First as long as you have 25Mbps+ you can stream just about any video quality even a 6Mbps dsl connection can handle HD netflix.
Most everything is streamed anymore IIRC you can even stream a torrent nowadays.
As for social someone is forgetting netflix party mode.
But yeah.. I do like to visit that place with the $10 small soda's and watch movies on their gigantic screen's. but then I won't go until the movie is just about out of the theater and there's less than 20 people in there.
Kinda annoying tho when the bass gets to going in the next theater over and it shakes the projector.
Out of curiosity what problems did you have with yours? I've only had the samsung a few months. The only three annoyances I've noticed are that it doesn't have the strongest tuner (I still can't get channel 13), the audio goes out of sync in the amazon app and it can only have one smart remote.
Wireless keyboards typically have extremely good battery life the alkaline batteries in the dell wireless keyboard I'm typing on now are over a year old. It has no noticeable delay and no wakeup resync delay.
All aren't equal though I have a $20 mini htpc mouse keyboard combo that is rechargeable It runs two days on a charge at the most.
I Have no problem with wireless keyboard at least the proprietary ones.
This is one tech area that I am unaware of any interoperable standard that actually works well.
However you do it don't do it like bluetooth I hate bluetooth keyboards why? Because when they come out of sleep mode they have to reestablish the connection and that makes it loose at least the first few words i've typed.
I haven't seen any of the newer vizio smart tvs but every one i've gotten to play with to date has had that yahoo based thing and had support for youtube and no other functioning video services Otherwise the two smart tv's at home are an LG and a samsung.
The LG is still receiving occasional software updates has one of those magic remotes support for both netflix and amazon but no netflix profiles support.
The samsung is a couple years newer and has something similar to the magic remote. It supports netflix amazon and vudu. It has a better ui for amazon than amazon fire tv does.
However i've noticed that the audio on amazon gets noticeably out of sync on the samsung after watching a amazon movie for over an hour.
Biggest annoyance I had was when I found I could only have one smart remote. And while you can use a not smart remote with the tv instead samsung won't tell you what part number the remote is or sell you one.
Because one tv remote is good enough for anyone? I think I have something like 8 remotes lying around the living room all the same model for the same tv just so I can find 1.
I have one I use it to contact IOS app developers and so I can tweet stupid crap like "Dear google if anyone asks 52369, 71354 and 067-8080-00 are all the same hydro-gear tank for a bad boy lawn mower."
I think your right about him mixing wireless and wireline plans But just for reference anyways:
At one point verizon sold metered service for home use (verizon home fusion) the highest offered plan was 30GB/mo for $120/mo lte
That was around the same time I was pulling 22GB/mo on average on a unlimited 3g aircard. And that was before I got netflix...(fun fact netflix works fine at 3g speeds too!)
Yeah.....well the reason why people keep talking about it like its a home internet connection is because a lot of people including me have no other options and are using it for just that personally I can't think of any reason someone would use 100gb of data in a month on a smart phone. 38Kbps is roughly the speed of two isdn connections or the slowest dsl plan att sells
I was using the same argument years ago with the satellite caps $79/mo 17GB cap back in 2008 a 56kbps connection can do 18GB.
Roughly the same amount of usage $79/mo vs $4.95/mo although real world I was only averaging about 5GB/month on dialup IIRC.
Only one of the two is still expanding their service area and I'm really hoping that they will decide to expand to were I live.
The other one already covers my area just not my house there is a hill in the way that blocks out the signal for me and my neighbor across the street but the house down the street from us has service.....But we are just SOL with the hill.
looks like ill be getting to call them all again this month the only tall object visible from my house just so happens to be the verizon cell tower i've been using for internet since I dropped satellite back in 2008.
I checked its $1,500 to get a quote to put something on that tower its not owned by verizon they just lease some space on it. The other option was to get a 50ft tower that according to the previously mentioned WISP "might" be able to reach over the hill. They said they didn't know as their bucket truck wouldn't go high enough to get a signal.
This was after calling them twice a day for about a year get a site survey......occasionally they would even answer the phone.
But I don't think I can go back to a metered connection I was using 22GB on average with 3g back before netflix. The satellite connection I had was capped at 17GB/mo now with 4g and netflix and youtube with a family of four its more like 225GB on average.
I remember a bunch of years ago 2004 - 2005 ish I had unlimited dial up with a local isp here in town $19.95/mo was great for several years until they stopped hosting their own dial up server then bam it would drop my connection every 2 hours 45 minutes. Called them up complained they said ISP:sir it's not intended to be used as a dedicated service. ME:How much is dedicated service? ISP:We do not have any dedicated plans at this time. ME:oh...well then i'd like to cancel my service.
