Who has cut the cord?

I switched from Fios cable tv to Fios fiber optic internet and Hulu plus live tv. Has local channels and major networks. Saved about $60 month. The surfing process is a little more cumbersome but did away with cable boxes and multiple remotes. There was a $150 one time fee to have the equipment changed out for fiber optic.
 
Read this morning that Roku has FINALLY added airplay to the O/S
Will take weeks for boxes, and perhaps months before all Roku TVs are upgraded to 9.4
Why is that a big deal? Your phone just became your streaming box. That was the only reason I still have Apple TV boxes around. Now, I can show my video I just shot on my 70" Roku screen without a bunch of setup, and half working apps. Also support for Android, Google Home and Amazon Alexa.
 
I am not a fan of roku.... we have one left in the house and I put it in the bedroom as I rarely watch tv in bed.... yesterday I bought two Firesticks one to replace the roku and the other to replace one of the first firesticks. So that would be 7 Firesticks in the house.... The firestick has its flaws too but it’s better than apple or roku in my opinion
 
All depends on your eco-system, and your viewing habits IMHO.
For my pile, I have Roku, Apple, Firestick, Chromecast, and Sling. Been doing this as long as it's been possible. I still have a Gen 1 Roku somewhere. The 3500 sticks were a flaming POS. The Ulltra fixes a bunch of stuff. The TV's with the O/S built in, are the slam dunk winner. What am I talking about? The Admiral's ability to negotiate the user interface, and integration of the cable box (now an app), and quality sound devices (Roku wireless speakers) into one, simple remote, that no longer gets thrown at me when they get out of synch.
 
Every device in our household is Apple I find the streaming seamless on All devices it’s like having cable again turn on the tv and it just works. We can stream from any device to any tv or Comp.
 
We have AT&T TV now and pay around $50/month. Love that we can use it at home, the boat, hotels, etc.
 
370Dancer said:
All depends on your eco-system, and your viewing habits IMHO.
For my pile, I have Roku, Apple, Firestick, Chromecast, and Sling. Been doing this as long as it's been possible. I still have a Gen 1 Roku somewhere. The 3500 sticks were a flaming POS. The Ulltra fixes a bunch of stuff. The TV's with the O/S built in, are the slam dunk winner. What am I talking about? The Admiral's ability to negotiate the user interface, and integration of the cable box (now an app), and quality sound devices (Roku wireless speakers) into one, simple remote, that no longer gets thrown at me when they get out of synch.
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Roku is a winner when used on a built in TV and OTA channels. The guide is really amazing, add some usb storage to the back and it will pause and rewind, they finally have HBOmax, and as you mentioned AirPlay.

I have a big plex server downstairs and the Roku plex app works great too
 
I really need to pull the plug on DTV. I already have Roku, Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. I unplugged the boat by selling it. I just went thru 2 months of DTV purgatory that is so involved and ridiculous that I wont get into it here but it cost me over ten hours of phone time with customer service. We actually only watch a few channels on DTV on three TVs in the house with just the wife and I watching. It is ridiculous to continue but after 25 years with ATT and DTV I just like knowing where to find what we want to watch. One of these days I'll snap out of it and spend a few minutes to find out that everything we are currently watching is easily found on the streaming platforms for a fraction of the cost and frustration.
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Doing cut the cord research now. We currently have Direct TV with 2 genies at home and a standard def receiver on boat. Paying $186 per month. $55 of that is the hardware they require you to lease. Our key requirements are:

1. Simultaneous watching on boat and at house.
2. Recording
3. NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC from the service, not from a separate HD antenna (our house is too far from Savannah and Charleston to pick up either one very well)

We were all set to go with HULU Plus but found both it and Youtube TV don't support #1. Sling TV does but doesn't support #3. So looks like ATT TV will be the winner as it supports all 3 at $75 per month for equivalent channels to what we have now. But still researching.
 
