1. Locate your nose.
2. Pay through it.
I spent $250 on a Channelmaster DVR+ and have never looked back. Broadcast TV is good enough for me. And having all of the functionality of a DVR to boot!
http://www.channelmaster.com/Products_s/329.htm
If you’ve no access to Direct TV, try the following links. First, HAVE NO IDEA AS TO HOW TO DISPLAY ON TV, but if you have a good monitor and connection speed you will find it works. When one link is unavailable, we continue down the list until one is found that does work. In the past we’ve had few problems but found it works for us.
As for free OTA channels...if allowed to install an outdoor antenna, google how to make an antenna with copper coat hangers and make and install one yourself. DH did this and with the homemade antenna an entire television parade has opened up for us. Last night on one channel we watched a marathon of the Burns and Allen Show, Jack Benny Show. There is a movie channel available which is as good as Turner Classic. Cowboy shows galore....Rawhide, Bonanza, Rebel, Maverick, etc...many of the oldies our Dads would never miss.
The powers that be must have come of the same generation as we...they schedule many old shows long since forgotten and missed as time goes by. I Dream of Jennie, One Step Beyond, Hart to Hart. Wow!! A grand Christmas gift all for the taking.
FOX NEWS STREAMING
http://www.hulkus.com/watch-fox-news-live-streaming/
replaces hulkus (12/29/14)
http://vaughnlive.tv/newzviewz
http://www.tvonlinelive.net/Watch/Fox_News-Online-4729.html
http://www.wwhdtv.com/watch-fox-news-live-streaming/
http://www.foxnews.ws/
http://ripsink.com/foxnews2.html
Good luck!
Roku
I was wary of changing from DISH and dragged my feet over switching.
Totally worth it.
It is a bit different and took a bit to get used to it.
They have both FOX and FOX Business. Free.
Not live but archived a day or so.
Also has hundreds of other free channels besides the pay options.
I got the Roku 3 that lets you plug in headphones.
Absolute bliss in a noisy room.
One of my daughters has it separately in her room and recently one of the batteries leaked in the remote.
Roku service was very responsive. They immediately sent her a new remote.
Very happy.
Sfl
Stay with Directv to get Fox News. BUT, call Directv and talk with the Customer Retention People and find Discounts, Cheaper Programming Package and free upgrades to latest Receivers.
I have been a Directv Subscriber since 1995. I pay under $70/month with the Select Package and some discounts.
I have looked at Cable, Fiber Optics, Internet and can’t find anything that suits me for the money - except Directv.
Good Luck.
Amazing! Was looking at a Freeper post, and was talking to the wife about posting the same question.
In my case, we have charter internet. If I could get rid of that, I would. Of course, we need the internet for streaming.
I did an audit of what we actually watch on cable. Not much, and I’m tired to give my money to shows that I simply don’t watch.
I do watch football. Suits on cable, and that’s about it. My goal is to only pay for what I watch. BTW, I am an Amazon Primer. So I hear that give me free streaming. Do I need some kind of device?
Ping for later read. I too want to cut the cable cord.
The only thing that is holding me back is sports. I like to watch college football and the NHL.
Now some will say get a ROKU or Apple TV etc.
All those units are is a dumbed down computer. Get you a desktop computer with a wireless keyboard and mouse and you have all sorts of possibilities.
The possibilites:
1.You can create your own DVR system and record shows you watch on the internet (There are open source programs that allow you to record these shows.)
2. You can create your own music storage system. Store all your music on one of your hard drives (you can put multiple Hard Drives on a desktop and really big ones now for cheap)
3. Store all of your home movies/videos on a hard drive and watch them anytime with a click of a mouse.
4. Buy digital Downloads of Movies or TV series from Amazon etc. and store them on your Hard Drive.
5. Watch all manner of free and cheap for pay TV on your computer and you can do so in High Def TV (same goes for the digital downloads and the DVR as well)
Here are some of the sites you can watch for Free:
Then there are the pay sites like:
Then there are the sites like Hulu that can be either free OR pay sites.
And that is just a small sampling.
You can get ALL NFL Games on the net just not live but On demand and it's only about 60 bucks a year. I figure in a few years there will be a live option available as well.
Dumped DirecTV over three years ago. We use a Roku device to stream Netflix and Hulu for movies and other TV content.
Fox News Channel also makes a lot of content available via their own app and channel on Roku, but it’s not like streaming any of their shows. I see the interviews that OReil,y, Hannity, etc conduct in clip format, but they’re the entire interviews. It took a little getting used to, but was well worth it to save $1,200 a year on DirecTV.
If you want to get rid of DirecTV it depends on how long you have been with them. We had DirecTV for 15 years before dropping it. If you had a contract that is expired it shouldn’t be too hard. Just call them up and tell them you want to cancel the service. Expect to get numerous annoying phone calls trying to get you to come back though. Every time they called me I told them I was sick of every channel having something gay related on it. I told them I wasn’t having that crap coming into my house.
We used to watch Fox news but after 2 years of not having it we don’t miss it at all.
We now use the TV hooked up the a computer to read FreeRepublic for getting news. If I could block all articles that have something related to gay stuff that would be great. Yes, I am a bigot if that’s what you want to call me. I don’t care.
Get Netflix/Viki. Why on earth do you want to spend a ton of money on cable/satellite TV with its limited channel package?
It sucks! I see a good Untergang rant here.
Basic cable service and a Roku.
We got rid of direct, cable, and dish , I put up a high gain tv antenna and watch free tv able to receive 72 channels with antenna on 40 ft tower with rotor. Fox is broadcasted from a town about 20 miles from me in HD. We also subscribed to NETFLEX for ad free movies. Not into sports but many are network channels all in HD and seen many sport shows and games on some of them.
My son and his wife have put together a good streaming package. HULU+, Amazon Prime and Netflix.
If you are in an area with an antennae you might use a combo of streaming services and broadcast, if not just try streaming.