re: #119 steve_davis

I did close to the same thing. I’m hanging out in the same house my Dad was in before he died recently. He was spending 260 bucks a month for freakin satellite and internet. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as DirectvNow. But a couple weeks ago, I stumbled across it on the internet. So I now have a 40 dollar internet connection through AT&T and a 5 dollar a month promotional Now package, with a 5 dollar a month HBO package (pretty sure that’s the best HBO price out there). I use a Firestick on the big t.v. and it works flawlessly. Would it be nice if I still could use a remote with numbers on it, rather than having to flip through the channel guide to get back and forth between stuff? Sure. Would it be worth 200 bucks to do that? No.

My DirecTV Now package came with the Fire TV wifi device…not the Firestick. It has the vocal recognition feature that so far works pretty good. You just say what channel you want and it switches. I haven’t used it a bunch yet, still getting used to the whole thing.