Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by __jal on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:31PM (#15991087)

Yep. Visiting relatives frequently involves me watching them flip channels until I can't take it anymore and go read.

Having never owned a TV myself, I'm actually considering buying one now. The fact that shows are actually getting better, combined with how easy it is to wait for other people to be a filter, combined with no ads makes TV actually attractive to me for the first time since I was like 5.

But still zero reason to pay for cable.

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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by macintux on Friday December 22, 2017 @04:39PM (#15991142)

When the digital transition took place, my TV sat idle for about a year until a line of severe storms rolled through and I decided making it usable again made some sense.

Went out, bought a nice directional antenna, bought a converter box from a friend, turned it on.

5 minutes later I realized I had zero tolerance for ads shouting at me, boxed everything up, and eventually took the TV to recycling. (It also nearly put me in the hospital, big CRTs are big.)

My iPad and Netflix/iTunes are all I need. Someday maybe I'll get a 13" iPad Pro and stick it on a wall, but I doubt it.

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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by xj9 on Friday December 22, 2017 @05:26PM (#15991433)

get a tv, a small computer, plex, and a wireless media keyboard

its amazing

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Re:Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Comm... by ghaff on Friday December 22, 2017 @11:47PM (#15992977)

TV and Plex yes. But, after having tried all sorts of permutations connecting TVs to media servers and controlling them with keyboards, I find that Chromecast plus a tablet and/or a laptop over WiFi is a far better approach to getting content onto a TV.

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