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1 posted on 01/19/2012 8:53:09 AM PST by beachn4fun
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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...


2 posted on 01/19/2012 9:02:21 AM PST by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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Here’s my suggestion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBOMs912-SU&feature=player_embedded#!


4 posted on 01/19/2012 9:08:55 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (I'm for Churchill in 1940!)
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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.


5 posted on 01/19/2012 9:10:19 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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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.


6 posted on 01/19/2012 9:11:54 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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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.


8 posted on 01/19/2012 9:17:40 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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What shows specifically are you wanting to keep if you give up cable?


10 posted on 01/19/2012 9:22:35 AM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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I have gone to ROKU 2 and have never looked back. This is a great streaming device with lots of options (currently over 300+ different sources). It only costs $99 to buy the small box (The size of a large wallet) that connects wirelessly to the internet. The only monthly fees are for using things like Netflix or Huluplus. Much of the content does not cost anything to stream.

Think about it.

11 posted on 01/19/2012 9:25:28 AM PST by HOYA97 (twitter @hoya97)
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Read the TV guide, you don't need a TV

12 posted on 01/19/2012 9:26:00 AM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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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.


13 posted on 01/19/2012 9:29:18 AM PST by SuzyQue (Don't believe everything you think.)
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I unplugged about 6 months ago...and have never looked back.

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

15 posted on 01/19/2012 9:33:10 AM PST by Axeslinger (Where has my country gone?)
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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.


17 posted on 01/19/2012 9:38:21 AM PST by perfect_rovian_storm (Perry's idea of border control: Use both hands to welcome the illegals right in.)
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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.


19 posted on 01/19/2012 9:42:39 AM PST by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture (Could be worst in 40 years))
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See if that cable show is available via iTunes on a Season Pass.


23 posted on 01/19/2012 9:51:58 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmit. | FR Class of 1998 |)
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I used to be able to get TV stations over 1000 miles away before the government takeover and with hdtv I get one station now. Had dish and quit. I get my football on qwest dsl and once in a while on antenna. If I did have dish again I would waste too much time and get an ulcer form the political propaganda that has been going on for 5 years.
24 posted on 01/19/2012 9:55:16 AM PST by mountainlion (I am voting for Sarah after getting screwed again by the DC Thugs.)
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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!


27 posted on 01/19/2012 10:04:35 AM PST by spankalib (The Marx-in-the-Parks crowd is a basement skunkworks operation of the AFL-CIO)
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FTA Receivers


28 posted on 01/19/2012 10:17:31 AM PST by ßuddaßudd (7 days - 7 ways a Guero y Guay Lao << >> with a floating, shifting, ever changing persona)
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Anyone who thinks they need to watch their favorite show should seek professional help. Just unplug the damn thing! There is nothing worth watching on TV that you cannot get elsewhere.
29 posted on 01/19/2012 10:18:48 AM PST by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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Back in the 1950's when I was growing up in northern Michigan, we only had two channels, one broadcast from Petoskey and the other one out of Traverse City. How the hell I survived those days I have no idea..........

"Horizontal hold" and "verticle hold" problems were the norm as was aluminum foil on the rabbit ears........

32 posted on 01/19/2012 10:24:16 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (The only solution to this primary is a shoot out! Last person standing picks the candidate)
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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.


40 posted on 01/19/2012 11:34:44 AM PST by The Great RJ ("The problem with socialism is that pretty soon you run out of other people's money" M. Thatcher)
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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.


43 posted on 01/19/2012 1:03:47 PM PST by stylecouncilor (Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant...better left unstirred.-PG Wodehouse)
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