FireTV/Stick Streaming
 

I finally cut my cable and went streaming. F@wK AT&T! Went Google Fiber for $55+tax per month. I have FireTV and I love it. I loaded Kodi and been watching free movies. Although some of the servers are not very clear, but free is good. I also subscribed to SETV for $20 per month, gives me 200 channels and love it! Also got movies/TV Shows that I can watch.

Those that stream, what else do you use? Is VPN really necessary?

I can't figure out Kodi to save my fucking life man. Loving Terrarium and Mobdro though.

I recently signed up for VPN but I've yet to enter my Amazon info in the stick so I can install the app because I'm scared of reverting it or something.

I'd like to cut the cord too but my favorite networks (Discovery, History, Velocity, Travel, HGTV) aren't available from a single streaming service and the price ends up being too close to what I already pay now with cable. Plus I love my Tivo too much to give up time shifting and go back to just surfing channels with live streams.

Amazon is a bunch of douches - killed youtube on it in dispute with google...

I'm also on FireTV (Neftlix, HBO, Amazon Prime) and no cable. F*** the cable company with their "$100 nothing to watch" packages and commercials every 5 minutes.

Thankfully youtube works still on my 4k Chinese smart tv, but strangely thetv app doesnt seem to be in 4k, where the fire tv was.

Lol. I live in a hole in the earth. I am running 3mbps DSL, use Netflix and amazon prime, and my wife has Hulu. It sucks. The local cable provider installed a node about 25 yards from my garage door, which means I can run a simple coaxial into my house. I gotta call and upgrade to 25 or 50mbps cable. Oh well...what I have now is still better than when I had directv.

All those channels are on SeT TV www.setvnow.com for $20 a month. That's what I use, the only drawback is it does not record the shows.

I went to Troypoint.com to figure out how to install Kodi on the Firestik

Wow I'm amazed that they have so many networks! I just don't think I can go back to watching live tv though, it doesn't work my schedule and I can't stand commercials. If Tivo ever inked a deal to record the set tv streams like it does cable that would be a true game changer.

ROKU bitches... because you already have Amazon and Netflix and Hulu. It's GUI is infinitely easier and the remote is tits. Trying to score "free shit" by using Kodi and watching in 120x80 resolution instead of waiting a few months until it's "free" someplace is dumb... especially since the tradeoff is that eventually somebody will hack your shit and send 100 stainless dildo's to a drop-shipper outside Houston-Hobby. If you absolutely have to see the latest episode of Will and Grace the actual night it airs, just watch it at your boyfriends house.

I recently signed up for Directv Now @ $35/month. I has those above channels and live local tv for the 4 major networks (I actually get the local live philly and nyc channels). The guide is a pain in the ass and it is annoying not being able to press a button for whatever channel you want, but it works and the price was right. I'd love to be able to say "alexa play CBS on directv now" but it's not that smart. I use it with a fire stick but I got a new roku stick for free when signing up for directvnow. It's still in the box.

I will probably try the SET TV 3 day free trial, that seems cool. Still thinking of getting an antenna because there's one local philly channel that isn't on directvnow.

On another note - netflix has down the drain recently with their price hikes, garbage original content and no licensing deals for good movies. I can't find anything to watch on it half the time. Amazon is slightly better, but HBO is usually delivering decent content (original and very fresh movies).

I know right? It's gone up $2 per month in the last 8 years.

Those greedy bastards.

I use antenna for local morning news and Roku for Hulu and Amazon and also a couple of free stations for international news on Roku (Euronews and Sky news). I don't care about sports much.

I have a fire stick, chromecast, wd tv live hub, tivo, and a fairly complete fios channel lineup.

i've tried living by the stream and after watching a few shows with unskippable 5 minute ad breaks every 15 minutes, the network streaming options can chew on goat dicks.

ABC I'm looking at you.

My company gave everyone an Echo Dot. Not sure why, but they did. I haven't even opened it. It's still sitting in the shrink-wrapped box it came in.

I was thinking about selling it on Craigslist, my wife was thinking about adding a firestick for streaming.
Some of the people she works with told her you can get lots of free stuff by downloading software. This thread makes me think they are talking about Kodi.
We have a Roku a friend gave us in the living room. We were thinking about adding a TV to the bedroom.

Is Kodi as shitty as you make it sound? I am thinking I might just sell the Echo and get one of the TCL Roku TVs.

Kodi is not shitty, the AddOns within Kodi is what gives you free shows. Most of the time they work. Need to constantly update it. Subscribe to Troypoint.com and you will get emails on what to update or change within Kodi.

Kodi as a system is not shitty.

Some of the "legal-but-maybe-not" sources on Kodi aren't great.

Installed this, youtube still works, and auto-updates so don't have to search for updates. Can launch from phone too just like the old app.