I called around no dialup isp with a local number offered service that wouldn't kick you off after 3 hours or so. So I signed up with netzero $4.95/mo unlimited dial up it still kicked me off every 3 hours as it had the same phone number as the isp I had before that was charging me $19.95/mo just $15/mo cheaper. that was quite a while ago though. I don't even have a home phone to use dial up if I wanted to now.
Meh. I didn't expect it to stay unlimited but I was really hoping it would last until broadband was available at my house.
I seem to remember At&t saying they would have a version of dsl out there 5 years ago 10 years ago. The electric company even ran fiber on their poles between their sub stations. But they don't want to be an isp. Now there are two WISPs in town and neither one covers my friggin house.
For your viewing pleasure. These are screenshots of my most recent bill. a out of contract grandfathered (from alltel) 3g aircard plan a in contract unlimited 4g smartphone plan a out of contract unlimited 4g smartphone plan and the contract end date for the in contract 4g smartphone plan
The 3g aircard has always been mine but the 4g lines I bought on ebay.
I wonder if I can use family base and just swap between the lines after I hit 100GB. That should get me through about half the month...
I haven't noticed that but I have noticed the extremely large number of laptops that have mixed usb ports the one I'm typing from now is a samsung i7 laptop backlit keyboard 8gb ram all that and it has 3 usb ports only two of which are usb 3 most laptops i've seen only have one usb 3 port if they have one at all.
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First as long as you have 25Mbps+ you can stream just about any video quality even a 6Mbps dsl connection can handle HD netflix.
Most everything is streamed anymore
IIRC you can even stream a torrent nowadays.
As for social someone is forgetting netflix party mode.
But yeah.. I do like to visit that place with the $10 small soda's and watch movies on their gigantic screen's.
but then I won't go until the movie is just about out of the theater and there's less than 20 people in there.
Kinda annoying tho when the bass gets to going in the next theater over and it shakes the projector.
Does this mean I can finally try out cortana?
Or does it still require login?
What netflix device do you have that doesn't stop auto playing after 3 episodes?
Out of curiosity what problems did you have with yours? I've only had the samsung a few months. The only three annoyances I've noticed are that it doesn't have the strongest tuner (I still can't get channel 13), the audio goes out of sync in the amazon app and it can only have one smart remote.
Wireless keyboards typically have extremely good battery life the alkaline batteries in the dell wireless keyboard I'm typing on now are over a year old.
It has no noticeable delay and no wakeup resync delay.
All aren't equal though I have a $20 mini htpc mouse keyboard combo that is rechargeable It runs two days on a charge at the most.
Wifi? If it's important it gets a wire.
I Have no problem with wireless keyboard at least the proprietary ones.
This is one tech area that I am unaware of any interoperable standard that actually works well.
However you do it don't do it like bluetooth I hate bluetooth keyboards why? Because when they come out of sleep mode they have to reestablish the connection and that makes it loose at least the first few words i've typed.
I haven't seen any of the newer vizio smart tvs but every one i've gotten to play with to date has had that yahoo based thing and had support for youtube and no other functioning video services
Otherwise the two smart tv's at home are an LG and a samsung.
The LG is still receiving occasional software updates has one of those magic remotes support for both netflix and amazon but no netflix profiles support.
The samsung is a couple years newer and has something similar to the magic remote. It supports netflix amazon and vudu. It has a better ui for amazon than amazon fire tv does.
However i've noticed that the audio on amazon gets noticeably out of sync on the samsung after watching a amazon movie for over an hour.
Biggest annoyance I had was when I found I could only have one smart remote. And while you can use a not smart remote with the tv instead samsung won't tell you what part number the remote is or sell you one.
Because one tv remote is good enough for anyone?
I think I have something like 8 remotes lying around the living room all the same model for the same tv just so I can find 1.
American car hahahaha.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's not a new trend Gung Ho came out back in 1986.
But vizio is considered one of the cheap junk brands here.
What I want to know is why about 1/3 of all vizio remotes don't have any letters or numbers on them any more?
I've never seen any other brand do that.
Sure it's a great match with a daskeyboard but it's not really supposed to be.
Offline playback hopefully.
I have one I use it to contact IOS app developers and so I can tweet stupid crap like "Dear google if anyone asks 52369, 71354 and 067-8080-00 are all the same hydro-gear tank for a bad boy lawn mower."
Thanks I missed that one.
Most recent ground strike I could find was near the end of last year. http://america.aljazeera.com/a...
Hitting homes is however much more common such as yesterday. http://pix11.com/2016/07/23/1-...
Its a small problem but a problem none the less.
We already have a problem with actual planes falling out of the sky and hitting people on the head.
