greetings

For a while now, I've been thinking of cutting the cable cord. With hundreds and hundreds of channels provided by my cable service, I only watch about 7 channels.

I am currently subscribed to netflix streaming service and I have a roku first generation box.

Before I take the plunge, I would like to know additional sources for online content and other types of hardware gears.

What online services and gears you have and use as a cable cutter?

Thanks

I'm currently subscribed to Google Play Music and Crunchyroll.

My desktop is my streaming box, and it's hooked up directly to the TV.

Thanks dugan

I did play with online content. Finally got a good antenna and record TV from 100 miles around me. Actually 3 antennas and 5 tuners. Thinking of adding more antennas and 2 more tuners.

Amazon has some content if you also happen to want their other features included.

It used to be that most of that stuff was on the net someplace. One place had my Top Gear UK till it got pulled. Good anyway, won't watch it without the big guy.

I gave this an amateur attempt.

1. For me. Great. I end up not watching much TV anyways and I don't get "hooked" on series or particular things, I can watch old or new movies repeatedly
2. Family is an entirely different story, they're hooked on non-pseudo-reality TV and any new series, basically they can't live without that cable
3. Certain live sports I would prefer, so I'd have to pay for the league premium offerings so that I would get to see them
4. Complication of the sports ones above would be "playoff" times, because they swap channels, ARGH!!! American football, they place it on many varied channels, trip you up; I think there are 4 or 5, ESPN, Fox, NFL Network, and then 2 or more "local affiliates" so that makes it very frustrating just to watch 16 regular season games of your own favorite team, let alone suddenly that the playoffs are now on TBS
5. The antenna gets pretty good, but that's regional, and locality based. I'm on high ground, moderately rural, therefore little interference, but I can actually get major metropolitan signals in spite of being >30 miles from the major city.
6. IMHO Netflix, Amazon, whatever #@!$%@'s (excuse or replace the implied profanity with whatever suits you, and my humble apologies to any offended) - but seriously, they show WHAT they want, WHEN they want too, you think "I'm paying for this ... so I can search for some moderately dated movie (5-15 years ago) and watch it ... Nah-Ahhh!!!!" I found myself trading off - searching for one thing, not finding it, getting a new idea, not finding that, and so on. They TRICK you up because you search for ... Star Trek The Motion Picture, they don't have it, so they offer you Alien, Galaxy Quest, Armageddon, and so forth, and you think one of those are cool, so you get distracted and you watch those instead. Meanwhile you traded off because the one you started looking for, they carry, but aren't featuring or allowing at present. And that's why I say they (bad word)!

Just my $0.02

This is/was my point above.

IF

Exactly that. All the paid online services vary their offerings and you can't always find a particular movie you want.

Shrug ...

I do not own a television set, and have not owned one for nigh-on twenty(!) years. There aren't too many walls in my house that aren't bookshelves, but you won't find a single teevee.

Actually, that's not any sort of (political or otherwise) "statement." I simply decided that broadcast television wasn't part of my life.

If you want to watch a particular program ... a particular movie ... what-have-you ... then there are plenty of l-e-g-a-l ways to get a copy of that content "on demand." (An "hour-long" teevee program is actually ~43 minutes, give or take.) You pay for the content, yourself, instead of asking an advertiser to foot the bill and to waste ~20 minutes of your time for that privilege. Exactly as you do with, say, XM/Sirius satellite radio.

The hardest thing might be persuading your local internet-provider that you only want "internet." My advice is that, if they have a come-on "TeeVee plus Internet for less than Internet-only," you should in all cases stick to your guns ... don't let them even leave the TeeVee equipment. Television advertisers are the ones who are making-up the difference in price, and many accounting and billing departments have a very-nasty way of becoming ... ahhhhh ... "forgetful."

Therefore, don't give them "the inch" that will so-quickly become "the mile."

My girlfriend and I are quite happy with our basic cable. Neither of us has any use for the so-called "premium" cable services (after all, how many movies and sporting events can you watch and still have a life?).

We have no intention of cutting the cord and replacing it with on-line subscription services, which are little more than cyber-cords that still require the ISP-cord.

http://www.getmiro.com/index1.php

Should be in your package manager

Me. I also use https://popcorntime.io/

But I have a 60 inch TV and live two weeks from everywhere so no antenna worth a crap out here.

Don't need a TV card. Just a atom netbook and a vga cable and some external usb speakers.
Right now my IBM M41 ancient piece of desktop serves as the cable box.
Youtube covers the rest like
https://www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight

https://www.youtube.com/user/checkoutabctv

We just use netflix streaming. The kids find online content from.... somewhere that I don't want to know about. The only thing I miss is sports and we usually will hit a sports bar for important games.

BAH! There's no sports pubs near that part of Kansas ...

The Jayhawk's can't possibly play any important games ...

(Kidding!!!)

one or two here or there. But even local cable doesn't pick up Jayhawk football.

I get that.

Many years ago in another life, my then-wife and I had HBO. When realized that the kids--still pre-teens at the time--were watching it more than we were, and watching stuff we'd rather them not, we cancelled it, never missed it, never looked back.

Well isn't that just a geographical oddity !
Love that movie.
Been tempted to figure out "internet tv" for a while now. What happened to Hulu ?
keep meaning to try out popcorn too.

I used to run it

Till they quit supporting Hulu Desktop in Linux.
So I moved on.
I do some freaky external boom box stuff with a set of these.

Headphone jack into computer. RCA jacks to input side of a 200 watt per channel amplifier.
Makes for theatre sound system for 3.99 if you already have the amp and speakers like I do.
My M/C shop computer is the Music Jukebox/Boombox with one of those cables.

We KISS it here in the desert. Back to my beer.