Who has done away with Cable or Satellite TV?

[Slick Fork]

Originally Posted by Seriak

Problem with XBMC is the legality of it. Just like torrent's you could be sued for downloading copyrighted material. They are starting to bring lawsuits against people downloading this material.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04...perts-worried/

Some REALLY disturbing privacy issues identified in that article.

[davej]

Never seemed to watch a whole show because of too many commercials. Would get bored and flick. Don't miss cable one bit.

[mike31154]

Finally made the call to cancel Cable TV portion of my service, effective end month. Like pulling hen's teeth, what a rigamarole/run around. Funny how you're able make any addition or change online, but have to stay on hold on the phone for 15 minutes & go through 2 people to cancel part of a service.

A couple of evenings ago, a rep called to try & upsell me. Go figure. I wonder if any of the company execs are listening?

[don.ald]

Originally Posted by mike31154

Finally made the call to cancel Cable TV portion of my service, effective end month. Like pulling hen's teeth, what a rigamarole/run around. Funny how you're able make any addition or change online, but have to stay on hold on the phone for 15 minutes & go through 2 people to cancel part of a service.

A couple of evenings ago, a rep called to try & upsell me. Go figure. I wonder if any of the company execs are listening?

You only had to wait 15 minutes?
I should switch

[tlhood]

We got rid of cable a long time ago. It seemed ridiculous having to pay extra $$ for a special package of 5 or 6 chanels on top of the basic, just so that we could watch one show once a week for a few months.

We ended up just getting the apple TV box, and watch stuff on netflix/itunes.

We aren't big TV people, and it's more cost effective for us to just purchase the seasons on itunes or watch stuff on netflix.

[Parker]

Originally Posted by Seriak

Problem with XBMC is the legality of it. Just like torrent's you could be sued for downloading copyrighted material. They are starting to bring lawsuits against people downloading this material.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/04...perts-worried/

XBMC is perfectly legal to have and use.

Saying XBMC in it self is illegal is a bit like saying your car is illegal because you can speed.

They are bring lawsuits against the downloaders, not XBMC.

[Seriak]

Originally Posted by Parker

XBMC is perfectly legal to have and use.

Saying XBMC in it self is illegal is a bit like saying your car is illegal because you can speed.

They are bring lawsuits against the downloaders, not XBMC.

That is why I further clarified my comment about downloading copyrighted materials which is basically how you get the movies and tv shows you want to watch without paying for cable.

[eli@fijireefrock.com]

gave up tv years ago and been watching the odd movies on Appletv and have a couple boxes running XBMC.XBMC n computer and laptops as well...

[JGT]

Any one ever wonder why TV programming isn't free since big corporations pay alot of money to have their commerals on the shows and sports we watch ? And we watch them even tho we pay for our programing?

[Seriak]

Originally Posted by JGT

Any one ever wonder why TV programming isn't free since big corporations pay alot of money to have their commerals on the shows and sports we watch ? And we watch them even tho we pay for our programing?

Exactly! This is why Netflix is popular. If you pay there are no commercials. Hopefully, this is the future of entertainment.