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Some CNBC show are on Hulu, There is a CNBC Channel on the roku box.
If you use Schwab Street Smart Edge, you can stream CNBC live feed, from just before, during and just after Market Hours (Not sure how long before/after they stream)
We have Comcast, which has a cap of 250GB/month. We watch a couple hours of Netflix and other things (Hulu, etc) almost every day over the Roku in addition to our regular internet activities and we usually don't even come close to hitting the cap. Unless you watch A LOT of TV... you should be fine.
250 Gigabytes is a LOT. Most people would never come close to hitting that in a month.
I did the antennae once and it only picked up 2 channels...
We have a Clearstream 2. Not a cheap antenna but works well for us.
I also download podcasts for news and entertainment
We also have Sling tv, that includes CNN and Bloomberg
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Why not just get the news from their website? It’s a lot quicker to just click on the stories you are interested in, rather then watching an entire broadcast. They also have live feeds. Thats the only way I have gotten my news for the last 15 years.
Amazon is currently selling refurbished Roku's for $34.99. Think I'll try one.
Costco sells Roku 3 for $90 and Roku 4 for $110. Gues they are a bit fancier than the simple ~$50 Roku's. I think Roku 4 offers 4K streaming but that would eat your 200/250 GB internet allotment quite quickly.
Evaluating all of the television options has proven quite confusing for me. Netflix HD for $10/mt is a solid value and offers a lot. Also fails to offer a lot.
480p is still considered HD to many. Old televisions offered ~220 lines. 720p isn't too terrible for bandwidth consumption. 1080p is another story. 4K would be...horrifying.
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You can watch one HD movie and burn through several Gigabytes
You can watch one HD movie and burn through several Gigabytes
True, but how many HD movies is the individual in question watching a day (and not just watching on DVD, but specifically streaming). Not to be Captain Obvious, but 250 GB / 30 days = 8.33 GB a day.
For me personally, with Cable One my cap was 300 GB a month for $50 a month. If you wanted their cable you're tacking on $50 - 70 additional, depending on exactly what channels you want ($70 gets all the channels that show college football, which is the only reason I keep cable for 1/2 the year). That assumes of course you're not paying to rent their DVR or modem; the DVR I use is $80 used and the modem was $56 used (they charge $8 a month to rent just a modem ).
My usage averages around 70 GB a month with watching some free Hulu, Netflix HD, and Netflix DVD ($75 a month total to watch whatever I want vs $120 a month to watch whatever happens to be on).
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