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Yes, the guide on our cable system (WOW) is nothing special, so I don't think it will be a big deal. Plus, DTV Now where we need to go as it is the best option to cover the channels that are "important" in our household (the Nickelodeon channels, HGTV, Food Network to name a few).
Who did you go with and for internet do you stay with one of the big guys? What channels did you sacrifice just local?
Comcast is the only choice in my area. No contract, $75 for 100Mbps. I get all my locals plus a bunch you'd never guess existed with an antenna. Including several PBS channels.
The apps I use (ESPN, AMC, HGTV, etc..) do. So yes. But I would recommend you get confirmation from the app owners first.
They have a ton of on demand programming
Interesting how different people are looking for different things. The wife and I never use the DVR option. Ever. Always just did the on demand thingie.
I’m thinking about getting the Amazon Fire Recast because I have an antenna in my attic. The only thing is that most of the streaming services have local channels. Way more hours (and no expiration) though on the recast and helps if Internet is an issue or with # of streams.
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I love my fire stick. I haven’t cut Dish yet, still trying to figure out what I want to use, but we’ve got Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and HBO Go (free with AT&T cell plan). Really easy. I go to the app I want to watch find the show and done. It has Alexa too if I want to search. It won’t matter once I cut Dish, but the fire stick will change the input when I hit the home button if the TV is on Dish. That’s TV dependent some of the older TVs may not have that HDMI controlling feature.
The TiVo one is interesting as it’s comparison to Fire TV Cube isn’t correct. I have one of those and they say it doesn’t have streaming apps or voice search and it does. I wonder if they are trying to compare the recast which is just the DVR. My only issue with TiVo is that it’s $249 for the box and then another $7 monthly or $249 for life. The recast is a one time buy and it’s been $50 or $70 off every special shopping time and no subscription cost at all. Since I have Fire TVs already I’ll stick with it. I assume it will be well integrated and I want less monthly charges.Thanks @stbugs and @Politician Spock for the info. I saw both of the suggested items while doing a cursory look around and both caught my eye
I had no idea people still used DVR.
I'm not certain on this, but I think the main difference is commercials. I can mark shows on Hulu Live that I want to keep for later viewing - for example all of my sports teams' games are held for a month or two for me to watch whenever, but it forces me to watch a few commercials. I can still FF through halftime and such, but every once in a while am forced to watch a minute or two of commercials.
Do you have kids? Way easier to quickly pull up a Doc McStuffins episode on the DVR than go to the on demand channel, navigate to "free on demand", then kids, then Disney junior, then the show you want, then choose the episode, then confirm you want to play it.
Netflix just is easier. Don't have young kids anymore so mine manage whatever they want. Lately it's just YouTube which poses it's own challenges.
NVIDIA Shield in 2 rooms. Firestick in another room (I never use it). 2 hard drives on network router with music and video. Two digital antennas and Frontier 100/100 innerwebs for $68.99. I use Kodi to access all my content on both Shields and Firestick. Other misc apps used with IPVanish. That’s it for me.
With DTVN, as long as you set it to record it works just like big cable if you start watching the recording while the show/event is still going on. Otherwise, there's no rewinding live TV. If you pause live TV, it will only hold for a short amount of time before it jumps forward a bit.
HTPC for the entertainment center that runs all the time for the security cameras too. Low power, very quiet.Socrates11 said:
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I had an issue with the DTVN DVR and sporting events. I'd record a game and then when I came back to watch it, if I stopped the recording to run out, DTVN would start it back from the beginning when I came back. It was very annoying. I could watch 2 or 3 qtrs of a game, leave to run to the store. When I got back and pulled the game up, I had to start from the beginning. Then when I hit FF to get back to where I was, I had to guess the time marker as the image never appeared on the screen until I hit play. Very annoying and I stopped using the DTVN DVR afterwards.
I had PIA, but let it lapse. We use the Firestick remote on our phones, and when VPN is on, our phones no longer work. We found the Firestick remotes ate batteries like crazy - we were replacing them every 3-4 days. With 2 Firesticks, this became a little too much for us.
It's clunky at best in my experience. Not nearly as clean as cable.
If you like tinkering and are tech savvy, you can go with an HDHomerun type tuner, and a windows 7 based computer with media center. Can record either 2 or 3 things at once (either OTA or cable via cablecard) and your storage limit is however much hard drive space you have. Assuming 5GB per hour of HD video (a very high assumption) means that you can store 1,600 hours of HD video on an 8TB drive that costs under $200.
I got AT&T wireless unlimited and I got HBO Go for free with it. I don’t think they offer that. I’m pissed I didn’t take advantage of the $15 off per month on DirecTVNow but they didn’t have a DVR option yet so I didn’t cut (about to just figuring out which one). I think DirecTVNow is the cheapest HBO add on. $5 per month.
PIA still works fine for me.
You must have alexa turned on so the remote is constantly listening to you or something. I rarely ever have to change batteries.
After reading this thread earlier, I signed up for free HBO though AT&T/DirectTV today. I'm upset I've missed out on this for so long.
