TV Set up Cable or stream?
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- motokiss2
Thinking of getting out of the cable life and seeing what other folks are doing. It hard because i love my sports (mainly hockey and baseball) .How are you guys and gals all set up?
- freedom0
Chromecast?
- bklyndroobeki0
I watch sports for free online.
- when i'm not at a bar that is.bklyndroobeki
- it's not convenientcbass99
- cbass990
no way around the sports part of it. they got ya by the balls on that one.
- elahon0
We ditched cable last year. I've got a PS3 with Netflix and Amazon prime. I use a radio for sports, have been since I was a kid. Nothing like listening to a Red Sox game on the porch on my little radio. More of a nostalgia thing than anything.
- formed0
I am about to do the same, been paying for that stupid triple play thing (phone, tv, internet). Just basic, though, I'll never pay a penny for sports (if I care enough I can walk a block to the bar, which would be rare...but our Broncos are pretty fun to watch).
I was thinking Amazon TV. Anyone use it?
How is Chromecast? Seems like it'd be a step down having to go through another device (vs. just straight to wifi).
- ideaist0
Mac only:
http://tvshowsapp.com/ (content aggregator)
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https://www.transmissionbt.com/ (torrent downloader)
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http://zqueue.com/servetome/ (streaming server)
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http://zqueue.com/streamtome/ (streaming client)
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Entertainment bliss... + NETFLIX.
- Al_dizzle0
I quit cable years ago. I don't miss it much... it's definitely not worth the 100bux a month.
But admittedly, sports streams are god awful... and seeing a game in HD now feels like such a luxury.
- ESKEMA0
Apple TV + Popcorn Time ( https://popcorntime.io ) (needs a newer mac to airplay / mirror monitor)
+ what idealist said
- desmo0
If you want to watch sports at home, you are shit out of luck. You'll need cable.
I haven't had cable tv for years and only watch basketball games at bars or at a friends place who has a cable package. If I'm desperate, ill run a stream online, but its fucking painful. Your major sports league usually has a dedicated app where you can pay to watch/stream games in HD (NBA League Pass, etc) but the shitty thing is, they apply local blackouts. So you probably won't be able to watch your own home team play using their service. Damn tv rights.
If you don't care about sports, you'll do fine with just unlimited bandwidth and netflix.
- ESKEMA0
and Beamer ( http://beamer-app.com ) to airplay what you already have on the HDD
- BuddhaHat0
I tried v1 of TV Shows, it was really flaky, and the website doesn't seem to be getting updated too often either...
I don't have an alternative solution for TV Shows, unless you use UseNet, in which case you can use sickbeard (sickbeard.com). Considering how quickly you can find and start d/l'ing shows on eztv.it or kickass.to, I stopped using TV Shows after a while.
uTorrent is the better of the torrent clients imo, I use it mostly because of the remote management feature, meaning I can queue up a torrent via my phone or another computer, and it will be downloaded for me when I get home.
As for the rest, I recommend Plex Server http://plex.tv . It's multi-platform, they support NAS devices for file storage, and it downloads a show or movie's metadata when its scan locates a new file in your storage area. I think the BEST feature of Plex is that a lot of new smart TVs allow you to install the Plex app directly on the TV, meaning no Chromecast, AppleTV or any of that stuff, you access your show library from your regular tv remote, and it all works beautifully. My Samsung tv is easily 5 years old and runs Plex with no problems, buffering to rewind can be a bit slow sometimes, but other than that it's golden.
- spot130
If you're in Toronto, check out Vmedia - I just cut Rogers and have been happy with this service for $30 / month. It's a little different that a traditional PVR, basically it allows you to go back up to 7 days and watch anything that was available to you over the air and you can all the standard US and CAD channels live.