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.