I'm sure this has been discussed before but what are solutions to cable TV? It's getting outrageous anymore on the price, pausing, "pixalating" when I'm watching channels and not real thrilled about satellite neither. I see commercials for Sling and Fubotv but it looks like those are on a trial basis too then it will go up. I'd like to watch news, football, college, sports ingeneral, Motortrend, A&E, local news, some of the free movie channels, etc.

I have good internet, Amazon prime for things I need if it helps. I've never used a "Firestick", or anything that streams. Looking for options

Opinions/Advice. Thanks

Spectrum is driving me nuts with the pixalating and pausing too! Price hikes no good either. Friends keep telling me to drop them but I'm afraid of change lol. I record about everything because commercials drive me nuts. I have a Firestick now but haven't connected it. They recommended several other things that I already forgot but it seemed like Firestick was good for me because I'm boycotting NFL. But I'm sure I'd miss some other stuff so I'm going to try it while I still have Spectrum and hopefully eventually give them the boot along with their price hikes and pauses and pixes.

Check out YoutubeTV. I just switched after 20+ years with Directv and it offers a DVR type option.

If I watch football, I'd prefer college over pro stuff but also will miss my favorite team too but oh well. The price is getting outrageous and for crap, IMHO. If I can watch my favorite channels

best thing going in my opinion.

My parents still use cable TV but their package comes with all the extras as online streaming also so really they could be dropping cable and paying for that and save a bit of money but they don't.
For news if you could get local stations with an antenna before you can still do that now.

depends on how tech savy your vs spending money premade.
local channels can be set up with an antenna.
if you are wiling to set it up, plex is a good display program and dvr for recording local shows, but you need a capture card installed on your computer to use that feature.
roku's have a bunch of free channels, and local news for free.
both plex and roku offer a bunch of free movies and tv shows.
you can also add your library of movies to plex and watch those too.

the only issue would be sports.
I don't remember if it was hulu or someone else that offered that seperate.
I know I have seen amazon ads for local sports too.

Easy.

Drop it.

No cable for over 33 years, there is plenty of other stuff to do with life.

I know, right?

To use an antenna, does it have to be mounted on a window and some sort of cable going to the TV? Or, is there an antenna like in the God old days where it's on the back of tv, minus the tin foil or "rabbit ears"

Run a roku and firestick in the house.

Pay for Hulu live+ which has most of the sports and local channels. Hulu live has ESPN+ which is good for college football season.

truly depends on where you are and how close you are to the broadcast towers.
I get like 50 channels with an indoor antena sitting on top of a cabinet.
could get more if I mounted one of the big ones on my roof.
having radiant barrier doesn't help my signal.

lol. living 90 minutes from the nearest interstate limits your options

I'm close to towers

My buddy runs one of these in his shop. We're roughly 60 miles from any television towers, and in a low-lying area. He still picks up up 20ish channels (on most days). If you're close to broadcast towers, I'd probably spring for a better one. You might get all the TV you want, for free.

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same here yrs since i had cable.............. i use some different web sites to watch shows and reddit links to watch the browns football and the blue jackets hockey and tv from around the world some times

This^ Been using Hulu+ Live for about 4 yrs now. I have Firesticks on all my TVs so they all function the same....same remote,same home screen/menus etc. Hulu+ Live gives me all the local networks for news/sports/national programming plus 60ish other "cable" channels such as History/HGTV/TBS/TLC/MT, etc. Includes access to the Hulu library and 50 hrs of cloud recording space. We save $60-$70/month over the Spectrum TV we had and have MORE than enough stuff to watch. Don't miss cable TV and their stupid prices one bit.

I don`t watch much TV but when the cable went out recently I realized that I missed it as I had no tv and no internet for a short period. I could do without TV but definitely not the internet. As someone said I don`t save much when I drop the tv portion of the whole package so I stay with it for now.

That can be an issue....streaming is based on internet so if that goes down you're out. However it seemed that TV and web went out together so..... We had a $220/month "bundle " bill that included internet, TV(basic) and land line. We dropped everything but the internet....so $70ish/month for internet and $70ish for Hulu+live.....almost $70ish/month savings. That's $700+/year. We've done it for going on 4 years...don't miss cable TV at all.....$2800+ ahead and counting!

Edit: Cool thing about streaming is..if internet goes down you can use your phone as a hotspot and connect the TV to that and boom...TV! Bad part is you'll burn through data in a hurry if you're on a limited plan(like I am)

the nice thing about having a plex server is if the internet goes down, I still have old movies or tv shows to watch.
it was really important when the kids were younger. especially during storms and such.
have battery backups for the plex server and a tv. so I could put on a funny kids show for them so they wouldn't freak out as bad on the thunder and lightning.

now that they are teenagers, it is important so they shut up about how the internet is down and they don't have anything to do.
it was out for like 2 days when att fiber came through and cut everyones lines.