FireTV/Stick Streaming
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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?
Those that stream, what else do you use? Is VPN really necessary?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ROKU bitches... because you already have Amazon and Netflix and Hulu. It's GUI is infinitely easier and the remote is ****. Trying to score "free ****" 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 **** and send 100 stainless *****'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.
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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.
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.
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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).
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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).
Those greedy bastards.
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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.
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.
#16
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.
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.
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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.