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How's it REALLY working?Originally Posted by colorider
I've got enough other avenues for movies and TV shows but Sports is my big killer ( I don't have cable already) tired of missing football and hockey games I'd like to see.... oh and motorcycle racing ..... those are the 3 reasons I almost get cable then look at what they want and scoff...
HD antenna + TiVo. All the network programming in HD quality that's better than cable. Get an antenna that mounts in your attic and you won't even know it's there.
And the antenna is a great way to get live sports if you miss that while using hulu/netflix, etc.
Last edited by hollohas; 10-20-2014 at 16:26.
I'm going to need to do this when I get the streaming box for our house. You have any more info on getting set up with an antenna for local stuff?
"There are no finger prints under water."
Go to www.antennaweb.org
click here to start.
Type in your address.
It will show you what stations you can get, what antenna to buy, what direction to install it, etc. Once you get it all setup you will have to use your TiVo or other device to filter out the channels you don't want...for me that's the Spanish stations. I pickup a bunch of those.
No messing around rotating it around trying to find the sweet spot. I used this website to get the info, used a compass to orient the antenna correctly and I was picking up dozens of super clear HD channels in minutes. My antenna cost $73 which is a mid range model.
I may have to give that a try; we watch a lot of cable channels like Discovery, History, etc so I need to figure out how to stream those. Netflix is OK for catching up on old shows but Hulu had absolutely nothing that we watch.
We're still using a home phone too since we've had the number for 14 years and Comcast has bundled it; just read up on porting it over to Google voice (seems that you have to port to cell first but looks pretty easy) so this may be a good time to drop everything but internet.
Perfect, thank you.
"There are no finger prints under water."
That is cool, thanks for sharing. Looks like most stations for me would come out of the Brighton area and we're about 20Mi.
I have Ooma - can port your number and its works as a voip line
Working just dandy for us. Kid can easily stream his cartoons, wife watching her favorite shows and I watch my movies and documentaries. I really don't watch much tv. What we realized is how much time was spent looking at the Comcast guide to see what is on then settling for something. Now we just decide on a show, search it , stream it and done. I am not a sports buff, but in searching the sports channels every game that is being played can be streamed. I can not vouch for the quality of the stream as I have not checked it out. But the games are available. Every sport.
Last edited by colorider; 10-20-2014 at 17:09.
Thanks!
Are the other streams you watched a good quality ? ( I assume they are since you didn't say they WERE'NT)
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