ZZ13 said:
Doing cut the cord research now. We currently have Direct TV with 2 genies at home and a standard def receiver on boat. Paying $186 per month. $55 of that is the hardware they require you to lease. Our key requirements are:

1. Simultaneous watching on boat and at house.
2. Recording
3. NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC from the service, not from a separate HD antenna (our house is too far from Savannah and Charleston to pick up either one very well)

We were all set to go with HULU Plus but found both it and Youtube TV don't support #1. Sling TV does but doesn't support #3. So looks like ATT TV will be the winner as it supports all 3 at $75 per month for equivalent channels to what we have now. But still researching.
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The basic YouTube TV you get three TV’s simultaneous regardless where your internet connection is
 
ZZ13 said:
Doing cut the cord research now. We currently have Direct TV with 2 genies at home and a standard def receiver on boat. Paying $186 per month. $55 of that is the hardware they require you to lease. Our key requirements are:

1. Simultaneous watching on boat and at house.
2. Recording
3. NBC, CBS, FOX, ABC from the service, not from a separate HD antenna (our house is too far from Savannah and Charleston to pick up either one very well)

We were all set to go with HULU Plus but found both it and Youtube TV don't support #1. Sling TV does but doesn't support #3. So looks like ATT TV will be the winner as it supports all 3 at $75 per month for equivalent channels to what we have now. But still researching.
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Like @Blueone said, you can watch up to three simultaneous TVs anywhere. The only thing you HAVE to do is log in at least once every 3 months from your "home"...wherever that is.

We cut the cord a few months back. We were almost $300/month. We dumped Comcast, got a new fiber optic internet service with Gig speed ($80/month) and YouTube TV for $65/month. I also bought the new Google TV Chromecast dongle. Google TV isn't another service, but it is an "aggregater" that gives you the same remote and menu feel that Roku has that many people seem to like. The DVR "storage space" is unlimited. The only thing that I haven't figured out is how to have profiles, like on Netflix, so that my wife has her library and I have mine. It can be done from a computer or tablet. So far, we have been very pleased and the Admiral really took to it. There is a bit of a learning curve but she quickly picked it up and is very happy.

Jaybeaux
 
The one thing I have to admit is I am not a huge fan of YouTube’s menu... it doesn’t give you a description of the show when you roll over it, no previous channel, Live channel list doesn’t auto renew and the channel list doesn’t loop...
 
Thanks for the YouTube policy clarification regarding concurrent streams at separate locations. I guess I misread that part.
 
Blueone said:
The one thing I have to admit is I am not a huge fan of YouTube’s menu... it doesn’t give you a description of the show when you roll over it, no previous channel, Live channel list doesn’t auto renew and the channel list doesn’t loop...
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And they are pulling the standard cable company stuff, regularly raising rates, and cutting channels and adding useless channels. I put my 86 year old mother on YouTube TV early this year, and she was going strong. Then came the rate hikes and killing stuff like the Tennis Channel. She is getting closer to what she was paying Frontier. I'm thinking that the strategy, if you can stand chasing it all the time, is to keep switching between phone carriers, cable companies, and now OTT providers. I am also starting to see a trend of some content providers just going direct to the consumer. No more bundling up a pile of crap so you can get the few you want. Now that the delivery medium is solved (OTT Internet), there's no reason for an aggregator (cable company) pushing all this over their proprietary hardware. I was consulting to Comcast when they bought NBC. "It's all about the content stupid."
 
I swear no matter what you try they have you by the balls. I guess now that everyone is schooling and working from home. Its a good time to change our data plan on us and set data limits and start billing for overages. Received this message today from our ISP.

"You've used all of the 1.2 TB (1229 GB) of data included in your Xfinity Internet Data Usage Plan for the current month.

We understand you’re still getting used to the new plan so we’ll be providing a complimentary bill credit for any data overage charges incurred in January and February.

Beginning March 1, 2021, you will receive one additional courtesy month for the year. After that, you'll be charged $10, plus tax, for each 50GB of data you use over 1.2TB, up to a maximum of $100 per month"
 
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