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Vito Andolini

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  1. 2 minutes ago, Sbbruin said:

    If you can't take on a $2,000/mo mortgage payment, you aren't buying a house, or renting a decent apartment, out here at least.

    I love watching those phony house hunting shows on HGTV, where the newlyweds in Cali drop $700,000 on a fixer upper. 

  2. I guess I’m considering an adult who would bring something to the table with a down payment, enough to avoid that ridiculous mortgage insurance. Yes, if you’re making $100K a year, you should not take on a $2,000+ monthly mortgage payment.

  3. For the posters who claimed purchasing a home valued 3X your salary is a bad idea, are you saying the guy who makes $100K a year can’t afford a $300,000 house? 

    And im envious of the NYC attorneys property tax and insurance bills. My place in CTX is nowhere near $1,500,000, but the property taxes and insurance bills aren’t that damn far off.

  4. If you have a smart TV, you may already have the ESPN app preloaded. If you don’t have such a TV, you’ll need a streaming device such as a Roku or Amazon Stick/Fire etc. You can buy these with varying features, but a $30 Roku should be good enough for most needs. Download ESPN if it’s not a default app.

    If you know your DirecTV user name and password for your account, you can go ahead and use that info now and log into ESPN and see how it works. It’s the same for your smartphone or tablet. Just go to the App Store and download the ESPN app.

    Yes, once you dump your expensive full DirecTV service you’ll need to subscribe to a cable/satellite or streaming service that has ESPN included, but a $40 YouTubeTV account should work. I think LHN will show up on the app, but I’m not 100% sure.

  5. 3 hours ago, Eugene11 said:

     

    This is the first list of ways to drop directv ive seen that seems plausible to me. Serious questions thought...

    whats happens with LHN, sports in general like espn and football games? Golf channel? stupid car shows were they overhaul cars, hgtv type shit for the wife?  

     

    Basic ESPN and I think ESPN2 is included on most of the streaming platforms. LHN is on the more expensive version of DirecTV Now, but not on the $50 package and not on YouTubeTV. I don’t think HGTV is on the DirecTV packages, but I think it was on YouTubeTV.

    My work around for getting LHN will be to use the ESPN app, which is available on most smart TVs. You have to sign in with a cable provider, and it should work with the streaming services. Before regular DirecTV added LHN, I used my mom’s cable account, and still have that as a backup if needed.

    Not sure about Golf Channel. 

    I would check out a free week of YouTubeTV to see for yourself how it works. My ability to retrieve all network shows had been screwed up for years with my old Genie, so it’s nice to be able to go back and watch a show if we missed it.

    edited to add HGTV also has an app on smart TVs, so if you have a cable login, you can see all their content.

  6. The dog is way more in sync than the blond. Wait, this thread is about football, right? 

    Regarding the frequent, “Hey, that Wiley kid may be something” posts, count me among the believers. For an 18 year old to have that frame and the athletic ability to be your HS team’s quarterback is something special. He’s already put on 20-25 pounds since high school. I know we need tight ends, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see him grow into an agile tackle one day, which could mean a pretty nice payday. I await the $9.95ers reports on his blocking ability in pads.

  7. 41 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    I’m fed up with DirecTV. I can go streaming route or I can bail on AT&T entirely and try Charter Spectrum — dumb idea? Any relation to Time Warner? I’ve heard horror stories regarding TW.

    What Beau said, though the free trial may be just a week for some. Try the streaming first. I tried both YouTubeTV and DTVNow and YouTubeTV is (for me) far superior. $40 a month, unlimited DVR, enough channels (including your locals) and up to 6 devices/TVs at once. Only bad thing is Google’s (parent company)  pissing match with both AT&T and Amazon. YTTV isn’t offered on Amazon devices and no HBO offered thru the service. You can buy HBO Go independently for about $15 a month. Use Roku and it works perfectly. 

    DirectTV Now has just raised its prices from $40 to $50 a month, but HBO and one of the other premiums is included. But only two devices at once ($5 for another), shitty DVR and interface is less intuitive. And when I sampled it, my local ABC and WB weren’t showing up in the lineup. I never tried Hulu or Sling

    Thanks to some Roku trials, we’ve been off DirecTV for more than two months and still haven’t paid a cent. Latest trial ends tomorrow, and we actually can do a free DirecTV Now for another month, but it sucked so much, we’ll probably just start paying for YouTubeTV. 

    Monthly cost will go from $145 for full DTV to $40 plus tax.

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