Largent80 wrote:That's great, glad you made the switch. I swear, I have all the channels I watched before for 1/5th the cost and all in HD. I can't record everything but a lot of it I don't need to as you can get repeats all over the place. Kodi has tons of apps with everything under the sun. It's a huge learning curve but well worth it. It put over a hundred bucks into our bank account every month (after the overhead of the hardware).
It wasn't easy. I had to take a bunch of siding on the exterior of our house off and drill some holes in order to run an Ethernet cable to my main TV. I still have a puzzle to figure out for my big overhead projection TV, but even if I can't get it connected to stream programming, it won't be a deal breaker as I can still watch and record OTA broadcasts, which constitutes the bulk of what I use that TV for.
I was amazed at the amount of options that are available from free services like YouTube. Once we learn to access everything, we're going to have more options than with the outlandishly expensive satellite. We just discovered yesterday that we can not only schedule programs to record from our mobile devices, we can view programs on them. The only problem is that navigating between mediums is very time consuming, so you can't channel surf very well. But considering the cost savings, it's a minor inconvenience.