Any Cord Cutters out there?

[blindzebra]

I would highly recommend getting Playstation Vue. You can access it on Playstation, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Chrome Cast. I had SlingTV which was okay, but for $45 on PSV I am getting 112 channels, including local CBS and Fox, factor in NFL Network, 5 ESPN channels, multiple Fox Sports, BigTen Network, SEC Network I am not missing any games. Just need an antenna for NBC live.

 

[Denim Chicken]

I would highly recommend getting Playstation Vue. You can access it on Playstation, Amazon Fire TV, Roku, and Chrome Cast. I had SlingTV which was okay, but for $45 on PSV I am getting 112 channels, including local CBS and Fox, factor in NFL Network, 5 ESPN channels, multiple Fox Sports, BigTen Network, SEC Network I am not missing any games. Just need an antenna for NBC live.

$45? What the advantage of cutting cable then?

 

[blindzebra]

$45? What the advantage of cutting cable then?

You aren't getting 112 good channels on cable for that. It also has a 28 day cloud DVR feature.

 

[Hoofbite]

Good looking out. I cut the cord a long time ago and haven't had cable in years. Moving to a new house and was slightly considering getting cable. May give this a shot.

The $35/month plan would work for me and it has NFL Network. That add-on through my local provider is $15/month by itself.

 

[Hoofbite]

$45? What the advantage of cutting cable then?

Provided you have a device that is supported, one less piece of equipment to rent and one less piece of equipment just taking up space.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

There's another thread on this somewhere. There were a lot of posts. I used to have cable + internet through Comcast. I was a first time customer so it was very cheap. After the year, the price more than doubled so I decided to cut the cord. Here's my set up:

Amazon Fire TV ($100)
Roku 2 Stick ($30 refurbished)
Netflix ($10 a month)
Amazon Prime (about $100 a year)
NFL Sunday Ticket (I think it was $200, there's an app that only works on Roku which is why I bought the Roku stick)
Antenna: HD Frequency Aerowave ($50)

I also have Spotify ($10 a month) for listening to music on my TV via Amazon Fire TV, and I have an Amazon Echo ($100) that lets me listen to music and do other things.

 

[PBCCowboy]

Kodi 16.1

 

[TheCount]

No thanks. I didn't cut one cord to plug into another.

 

[Jammer]

I also have Spotify ($10 a month) for listening to music on my TV via Amazon Fire TV, and I have an Amazon Echo ($100) that lets me listen to music and do other things.

If you have Amazon Prime why do you need Spotify? What makes it worth the subscription price. I honestly don't know.

 

[TheCount]

If you have Amazon Prime why do you need Spotify? What makes it worth the subscription price. I honestly don't know.

The selection Prime Music has isn't even in the same universe as Spotify. Prime has about a million songs, Spotify has about 30 million.

 

[Jammer]

The selection Prime Music has isn't even in the same universe as Spotify. Prime has about a million songs, Spotify has about 30 million.

Thanks for the clarification. I figured it was something along those lines.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Yeah Prime Music sucks. I have an Echo and I just cast Google Music from my phone to it because their music service is terrible. (Youtube Red is awesome)

I just ordered Google Home and it will replace my Echo. I love that I can now tell it to play say Star Trek on my TV, and it will automatically cast Star Trek right to me TV! No more navigating through the apps to Netflix etc and then finding what I want to watch!

 

[YosemiteSam]

I responded to you (Zebra) on the other site, but you never responded. I compared Playstation Vue to Sling TV and Sling TV is better. The cheapest PV is $40 and that's the most expensive Sling TV channel offering. You say 112 channels PV does not offer 112 channels for $45. Their $45 offer (which is a special as it's actually $55) is only 70 channels. Their 100+ channel offerings are $65 and $75.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Simple for me -- Roku w/ Netflix subscription, plus I watch a lot of Youtube. Youtube's been a goldmine for foreign TV, which I watch to keep up my foreign language skills. It's possible to find shows that are actually good so that I can enjoy watching them instead of watching boring foreign language drills.

 

[Denim Chicken]

I cut Direct TV last month and replaced the dish with an antenna. So far, I have received every Cowboys game in perfect HD.

I have Netflix and supplement with downloading anything else I need and streaming with Plex.

I have a Nvidia Shield on my X-mas wishlist that I'll run Kodi on.

Total monthly bill = $0