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meridian5850 09-24-2020 08:45 AM
We have Roku on all our televisions. We have subscriptions for:

Hulu + Showtime (would be considered our "main" viewing service)
Sling Blue
Amazon Prime Video
CBS All Access
Disney+
NFL Game Pass (to watch the Packers at home)
Netflix

The combination of all the above services gives us all the regular programming we were watching with cable. The only channel we do not have is The Weather Channel, which my wife misses.

We had Amazon Prime, Netflix, and NFL Game Pass before we quit cable. I start and stop Showtime, CBS All Access and Disney+ subscriptions after we've watched the season of our program(s).

meridian5850 09-24-2020 08:48 AM
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Originally Posted by JanetMM (Post 1837580)
Right now I only have very old TVs that do not have USB ports. So I’m stuck with Cable. My big question is, on all these options, do any of them have a way for me to DVR my shows and watch them at a different time? I DVR most things I watch for another time and would like to know if any option has that available. Thank you.
You get 50 hours of recording with Hulu and 50 with Sling. We have found it to be adequate.

august2959 09-24-2020 08:50 AM
Cut the cable a few month ago. We have UTubeTV which gives us the live local channels, golf, espn, movie chanels, tnt, etc, etc. We also have Netflix and Amazon firestick. We feel we are saving money and no longer have the hassle every year when your promo bundle runs out. More tv than we need but we really enjoy it all.

PaulinTV 09-24-2020 08:57 AM
Amazon Prime Video
NFL Sunday Ticket
Netflix
YouTubeTV
Peacock - Right now just for Yellowstone
Stream through smart TVs and a Roku on older set

DIver0258 09-24-2020 09:14 AM
Cutting the Cord
 
We use Amazon, Netflix, and Philo. We save about $130 per month over when we had Xfinity cable. We continue to use Xfinity WiFi & lease their modem with unlimited data $118 per month for 600mbs. We are still looking at a OTA antenna installer so we can get local channels. We have firestick & roku. There are several free services if you jailbreak your fire stick. A great source for info is Troy Point TV.

ldj1938 09-24-2020 09:40 AM
$20 Internet?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Foxtrot (Post 1837565)
Netflix and Pluto TV only. Pay $20 a month for internet. Who needs cable when you have a smart tv?
Where/how do you get internet access for $20 month?

toeser 09-24-2020 10:02 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by matandch (Post 1837549)
I use an OTA antenna along with AirTV 2 and supplement with Sling for some cable channels. I bring in 63 channels OTA. The AirTV app then aggregates the OTA channels with the Sling channels in a cable like guide. The AirTV device then distributes the channels to 3 TVs using WiFi. I use Roku as my WiFi interface on the 3 TVs. You can also use Chromecast. You can use the AirTV device as a stand-alone for the OTA channels without Sling. Works great! I’m very pleased.

Plus we share accounts with our daughter on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. Not to mention using Pluto, Crackle and Peacock among other free services available on Roku.

You could do this as a business. Few people know how to put this all together. I had an antenna "expert" come to my house in the northern Villages, and with a roof antenna, he could pull in only one station. We do have a lot of trees.

charlieo1126@gmail.com 09-24-2020 10:06 AM
Im amazed at all the services that people are streaming and subscribing , where do you get the time to watch all these channels? I have direct tv because the only thing I’ve ever bought is NFL ticket , my TV never goes on before 7 pm except for football , I listen to music and read newspapers in morning and then I’m out to gym . , , I I watch taped network news and some PBS news maybe a couple of shows if I’m home, and a movie from TCM after 12 at night . I just can’t figure out how you all are watching all these sites , for me as long as I have TCM I’ll always have enough to watch

toeser 09-24-2020 10:06 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by JanetMM (Post 1837580)
Right now I only have very old TVs that do not have USB ports. So I’m stuck with Cable. My big question is, on all these options, do any of them have a way for me to DVR my shows and watch them at a different time? I DVR most things I watch for another time and would like to know if any option has that available. Thank you.
Watch for sales on Black Friday and Christmas. Nice, smart, flat-screened TV's are now dirt cheap. You can easily pay for them with the money you save on cable.

YouTube TV has a pretty workable DVR function, but only for shows through them.

retiredguy123 09-24-2020 10:08 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by meridian5850 (Post 1837705)
We have Roku on all our televisions. We have subscriptions for:

Hulu + Showtime (would be considered our "main" viewing service)
Sling Blue
Amazon Prime Video
CBS All Access
Disney+
NFL Game Pass (to watch the Packers at home)
Netflix

The combination of all the above services gives us all the regular programming we were watching with cable. The only channel we do not have is The Weather Channel, which my wife misses.

We had Amazon Prime, Netflix, and NFL Game Pass before we quit cable. I start and stop Showtime, CBS All Access and Disney+ subscriptions after we've watched the season of our program(s).
You could add "Frndly" for $5.99 per month. It includes "The Weather Channel" and 14 other channels.

Kilmacowen 09-24-2020 10:34 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Foxtrot (Post 1837565)
Netflix and Pluto TV only. Pay $20 a month for internet. Who needs cable when you have a smart tv?
What internet do you use for $20 a month?

lmack 09-24-2020 10:37 AM
Cutting the Cord
 
Hulu for main stations, Netflix and Amazon for series and movies. If not using a smart tv, we access using an Amazon firestick (so we can utilize our Amazon prime tv account).
We just did this a couple months ago and the TV farthest from the router does occasionally experiences brief pauses. If anyone else has experienced this, please advise if you upgraded wifi or if a booster/extender solved the issue. I haven't tried either yet.

dadoiron 09-24-2020 10:49 AM
Many
 
Netflix, Amazon and many other free apps CW ABC and others news etc - as long as it's free through Roku or Amazon.

dadoiron 09-24-2020 10:54 AM
Stopped using fire stick. When the cable company (Spectrum) modulates the quoted speed from 100mbps to 10 or less it circles the drain and doesn't work sometimes not at all. Of course the company says they don't do this but every time I call it gets resolved for about a month until the next automatic company down throatle

jimjamuser 09-24-2020 11:24 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by jimbo2012 (Post 1837343)
Wondering what you use?
I tend to use diagonal cutting pliars.


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