len_mullen

Here's a deal for those who have an antenna or are considering installing one. This, BTW, is a great time to install an antenna. Conditions are favorable to climbing on ladders and roofs but horrible for antenna reception. Leaves full of moisture, always a little wet, and in constant motion make reception difficult. If you can get things working in the fall, you will be good the rest of the year. This deal is for a whole house DVR. The $189 price includes a 1TB/four stream Sling TV Anywhere DVR, an indoor antenna, and three months of Sling TV (which will see you cord cutters through the election). Pay using a Discover card via PayPal before the end of the month to get 5% cash back ($9.45). https://www.sling.com/deals This DVR competes with the TabloTV DVRs and the Amazon Recast. I own and like all three of these DVRs. This group competes with set top DVRs and, to a lesser extent, TCL Roku televisions which can pause, rewind, and fast forward broadcast TV. A whole house DVR connects to an antenna and your network. They have tuners and local storage. Key features include the number of tuners, the quality of the tuners, how many streams can run simultaneously, internal storage, external storage, what devices can receive the stream, and whether the device can stream outside your local network. The Sling TV Anywhere has four tuners and can stream or record four shows simultaneously. It has a 1TB internal disk that can store 150 hours of HD content. Sling has promised the USB port will soon support external storage as well. Broadcast television can be accessed using Roku, Amazon Fire TV and iOS and Android devices. You can watch one stream outside your home. Sling TV Anywhere launched September 10th. The list price of $199.99 includes 1TB of internal storage and guide service. That compares favorably to the 1TB four tuner Tablo TV DVR which costs $239.99 and requires a subscription guide service. Lifetime guide service is $149.99. Sling TV Anywhere also compares favorably to the Amazon Recast which costs $279.99 for the 1TB four tuner configuration (which includes a free guide service). Right now, the 1TB four tuner Sling TV Anywhere is $99 when you prepay for three months of any Sling package at $30.00 per month -- or $189 -- and includes an indoor antenna. A good deal if you do not want an antenna or three months of Sling and a great deal if you have use for one or both of the bundled items. The quality of tuner on these devices is comparable. In my experience, the whole house DVRs tend to be softer than set top boxes due to compression required to get the stream to work over wireless. The Recast makes things a bit worse by saving files in 720p. Your content may be scaled to 720p by the Recast then sent to a television that re-scales to 1080i. the Recast looks great on my Echo Shows and 720p sets but a bit soft on the 4k sets. The Tablo TV lets you select the saved resolution. You can bump the saved resolution to 1024 for better quality or 480p to save space. It's not clear how the Sling TV Anywhere DVR saves files. I called their tech support. After a long wait on hold, the CSR said they 'think' their DVR saves at the incoming resolution. All of these DVRs have four tuners. The Tablo TV DVR and the Sling TV Anywhere DVR can record or stream four programs simultaneously. The Recast can record four programs simultaneously but can only stream two concurrently. Also, while the Tablo TV DVR and the Sling TV Anywhere DVR can stream to just about any streamer, tv, or phone, the Recast can only stream to Fire TV devices (including the Echo Show devices) and IOS and Android phones. And, while the Tablo TV DVR and the Sling TV Anywhere DVR can stream to devices which are not phones outside your home, the Recast can not stream to external devices other than phones. I should also talk about OTT. OTT or streaming includes apps like Netflix, Prime, Sling TV, Pluto, Philo, YouTube TV, and all the rest. The devices these DVRs run on support many streaming services. The Recast and Sling TV Anywhere DVR integrate some of these services into the DVR's electronic program guide. I love this integration. The Sling TV Anywhere DVR integrates Sling, of course. The Recast integrates Philo, Pluto, Sling TV, and Prime Channels into the Recast's program guide. This only works for FireTV apps. Echo Shows only list OTA channels in the guide. Still slick. All include 1TB of internal storage. The Recast and Tablo TV DVRs support additional storage via USB. Sling promises to add this feature via a software update (as Amazon did with the Recast). In my home, most of the televisions I watch regularly have a TiVo Roamio/OTA on top. I prefer a set top box for picture quality and responsiveness. I have a Recast for my Echo Shows and a few TVs not close to coax or ethernet. I bought the Sling Air TV DVR for use outside my home. Primarily for use of others. In fact, I will be looking for someone who would 'swap' external streams with me so we can add to our OTA programming. I did want to be able to follow the election, so the Sling TV Blue three month subscription represents value to me. I know people who could use the antenna, too. I got 5% cashback ($9.45) by using Discover via PayPal, so the cost of the DVR and antenna bundle was technically $88.55. I've just installed this DVR, but I'm impressed. Setup is simple, but requires a smart phone. Picture quality on my 55" 4K TCL Roku TV rivals my TiVo and is much better than the Recast. On my 32" 720p set, the picture is as good as the Recast. Tuner performance is on par with the TiVo and Recast. When one of my marginal channels became unwatchable on the Sling TV DVR Anywhere, it was also unwatchable on the TiVo and the Recast. I brought a 4K Fire TV Stick to work today. Plugged it into a television and AC power, signed onto the wifi network, ran the Sling app, and was watching television -- my antenna, Sling Blue, and Pluto. Very nice. I'm hoping to find someone to share antennas with. I did this with the Simple TV DVR. It was awesome. They planned to launch in Europe and I was going to swap antennas with someone in the UK. Happy Shopping!

I think it depends on the amenities. If you golf and there are nine holes out back, maybe that does it for you. Tennis courts. A recreation center with activities. Restaurant and/or lounge. They were talking about building one in my sleepy town which had assisted living, a pharmacy, a clinic, and shopping. A large Chinese restaurant near where I work put in a drive in screen, socially distanced picnic tables, and started serving people in the parking lot.

Kill joy!

