My wife and I finally are getting rid of Directv and bought a couple Amazon Firesticks. I got a Hulu account and have been having fun watching a show I used to love watching as a kid. Johnny Sokko and his Giant Flying Robot!!

 

The special effects are the best!! :clap:

 

Here's another of my favorite shows. I've been watching on Hulu

 

Thinking of letting go myself. I have Hulu and Apple Tv at my condo in Bronston. not a fan of that. Too darn complicated for me. Gonna go cable with home and the condo if I can package it.

What is the plan for watching live sporting events and cable news if a big event is on? I understand tv because almost everyone dvrs their show anyways and watches them later. But what about live events? I have the watch espn app and even on my roku it buffers every once in a while. I couldn't imagine watching one of my teams play and it's a huge point in the game and then all of the sudden the tv buffers.

I have Chromecast's and Fire sticks on all 4 TV's.

 

Sports and News are the only reasons I keep my DirecTV. And Im unapologetic to my wife about that. I want what I want when I want it. And I want to be able to access it easily. DirecTV still does a good job of that for me.

We cut ties with satellite/cable over the summer. Just run an antennae and firestick. A friend put Kodi (free) on firestick and can pretty much watch any movie or live sporting event from anywhere.

We cut ties with satellite/cable over the summer. Just run an antennae and firestick. A friend put Kodi (free) on firestick and can pretty much watch any movie or live sporting event from anywhere.

That's what we did. I put Kodi on all of ours and just an antennae. I actually get to watched more sports than I did with Directv and it's free. I'm watching ESPN now or rather I'm listening to it because I'm typing this! :thumb: I have watch more NBA games on Kodi that I ever have on Directv. I got SlingTV for my wife. My bill is going from around $130 a month to about $45 with Sling and Hulu.

I have Chromecast's and Fire sticks on all 4 TV's.

 

Sports and News are the only reasons I keep my DirecTV. And Im unapologetic to my wife about that. I want what I want when I want it. And I want to be able to access it easily. DirecTV still does a good job of that for me.

 

I'm not going there.

I've been using Kodi since back when it was called XBMC. I run it from an intel nuc mini desktop pc and it's great. There are times though when trying to watch a major sporting event that you can't get into the HD streams and have to go with one of the lower quality streams. That and the fact that Kodi is a little too complicated for some of the others in the house is the only reason I still have direct tv. I do love Kodi though, but I do fear that it will eventually come to an end as it becomes more mainstream. Kinda like Napster.

The discussion in the ESPN thread has me wondering what the options are for TV viewing. Obviously there is cable and Direct/Dish TV. If I want to get rid of cable/dish, and still watch all my live sports, have plenty of options for movies and see the occasional network TV show I like, how do I make that happen?

I would look in to SlingTV. They are a streaming, but live way to get your TV over the internet. They have a couple different options. One is 20/month and the other is 40/month. The $20 option carries ESPN and ESPN 2 I believe, along with the major networks.

We are Amazon Prime members and with that you get their streaming service which has a lot of great TV Series, Major Movies and Original Programming. We really enjoy it.

Saw a post in the ESPN thread that caused me to bring this thread back up top. Lipton Bash posted about an option with Direct TV that costs $35/month, 100 channels and includes the sports channels. That is the type of info I was looking for when I started this thread. If so many people are cutting the cord, I want to know what they are going to.

I ditched DirecTV. I replaced it with SlingTV (with the sports pack $54) and 50+ channels over the air on my HD antenna ($0).

 

We simply were not watching DirecTV anymore. Mrs. S has been binge watching everything on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime for almost a year, now. I only watch sports and business news. SlingTV gives me the same access to the WatchESPN app as DirecTV did, so I can watch ESPN3 and other channels on my computer and tablet. What I don't get on Sling, that I want to watch, I can stream. I stream Bloomberg TV for my business news.

 

Oh yeah, with the Sling sports pack, I get NFL Red Zone.

 

Total savings about $112 a month.

 

I have a big internet pipe, 150/150. We cleanly stream 3 or 4 shows simultaneously with no buffering. Right now, I'm watching a hockey match on NBCSN (SlingTV) and Mrs. S is watching "How to Get Away With Murder" on Netflix. Besides browsing and posting here, I'm also working on a web site and have a VPN set up to access my server where the code is. No buffering.

By the way, my antenna is in the attic, less chance of getting a lightning strike. That's an important thing living in the lightning capital of North America.

I ditched DirecTV. I replaced it with SlingTV (with the sports pack $54) and 50+ channels over the air on my HD antenna ($0).

 

We simply were not watching DirecTV anymore. Mrs. S has been binge watching everything on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime for almost a year, now. I only watch sports and business news. SlingTV gives me the same access to the WatchESPN app as DirecTV did, so I can watch ESPN3 and other channels on my computer and tablet. What I don't get on Sling, that I want to watch, I can stream. I stream Bloomberg TV for my business news.

 

Oh yeah, with the Sling sports pack, I get NFL Red Zone.

 

Total savings about $112 a month.

 

I have a big internet pipe, 150/150. We cleanly stream 3 or 4 shows simultaneously with no buffering. Right now, I'm watching a hockey match on NBCSN (SlingTV) and Mrs. S is watching "How to Get Away With Murder" on Netflix. Besides browsing and posting here, I'm also working on a web site and have a VPN set up to access my server where the code is. No buffering.

 

How would this work with multiple tv's in the house?? Besides being able to get sports, the fact that I have 4 tv's, I fear that I'd have to buy a bunch of equipment. Not to mention I'd have to up my internet speed to be able to stream 3-4 things at once.