See Eddie, I just learned something, I've never heard of Crackle but it looks interesting too. I saw the promo pic for an old movie called Hardbodies. That's a pretty funny movie that was shot about 5 blocks from me on the Strand in Hermosa Beach maybe 20 years ago.

As to big league sports, yes that's the biggie that is not and probably never will be available in real time online for free. I used to be a big Rams fan but then they moved to St. Louis and I followed them for a while when Kurt Warner was winning those Super Bowls but I've dropped them since and I no longer follow football. Now I'm a big Lakers fan and they just signed a 20 year 1 BILLION deal with Time Warner. The Lakers have been broadcast live on over the air TV locally for years and could be picked up with an antenna. No more. Good luck on them being online any time soon. If I give up all commercial sat/cable I'll have to watch the games at a friends place or a sports bar.

I've been doing a lot of reading about this lately. The sat/cable companies know they're coming under pressure from people just like me and are trying desperatly to get some locked in exclusive stuff that is only available through them and sports is at the top of the list. The question is is it worth the minimum basic package that's still about $65/month or so? I'm beginning to doubt it, there's sports bars all over the place here. I am a fan but I'm not fanatic about it.

Now I see that virtually any premium show that's on HBO, Showtime etc is available online from Amazon for about $20-24 for an entire season. To get those with DirecTV you have to pay extra for those channels and that ups the bill to about $140 a month. It's worth it to buy a complete season of 2 or 3 shows. Of course if I were a hard core viewer watching every series out there, then no it wouldn't be worth it to buy all those shows separately but I'm not, too busy with my music among other things.

Keep the suggestions coming.

Bob

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