Well, I FINALLY Did It! No More Cable TV! Anyone Else??

[Raypo]

Expensive but I'm good with the direct

[BigL]

Ugh, Dish and Direct suck. Hope it doesn't rain. I wish we didn't live outside of Time warner's coverage in Wimberley. Satellite is far too expensive and crappy. Plus you can wire evey room in your house and get expanded basic cable. Not so with crapellite.

The funny part is that JP still has Time Warner....to get his stream TV. can't do that with Dish. LOL.

I live where you can only get satellite. In 7 years and I've only had rain knock out the signal 3 times at most. With Dish I can put a "joey" receiver in each room of the house if I want to, use the iPad for Dish Anywhere, even buy a Dish "tailgater" for when I'm at a UT game or out camping.

You can also get Dish's internet. I will say it's not as good as time warner.

[d arrow]

[QUOTE=41Chevy;7390603]Need my NASCAR.[/QUOTE

What NASCAR? that's a nastiest sport ever put on tv.

[jpbruni]

I am not a technoguy and do not have a clue? But I am very interested in finding out about how all this works. I need to come see your setup and have you explain it to me in computer illiterate guy terms!

Bisch

No problem Jerry. It's quite simple

J.P.

[jpbruni]

Ugh, Dish and Direct suck. Hope it doesn't rain. I wish we didn't live outside of Time warner's coverage in Wimberley. Satellite is far too expensive and crappy. Plus you can wire evey room in your house and get expanded basic cable. Not so with crapellite.

The funny part is that JP still has Time Warner....to get his stream TV. can't do that with Dish. LOL.

And to clarify a bit more. Yes, I still need and have high speed Internet, which I don't mind paying for. In the past year I have dropped 2 of the 3 services by Time Warner; Cable TV (in the title of the thread ) and their home phone serivce.

If you HAVE High Speed Internet now or can get it, this is a great way to go. If you live in an area that does not offer it (like Billy) you might have to wait until they dig those trenches and bring it.

J.P.

[OrangeBlood]

I'm resurrecting this thread, and thinking of going this route.

Are you guys building HTPC's of just running the services off the smart tv/bluray players?

[Cratus]

I've been wondering... is there a subtitles/closed captioning option for any of the shows on Roku?

[Johnny Dangerr]

We will be pulling the plug soon..............

[DNTRanch]

I need to do this.

But yes, the sports addiction is a problem.

I'm sure my friends would tire of me showing up for games.

I couldn't do it because of sports. Texas Rangers play nearly every game on FSN and most of Tech's games are on ESPN or FSN. I enjoy watching all day football on saturdays too much also.

I would do it in a heartbeat if it weren't for sports, too many baseball and football games I want to watch.

Yep, Sorry gotta have my Sports, I don't sit and watch much other stuff but GOTTA have sports!!!!

[GarrettM]

I havent had cable for about a year and a half. At first it was because I was broke but honestly now I have no desire to get it back. I have an antenna and get about 15 channels. Its really all I need. 99% of the channels I paid for I never watched anyways so whats the point. There are a few shows, such as Duck Dynasty, that I enjoy but I catch up on them at my girlfriends house on demand.

[axisbuck24]

You guys do realize that you can watch the entires seasons of the shows you like on Netfix, Amazon, Crackle, etc??

Almost all of them are there.

J.P.

Do they have FoodNetwork, Bravo and FX shows? I have a ruko and did Hulu plus for a couple of months. However, back to basic cable since I live in an apartment and couldn't get local channels with an antenna. If y'all have any other ideas on how to get local channels please let me know.

[ted_kennedys_liver]

Cut crime warner two months ago. I now have Netflix and Amazon prime (not much overlap in shows and with prime you get expedited shipping on all purchases). I do still have internet through time Warner so until someone better comes along I have to keep them.

For regular tv I bought a $30 GE amplified hd antennae from target. Works great.

[tjb86]

We made the cut a while back and love the roku box. We got amazon prime it's awesome no commercials.

[El Coyote]

Had anyone used an iView OTA dvr?

[Blue Tick]

I need to look into this more myself.