Largent80 wrote:We're getting ready to do it. My wife and I have had enough of DirecTv and their extortion of Sunday Ticket and their ridiculous prices and we will now use an antenna and stream. In fact in my area this year only 4 times I needed to watch S.T. to see the Hawks out of the whole season.
Questions for all that have done it.
How do YOU do it?...What equipment do you use to record programs etc?
Largent80 wrote:We're getting ready to do it. My wife and I have had enough of DirecTv and their extortion of Sunday Ticket and their ridiculous prices and we will now use an antenna and stream. In fact in my area this year only 4 times I needed to watch S.T. to see the Hawks out of the whole season.
Questions for all that have done it.
How do YOU do it?...What equipment do you use to record programs etc?
RiverDog wrote:
When I first read the thread title and the first few words of your post, I thought that you and your wife were getting a divorce.
I currently get my football from two sources: I have a Dish Network system and I have an over-the-air antenna feed. The OTA is by far the better picture, and from my limited understanding, it's because their signal is uncompressed whereas satellite and cable has to compress their signals in order to accomodate the 500 or so channels they squeeze into their pipelines. I also get several channels via OTA that are not available on Dish or cable.
But I am interested in streaming some NFL games. I like sitting on my deck in the fall and with our impending retirement, plan on spending more time in our motor home, so I would love to be able to watch games on my tablet, but the NFL's cost to stream games is outrageous, something like $150/year. So keep me posted on your cord cutting!
Largent80 wrote:I'm hoping that some here that have done it will chime in. My neighbor has an Amazon fire stick that he knows how to modify and he gets premium channels for free!!
makena wrote:I'm a cord cutter and have been using a variety of techs to watch whatever I want whenever I want.
There are numerous solutions but regardless of what you decide, get a VPN! It's even more important to have a VPN since net neutrality has been rolled back.
PM me is you are interested.
Mak
Largent80 wrote:Just bought an awesome ota antenna and an Nvidia Shield for streaming.
SUCK IT DirecTV.
Largent80 wrote:The Nvidia works awesome. If you have an android phone, it basically turns your tv screen into a giant phone.
Get the VPN as mentioned above. When you install KODI onto the Nvidia, it opens up a world of free streaming tv, music and even movies. I bought a 4 TB external hard drive to record, and also a wireless (small) keyboard with a touch mouse to control everything. The Shield can be hard wired and has 2 USB ports and HDMI to connect to your tv. It's super fast like this and the picture is awesome.
Cost of antenna $42
Nvidia Shield $198
Hard Drive $109
Keyboard $19
I cant believe I didn't do this earlier. That's about 2 months of DirecTv with Sunday Ticket.
Let me know if this is cool to post here if not I'll remove it and if anyone wants the links I'll send them via PM
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Largent80 wrote:Seahawks need to cut it too.....
http://sports.mynorthwest.com/390303/se ... tom-cable/
Largent80 wrote:Holy crap, let me share my experience with Directv with you.
First, they have gotten literally THOUSANDS of dollars from me over the years, but when we moved we were going to cut the cord and cancel (last Oct.) but we decided to wait so we could focus on settling in and doing research on cord cutting. I just called them to cancel our service and they said that we had verbally signed another 1 year contract when we decided to move the service because THEY paid for an independent contractor to come out and hook it up. We never agreed to any of this.
So, in order for us to cancel Directv we have to pay $20 per month until October plus our bill accrued to this point.
It's simply extortion and unscrupulous business practice to do this to people.
The only reason I even had it is because the NFL gives them the monopoly of Sunday Ticket, but sorry NFL and Directv. YOU are the losers.
Largent80 wrote:Not only that but at first they offer you this "package deal"....X amount (discounted) for 12 months, you have to sign a 2 year contract and after that 12 months they not only make all the money back that covered the discount but also a hefty profit on top of it. Add in the monthly cost of the receiver and fees for sports networks and if you want Sunday Ticket you can easily have a $200+ bill every month. We had internet with AT&T and since they merged our bill was over $270 per month !!!!!!
Now since I have less than $900 invested in my new system (which includes a brand new HP computer tower I can get every single channel I was paying for and we upped our internet on Comcast to stream better. I can't believe I didn't do this years ago. We have Netflix, Hulu, and Sling all for about $50 per month. Plus we are Amazon Prime members and get all their programming, and all this without mentioning the gazillion 3rd party streams available on my Nvidia Shield.
I hope this will help others out and take the money away from these extortionists.
Largent80 wrote:Sure. I'm still learning how to do all of this stuff. There are a lot of useful YouTube videos with tutorials. There are tons of add-ons from 3rd parties that have content. It's a place where you could get yourself into trouble so be careful of what you add. I tried Nord VPN for a month. It seemed to work well, but this next month I will try IP Vanish for a month to compare and I will write about that experience later. I also got a 1 year subscription to Plex which does a great job of organizing all your media.
After buying a new computer to hook into my TV's system I thought why do I need a DVR since I already have a hard drive there, plus an external one connected to my Shield.
Doing some research I found this handy little gizmo the plugs into a USB port. It allows recording right onto the drive and also will stream WiFi to any connected device in any room.
It's on the way, once I get it hooked up I will give a review.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015I ... PDKIKX0DER
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