Posted on 11/18/2016 7:23:54 AM PST by RinaseaofDs
Fire the wire!!
I like this idea. Put me on the list, please.
Had the pleasure of disconnecting my provider last week.
Installed an outdoor air antenna and gone streaming. Love OANN. With ROKU we have XTV free live streaming tv. Get some lag especially during high traffic time. Otherwise enjoying it. Has many stations we used to pay to watch. Also has Canadian and UK staions live streaming. We subscribe to Netflix, HULU,and OANN. Our tv expense went from $115 per month to less than $25 per month. Love the savings.
Please add me to your list.
We have been weaning ourselves away from the cable and will cut it after Thanksgiving re tv. We will keep our Comcast internet and 2 Landline phones. The internet will stream what little we watch
It is a cost thing. Our new monthly Comcast bill went up to $235/month. We don’t watch any news from Faux/ABCNNBCBS and zero “free” movies and pay movies. Zip NFL live and NFL bs about what happened yesterday/today, last week, last month, last year and decades ago. NBA is a stranger to our tv. So we are paying for the illegals and non English speaking audiences and not using those programs.
Local so called tv news is now checked out on their internet sites.
ESPN is a stranger to our one tv.
Since we don’t speak Spanish, any Chinese or Asian languages, we never watch any of those stations.
So Sling with the added cost of CBS on Demand and ABC local gives us everything we need. Acorn tv for $5/month gives us all the Brit mysteries we can handle.
Most of our few so called live evening tv shows are on CBS, with a couple of ABC and NBC shows. My wife likes Kelly Live on ABC and that is the only daytime tv we watch.
Sling had a bs position re the local ABC channel not being available. After a letter to them challenging their bs, a letter to the local ABC station stating the problem, and a pending letter to my Congressit, that bs was taken care of and is available for $5/month.
I was hoping that ViaCom would get its semi cable internet in our area, but that isn’t happening.
So Adios to Comcast’s heavy handed and costly tv service very soon.
Except for the cold Dec/Jan/Feb months, Comcast’s bill is more than double our monthly PG&E bill and triple in the late spring to mid fall.
Never mind . . . I actually read the FAQs and figured it out!
Please add me to the list.
I cut the cord about a month ago.
Check out Playstation Vue and KODI.
I have Playstation Vue, KODI, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu. That gives me much more content than I can consume.
I only keep the Netflix and Hulu because I have several daughters away at school who use them. Otherwise, Playstation Vue and KODI would be all I need. KODI is free. Amazon Prime is free for the most part if you are an Amazon Prime member.
I have several Rokus, an Apple TV, 2 Amazon Fire Tvs and 2 Amazon Firesticks. IMHO, Amazon Fire TV beats Roku and Apple TV by a mile.
I’d be interested in such a group. I’ve dropped to Internet only at home and have been looking for tips from others on how they use streaming services.
Here are some live stream feeds of various channels on youtube. Foxnews is among them.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=live+stream+channels+on+youtube
Hope to see comments on setting up HTPCs, NAS, and kodi/addons.
I’m interested. Two months into a 2 year Comcast commitment, never streamed and I would like to know more.
add me - no cable for 2 years and loving it. NFL protests made it much easier - thanks Roger G and Colin!
Please put me on your Ping List.
I recently installed XTV on my Roku (thanks to another thread here on FR). The number of movies available is stunning, along with old TV series. It also has a lot of current news and other channels, and offers the promise of getting more content over time.
One problem with cord-cutting is that many cable companies bundle cable with phone and internet. If you try to cut one (cable), the other 2 at their “regular” price then exceed the price of the package. So the solution would need to involve one or 2 other things:
1) A way to cut the phone cord from the cable company also; and
2) A way to get a cheaper data line in to feed the XTV, etc., and also to run Wifi in the home.
I’m sure that there are lots of alternatives, but I plead a bunch of ignorance and defer to my more knowledgable/in touch fellow FReepers.
>>>The problem you can’t completely cut the cord, mostly because the cable companies have the fastest connections in many cases. In fact, Comcast plans to start rolling out DOCSIS 3.1 gigabit Internet service nationally starting early spring 2017.<<<
I am a cord cutter. I have comcast internet. You only need a low speed tier to stream. 10mbit/sec is probably good enough to stream two different HD shows at one time. I have a faster connection but am giving my advice on the research I’ve done. I went with comcast because the alternative provider in my area has a data cap. Now comcast does as well, but it is larger than Ma Bell’s cap. I try to haggle for a promo rate every year and usually they give it to me for $50/month. Of course prices are totally dependent on area. Comcast and ATT seem to know if they are the only two providers in a given area and price accordingly. But the $50 does give me something like over 50mbit a second. Comcast seems to be going down the path of giving you more and more speed to justify their higher prices. It is overkill for a cord cutter.
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As others have said, Great Idea. Please add me to your ping list.
I’m in.
Cut the cord over three years ago. Loving it.
I would very much like to be on the list. I use Roku, amazon, and other streaming services. I am hating the cable stations more and more.
My main concern is sports. The subscription services seem to blackout your local games, and I am not in an area where I could pull in the broadcast clearly.
I also love the convenience of the DVR.
I disagree. The faster download speed you have, the better chance you can stream multiple 720p/1080i video streams or two to three Ultra HD video streams without stuttering. That’s why Comcast’s new DOCSIS 3.1 gigabit Internet service is so enticing.
I installed KODI on my FireTV but I cant figure out what to watch, the interface is very confusing. Any tips?
I cut the cord in ‘07 during the run up for the ‘08 election. Add me to the ping list if you start one.
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