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  1. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    From the close-in western Philly suburbs, growing up, I used to move the rabbit ears to try and pull in the New York stations. Channel 7, WABC-TV was always the easiest as it was far away in frequency from any Philly signals. There were times when it came in almost like a local, and other times...
  2. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    Here's a guy who will tell that 150 mile claims are bogus... And he's right.
  3. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    No antenna will go 2,000 miles. Television signals at best are line of sight. I have an outdoor antenna that picks up 130 channels as I live directly and exactly halfway between Tampa and Orlando and get TV from both cities. We stream from Amazon, Paramount and MLB for subscriptions, and use...
  4. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    I seem to have "trained" my Roku to not automatically switch to the next program. It seemed that with perseverance, hitting that down-arrow on every Amazon or Paramount+ show or movie, it stopped automatically starting the next thing. It still is giving me the option to start what they think is...
  5. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    That's a lot like our story. Four TVs in the house. Each has a Roku Express streaming stick since I don't need the 4K stuff. We're only 1080p on all TVs. Good enough. Blu-ray players attached to each TV as well. We subscribe to Amazon - again for the other benefits plus streaming. We have a...
  6. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    Thanks. As you can see in my next message all has been resolved.
  7. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    After some contact with Pluto's customer support, it may be a problem with my local Spectrum system. It started to work last evening, then crapped out again. So far this morning, all looks OK.
  8. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    Is there something wrong with the Pluto TV streaming service? It's been fine and reliable, but for the past two days, all I get is a black screen for a long time - like ten minutes - followed by their logo and bouncing bar below. It never gets to a menu. I can't even get it to load on a...
  9. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    Hey, I started in radio in the mid 70s. At that time the rules were very stringent. No competitors in the same break. No break more than two minutes. One-hour separation for same client. Those silly rules made radio a lot nicer to listen to. You are correct that it was corporate greed that threw...
  10. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    I have an antenna too and get over 100 channels, all free. Of course, like the cable universe, only some of them are really of value to me. Many are duplicates from the two cities I live between, and there's the religion, shopping, and Spanish stuff. But still, all of it is free over the air -...
  11. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    I object to streaming service ads when they're not put in a logical place. Old, commercial-TV programs were made with logical commercial breaks where the music swelled and the action faded out or stopped. Put the commercials in there, dummies, if you have to! I hate it when they interrupt a...
  12. Harry-N

    General Discussion Streaming Frustrations, Part 2

    OMG! Is Hulu still not fixed after all these years? We bought a Sony "Smart" TV in 2012 and were given a one-year subscription to both Netflix and Hulu. I stretched it out so that we started the Hulu subscription later than the Netflix, but it was sometime in the 2013 - 2014 time frame. On...
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