I pay about 180 a month for TV, internet and the cell phones (3)... I am using uverse by at&t... I got 3 boxes and a dvr with the deal, and over 400 channels...
Here’s my suggestion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBOMs912-SU&feature=player_embedded#!
Get an outside antenna and a digital converter. I live about 50 miles south of Indianapolis and can get about 35 channels over the air. If I had a rotor on the antenna, I could pick up Louisville, Cincinnati and Bloomington and probably more. Of course, this setup does not get you cable channels.
Get an outside antenna and a digital converter. I live about 50 miles south of Indianapolis and can get about 35 channels over the air. If I had a rotor on the antenna, I could pick up Louisville, Cincinnati and Bloomington and probably more. Of course, this setup does not get you cable channels.
Can’t help you too much. For local programming, just get yourself an antenna. You may want to add an antenna amplifier if you live far from the towers. I don’t have cable or satellite any longer and don’t really care. I have a few favorite cable progams I would like to watch, but the cost is not worth it. I have a wireless roku box in one part of the house and a wireless bluray player in another and those two give me my streaming internet entertainment content, much of it from Amazon Prime, but a few other channels as well like Hulu.
What shows specifically are you wanting to keep if you give up cable?
Think about it.
You can watch current cable shows (right after they show, i think) on Amazon Prime, but they cost 99 cents apiece. Pretty cheap.
I’ll check this thread later to see what suggestions other FReepers have.
My family's viewing habits before:
Sports like NFL, NHL and the occasional golf tournament.
Discovery channel stuff
History channel stuff
AMC's Walking Dead
We dumped DirecTV and installed an antenna for our local channels. I bought a ROKU and the NHL GameCenter package (~$220). With either the ROKU or my TV, I can access Netflix, HuluPlus, Amazon video, and several others. Netflix (streaming only) is $9 I think...maybe 7. With Amazon video I can get AMC's walking dead by the episode for $2/ea, $3/ea for HD. Netflix shows tons of the Discovery/History/Nat Geo stuff, but usually well after the original air date. But I don't care...when they show it on Netflix it's still new to me. So our viewing habits after are:
Sports like NFLand the occasional golf tournament via the antenna.
NHL via the Roku
Discovery channel stuff and History channel stuff delayed from original broadcast via Netflix
AMC's Walking Dead delayed a day or so via Amazon video.
We will NEVER go back to DirecTV
Are we talking strictly ‘legal’ here?
If not, check out Sabnzbd, Sickbeard, and hook up a computer to your TV running XBMC. All free software. Being a newsgroup member will cost you, but probably not more than $10 a month.
Yes, there’s a bit of a learning curve, but if you google for tutorials, you should be able to get it working.
Personally, this is what I do. If I really like something and there is a way for me to consume the content the way I want it (without commercials, forced trailers, nagging, waiting, or lousy resolution), I’ll gladly pay for it. Otherwise, I refuse to pay money to inconvenience myself and to prop up the failing business models of a bunch of liberal morons.
My cable is included in the rent, on-air HD is free with a 40-year old UHF antenna, phone is subsidized, and I pick up my food stamps on the 3rd.
See if that cable show is available via iTunes on a Season Pass.
It’s great that you asked this question. I’m in the same place.
Thanks largely to the good folks here at FR, I’ve decided on cable internet, with streaming stuff from my (new) TV. It came with apps, so I don’t need to go rokyu yet :)
I’ll add the antenna, because the only reason for ‘pay-tv’, for me, was sports.
I think it will work ok.
Thank you everyone - you are very helpful to the tv-noobs!
Cheers!
FTA Receivers
"Horizontal hold" and "verticle hold" problems were the norm as was aluminum foil on the rabbit ears........
We have been using a Roku box for several years. The box taps into your wireless Internet and allows Netfliks and other streaming channels to your TV. Netfliks has been great, but we tried Hula Plus and were disappointed with the movie selection. Set up is very easy and the box allows access to numerous channels some free.
Try TVPC.com I recently watched the new episodes of BBC’s Sherlock on the BBC1 iplayer channel, it looks like they have a lot of channels there from all over the world.