[Astron]

I use a Roku device and primarily stream from Netflix, Amazon Prime and Acorn. I do occasionally stream from others free services that are available on Roku. I should say that I do not watch live sports, so cutting the cable was painless for me. I save very little over using basic cable, but I don’t miss cable at all.

[Foxtrot]

Netflix and Pluto TV only. Pay $20 a month for internet. Who needs cable when you have a smart tv?

[elevatorman]

Netflix, Prime, Tubi

[matandch]

Previously I paid monthly: $55 for internet, $93 for Direct TV and $5 for Ooma VOIP landline phone, Total $153. Now I pay $55 for internet, $43 for Sling TV, $5 phone, Total $103. Net savings $50/mo. Could save another $20/mo by buying rather than renting modem/ router and dropping 2 Sling add ons.

[JanetMM]

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.

[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by JanetMM

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 really need to buy new televisions with several HDMI ports, not USB. You could buy an HDMI converter box, and a streaming device for each TV. The streaming device would receive the internet signal and the HDMI converter box would interface with the old TV inputs, but this equipment may cost you more than a new TV. And, HDMI converter boxes do not always do a good job of converting the digital signal to analog. This also assumes that you are paying the cable company for internet service.

[mcwood4d]

YoutubeTV, Prime, Netflix. No antenna, no cable TV. Spectrum internet in both homes (Snowbird).

Had Hulu live TV option but cancelled & switched to YouTube TV since there is no limit on cloud dvr space. Also Hulu live limits viewing location. Youtube TV can be used in 2 locations (only 1 set of "local stations" allowed).

[MSchad]

Fire Stick, YouTubeTv, Netflix, Amazon Prime, iWebTv

[Bkosloski]

YouTubeTV
Netflix
Amazon Prime Video

[Guitarman1951]

Xfinity 100MBS with You Tube TV, Amazon Prime, Net Flix and PBS streaming. You Tube TV gives you all you local channels and around 70+ channels. Works great!!

[JimmyDebbie]

We have Roku sticks or Roku televisions in our house. We stream mainly through using AT&T streaming service (previously called Direct TV Now). We also use Amazon Prime for streaming certain movies or TV series. We cut the cord several years ago and have saved over $100 per month by doing so.

[Malsua]

Originally Posted by JanetMM

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.

If your TVs do not have HDMI ports, you can buy an HDMI to Svideo convertor for about $25. All the old TVs had Svideo. You can plug a ROKU Ultra with an HDMI cable into the converter, plug the converter into the TV and stream that way.

New TVs have Apps like Netflix, Roku, Prime, CBS all access, etc. They also look nicer because you don't have a bunch of cables all over. The power cord is hidden behind the TV and that's it.

Streaming means you watch it whenever you want. They may call it a "cloud DVR" but all you really are doing is saving favorites in one place. At our villa we have the HULU package that is called "HULU + LIVE TV" that gives you pretty much everything that cable gives you. We also have Netflix and Amazon Prime.

[cphague]

I previously had blast (200 MBPS) with Comcast and streamed cable channels through the Xfinity app on Roku. I also had Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, CBS All Access and, for a while, Hulu. I had a deal paying about $97 per month for broadband. You can look up the prices for Netflix, Hulu, etc. No 4k, just HD...which is fine with me. I have used my own cable modem for years so no monthly cost there.

Note: we tried YouTube TV. It's great, but they have raised the price so high, you might as well stick with cable, unless you travel and want to take it where ever you go. Same with Hulu TV and the other ones. Sling is reasonably priced unless you want sports.

As an experiment, since it is just my spouse and me, I dropped broadband speed to 25 MBPS (one year for $25 per month, then around $45 after that), dropped Hulu a while ago and recently dropped Netflix. We kept Amazon Prime Video as it is included with Amazon Prime.

So, for $25 per month plus one subscription to CBS All Access (around $70 per year), we use a Roku and watch shows on Amazon Prime, CBS All Access, the Roku Channel, Crackle, Pluto, CW Seed, Peacock (newly added to Roku - the NBS Universal service free to Xfinity broadband users) and the network TV apps (you have to wait a week before you can watch the show). We have more than we can possibly watch or want to. CBS All Access also gives you the live local TV channel.

My only issue is that I can't watch my Buckeyes beat up everyone in the Big Ten in football...sigh.

[Bill32]

I just checked with Xfinity and if I give up my cable tv service and just keep the rest
( internet and phone) my bill would go down from $ 145.00 to $107.00 not enough of a savings to induce me to change..

[BlackhawksFan]

I have a firestick and I use the apps on that plus I have two apk's one is free it has movies and TV shows to stream like a Hulu. One issue is not everything shown is actually available because it's like Plex you're reliant on others making the streams available. Some shows will have 25 streams to choose from, others only a few.

The other is a live tv apk 3,000 channels from all over the world including feeds of NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB, NCAA plus all the pay movie networks and more. That's $5/month for one account slightly more for 3 or 5 accounts. I have had a few issues with buffering on certain networks but I believe that's my Internet service because I'm not getting the speed I should be getting but that's being corrected.

I still have cable, a minimum package, and I use the live tv apk to supplement it.