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You've met @11Charlie then?
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You've met @11Charlie then?
Siege of Jadotville, awesome shot with a bren gun in that film.
I've watched it like 5 times, it's an awesome film.That is excellent. Based on a true story.
Love all of Kens stuff. The War was my favorite. I bought a set of the disc's for that to loan out. Every time I can get one of the younger guys I work with to do so I loan them the discs to watch. It should be required for school kids to see it every couple years. Of course never will happen. The stories brought back some memories of when I was a kid and now and then some adult who lived it would talk about it. Most would not but, now and then one would if primed. Knew one guy who was on one of the Battle ships in the harbor during the attack. He was a 17 YO hayseed who lied to get in since he had quit school when he was a teen to work. When he finally started to talk about it amazing. Same with another old guy who while drinking one day pulled out his silver and Bronze stars and the paper work with them from the next big conflict and showed it to me. Only because his girlfriend talked him into it. I had known the guy forever and had no idea what a badass he was when he was a kid. Thank God we will never have to fight like that again. The generation we have raised now would never be able to do it.
Researching Smart Television, but have yet to read if there are any down sides to them?
Anyone know?
Thanks!
Most of the new name brands will be smart TVs and 4k isn't all that expensive anymore. Especially on last year's models. My Samsung is easy enough for my 2yr old to work. It gives you the ability to stream from multiple sources too (Netflix, hulu, YouTube, googleplay); including VUDU, which has thousands of titles to stream for FREE with ads. Cut the cable a few years ago and never looked back.Researching Smart Television, but have yet to read if there are any down sides to them?
Anyone know?
Thanks!
While I don't like a LOT of what Net-Flix does, I don't like what Comcast does either. So I just live with it. The Odumbo show? It was to be expected. I will be interested to see if it actually pays off for them. If nothing is ever mentioned of how it does money wise? That would be a first clue that they took a bath with it. Even many of the shows I like a lot they put out have heavy slant to one side. I have learned to just roll with it.
As for streaming any Smart TV will do it. When we cut Cable off I took the full version of Hulu. Was at first just using an old laptop. Bought a Roku that was $30 that works amazingly well for the cost. Will let us stream Net-Flix, Hulu, Amazon, the works with one simple remote. Have really liked the full version of Hulu compared to the old cable for simple ease of use.
My Comcast "package" expired and they jacked my price up $22, from $72 to $94. My bandwidth was sh1t, at best.the goal is to charge higher and higher prices!
Alexx and group, I wanted to say something about all the good shows that can be streamed over the internet now days. It allows for much better and focused viewing of just what a person wants to watch (as apposed to cable "packages") and cable subscriptions have gone downhill because of it. They now are trying to fight back by whatever means they can to try to slow or stop this trend. In my case, we have had cable internet a long time and have twice paid extra to up the band width so our streaming goes smoothly without hesitations or drop outs. At one point we figured we could get a better deal from them if we took a combined package of internet and a cable show package but almost never watched anything on cable, mostly still streaming our own choices of shows. When that special offer ran out we decided to go back to cable internet only. I surmise now that the special package was originally offered to entice people off the unlimited internet package deal! Now if they offer a unlimited internet package at all, it is at a much much higher price! Also Exfinity (formerly Comcast) has recently sent us a warning letter that they may have to charge us more if our total download usage (mostly streaming) does not stay within their "limits", whatever that means. That's when I found out we no longer have our former unlimited package and the goal is to charge higher and higher prices! I should have said at the start of this diatribe, we live in a very rural area and cable is the only way we can get high speed internet.Always gotta read that damn fine print!