Curious how many millennials cutting the cord are overburdened with college or other debt since necessity is the mother of invention. Or in this case frugality and living within your means in post-recession America.
new cord cutter here!
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Eh, a lot of us are spending just about as much on services that better suit us. We're paying $55 for internet and $33 on streaming services, which is right about the same we were paying for internet+cable a few years ago before dropping cable. But we already also had Netflix, and were hardly using cable anyway. Sports are the only reason to have cable, and I'm able to get networks over the air and anything on ESPN by logging into WatchESPN on Roku with my dad's cable info.
So are you banking the extra bucks, maxing the 401k or IRA, buying stocks, gold or property? I find it obscene and infuriating my wife spends what she does simply on clothes and groceries.
Kodi cost nothing per month
Amazon fire stick is 40$
Internet and an hdmi port on your TV is all that's required
Amazon fire stick is 40$
Internet and an hdmi port on your TV is all that's required
This is what I do. For an extra $5 you can get the SEC Network and some other sports channels added also.
I cut the cord about 3 months ago. It was difficult at first but now I'm pretty much used to it and now I'm not seeing $120+ bill from Comcast.
I pay
$14 a month for Sling (used a friend's Tmobile number)
$20 a month for 10 Mbps internet (its alright. lags sometimes but nothing crazy)
$10 for netflix ( may cancel and split my brothers account to save some)
So right now I'm paying like under $50 a month for it all, and I still watch lot of shows, movies, sports, etc. I often find online streams of sports and such on Reddit. I am using a friend's HBO NOW account to watch Game of Thrones as well ( for free)
I pay
$14 a month for Sling (used a friend's Tmobile number)
$20 a month for 10 Mbps internet (its alright. lags sometimes but nothing crazy)
$10 for netflix ( may cancel and split my brothers account to save some)
So right now I'm paying like under $50 a month for it all, and I still watch lot of shows, movies, sports, etc. I often find online streams of sports and such on Reddit. I am using a friend's HBO NOW account to watch Game of Thrones as well ( for free)
I have the Roku plus sling tv thing going. I'm really interested in getting KODI. I know Kodi can't work with roku.
What are a couple of my options on getting Kodi. Thanks.
I'm in training to become a firefighter/paramedic and I though you meant you cut the cord between your wife/gf and kid lol.
I know this doesn't contribute to the thread and I apologize
I know this doesn't contribute to the thread and I apologize
I have KODI installed on my pc, phone, tablet and Fire TV. The cheapest option to have KODI on your TV would be the Amazon Fire TV Stick. You can also purchase them on ebay with Kodi already installed.
Anyone interested in purchasing a Roku and using Sling TV, you can get 50% off a Roku 3 or a free Roku 2 by prepaying for 3 months of Sling TV.
https://www.sling.com/devices/roku
Anyone interested in purchasing a Roku and using Sling TV, you can get 50% off a Roku 3 or a free Roku 2 by prepaying for 3 months of Sling TV.
https://www.sling.com/devices/roku
Does anyone on here install Kodi on a firestick? I have one but not sure if I am techy enough to do it myself.
If you're looking to save money, another step I'd take if you haven't already is buying your own modem instead of renting one from your cable provider. I did this two years ago. The modem had paid for itself by month 8 or 9.
Sick of reading sports is the only thing to keep cable around. Cable is so much more then that. Watching tv>streaming
Sure if you like to pay for commercials.
I just pay 5 bucks for a VPN and watch everything, including first run movies from any one of a hundred sites on the web. For streaming, I go to EZStreem which finds the best broadcast of a film or TV show for me. Someone on reddit is always two steps ahead of the broadcasters, and will post a link to whatever.
Its super easy! First get a PC motherboard with the NVIDIA 345 grafix card that will need to upgrade the firing rate to 560 MG of RAM that will allow you to run ROKU through your firestick in order to maximize the potential of KODI which will need to be downloaded through the firmware server in order to optimize. Its a snap! Afterwards I like to use a biaxial co-cable split, this allow me to watch it on more than one tv, simply purchase and upgrade a new modem with biaxial splitting capabilities and run a S-Video drive. Now you might have to have a signal uprgrading router in order to see it on more than one floor if you have a multiple story house, but once you optimize and install the modware to make your modem recognize both your streaming source as well as output signal you can then set that up to your cloud system. What your now optimized cloud system (assuming you are going through either a proprietary port cloud and not a shared cloud of course!) will allow you to do is save shows as if you have a DVR, just like that!
But you need to make sure you don't have the system running through the co-axial cable split at the same time, make sure you have the motherboard optimized for splitting manually - not automatically! After you have it set to your manual settings you can get HULU and Netflix for recorded shows, but then the streaming services for sports can be easily set up on the Reddit subforum links or through your digitized KODI.
Its amazing and I can't believe those idiots still use cable! For instance I used to have DISH satellite with all movie channels and DVR and all that jazz on 3 tvs as well as ATT internet for 90 bucks a month, but now with my new setup I can easily access over 30 channels for only 70 bucks a month and the easy maintenance I described above! My wife especially finds it easy to navigate as well as my 3 year old!
