I have finally given up cable TV, its nice to have that expensive monkey off my back. I picked up a Fire TV box and am pretty happy with it. I also bought a digital antenna, which provides a pretty good number of channels. I currently have Amazon Prime and Netflix, which provides a huge amount of content. Anything else I should check into?
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home beer brewing setup.
Quote from: Swatter on February 04, 2015, 12:11:49 AMAnything else I should check into?
HBO is getting ready to launch a stand-alone service.
Get Netflix and Amazon Prime (and HULU if you want to keep up with recent TV shows) as well as either an Apple TV or Roku device.
There are pros and cons to each option but even if you get all of the above you will still spend less than 3 months of cable.
Quote from: Staggerwing on February 04, 2015, 06:39:08 AMGet Netflix and Amazon Prime
he already said he's got both of those 8)
If it wasn't for my wife and MIL, I'd get rid of the TV portion of Uverse in a heartbeat. I'm perfectly happy with Netflix alone.
I've been wanting to do that for years, you are my hero for the day Swatter. I don't know what keeps holding me back. Amazon prime is great, better than Netflix IMHO.
Quote from: bayonetbrant on February 04, 2015, 04:21:11 AM
Quote from: Swatter on February 04, 2015, 12:11:49 AMAnything else I should check into?
HBO is getting ready to launch a stand-alone service.
I've heard rumors ESPN is thinking along the same lines.
Yeah. If I could get my better half to buy into it I would drop cable in a nanosecond.
Congrats Swatter.
I've been thinking of doing it for the least few years. Only two things holding me back is live sport games (NFL and NHL) and the last time I checked none of the streaming services seem to have the Big bang Theory, which is the one TV show I actually watch.
Thanks! Its good to hear HBO will be doing a stand alone service, I have a lot of Game of Thrones to watch.
Quote from: Kushan on February 04, 2015, 10:10:00 AM
Congrats Swatter.
I've been thinking of doing it for the least few years. Only two things holding me back is live sport games (NFL and NHL) and the last time I checked none of the streaming services seem to have the Big bang Theory, which is the one TV show I actually watch.
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I haven't had cable in 10 years. I rarely miss it.
Sports are the hardest to do without, but that's why God invented bars with the NFL package ;)
Quote from: mirth on February 04, 2015, 03:08:18 PM
I haven't had cable in 10 years. I rarely miss it.
Sports are the hardest to do without, but that's why God invented bars with the NFL package ;)
I thought about that, too, but if I got a broadcast antenna I could watch quite a bit. I really only watch football. Part of my frustration with cable is that my local college football team has most of their games on the Big 10 network. B10 network is not part of my basic cable package and I will NOT pay more for it.
I can watch more than enough NFL without cable. I would lose out on some college games but I could live with that.
I have a broadcast antenna with mixed results. Over the air reception in my area is poor. The switch to digital made it worse.
I can still watch many NFL game, but for "big games" I tend to go some place with cable.
What I really miss cable at home for is just vegging out and channel surfing.
So I need the HBO service and some sort of streaming soccer service. If I could get those two, we could totally unplug from cable and go internet-only with just an HD antenna. We get 15 or so over-the-air HD channels and have 2 TiVo boxes with lifetime service so DVRs aren't an issue.
I'm getting very very close to it...
It helps that we have 2 hard drives with 600+ movies each plugged into the TV too.
What I really need is a streaming PBS Sprout service for my daughter...