Joeboo
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Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success
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LiquidDeath
Magnus Deadlift the Fucktiger
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Man I really want to do this, but im afraid.
Help me out bros. I fucking pay upwards of $240 for the internet, cable, and phone bundle. But im afraid to lose my DVR and the channels we still watch like Nat Geo, history and shit like that.
I do have netflix, hbo-go, and amazon prime. Plus everyone in my house now has a smart phone, so the phone thing is a no brainer. I just cannot justify paying $150 for the cable part of my uverse bill while only watching it a few hours a week (the wife watches it more). The kids hardly watch TV, they are youtube junkies.
I do have netflix, hbo-go, and amazon prime. Plus everyone in my house now has a smart phone, so the phone thing is a no brainer. I just cannot justify paying $150 for the cable part of my uverse bill while only watching it a few hours a week (the wife watches it more). The kids hardly watch TV, they are youtube junkies.
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If you just need something in the background, I suggest getting something that can youtube/pandora/netflix quite easily. I purchased the nvidia shield recently and its voice recognition and searching is quite good. Now I can finally share all those stupid youtube videos with my wife!
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Yeah I was the one with the wife with a land line, but again, now that we all have smartphones in the house, we did talk about it and shes game. shes even game on the whole TV thing which shocks me, because she consumes more of it than anyone in the house. I guess in our area, there is a suprising amount of free channels you can pick up with a powered antenna. My question is, is there anything out there that can record some of that shit, like our DVR does? Is there a computer I can build with some type of program on it that can record scheduled shit when hooked up to the tv?
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I never noticed how nice it can be to just be in a peaceful, quiet room until I shut my cable off. Much more enjoyable than some bullshit you don't even want to watch droning on in the background.
If you have a FireTV Stick (and I assume Chromecast) from my Android tablet I can broadcast my screen to the TV to share YouTube content. Its pretty slick. Can do the same thing with Spotify to the FireTV.
Vandyn
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The DVR aspect is the one thing that worries me. I'm also banking on Sling TV not crapping out when a show we both watch (Walking Dead for example) because I have no backup for that since I cannot DVR. Other than that I think we're good, most of what we watch is local which is covered by the antenna and Netflix. I got sling primarily for ESPN and HGTV for her. Tell you what, a whole lot more people are doing this though. Wife returned the equipment yesterday to TWC and said there was a line out the door of people doing the exact same thing. Also when I called to downgrade to just internet the lady on the phone was doing everything in her power for me not to do it. I was trying to be nice about it and just kept telling her no. Finally it got to a point where I said 'look, I understand you are doing your job but for our viewing habits, I can get by with just this and spending $70-80 and you guys can't compete with that'. I almost felt bad because she was put in a position where she's trying to knock Netflix (streaming is not that great she said) when that's probably not her job anyway.
Anyway, we'll see how it goes.
Anyway, we'll see how it goes.
Tarrant
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Isn't Xbox coming out with a model that has a built in DVR?
Edit: Yeah, it's already built into the XBox One for game recording and they will enable TV recording in it sometime next year.
Xbox One will get a TV DVR feature next year | The Verge
Edit: Yeah, it's already built into the XBox One for game recording and they will enable TV recording in it sometime next year.
Xbox One will get a TV DVR feature next year | The Verge
Anyone use this?
Aereo Roamio OTA | TiVo
It would be amazing if Tivo + Sling somehow worked together and you could record Sling broadcasts for DV-R-like consumption
Aereo Roamio OTA | TiVo
It would be amazing if Tivo + Sling somehow worked together and you could record Sling broadcasts for DV-R-like consumption
Arative
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Soygen
The Dirty Dozen For the Price of One
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Not sure if this is thread for this, but 'nzb' is too short of a search term for the forum search feature. I use OZNZB for my HTPC newsgroup searches. My VIP account just ran out and before I pay to renew, I was wondering if there are better alternatives to oznzb out there?
They have a roamio for that yes. You can't record the sling stuff but the OTA stuff you can.
