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Post by 🔪 silly buns on Jan 10, 2021 20:05:57 GMT -5
Sorry if there is a thread about this. Please let me know if there is.....I do not want to pay $64 for basic cable (ca ble and rental of set top box) and just want to watch the occasional movie or tv show. I was thinking of getting Philo, because it may work with my firestick.
Just looking for something with a low cost monthly service and a small one time purchase or equipment.
Anyone using a streaming service fot basic cable?
Use Philo or Roku?
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Post by moimoi on Jan 10, 2021 23:58:54 GMT -5
I got Roku to replace the three ridiculously expensive cable boxes in my home. There was a sale so the basic one cost $25. I got a basic Sling package for the channels my brother watches and added on my dad's Indian channels for about $100 less per month than I had been paying Xfinity. The nice thing is that I can easily remove those channels if/when they aren't needed and add stuff like Crunchyroll if/when I feel like it. I also watch Amazon Prime on the TV using Roku. It took a day to arrive and minutes to set up. So far I'm a fan.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jan 11, 2021 0:46:51 GMT -5
Our set up is a digital antenna for broadcast TV (people seem surprised that antennas still exist when we tell them, but they do, and our signal strength is fine) plus a Hulu/Disney+ package, plus Netflix...plus, ahem, torrents for when we really want to watch something specific and can't find it elsewhere.
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Post by nowimnothing on Jan 11, 2021 16:56:19 GMT -5
I use Roku around the house. Pretty good selection of apps. Pluto is the one we probably use the most outside of my Plex media server.
I have an old roof top antenna hooked up to my media server to record anything on the big 4 networks. Plex will even edit out the commercials for me.
I might be one of the more hardcore torrent people around here. I scrape two different private torrent sites with Sonar for everything else. I just add a series and it downloads after it airs or drops on Netflix, Hulu whatever. Then I play it via the Plex app on any device I want, even while traveling. Last I checked, I had over 1,000 movies and maybe 100 TV series.
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Post by liebkartoffel on Jan 11, 2021 17:43:27 GMT -5
I might be one of the more hardcore torrent people around here. I scrape two different private torrent sites with Sonar for everything else. I just add a series and it downloads after it airs or drops on Netflix, Hulu whatever. Then I play it via the Plex app on any device I want, even while traveling. Last I checked, I had over 1,000 movies and maybe 100 TV series. *Raises eyebrow, scribbles down notes |
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Post by nowimnothing on Jan 11, 2021 18:11:46 GMT -5
I might be one of the more hardcore torrent people around here. I scrape two different private torrent sites with Sonar for everything else. I just add a series and it downloads after it airs or drops on Netflix, Hulu whatever. Then I play it via the Plex app on any device I want, even while traveling. Last I checked, I had over 1,000 movies and maybe 100 TV series. *Raises eyebrow, scribbles down notes lmk if you need invites or other info  Sorry, should be sonarr |
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Post by Floyd D Barber on Jan 11, 2021 20:13:47 GMT -5
Sorry if there is a thread about this. Please let me know if there is.....I do not want to pay $64 for basic cable (ca ble and rental of set top box) and just want to watch the occasional movie or tv show. I was thinking of getting Philo, because it may work with my firestick. Just looking for something with a low cost monthly service and a small one time purchase or equipment. Anyone using a streaming service fot basic cable? Use Philo or Roku? Pluto is still my favorite free cable-style streaming service, although The Roku Channel is quite good also. The variety of streaming apps is amazing. There is a ton of niche and special interest stuff out there, most for free, if you dig around for it. Roku is pretty good for searching out streamers by interest. The only misstep I think they have made lately is that they used to have a separate menu section listing newly available public streams, no matter how low-rent or cheesy they were, and I really miss that.
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