No tv for near future

3 years ago

My apartment complex was bought by a new management company. Their plan is to turn the complex into Luxury Apartments and of course raise everyone's rent
They started last week replacing a lot of the roofs and the siding on all of the buildings. They did my building on Monday and Tuesday but on Wednesday when I went to watch TV I noticed I had no signal coming from my satellite dish. Went outside to check and I saw that the roofers we're just dumping shingles all over the place and several were caught on the satellite dishes. Ask them to remove them and I still could not get a signal.
I called Dish TV and they said they would send a technician out on Saturday. The technician came out and he told me that my cable wire had been cut. When I went outside to look at it I saw a note taped to my front door that said all satellite dishes were to be removed from the side of the buildings immediately. If we did not remove them the management company would do it. It was then I noticed that a lot of the satellite dishes we're just laying on the ground. Apparently the roofers are taking them down from the buildings if they are in the way.
So, since we are no longer able to have satellite I had to call Dish and cancel my contract with them. they were very nice about it and I am going to receive a credit from my last bill.
The reason I don't have TV yet it is because my only other option is Xfinity cable. I don't want to go with them because it would cost me $80 a month and it is a two-year contract. I plan on moving before then so I am just going to go without television for the time being.
It is now day 5 with no television and it's really not that bad.
SamKaren Your resident dj

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Lukki Irish

3 years ago

last modified: 3 years ago

Actually, they are breaking federal law by doing that.

Also known as FCC Order 98-273 or the FCC Satellite Rule, this law states that landlords cannot ban satellite dishes from a rental property. ... The law allows the landlord to supervise installation and impose reasonable restrictions about dishplacement. (Reasonable being the key word due to the need for a clear access to the satillite. IWO, they have to be willing to find a spot that will allow you to get signal)

FCC Order in full from FCC page.

Edited to add: If it were me, I would not take that laying down. I’d contact all of the other tenants who have experienced the same thing and contact the new company as a group to advise that they are breaking FCC law and you as a group are prepared to contact the FCC to file a complaint.

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kathyg_in_mi
3 years ago
If you live in a large city area and there are TV stations you can get one of those antennas that look like a sheet of paper. They pick up local channels. One of my sons has one and he put one in for my DSIL.

Or what about a subscription service for Netflix?

Wish you well.
morz8 - Washington Coast
3 years ago
I know many will say they rarely watch TV, but I rarely watch TV. DH will always turn on the one in my office, so if I'm in here I'm listening to news, or stock market reports, many, many sports events but while I'm absorbing some I'm technically not watching it. I have my desk placed for the window view and TV is behind me.

Where I would miss it is in the bedroom! I am completely used to falling asleep to the television in the bedroom. Part of my routine along with an open window (screened of course). I don't even set the timer for the television to turn off. DH will wake during the night and turn it off, if he really even wakes to do that ;0)

I'm outraged always at what Xfinity/Comcast charges. Every several months I call and negotiate a temp reduction in price and then it shoots right back up again. Right now its more than the monthly payment on our first house!
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I got rid of cable a few years ago and got an outside antenna, so tv is free. I still have to have a separate internet connection but it's much cheaper than having cable. I do have the tv on most of the time whether I'm watching it or not and I leave it on for the dog when I leave the house.
lucillle
3 years ago
SamKaren, I got rid of cable TV but stream lots of TV shows with my Amazon Prime membership. I don't miss cable TV at all.
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
3 years ago
If you have internet & wifi, you can get a Roku for about $30 and watch tons of free TV
nickel_kg
3 years ago
DH has been talking about cutting our cable. The costs keep going up while our viewing keeps going down. I don't think we're that unusual.
bpath
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We use one of those antenna that look like a sheet of paper. I think ours is Leaf? Between that (our current favorite over-the-air show is Animals Unscripted, short funny animal videos with no voiceover, it’s really delightful) and Netflix and Hulu that we share with our son, we don’t miss cable at all. For breaking news I watch things like CSpan and CBC and local news updates on my tablet.
carolb_w_fl_coastal_9b
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Roku has the major news networks: CBS, NBC & ABC, along local news and a lot of others, PBS , YouTube as well as access to all the subscription streaming services - even Amazon Prime. We love it. We cut our cable last year and do not miss it a bit.

And Pluto TV is a streaming/on demand service that you can watch free on any device. It's not the only one either.

plutotv.com
amylou321
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
I got 2 roku ultras and we use YouTube tv for our regular channels. We are very happy with it. I also use it to stream amazon prime,regular YouTube, and lots of free channels that roku offers. We pay 95 dollars a month for unlimited internet and 50 dollars a month for YouTube tv. But there are lots of other streaming services to pick from as well. Lots of them free. All of the paid ones that I know of (YT tv, att now, hulu,etc) are month to month, no contract. And no hassle when you move. Unplug, pack it up,plug it in at your new place,watch. I guess the only hold up would be moving your internet service.