But you need to make sure you don't have the system running through the co-axial cable split at the same time, make sure you have the motherboard optimized for splitting manually - not automatically! After you have it set to your manual settings you can get HULU and Netflix for recorded shows, but then the streaming services for sports can be easily set up on the Reddit subforum links or through your digitized KODI.
Its amazing and I can't believe those idiots still use cable! For instance I used to have DISH satellite with all movie channels and DVR and all that jazz on 3 tvs as well as ATT internet for 90 bucks a month, but now with my new setup I can easily access over 30 channels for only 70 bucks a month and the easy maintenance I described above! My wife especially finds it easy to navigate as well as my 3 year old!
Okay cord cutters, honest question, if a show comes on tv at 9 pm, what time do you have to start getting setup so you don't miss the beginning...8:45...8:50, I'm curious
Yeah. You will find that as you get older, saving 125 bucks a month for 300 channels that happen to be mostly religious, shopping networks or infomercials anyway isn't sensible.
Depends. If its a show on Network TV theres no delay. If its a show on SlingTV or HBO theres no delay. I just turn on my Xbox in either case. If its on a network not on SlingTV or Network TV then I likely don't care.
Honestly I only have SlingTV for ESPN and get my local news and forecast over the air antenna.
Why would you 'record shows'? Why can't you just watch your games? I do. Someone, somewhere always has my games. Searching is your friend. Recording shows is twenty years ago. Do you use VHS tape? Nearly every TV website out there from Abilene to Zanzibar streams 'shows' minutes after the show is broadcast. Hundreds more archive them. Even the networks broadcast the last 5 episodes of their shows free.
Looks like you don't know how to watch TV and like to throw away money.
You have it backwards. We're not poors because we cut the cord.
Seriously, I feel like I'm talking to my grand mama when talking to people that is still paying for cable. Landlines, cable and Bingo FTW!!!!!!
i make a very respectable salary and can easily afford cable. For me its now a matter of priciple that i no longer wish to hand a hundred bucks a month to a company with such gawd awful customer service....they can stuff it.
Interestingly enough, once I cancelled direct tv, they offered me a kings ransome to come back. Also, they still havent sent me the box they promised so thst i can return the genie units. Those bad boys are going on ebay soon....
Interestingly enough, once I cancelled direct tv, they offered me a kings ransome to come back. Also, they still havent sent me the box they promised so thst i can return the genie units. Those bad boys are going on ebay soon....
this is not true, if you cancel cable and keep internet, they will send someone out to block tv, if they don't it's an error
Op said he just cut cable and was looking for a way to watch the draft. Zero percent chance they sent someone out that day or week. Typically it takes months, but no way they had done it in hours, a day or even a week as the op implied as his time frame. Twc doesn't even bother any more unless a tech just happens to be working next door to you and discovers the error on their own
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The majority of those TV websites (assuming you are talking the network channels) require logging in with your TV provider to watch most, if not all, of their shows. Like I have Dish, I can't go on the AMC or FX website to watch shows because Dish hasn't reached an agreement with them. AMC does have some stuff up there where you don't have to login, but mostly everything is behind the login wall.
Uh, no. Most do NOT. Broadcast channels are NBC, CBS, ABC and PBS and have no 'log in' requirements for the last 5 episodes. You are thinking of HBO and the other pay channels that are on cable. Every AMC movie is available free all over the world and FX isn't a broadcast channel, so you just go to someplace like http://ezstreem.com, or a hundred like it. Chose show. Watch. Easy-peasy.
We don't need no stinkin' agreements!
This isn't true. I tried to watch an ABC.com show recently and was forced to sign in and rejected because I have no TWC tv account. So I just went to IRC and downloaded the episode I missed instead.
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I have never been asked to login for recent episodes. ABC used to pride itself being all free online. Not been there for awhile so it must have changed. I just clicked onto ABC and pulled up Modern Family episode22, season 7, and they want me to login. Hell with that. I will get it off network on Ezstreem then. My be it's because I just watch the ABC shows on digital broadcast. Maybe it's regional?
There's a lot more TV out there than just the broadcast network channels dude. Most of the stuff on ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox is terrible. And nearly all of the broadcast networks require you to login if you want to watch next day. If you don't have a login, have to wait a few days.
If you call me 'dude', I reserve the right to call you 'shitmouth'. Read the whole thread. I don't watch broadcast TV. A guy was claiming his wife was into recording her shows. But if I WANT to watch broadcast TV (say the Cats are on CBS), I JUST TURN ON THE TV. Did you understand that? There is a button that says 'on'-'off' somewhere on your television. When it comes on, every single channel you see is FREE. There is no login. There is no cable. Sure, if you want MORE free tv channels, you can get a big antenna. But CBS, ABC, NBC, Fox News, ION, PBS, about 4 comedy channels and 5 old movie channel all are digital and FREE with no login.
I watch each and every cable channel, and most of the movies I want to see, by using my computer which is conveniently hooked up to my 60 inch screen. ESPN that I want to see? Online. Game of Thrones? Online. Every movie ever created (including most that were released yesterday, and granted 'cams' aren't very good)? Online. I hope that make it understandable for you, shitmouth.