Things Smackie Thinks You Need to Know...

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

^^ Looks pretty cool. Wish it had ShowtimeAnytime but a small omission. I'll check out the ios version later and see how it works.

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One thing I absolutely can't stand is xfinity's onDemand interface
it is seriously 1990's bad and you have to listen to them blasting the same lame commercials as you browse.  Finish watching a show in a series and can't go to the next one, but have to start again

I've been using the online interface and it allows you to search and pick the shows
then it just goes right to it on your tv and you hit OK

now that's great, but have had some issues still

also the Peel smart remote app on my phone is pretty slick too, but could use some work
but anything is better than the native Xfinity ondemand interface

I haven't seen X1, but I'm not giving them another dime
but that looks a lot better

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

One thing I absolutely can't stand is xfinity's onDemand interface
it is seriously 1990's bad and you have to listen to them blasting the same lame commercials as you browse.  Finish watching a show in a series and can't go to the next one, but have to start again

I've been using the online interface and it allows you to search and pick the shows
then it just goes right to it on your tv and you hit OK

The TiVo Xfinity OD app is significantly better than the cable box one. No commercials, no weird truncated menus where you can only see 3 items at a time. Its a very dry, folder structure, setup with no bells and whistles (unlike X1) but its a lot better than the cable box.

Xfinity's OD working with TiVo (as opposed to Verizon Fios') is the only reason I stick with Comcast. Then again, I also seem to be the one person on Earth with no real service complaints about them and I've talked them down to a pretty great rate.

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Anyone took the leap and upgraded to Win10 yet? Curious if Edge is as good as the hype.

[chaz]

Anyone took the leap and upgraded to Win10 yet? Curious if Edge is as good as the hype.

Messed around with it at work.  It was just for a little bit, but Edge seemed totally blazing.  I was very impressed.

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Anyone took the leap and upgraded to Win10 yet? Curious if Edge is as good as the hype.

literally installing it as I type...so if you don't hear from me in a few days... you will know it went bad

[GetThee2aHatcheryıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Anyone took the leap and upgraded to Win10 yet? Curious if Edge is as good as the hype.

literally installing it as I type...so if you don't hear from me in a few days... you will know it went bad

No so bad so far
Edge is slick....although doesn't do much for the 930 forum site

I am a little bummed there is no LastPass support for the Edge
other than that the upgrade was easy as pie and went flawless

You do need to budget some time, I have an SSD and still took 90 mins and then another 20 when I started opening aps and such

[vansmack]

Like that time way back when Smackie proclaimed Tangible Media dead, desktop OS's are dead....

[posted from my Chromebook]

[vansmack]

On the television service provider front, I'm back in the market as I'm moving and leaving U-Verse and have the choice between going back to DirecTV or Comcast.

Right now I'm leaning towards DirecTV for TV and Comcast for Internet.  I watch too much recorded sports to cut the cable, but I'm not ruling it out yet.

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Like that time way back when Smackie proclaimed Tangible Media dead, desktop OS's are dead....

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[posted from my Chromebook]

I don't believe you

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

[posted from my Chromebook]

I don't believe you

I would consider a chrome book when they make a really expensive VIP one. It seems like a computer for the poor.

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[posted from my Chromebook]

I don't believe you

I would consider a chrome book when they make a really expensive VIP one. It seems like a computer for the poor.

Exactly, that's why I don't believe VS on this one

[vansmack]

[posted from my Chromebook]

I don't believe you

Why not?  I have a the Toshiba Chromebook and it's the only laptop I have....

I'm looking forward to the Toshiba Chromebook 3.

I would consider a chrome book when they make a really expensive VIP one.

https://www.google.com/chromebook/pixel/

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Starting at $999.99? Ugh. Can the gurus behind the Prada smartphone get the band back together and knock the Prada Chromebook LeMont out over the weekend? Diamond encrusted trackpad, y'all.