I would be salty if I was without TV. It relaxes me.
Lala
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
I know people that are happy with the Mohu Leaf Antenna. If you put in your zip code, it will tell you how many channels are in your area.

https://www.gomohu.com/
Jasdip
3 years ago
I have an indoor antenna.......a flat piece of plastic that sits on my end table. It pulls in CTV and Global and TVO (periodically). The picture quality is HD.

The vast majority of my tv viewing is on weekends; streaming, using an HDMI cable from my laptop to the tv
dedtired
3 years ago
I could live easily without tv. I also recommend getting Roku.
Lukki Irish
3 years ago
Mohu didn’t work for us at all. I sure wish it did.

There are lots of ways to get around not having your dish. We use dish dowstairs and Roku upstairs without a problem. I’m even planning on trying a few streaming services to see if our needs can be met that way. That said however, as someone who rented for many years and had to put up with a lot of landlord shenanigans, I would take issue with a new company that seemingly doesn’t respect tenant rights.
Lars
3 years ago
In the Palm Springs area, I have a Terk indoor antenna, and I replaced the amplifier with an ANTOP amplifier, which greatly improved reception and the number of channels I can get here. I'm supposed to get 61 channels, but about half of them are in Spanish, religious, for children, shopping, or otherwise of no interest to me, but there are about 31 channels that I do watch, including six or more PBS channels.

From my experience, you cannot piggyback amplifiers, and the new amplifier worked only when I removed the first amplifier.

We have hundreds of movies on DVD plus dozens of TV shows on DVD, including the complete Monty Python series, which we have been rewatching lately. We also stream movies on Amazon Prime. DB Kevin gets all the new Sony releases streaming, and so we can watch those, if we choose.

In my bedroom I have a leaf antenna, but the reception is not as good, as I have not replaced the amplifier.
Michael
3 years ago
A landlord can restrict the mounting of antenna and satellite dishes to exterior of the building, roof, siding, porch, etc.

According to the rule: For example, the rule (OTARD) would not apply
to restrictions that prevent drilling through the exterior wall of a
condominium or rental unit and thus restrictions may prohibit
installation that requires such drilling.

Perhaps the new owner has a plan but hasn't communicated it yet or you missed seeing the communication. A phone call may solve the issue.

As for streaming. If you have internet and a SmartTV, and not fussy about superior quality streaming, the SmartTV apps will be adequate for Netflix, Hulu, Prime, Disney+, etc.
Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)
3 years ago
I use my smart-TV as a display for my computer so I reckon it becomes a smarter-TV.

Samsung offers Samsung TV Plus. I briefly looked at it but it didn't seem to offer anything that interested me. And like most TV, it has too many commercials for me. (Any is too many for me)

After having Amazon Prime for years, I just recently started watching an occasional movie. But I wouldn't pay extra for it.

There's Youtube, Vimeo, etc. which I'll watch on rare occasion.

I'm more into watching old TV reruns that nobody else would want to watch. I have several on my hard-drive, and sometimes start them playing randomly, mostly just for the noise.

My snowbird neighbor has a dish on a pole in the yard, not on the side of the house. Would that work where you live?

Looking at a simplified version of the FCC regulations, it looks like there are areas a landlord can prohibit a dish, but also areas where they can not...
(https://www.dish.com/downloads/legal/Landlord-Permission.pdf)
Kathsgrdn
3 years ago
I got rid of Dish years ago. I don't miss them. I watch streaming shows sometimes on line. Read the news that way too. Yesterday when asking my phone about the weather for the day it told me I could get news by saying "good morning". lol. I listened to current news getting ready for work and driving in yesterday and today. There were multiple stations with different news items.
Lukki Irish
3 years ago
In order to get Directv to work once, we had to have the dish mounted onto a pole out in the yard. Darn trees. :c)
Elmer J Fudd
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
"As for streaming. If you have internet and a SmartTV, "

A smart TV isn't needed. So long as the TV is new enough to have an HDMI socket, you can get a Roku-Chromecast-Firestick dongle in the $30-$40 range that will allow streaming from all the popular sources.
Michael
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
Elmer, once again you missed my point. I was telling the OP she didn't need to spend a dime if she has a Smart TV. Your suggestion requires spending money on a device that may not be needed.

Let me make it clear for you. I said, " If you have internet and a SmartTV,
Elmer J Fudd
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
You said she needed " internet and a SmartTV". And you went on to talk about smart TV apps. Those were your words. That could lead someone who's currently out of work and waiting for an unemployment check to thinking that she's SOL for awhile without a so-called smart TV. Which isn't the case.

My comment was that she doesn't need a smart TV and that there were modestly priced alternatives. Heck, at my primary home, I don't have a smart TV. I stream all the services I wish through other means and she can too if she chooses to.
Michael
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
You said she needed " internet and a SmartTV".

No, I didn't say that.

This is what I said.

If you have internet and a SmartTV, and not fussy about superior
quality streaming, the SmartTV apps will be adequate for Netflix, Hulu,
Prime, Disney+, etc.

No tv for near future

Lukki Irish

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