Re: [OT] Tragedy, narrowly averted

On Thu, 6 Feb 2025, Cindy Hamilton wrote:

On 2025-02-06, Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Saturday night, my life changed. Our U-Verse DVR went out, and I lost
all my taped programs and the ability to tape, pause and fast-forward
any shows, on any TV. The satellite U-Verse TV still worked, barely.
I had to start fooling with the paradigm and remotes provided by Hulu,
Apple+, Netflix, Paramount+, Roku, Samsung, etcetera. I never bothered
to do that before. It sucks, but I learned a little.
Today, an AT&T tech showed up and reminded me that U-Verse is unsupported
technology, but he'd see what he had in his truck. What he had, after
some serious monkeying with my system, worked.
I'm back, Baby!

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Congratulations.  I've been exclusively streaming on my smart TV
since 2018.  A single remote does it all.  We like it a lot better
than linear TV.  We don't watch any sports, but I'm given to
understand there are live streaming services for that.

I use torrents, yt-dlp to download ad free youtube videos, and my trusty kodi installed on a radxa zero to play it on the tv.
I haven't had regular TV for about 7 years or so. I only see it (thankfully) when I visit my father. It is almost not possible to watch it due to the ads, and the extremely low quality of the programs.