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Dbeasy

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  1. I really think this post needs to be split into even more paragraphs, especially with no capital letters at the beginning of each.
  2. Let’s hope that Thomas being on the team lights a competitive fire under Spieth to get his shit together next year, giving how close they are.
  3. Yes. Good picks. Burns can get on a roll. I’m good with this.
  4. So I've never heard of HDHR, but it looks like a direct competitor to Tablo? What is Jellyfish for?
  5. Do the poor reviews assume the connection between the Tablo and the router is wireless, or is it also slow for a wired ethernet connection? My house is already wired with Cat 5 in all the rooms, so I can just plug the Tablo into an ethernet port in an upstairs bedroom.
  6. Self quote. I found an article that indicates the Tablo can connect to your router network via either wifi or wired. This could be a game changer. That means anyone can stick an antenna wherever in the house the signal is the best, but then see local channels on any TV or device in the house via wifi. I assume the wifi connection doesn't hose up the 4k OTA signal? So, if the above works, then you just buy ESPN and Fox direct to consumer offerings and you have 90% of what live tv offers, minus the bs channels no one watches.
  7. I’m confused how Tablo works. I connect an antenna via coax to tablo. Does tablo connect to my router wired or wirelessly? If wired, can I just plug it into an Ethernet port that is in an upstairs bedroom? Then how do I watch that on an LG TV either directly or with Roku or fire stick? When I download the app to one of those three devices how does it find the stream on WiFi? The tablo just rebroadcasts on WiFi?
  8. Ha, tried to look at a DirectTV streaming subscription. The website is so confusing and misleading, you literally can't figure out what your bill will be in the future. It's a total bait and switch. Undeterred, I decide to call them. 20 minutes and three callbacks later, after clicking through a maze of voice menus that didn't work properly, I was UNABLE TO REACH SALES! I'll say that again. They are so fucked up they can't even take a call from someone who wants to buy their service. Fuck that. I've dealt with that bullshit from AT&T for years. I ain't doing it anymore. Then looked at Fubu. Pretty good channel coverage. Don't like the lack of two local channels. Maybe could live with it. The lack of Food Network for the wife is tough. Maybe. I thought about the DNS hiding approach with MLB, but I just don't want to deal with that hassle all the time. Maybe someday the Astros will pull their heads out of their asses and make their games available to more people, like the Rangers have done this year.
  9. Thanks. This is consistent with what I saw on the website. NBC and CBS are local affiliates and Fox and ABC are national feeds.
  10. Does Fubo have Austin local ABC channel, KVUE? In some places on their website it says yes, but others it just has a generic ABC channel.
  11. So we are about to drop U-Verse and unless I'm missing something, there is going to be no way to watch the Astros any more unless they appear on a normal broadcast channel. Space City Network isn't available except for DirectTV stream, which we probably don't want. Am I missing an option that isn't too expensive? I'm leaning to YTTV and guess I could pay for something else on top of that. The wife wants her Astros.
  12. I tried that already. Given where I'm located in Leander, every channel comes in fine except for CBS. So I need something higher and outside.
  13. Cross posting from the other thread regarding OTA antennas. Does anyone know someone in Austin that could install an outdoor antenna on the second story of the house and tie into an existing coax cable that runs into all the rooms of the house? Also, what is DirectTV stream looking like these days? I'm dropping U-Verse for most likely YTTV but would consider Directv streaming too I guess.
  14. Does anyone know a person in Austin that could install a TV antenna on the outdoor second story of our house? I have coax run to each room already but the person would I assume tie into the coax line in the attic. I could probably figure it out and do it myself, but I just don't want to mess with it.
  15. What’s the story with all these sketchy sites? Aren’t they just infecting your computer with malware so they can steal your banking login information? What is their business model, if not that? I’m once again doing my annual cord cutter analysis. As probably the last U-Verse customer in the Southwest United States, I have forfeited the right to make fun of my dead parents anymore for keeping their rotary dial phone well into the 1990’s. The prices on U-Verse have now reached a $85-100 per month premium vs other alternatives like Hulu+ and YTTV, with the only advantages now down to having Astros, Rangers, Stars, Mavs, Spurs, and all other networks on an easy clickable remote. Any other non-Uverse option loses Astros. The other teams could be purchased separately from a different service if necessary, or are already free, like Stars on Victory+. So until I read that YTTV could have Fox go dark, I was getting ready to turn off U-Verse this week. Now I’ll wait until next week.
  16. Where did he put the antenna? Hoa rules in our subdivision prohibit outdoor antennas, and our roof decking is metal backed, making attic placement impossible too.
  17. It’s not a horrible order and it’s a tough task. I’ve seen most of these players live many times over the years. The few things that pop out to me: Westbrook is too low on the list. One of the best cover corners and hitters at Texas. Deshon Elliott too high. Raymond Claiborne too low. Vaccaro too high.
  18. I can’t find the article. I do remember his analysis was on nationwide voting patterns, not just swing states. And the irregularity had to do with the uniformity of gains across all voting zones. Look this is tin foil hat stuff but it was an interesting article. I pay attention to math.
  19. Texas football and basketball game threads became a serious threat to my mental health. I finally learned to stay the hell out of there as much as possible.
  20. Somewhere months ago there was a credible article about some mathematician who did a statistical analysis of the voting patterns across the country and concluded the odds were something like a billion to one that type of voting patterns would have happened. I laughed at Magats who questioned the 2020 election, but with Elon and Russia firmly backing Trump, the possibility of fraud in the 2024 election is certainly not zero.
  21. Texas 20 OSU 17 combined Arch yards 251.
  22. True story. I took my wife on a booze cruise in the Bahamas when she was about 7 months pregnant. Obviously no alcohol for her. She wanted to go, so…..
  23. The directing of this series is spectacular. It’s really good.
  24. My wife and I are just fed up with buying clothes. These days the best stuff isn’t in stores, and if it is, not in your size. The stuff in the internet comes in and either doesn’t fit right or has something about it that makes it a no go. It’s just gotten ridiculous. We used to never return merchandise but now we are having to do it all the time. Damn I wish the retail clothing industry would have survived.
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