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Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

strikeforce

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7. love my roku and netflix and new antenna on the roof

Reply to melody (Original post)

Sun Feb 24, 2013, 10:54 PM

Feb 2013

my dish bill was 55 $ and climbing a month. my roku was 99$, high speed DSL (gotta have it anyway),netflix 8$ per month,dropped hulu(saved 9$). bought and installed a new antenna on the roof (65$). i pick up about 12 channels in digital quality over the airwaves for free. i finally weaned myself off the remote control obsession. think so highly of netflix i would like to buy some of its stock.

every night i watch on netflix sons of anarchy--trailer park boys--house of cards.

in 4 months i broke even on the costs (dish vs. ........). now it's only 8 $ a month for netflix.

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Considering Roku in place of cable [View all] melody Jan 2013 OP

Are you able to access over the air channels in your location? cbayer Jan 2013 #1

Yes, however, there are cable shows my husband would miss melody Jan 2013 #2

Hulu carries a lot of those. Would check them out to see if they will cover it. cbayer Jan 2013 #3

Will do. Thanks so much! n/t melody Jan 2013 #4

I don't know about Roku. Curmudgeoness Jan 2013 #5

One time fee for the box itself with a lot of accessible free content and cheap fee premium melody Jan 2013 #6

love my roku and netflix and new antenna on the roof strikeforce Feb 2013 #7

We have a Roku getting old in mke Feb 2013 #8