Cut the Cord and switched to an Antenna for TV

[lman]

Marshall County

 

[GeneV]

If you wanna go full commando: Firestick with a couple movie/tv show streaming apps sideloaded on it, as well as Kodi for sports and ppv's. Don't forget to use a rubber, ie, vpn!

 

[MossRoad]

Marshall County

Howdy neighbor! :thumbsup:

:laughing:

 

[gstrom99]

I might of missed this option, but I too cannot watch the "normal/national" channels with their commercials and liberal leaning "news". It's the local sports, hunting and car/racing channels (and Dr Pol...) that I would miss if I cut the DirecTv cord. What options would I have?

 

[kcflhrc]

I might of missed this option, but I too cannot watch the "normal/national" channels with their commercials and liberal leaning "news". It's the local sports, hunting and car/racing channels (and Dr Pol...) that I would miss if I cut the DirecTv cord. What options would I have?

YouTube TV probably has everything you want including locals but it's $50 a month also, and yes, Nat Geo Wild is there for Doc Pol

 

[goeduck]

I might of missed this option, but I too cannot watch the "normal/national" channels with their commercials and liberal leaning "news". It's the local sports, hunting and car/racing channels (and Dr Pol...) that I would miss if I cut the DirecTv cord. What options would I have?

Out here local sports are carried on Root Sports via the cable lineup. It is NOT broadcast on towers where you could pick it up off of an antenna and it is NOT available on any streaming package. But I have always listened to many games on the radio anyway and only sit down to watch the rivalries, playoffs and bowl games. Most of those get carried by a streaming package or are broadcast to the antenna.

 

[EddieWalker]

I might of missed this option, but I too cannot watch the "normal/national" channels with their commercials and liberal leaning "news". It's the local sports, hunting and car/racing channels (and Dr Pol...) that I would miss if I cut the DirecTv cord. What options would I have?

With HULU, we can download the channels that we like. Travel Channel, History Channel, DIY Channel and others like that. Then we open up the channel like an App on your phone or computer and look through all their different shows. Most are listed alphabetically, so you just scroll through them to see what you want to watch. What I've found to be the biggest surprise is all the shows that I never heard of on those channels. I guess they came on when I wasn't watching TV, odd hours or when something else is on another channel that we really like. With so much junk out there, it's fun discovering something you didn't even know existed!!!

My wife has AT&T for her cell phone service and it's something like $20 a month extra so we can get a couple dozen cable channels from Direct TV through HULU. It's a different button on the HULU remote that we push that takes us to those channels. It includes FOX and OAN for news. I watched Judge Janine and Gutfield on it last night.

Some of the HULU channels want a subscription to watch, so we pas son those, but some of them have free stuff along with shows that you have to pay for. Building Off the Grid and Building Alaska are two shows that I watch on HULU that have free seasons, and the newer seasons require a subscription, so I just watch the older seasons that are free.

Also on HULU, we watch a lot of YouTube now. You just search for a show that you like, or maybe just heard of, and see what comes up. My wife loves the Voice, so when we learned that there is a British version of the Voice, we looked it up on Youtube and watched a bunch of episodes. For us, it's a lot of fun seeing how these shows are so different in other countries. Same with America's Got Talent. We've watching the British version, and probably a dozen other countries that have their own version. Singapore's Got Talent is HILARIOUS!!!

After watching Gutfield last night, I read where there are so many elk in the Snowy Mountains of Montana that they are extending the seasons and giving out extra tags to get the numbers down. So I looked up elk hunting in the snowy mountains on Youtube and watched a few elk hunting shows that varied from pretty good, to gong back to find another after 2 minutes. Being able to go back and click on another show is a huge plus when looking for something entertaining to watch.

 

[gstrom99]

I'm not going to watch TV on my little smart phone screen, once I move to Iowa... I need to pick a satellite ISP and then I should have better options for TV also.

 

[EddieWalker]

Was your comment about using my wifes AT&T account to get the Direct TV cable channels? And did you think that we are watching those channels on her phone?

If so, let me clarify. We watch those channels on out 65 inch tv through HULU just like any other channels. We just have to push a button on the HULU remote control to take us to those channels. Then it's the same as having satellite or cable, you just scroll through the guide to find what you want to watch.

She signed in her cell phone account to give us access to those channels.

 

[gstrom99]

I'm not familiar with HULU. Does that use data through the phone? If so, I don't have an "unlimited" plan on my phone, so HULU would probably not work.