Posted on 01/23/2019 3:50:21 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
Hulu is bumping their prices by $5. They just broke $40 for their package + live TV. Only reason why I was getting live TV was local news. Can't do an antenna (Apt building).
Anyone have any experience with other services? Sling, any others? Looking for Live TV as well.
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Depending on your situation, a new digital antenna may work. The ones I’ve seen are flat like a sheet of paper and can be placed inside a window pane. In an urban setting they bring on lottsa stations. FWIW.
How far are you from the towers? You should be able to do about 40 miles with an indoor tower; 50 if the conditions are good. Use an indoor with a booster, and add an in-line booster if necessary.
Use the tool here to get approximate mileages.
https://www.antennasdirect.com/transmitter-locator.html
We dropped them several months ago, then a few days or week or so later they sent an offer of one year at $0.99 per month. We signed up for that offer and will again leave once it expires.
So I just checked the latest iteration of DirectTVNOW:
1. One America News
2. More local stations than Hulu did.
3. Supported on most Roku devices, including Express.
4. All of this on the Base Plan ($40/month).
Hulu really chaps my hide. Of course they are owned by Comcast. Nobody can wreck a market and alienate customers like Comcast. Nobody.
You get local channels with that?
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I don’t watch a lot of local—Ugh I live in Chicagoland, so you can understand.
I note that w/DirectTVNow we get NBC and CBS local news—maybe Fox local....and a weather channel. There may be more, but as I said, I don’t spend a lot of time on local programming.
ABC local news is not available—contractual issues. I watch local ABC on website if needed.
I think local programming may vary region to region, and I would ask a neighbor, co-worker, etc. what is locally available.
I don’t understand how people can afford to use web based video services. Do those of you who buy this stuff have unlimited data plans that maintain speed or complimentary WiFi?
HULU is raising its prices. (not it’s prices)
it’s = it is
I’ve tried them before. We are 30 or so miles from Seattle and the only ones that are even remotely possible are CW and a couple I’ve never heard of.
I do Amateur Radio quite a bit, and for whatever reason the big locals have seriously attenuated antenna signals. No excuse that Everett shouldn’t get all of them pretty readily, but they don’t.
My Apt has Wave G. They advertise Gigabit speed, but in reality you get something like 350MB down. Flat price is $60/month. Pretty good, even though they are lying through their teeth on speed.
Pluto is surprisingly good for free streaming TV. I can usually find something worth watching, even in the wee hours, and the commercial breaks are the same or even less than regular TV.
Basic plan going from $8 to $6.
I believe WiFi is a function of your internet services. You get a modem/router that provides wireless, so you can connect as many devices as you want wirelessly. I have a desktop too...no wireless there.
Roku goes thru the wireless router/modem.
If I am in my house, watching DirectTVNOW using ROKU TV or just DirectTVNOW w/ laptops, no data usage.
If I am out using tablet or phone, I would use data if I wanted to watch TV. BTW, I do have unlimited phone data.
DirectTVNOW is affiliated with ATT—I don’t think have to have ATT phone or internet services, but may be slightly cheaper...
But our neighbors are fun to watch.
“Pluto is surprisingly good for free streaming TV. I can usually find something worth watching, even in the wee hours, and the commercial breaks are the same or even less than regular TV.”
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Ya can’t beat the price, as the saying goes!
But, yeah, it has a nice selection - not 500 channels of crap to sludge through to find something of interest for some relaxed watching.
“I dont understand how people can afford to use web based video services. Do those of you who buy this stuff have unlimited data plans that maintain speed or complimentary WiFi”
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If you’re paying per megabyte that could be a problem. I watch video-tv-movies almost exclusively online and never had a problem re:data usage.
I guess technology is out pacing me. I’m lost at how I could get a free stream through a data plan. -— Maybe I just can’t.
I stopped using their free service when they started streaming “Plan B” abortifacient ads. Why I am I letting that into my house?
very often, you can receive local tv broadcast stations using a simple small easy $15 or $20 window antenna (flat, internal to your unit, nothing sticks out, nothing needs to be visible from outdoors just put a nice looking cloth curtain in front of it) works anywhere there’s a decent signal, anyways
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