Cut the Cord and switched to an Antenna for TV

[goeduck]

Interesting that my home Xfinity account has a 1TB data cap per month, yet my wife’s Xfinity phone (attached to my home Xfinity account and runs on the Verizon network) has unlimited data. :confused3:

 

[drssg]

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.

Hulu isn't tied to a phone. It uses data through whatever ISP you have selected for your home. Hulu is an additional monthly fee for their service.

 

[gstrom99]

Oh, I get it now. Thanks.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I looked this up and have to correct myself. It was a 2 month bill. So $125 a month for zero usage. Still a lot for a base rate on a tiny lot. The bill had water, sewer (a function of water usage) and stormwater runoff.

How much is the oxygen tax?

 

[RalphVa]

Recently bought (for $5) a flat RCA antenna at an estate sale (looks like a black iPad). Works best just sitting flat and gives a nicer picture than the rabbit ears.

We've Sling for ESPN, etc. working off Roku gizmo. All sorts of deals coming out. Hulu was offering a package that gave a bit more than the biggest package on Sling. Now, Disney is offering Hulu, ESPN, etc. for less than $10/mo. Have quit using our DVD players to watch movies. Get really good ones as part of the Roku software through Roku channel or another free movie channel offered there.

Seems once you're signed onto outfits like Sling that when they come out with cheaper alternatives, they don't allow you to get them. I'm leary of the Disney deal. Does the Hulu they offer have the ESPN included. Hard to find out.

It's almost like when I was working as an engineer. At one point, they were signing on new engineers to make the same salary as me or maybe a tad more, but I couldn't go out a resign and come back with those higher salaries.

Ralph

 

[goeduck]

How much is the oxygen tax?

I was not going to ask, they might have added it to the bill. Sure glad I am on a well and septic.

 

[EddieWalker]

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.

I just realized that I confused HULU with ROKU. I do not have HULU. I have ROKU. I apologize for the confusion this might have caused.

 

[MossRoad]

Yes, ROKU is a device (box, stick, etc...) that you can run applications like Hulu, Netflix, etc... on.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Yes, ROKU is a device (box, stick, etc...) that you can run applications like Hulu, Netflix, etc... on.

What Moss said.

Roku device usually has more updated app to run Netflix, Hulu, etc. than the tv. I can run Netflix from either, but the Roku version is better. My son pays for the streaming services, I provide the internet.

 

[TheMan419]

I'm in Indiana and I'm rural enough that cable is not available. Nothing but corn fields here. The only options for TV are OTA or satellite. I'm lucky that I have slow DSL. Fortunately I was able to get my antenna high enough to receive OTA channels.

I am also in rural indiana. Do you have good cell service? If so look at ubifi.com. They sell an AT&T cell based internet solution. We put up an antenna for that purpose and I am getting 15mb or so service. We can stream two different channels with no issues. So far I think youtube tv is the best option for us.