The word that escapes you is flair...

You are correct, of course. Push polling is very common and there are countless techniques to achieve some desired result based on a survey. FWIW... IOW, our data is good. Take my word for it! I totally discount the survey.

My oldest no longer has a console and my youngest plays on an Xbox One. Neither is interested in either console at this time. My youngest is not sure which console he would upgrade to. Says he is waiting to see what the people he plays with do. Personally, I think the PS5 is a better console with better games and a more civil community.

Maybe, but to a certain extent, you get what you pay for. I like this television for $118... https://www.walmart.com/ip/TCL-32-Class-720P-HD-LED-Roku-Smart-TV-3-Series-32S331/721539264

Is 32" enough? Televisions have been steeply discounted all summer. Walmart.com has the 55" TCL 55S421 4K UHD HDR Roku Smart LED HDTV on sale for $278 with free shipping. It's in and out of stock and been on sale all summer, but I have two of these and like them very much... https://www.walmart.com/ip/TCL-55-Class-4K-UHD-LED-Roku-Smart-TV-HDR-4-Series-55S421/616382144

I agree. I have not purchased candy yet and never decorate for Halloween. We live on a cul de sac of old people so I usually end up eating what I buy. Keeping my powder dry this year hoping to maintain my girlish figure! If you are looking for Halloween themed candy, Aldis has plenty of it at great prices.

Did you find a description of polling methods? I could not. I'd like to know more about sampling of cohorts -- what percentage of those surveyed shopped in stores last year, for instance, or what percentage of those surveyed were black, high income, gen x, etc.

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To be fair, it's been a LONG time since anyone has had a one-day-Black-Friday-sale. And there is Cyber Monday. Recently, November has been Black Friday Months with door busters and not-so-secret sales each weekend. If Amazon has Prime Days in October, that will mark the beginning of Black Friday -- unless Walmart has a preemptive sale.

The future of malls -- community centers. I have seen two shopping centers built at new housing projects near major highways. Both are bus stops as well. Work all day, take the bus home, work out at the gym, and grab milk and eggs on your way to your condo. They have wifi on the buses, but now they need to figure out how to socially distance people on their commute.

Probably not shopping at Staples this year. It's the end of an era, really. I have two bags of ink cartridges to recycle (October and November). I am eligible to recycle ink cartridges for two months. I'll get three more rewards 'checks' (October, November, and December). I have $145 in Staples gift cards. I have to spend $522.94 by the end of the year to maintain my Rewards status. That's only one fourth the story. I bought a new desktop last Black Friday. I have an HP 8620 all-in-one with maybe ten pages printed. I have enough ink for this printer to last me for the rest of my life. I have three boxes of paper and a drawer of specialty paper. We all have great laptops. That's only one fourth the story. My oldest if out of school and does not own a printer. My youngest is in a 'sustainable' program that does everything paperlessly. I print about a ream a year. That's only one fourth the story. Changes to Staples Rewards and Discover Cash Back have dramatically diminished the stream of unearned income I spent at Staples. Discover used to sell Staples gift cards at a 50% discount. Now the discount is about 15%. I only use my Discover card for the 5% deals as my Paypal Mastercard gives 2% on everything. So 1.15x(4x(75))) yields $345 in Staples gift cards -- about a third of the $1000 spend threshold to maintain rewards status. Free-after-rewards is gone. Rare coupons are heavily exempted. Price matching is over. Almost everything is less expensive somewhere else. That's only one fourth the story. I'll recycle my ink, spend my $265, and use my Staples Rewards to get discounts on Amazon.com. That's the whole story. It was fun while it lasted...

Three years ago, I popped into Walmart on my way home from Thanksgiving dinner to pickup a pair of iPhones. Easy peasy and I got to sleep in Friday.

I refuse to respond to this until you post a link to the announcement. What are you new here?

I'm not sure what will be missing. So far, none. I don't mind stores being closed on Thanksgiving. I don't mind not standing in line in the wee hours. I'm hoping that consumers return to retail for the entirety of the Christmas shopping season. My biggest concern is that this forum will slump badly absent the ads and deal discussion. I will miss the anticipation and excitement of the ad arrivals -- and occasional cease and desist. If you guys keep the forums busy, I can deal with a little less anticipation and excitement. (A tee shirt and a gift card would be very exciting.)

I bought a set this weekend. It has a tempered glass top. That's really what I was looking for. The wooden table top I have now is vulnerable to moisture rings, sharp objects, and ... well ... just about everything. Thanks for thinking of me.

Struggling to understand why you would preclude posts to the prize club thread. Doing so makes it even harder to maintain interest in that thread beyond, "in for September."

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, to assist me in choosing a new table for my kitchen. I have a table in my kitchen. It has a wooden eating surface. Wet or cold drinks leave rings on the table. It never feels clean to me. It's gotta go. The existing table has to go by 10/24. I'm looking for a table that cleans easily is resistant to human beings, and seats six comfortably.

When I moved into my home, we had Ames, Bradlees, and Service Merchandise. Ames became Walmart, Bradlees became Kohls, and Service Merchandise became...Staples...I think. Like everyone else in the world, I shopped Walmart. Never went into Kohls. Then one day I had to use a rest room and ducked into Kohls. Nicest public restroom I ever used. No kidding. On the way out, I walked around the store. Lots of nice stuff. We got their cards, started working their promotions, and have all but stopped shopping Walmart. If I am not in a hurry, I can usually beat Amazon and Walmart on price and returns are very easy.

Interesting development. Simon vs Walmart vs Amazon?

I don't think Home Depot starts the domino effect. They do not have much of an event anyway. It'll be interesting to see if Ace Hardware and Lowes follow suit. I think that is how it goes -- sector by sector.

Take the glasses off!

already working on my haikus.