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I ended up with Amazon USB fire sticks and using an old Wii. I like the firestick remote. You don't have to point it at anything.

Ran a 20' hdmi from a pc to TV for the Amazon account and Popcorn. Then a 20' audio cable back to the pc speakers for better sound. Wireless mouse is great.

Speaking of Amazon; I'm not really impressed with the movie selection. I thought they'd have more 4/5star older "good" movies like Aliens, Avatar, et cetera. What they do seem to have is a shit ton of series shows. Which my kids like, so I'll deal with it. 

Popcorn Time is where it's at for movies. Once you find the English version.

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I just signed up for the free 30 day trial of Prime for the shipping. Put the Amazon app on my Xbox. Spent about 20 minutes looking for a movie and decided their selection sucked. Have not looked at it again. And the two things I ordered so far took longer than two days to get here.

They can blow me, gonna cancel.

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3 minutes ago, Tonik said:

I just signed up for the free 30 day trial of Prime for the shipping. Put the Amazon app on my Xbox. Spent about 20 minutes looking for a movie and decided their selection sucked. Have not looked at it again. And the two things I ordered so far took longer than two days to get here.

They can blow me, gonna cancel.

I get the full value out of my 2 day shipping, but their streaming selection sucks bad.

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16 minutes ago, Tonik said:

I just signed up for the free 30 day trial of Prime for the shipping. Put the Amazon app on my Xbox. Spent about 20 minutes looking for a movie and decided their selection sucked. Have not looked at it again. And the two things I ordered so far took longer than two days to get here.

They can blow me, gonna cancel.

I don't get that. Why would they have soooooo many suck ass movies yet not have the hits that are 2-3 years old or older. 

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I got a REALLY good deal on cable (for the next year or so) therefore I just went back to that.  It's not as good as Directv, but I cannot justify the high price that Directv wants.  When I see my cable bill go up, I will call and get a new promo, or cancel to drop back to just internet with them.  I'm just playing their game, by their rules to get what I can for my buck.

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10 hours ago, JustinNck1 said:

I get the full value out of my 2 day shipping, but their streaming selection sucks bad.

this. Hell my subscription just renewed 2 weeks ago and have already almost paid off the $99 with shipping and prime pricing. I've only had 1 time where my free 2 day shipping ended up being 3 days. Many cases I had whatever I ordered the next day.

Used Prime Video for the first time a couple weeks ago on the Roku since my wife found a show she wanted to watch on it. After browsing around I determined it was terrible in general though.

I also use the Amazon Photo service and sometimes Amazon music at work. I love my Prime membership

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Got a roku 3 last week. Happy with the performance. Gonna look into machtv app. It's $20/month, no contract, has a shit ton of TV channels including hbo showtime etc, NFL Sunday tickets, networks and even adult channels. 

 

Update: machtv seems pretty legit. Live TV works great, has new movies, TV shows on demand etc. Seems like a good deal for $20/month. Will check back after a few days.

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5 hours ago, r6Brent71 said:

Sorry to interrupt, but could anybody tell me the URL to a group called Ohio Riders ? They talk Motorcycles and random other topics like you are here but the site looks nothing like this. Thanks and i appreciate it.

www.ourbikesdontleak.com 

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19 hours ago, CrazySkullCrusher said:

Got a roku 3 last week. Happy with the performance. Gonna look into machtv app. It's $20/month, no contract, has a shit ton of TV channels including hbo showtime etc, NFL Sunday tickets, networks and even adult channels. 

 

Update: machtv seems pretty legit. Live TV works great, has new movies, TV shows on demand etc. Seems like a good deal for $20/month. Will check back after a few days.

 

I just stumbled across the PEAR channel.  Supposedly it's like machtv but free.  I signed up and added a couple of channels.  I'd love to give Sling TV the boot.

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