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Have any of you folks tried using products such as HULU-Plus, ROKU or Boxee?
There was an article in the WSJ recently which mentioned those products; the article stated that in excess of 360,000+ cable/satellite subscribers dropped those products through the first 10 months of 2011.
I don't know if any of those products has a monthly subscription, or if you just spend the $$$ upfront when you buy the product, and then you're all set---can anybody shed some light on that?
Thanks for any tips; $80.00/month for DirecTV to watch maybe 15 channels tops is asinine out here in SoCal, and I'm looking for opinoions from anybody who has 'cut the cord'.
Have any of you folks tried using products such as HULU-Plus, ROKU or Boxee?
There was an article in the WSJ recently which mentioned those products; the article stated that in excess of 360,000+ cable/satellite subscribers dropped those products through the first 10 months of 2011.
I don't know if any of those products has a monthly subscription, or if you just spend the $$$ upfront when you buy the product, and then you're all set---can anybody shed some light on that?
Thanks for any tips; $80.00/month for DirecTV to watch maybe 15 channels tops is asinine out here in SoCal, and I'm looking for opinoions from anybody who has 'cut the cord'.
We use the game systems to stream Netflix and Hulu (old school, not plus, requires another program), and OTA for local. Don't feel like we miss a thing, and it's 8 bucks a month for the Netflix. DM me if you want a complete rundown of my setup.
I been thinking about getting Roku boxes too, how is this diffrent than Hulu? Does it offer Cnn?
Also I dont know what OTA is above is that antenna service?
Sunny, yes CNN is offered on the Roku box. Both Hulu and Roku are similiar, if you have the Roku box, you still must pay separately for the Hulu television. They are separate services, it depends on your movie preferences, I prefer the Roku for their foreign film selection. Let someone else who has Hulu gives more information.
I attempted to get rid of my cable about three months ago, I didn't make it past three weeks. I had it reinstalled. I do love my Roku box and the fact that I can watch movies in Charlotte and my college daughter can stream on her laptop at college, without paying extra.
I been thinking about getting Roku boxes too, how is this diffrent than Hulu? Does it offer Cnn?
Also I dont know what OTA is above is that antenna service?
OTA stands for "Over the Air", it just means using an antenna to get local channels
I dumped Directv 2 months ago and have not looked back. I built a HTPC (Home Theater PC) for the 2 TV's I have and put up an antenna in my attic. I run that thru a HD Homerun whick allows me to use the PC as a DVR. (The HD Homerun has 2 tuners in it and hooks into my home network). I use Windows media center on the PC's, which is part of windows 7, to watch the shows I want. It has a built in guide and I use a $10 windows remote that aloows me to control everything just as you would a on a DVR.
I also suscribed to Netflix for $8/month and installed "Boxee" software on the PC and Hulu desktop on it to access those. There is no cost for those (it is not huluplus, just hulu).
Car-how are you getting your HD antennae signal down from your attic to your TVs? I have an HD antennae Niue and it works ok but is right next to TV so no doubt it'd be a lot better in the attic.
Car-how are you getting your HD antennae signal down from your attic to your TVs? I have an HD antennae Niue and it works ok but is right next to TV so no doubt it'd be a lot better in the attic.
When I had my house built I had all rooms prewired with cable/cat5 and had a spare sitting in the attic. This of course makes it easier.
All my lines go to a box in my closet and get distributed from there. I just hooked up the antenna to the spare line, attached the other end to my HD homerun, plugged the HD homerun into my router and pick the signal up at the TV's thru my HTPC's.
We also gave up our cable and have not regretted it...we save 100 a month. We are not big sports people though, I don't know how my brother would be able to do this he watches ESPN 24/7.
We had a roku for the bedroom $50.00(already had netflix before with cable) and bought an outdoor antenna + Tivo for $100 from best buy which we use in living room. If you are only using an antenna you can get a special 9.99 month rate from tivo...records all my tv shows (I get all the major networks with antenna) plus also streams netflix, hulu, amazon on demand, youtube...with huluplus we didn't get cbs and cw shows (they just added cw)...plus i love the ease of a dvr. I also have a blu ray player that streams so I could use that with hulu if I ever want to get rid of the tivo.
the only thing i miss is cable news...otherwise we never run out of stuff to watch
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