Although I havent heard anyone complaining about that.
Must not be the current trendy thing for the media to talk about.
At&t's POTS service doesn't work with it either.
I actually got a letter back from them once...just basically said I could sue them if I wanted but didn't say they would do anything.
Wha.... really? http://www.bluestacks.com/apps... runs fine on windows with an emulator.
Oh you mean windows phone can those run programs yet or does it still just look similar to windows?
I think your right about him mixing wireless and wireline plans
But just for reference anyways:
At one point verizon sold metered service for home use (verizon home fusion) the highest offered plan was 30GB/mo for $120/mo lte
That was around the same time I was pulling 22GB/mo on average on a unlimited 3g aircard. And that was before I got netflix...(fun fact netflix works fine at 3g speeds too!)
Few years back I had a yahoo mail account with unlimited storage then they replaced infinity with a paltry 1TB of storage.
Yesterday I found out that verizon wireless was replacing my unlimited data plan with a meager 100GB/mo.
Yep seems like a good match to me.
Yeah.....well the reason why people keep talking about it like its a home internet connection is because a lot of people including me have no other options and are using it for just that personally I can't think of any reason someone would use 100gb of data in a month on a smart phone.
38Kbps is roughly the speed of two isdn connections or the slowest dsl plan att sells
I was using the same argument years ago with the satellite caps $79/mo 17GB cap back in 2008 a 56kbps connection can do 18GB.
Roughly the same amount of usage $79/mo vs $4.95/mo
although real world I was only averaging about 5GB/month on dialup IIRC.
Only one of the two is still expanding their service area and I'm really hoping that they will decide to expand to were I live.
The other one already covers my area just not my house there is a hill in the way that blocks out the signal for me and my neighbor across the street but the house down the street from us has service.....But we are just SOL with the hill.
looks like ill be getting to call them all again this month
the only tall object visible from my house just so happens to be the verizon cell tower i've been using for internet since I dropped satellite back in 2008.
I checked its $1,500 to get a quote to put something on that tower its not owned by verizon they just lease some space on it. The other option was to get a 50ft tower that according to the previously mentioned WISP "might" be able to reach over the hill. They said they didn't know as their bucket truck wouldn't go high enough to get a signal.
This was after calling them twice a day for about a year get a site survey......occasionally they would even answer the phone.
But I don't think I can go back to a metered connection I was using 22GB on average with 3g back before netflix. The satellite connection I had was capped at 17GB/mo
now with 4g and netflix and youtube with a family of four its more like 225GB on average.
Sorry I call bullshit on the claim that 100GB/mo is a lot for a fiber connection
from a few months ago http://arstechnica.com/busines...
And I quote ""AT&T said that its home Internet customers "use just over 100 GB of data per month on average""
I remember a bunch of years ago 2004 - 2005 ish I had unlimited dial up with a local isp here in town $19.95/mo
was great for several years until they stopped hosting their own dial up server then bam it would drop my connection every 2 hours 45 minutes. Called them up complained they said ISP:sir it's not intended to be used as a dedicated service. ME:How much is dedicated service? ISP:We do not have any dedicated plans at this time. ME:oh...well then i'd like to cancel my service.
I called around no dialup isp with a local number offered service that wouldn't kick you off after 3 hours or so.
So I signed up with netzero $4.95/mo unlimited dial up it still kicked me off every 3 hours as it had the same phone number as the isp I had before that was charging me $19.95/mo just $15/mo cheaper.
that was quite a while ago though. I don't even have a home phone to use dial up if I wanted to now.
Meh. I didn't expect it to stay unlimited but I was really hoping it would last until broadband was available at my house.
I seem to remember At&t saying they would have a version of dsl out there 5 years ago 10 years ago.
The electric company even ran fiber on their poles between their sub stations. But they don't want to be an isp.
Now there are two WISPs in town and neither one covers my friggin house.
Oh yeah sure.
http://xomf.com/g/fjqsb
For your viewing pleasure.
These are screenshots of my most recent bill.
a out of contract grandfathered (from alltel) 3g aircard plan
a in contract unlimited 4g smartphone plan
a out of contract unlimited 4g smartphone plan
and the contract end date for the in contract 4g smartphone plan
The 3g aircard has always been mine but the 4g lines I bought on ebay.
I wonder if I can use family base and just swap between the lines after I hit 100GB. That should get me through about half the month...
I haven't noticed that but I have noticed the extremely large number of laptops that have mixed usb ports the one I'm typing from now is a samsung i7 laptop backlit keyboard 8gb ram all that and it has 3 usb ports only two of which are usb 3 most laptops i've seen only have one usb 3 port if they have one at all.