Posted on 07/04/2017 6:37:47 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU
Called today when my temporary discount ran out on Direct TV--bill jumped back up to $105+ a month. Ordered a UHF 80 mile antenna--live between Rochester and Syracuse NY. Probably going to get a rotor as well.
Hubby is a football fan, though. . .
FREE-DOM!!
How do you get OAN on roku? or are you getting it on the playstation vue?
Enjoy being free. Invest in books, rediscover the lost art of conversation The farther away from cable you get, you will realize how much garbage is being broadcast. It's a lifestyle change - congrats.
Congrats! We dropped ours recently and don’t miss it.
To be truthful, I never bought one until my wife was pregnant with our first. So I only had television in my adulthood for five years before selling it.
I am a reader and I have a library in my home.
No new expenses. Still working through season 2 of the Twilight Zone - free for prime members.
Because as many have said, there is fishing, boating and paddleboarding, as well as gardening for the summer and fall. So we just watch a few shows each night before bed....
I can't even imagine how much there is on roku we have not explored yet. The opportunities are truly endless.
Get Roku or a smart TV and watch steaming videos on Netflex or some other really cheap network.
OAN has it’s own Roku app for $5 a month. I gave it to my mom as a gift on top of our own subscription. Love, love, love it.
Welcome to the club! When we travel, we bunk at RV campgrounds that have cable. I watch cooking shows, spousal unit likes movies, and we congratulate each other for not paying for all the junk. ROKU is a good choice, too.
Did that a few years ago. All the dish type services have become junk and scam.
Made my own ant and have it in the attic. Pick up stations form all over-well over 40. Two pretty good movie channels-lot of John Wayne and older very good movies.
You can make your own antenna for less than 20 bucks. Its on Youtube.
I got a smart TV and watch streaming now a lot.
No Internet service has the shows I like.
I watch H&I (Have Gun Will Travel, Cheyenne, Wanted Dead or Alive), Sundance (Mary Tyler Moore, L&O, some good old movies), Hallmark/HMM (Mrs. FDs chick movies, Frasier, Last Man Standing).
You get the idea — old stuff when TV was good. The only new shows we watch are NCIS, Big Bang and Scorpion.
“...pick up TV stations out of Chicago, South Bend, Milwaukee, Grand Rapids...”
Do you live in the middle of Lake Michigan?
A significant chunk of a cable bill is for ESPN. Add in the rest of the Disney channels, and you have a sized portion of your bill. Which makes sense - sports and babysitting for the children is what sells cable (and porn, but those are add-on services). Not many folks will pay $100 a month for the cooking or shopping channels.
Cable is a dying model.
Ok, is their a Freepers guide to cutting the cord? I just did a quick search, I’d need roku, pear, and maybe buy a channel or 2? Love all the thinking shows, discovery, science, speedvision, etc anyway to get them and lou dobbs?
Ok, is their a Freepers guide to cutting the cord? I just did a quick search, I’d need roku, pear, and maybe buy a channel or 2? Love all the thinking shows, discovery, science, speedvision, etc anyway to get them and lou dobbs?
Thanks for the tip on explore.org - great website for us armchair explorers.
Mine's also 75 feet in the air which anyone who knows radio frequencies and antenna gain will tell you "height is might." The higher the antenna the better the distance and reception.
(I'm an amateur radio guy btw, so I do understand antenna height, gain and distance calculations.)
1. You'll still need some form of high-speed internet to stream content like Netflix for example. A minimum of 12mb is really needed, 25mb is better.
2. A Roku 3 or 4. I have both, I highly prefer the Roku 4 since I can stream 4k content with it. (My internet connection is 100mb down/25mb up. I need that high bandwidth for my job, it's also great for streaming 4k.)
3. A CAT-5 connection (preferably) between your Roku device and your cable modem. If not available, make sure you have a good WiFi router (g/n) for best Roku experience. 4. An outdoor antenna that's directional and with a relatively decent/clear line of sight towards the transmitters it'll be picking up. While line of sight isn't directly required if you're close enough to the station(s) you'll be receiving, it's VERY helpful for good signal strength and to prevent picture pixellation.
5. Someone who knows how to put up the antenna, if you cannot do it yourself. Conversely, there are all kinds of good video's on YouTube that can show you how to make your own HDTV antenna out of simple wire, some PVC or furring strips and some RG6/RG59 coax. I prefer RG6 since it's double-sheilded and lower loss.
6. Netflix has great content, there are also great "free" TV content streaming services such as Crackle that will show decent movies with a small amount of commercial breaks thrown in to pay for the service. (You can also google "Roku hidden channels" and "Roku private channels" to see the new "channels" in development for Roku. You can install them for free typically and view away.)
That's the basic checklist to get started, good luck!
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Mom, what an opportunity for the family to view together. EXPLORE is still being explored for their many diversities in nature. The animals range from large - whales (orcas), to small - tropical fish (tropical reef is often viewed)
Happy to hear from you on its success :-)
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