I tried this for the first few months this year after my rent went up $140 (on a one-bedroom in Omaha); and after a gut-wrenching stroll through Hollywood Video I realized I just couldn't fill the void. The $25 reconnect and $200 professional installation fees did suck, though.
You can get HD on your computer. Most laptops nowadays are capable of at least 720p, some can do 1080p.
Found this: Online Video Guide Meta-site that has a nice, clean format linking to other sites. Also has user ratings. Your mileage will vary with quality of video and/or audio and legality.
Bought a Satillite dish on ebay - $189 Bought a Viewstat HDMax reciever on ebay - $350 Set up free satillite with over 1200 channels All HD Channels/PPV www.ftatalk.com - Priceless
If you are in the Rockets blackout area, you will get zero games. If you live outside, the national TV games on ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, ABC & NBATV will be blacked out. My guess is you would get about 50-55 games on NBALPBB.
You paid about $189 too much for your dish. N3 will obsolete your whole setup in a few months. I don't recommend posting blatant theft of services.
Oh man, I think I found the holy grail of internet TV: boxee. It's a free, open-source app that installs a console on your OS of choice, on an old computer, appletv box (via hack), roku set-top box, or hacked original XBOX, that allows you to very cleanly browse DIFFERENT internet TV sites. More can be added by adding plugins. It's based on XBMC, which, apparently, is still going strong. Very slick- check out the video. I think I just found my weekend project. Absolutely my friend. I'm on a mission now.
I'm sick of Suddenlink Cable, but apparently they are having a HUGE upgrade in May 14th, we finally get VOD and more HD. I don't think I could get rid of my HD sports coverage is the reason I have Cable. $150 a month, movie channels and internet in that price.
Semi-related, its been years since I've had paid tv. A little bit of TV corrupts/minimal TV approach. Opinion on it so far... Overrated. I'm NOT a better off person without it. Sorry people for a better society Its like going from being a hardcore console & pc gamer to a board game and crossword puzzle player. Or going from being a Rockets fan to local junior high basketball fan. The reasoning of not having it was only to justify that I'm poor and cheap for service... On using internet for watching stuff instead of paid tv watching, I havent liked using my computer for that. And I'm not even a high volume watcher. I prefer that dedicated video signal receiver sitting the corner known as a television over the computer. Internet tv watching for me is more like a glorified oversized tivo.
Looks interesting, might give that a go. And to clarify, glorified tivo seems EXACTLY what people want . More on-demand and a la carte service. Just at a lower cost on either TV or internet. And internet TV having the same ease of use and quality as regular TV, no crap about servers, firmware updates, video cards, etc...
I recently moved from a place with all the sport channels on cable to one that does have the sport chanels. I have to say, Im holding off paying the extra. Ive watched so many NBA playoff games, and have seen more Rockets playoff games then I ever have in my life for free online. Even if I paid for acble, they only show a couple of games from random teams ehre and there.
I currently live outside the country so Hulu doesn't work for me. But I download all the latest tv shows from the torrents in HD quality. The quality of the torrent download is much better than what I even get on the television back home. I'm able to watch the tv shows I downloaded on my HDTV since I have an DVD player with an USB port.
I'm doing the same thing next March when my DirecTv contract is up, unless of course they start charging me based on my internet usage.
Yep that's true. I have Comcast internet but no cable TV. That said Cable is a waste of money. I can watch pretty much whatever I want online, except for live sports and I'm fine with goign down to neighborhood bar to catch that or watching R2K recaps for most of the games.
I tried to watch Game 1 of the Portland series via HD antenna. I plugged it in, then did an automatic search for stations. I got excited when I saw a station that was showing the game on 20. I’m pretty sure it was channel 20’s HD station. It was like channel 70 or something like that. But the signal wasn’t HD at all. My TV has an analog receiver built in (I think) and the antenna I bought was supposed to pick up HD channels. What did I do wrong?
No no.. I don't think you understand... Let's say you're paying $100 a month to comcast.... you're probably getting their package deal of internet and cable TV. And, when you see your bill, they're charging you $42.95 for the internet and around $50 for tv, plus some taxes and fees). ... if you think you can just drop your TV service and pay comcast $42.95 for your internet service, you're wrong. You were getting that $42.95 price for internet because you had a package deal with TV. If you drop the TV, you don't get the package deal any more and they will start charging you $60.95 for internet with no TV.
EDIT: I just noticed that you have Time Warner, but they have the same package-deal scam that Comcast has.
