Subj : Re: From the Continent To : Rob Mccart From : Ray Quinn Date : Fri Oct 24 2025 08:57:59 Hello Rob! 23 Oct 25 07:43, you wrote to me: RM> I don't have a major enough Data plan to stream TV shows so I have the RM> 'Basic' full package from Rogers Digital Satellite. It costs more than RM> I wish it did but there's not much out there cheaper. Our AT&T Internet is slow. 12 down and 1 up MB/S. The Radio Club used to have AT&T Internet at the house, too, but it was a 25 MB/S connection. The club has since switched to Comcast Business which is 150 MB/S up and down. I'm preparing to terminate AT&T's internet in favor of the Comcast feed. We have Starlink at work as we are located outside of either's service area. RM> Plus my TV is so old that getting streamed content to it would RM> be tricky, not impossible, but not easy.. Our newer TV's are "Smart" TVs, but we still have an Amazon Firestik in the bedroom. RM> I virtually never watch Live TV anymore. If it's recorded you can RM> jump over the commercials and watch 4 hours of TV in 3 hours. Precisely. I had a conversation yesterday with my 83 year old dad. They refuse to pay to watch commercials so they watch over-the-air. He doesn't understand that you are not only paying for the content and the commercials, but mostly for the delivery. RM>> a lot of mostly older movies. I actually rarely watch movies RM>> unless they are well known ones I've been hoping to see. RQ>> I like a lot of old movies, the black and white ones. Lately, >> I have been watching some "classic" sci-fi movies on YouTube. RM> I've caught a few as old as the late 1980's but I generally don't RM> look for anything much older than 2000. I've been getting a lot of RM> Sci-Fi movies that were originally at the theaters on that Starz RM> Network. That's been handy after I lost all my recorded movies RM> in the PVR Crash but I wouldn't pay extra for added channels, so RM> far at least. I have also seen anything and everything Star Trek multiple times. One franchise I have never watched is Star Wars. I was in my early teens when Star Wars first came out. RQ>> Usually, if the TV is on, it's baseball. RM> Ironically, I get a huge number of Sports channels in my basic RM> package and I set it up so they don't even display on the guide. RM> I never got into watching sports other than the odd time during RM> the Olympic Games. I played a lot of sports in my youth but I RM> never got into watching others playing them.. As far as Major League Baseball's blackout rules, I can watch the Dodgers, Angels and the A's, but not the Giants. I never watched much pro football and not one game since 2020 when players began kneeling during the National Anthem. I occasionally watch the Fresno State Bulldogs, but even that has fallen off over the years. RM> This has tended to please women friends no-end over the years.. B) My wife would probably like it better if I didn't like sports, but there are other interests that tend to take some time as well. If my team isn't on, I make it a point to spend mealtime with her. 73 de Ray Visalia, CA DM06ii W6RAY/WRKZ506 .... A Smith and Wesson beats four aces. --- GoldED+/W32-MSVC 1.1.5-b20240306 * Origin: Ray's Road Node | Somewhere in California. (618:300/19) .