wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.

We have Tivo but not OTA. It's via Comcast.

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:18:52 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.

We have Tivo but not OTA. It's via Comcast.

That is what I am trying to get away from ;-)

I think the only thing I may miss is CNN and I think I can stream it.
I have too much ad blocking on this machine to do it but I will give
it a go on my media machine when I get a minute. It does not seem to
be on the TiVo. I have Netflix, HBO and Amazon going so far. I was
surprised about how much is OTA these days. They have most of the old
TV that you see on the tertiary cable channels but that stuff wasn't
that good when it was new. My History stuff seems to be well covered
on Netflix (Ken Burns etc). I can watch all of the History channel
type stuff (Discovery, TLC etc) shows too, without commercials.
I really think I will be fine without cable/satellite.

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:18:52 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.

We have Tivo but not OTA. It's via Comcast.

We're using ROKU and AppleTV. I like the Apple interface, but it doesn't get Amazon. I like the way
it displays Netflix, etc, much better than the ROKU display. Finally broke down and bought a
switcher to make life easy.

On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 06:29:14 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:18:52 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.

We have Tivo but not OTA. It's via Comcast.

We're using ROKU and AppleTV. I like the Apple interface, but it doesn't get Amazon. I like the way
it displays Netflix, etc, much better than the ROKU display. Finally broke down and bought a
switcher to make life easy.

The TiVo I have streams but it doesn't get Showtime, neither does the
Samsung smart TV but I get it OK on the TV connected PC that I have. I
get Amazon, Netflix and HBO OK on all of them. The TiVo OTA tuner is a
whole lot better than the one in the Dish box. I ended up needing a
"deep fringe" antenna to make the Dish box usable for OTA and even
then it was flaky. The TiVo locks up all of the local channels and I
get a marginal signal from Tampa/St Pete/Sarasota. It is enough to
trip the channel scan but not enough to actually watch. If it was
analog I suppose you would just have a picture with some snow. (sort
of like watching blacked out Redskin games from Ch 6 Richmond back in
the day). I am down to losing CNN. I did find the AOL news channel
that rolls up segments from a lot of feeds. I still have not tried the
CNN streaming service on a PC that does accept all the spam (no popup
blocker, eats 3d party cookies etc).
I am also looking for a few Outdoor channel and Sportsman channel
shows that I watch but I bet I can find them somewhere. It is
certainly not $170.11 a month worth of TV. We already have Netflix and
Amazon Prime so I will only be buying HBO and Showtime to get back
where I am but I may end up with Hulu and some other streaming
services. I still to not see this going over $50 a month.