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Accidental Tech Podcast

81: You Left Your Money in a Bank

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2014

⏱️ 146 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Yes, don't ask the question if you're not looking at the file.

0:04.1

All right, so let's start with some follow-up.

0:10.9

To begin, we have some follow-up about the Tivo OTA or OTA if you're Marco.

0:16.7

It's OTA.

0:17.7

My apologies.

0:18.7

The OTA.

0:19.7

Yeah, that's feedback from Joseph.

0:22.0

Last week we talked about who the OTA might be good for.

0:25.4

I said, get it, try it out if you don't like it.

0:29.3

Stop paying your $15 a month.

0:31.4

Joseph points out that Tivo's require a one-year commitment of service.

0:35.2

And there's a 30-day money-back guarantee in which you can cancel and return it, but

0:39.2

you can't keep it for a couple of months to see if you like it.

0:42.6

I didn't actually check whether this is true, but I trust Joseph.

0:46.5

He seems like a trustworthy guy with a loan first name when the last name.

0:50.7

So there you go.

0:51.7

He also says that over the air is not a wasteland of just four networks.

0:56.2

He says in San Francisco, in Serden Benjamin San Francisco, ran here, there is over 90 distinct

1:01.6

channels of content available over the air.

1:04.2

I said, so some of it's like religious or shopping, but there's tons of that stuff

1:07.2

on cable too.

1:08.2

So apparently some places actually have lots of channels coming over the air.

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