Exodus package for the app is illegal due to the fact that Movies and Shows are released without payment and is kinda off BitTorrent p2p video streaming.
Thanks for the clarification. Kodi it just a player.. i haven't dug into it enough to know the Exodus packages it the illegal part.
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For me it's stop using SKY so instead of paying them £50/month we now only watch FREE to AIR TV Via a freesat type box.
For those that have mentioned Kodi, as @scottalanmiller and other mentioned Kodi itself is a Media Player, but there are many addons that will stream premium content that you're meant to pay for. BUT I believe there are some that will stream the free stuff to. I'm looking at this currently, one to have everything in one "box" as I use a Android box with Kodi to stream my content I have bought, but would also like it to watch live TV. two to get rid of obsolete boxes on the unit and to save power.
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We simply pay for the services we want that have the shows we like. Primarily Netflix and Hulu right now. No need for anything else, really.
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I am very interested in using DAZN which is a german streaming sports service. Of course, it isn't available in the US, so I would have to use VPN.
Is anyone using it, here? I believe it is 20 euros a month.
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@dafyre said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
We simply pay for the services we want that have the shows we like. Primarily Netflix and Hulu right now. No need for anything else, really.
Just Netflix and Amazon here, we dropped Hulu as it was just awful. Found that we didn't miss it at all. Plenty on Netflix and Amazon, really no need for anything else.
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@scottalanmiller said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dafyre said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
We simply pay for the services we want that have the shows we like. Primarily Netflix and Hulu right now. No need for anything else, really.
Just Netflix and Amazon here, we dropped Hulu as it was just awful. Found that we didn't miss it at all. Plenty on Netflix and Amazon, really no need for anything else.
So you don't want network television at all then? I wouldn't be surprised if you say correct.
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@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dafyre said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
We simply pay for the services we want that have the shows we like. Primarily Netflix and Hulu right now. No need for anything else, really.
Just Netflix and Amazon here, we dropped Hulu as it was just awful. Found that we didn't miss it at all. Plenty on Netflix and Amazon, really no need for anything else.
So you don't want network television at all then? I wouldn't be surprised if you say correct.
Aboslutely not. I won't allow it in the house. Nothing with commercials or that "just plays whatever is on." I told the cable company that even for $1 I wouldn't hook up cable. I'm not even interested in having it available as a temptation. I've not had the ability to get any kind of network television (because I don't buy or hook up TV tuners) for twenty years. I see it once in a while when visiting people or in a hotel and am so thankful it's not available to me at home.
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@dashrender said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
@dafyre said in What does cord cutting mean to you?:
We simply pay for the services we want that have the shows we like. Primarily Netflix and Hulu right now. No need for anything else, really.
Just Netflix and Amazon here, we dropped Hulu as it was just awful. Found that we didn't miss it at all. Plenty on Netflix and Amazon, really no need for anything else.
So you don't want network television at all then? I wouldn't be surprised if you say correct.
I really don't know anyone my age that watches network television when it is broadcast. Other then live sports of course.
