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Post by myshelly on May 2, 2016 15:31:37 GMT
My suggestion would be to purchase the antenna and do the free month trial of Hulu and Netflix and then decide whether you need a recorder or not. You may find you don't need one of your shows are on Hulu.
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May 2, 2016 15:36:50 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 2, 2016 15:36:50 GMT
My suggestion would be to purchase the antenna and do the free month trial of Hulu and Netflix and then decide whether you need a recorder or not. You may find you don't need one of your shows are on Hulu. I agree. I have an antenna, Hulu, Netflix and Amazon Prime, and don't really miss not being able to record because almost everything shows up on Netflix or Hulu at some point.
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Post by likescarrots on May 2, 2016 16:36:36 GMT
Agreed, we would be unlikely to use the recorder, as all the shows we watch are on Hulu. We only watch from the antenna if we want to watch something 'live'.
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May 2, 2016 16:43:18 GMT
Post by melanell on May 2, 2016 16:43:18 GMT
We have Netflix. And that's it. (And anything that streams online, of course.) Out where we live, an antenna won't help you. You cannot pick up the local channels unless you have cable. So our TV gets zero channels. But we're fine with it.
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May 2, 2016 16:46:42 GMT
Post by lisae on May 2, 2016 16:46:42 GMT
I agree with the suggestions. If you have Hulu you may not need the recorder and you may not need Hulu depending on what you watch. CBS, NBC, and the CW - basically all the non cable networks except ABC - make their shows available on their own sites the day after they air. The only issue is ABC which makes you wait 8 days after airing if you don't have a cable provider to watch something on-line. You can see the ABC shoes via Hulu.
If you do want a recorder, you may find that you can not get an affordable one that records directly from your TV in HD. We use our converter box that we had for the antennae before we had an HD TV. The converter box converts the OTA signal so that a regular DVD recorder can record it. We don't record very much since so much is available on-line.
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Post by iowgirl on May 2, 2016 16:49:54 GMT
Do double check your reception before jumping. We live about 1.5 hours from "the big city" where the broadcast originates from. We can get most of the channels, most of the time. But not all of them, and not all of the time. So if you are any distance from where the broadcast comes from, you might want to keep the Dish for a while to see if you are going to like it. Our signal drops for every channel when it rains (the antenna signal). If the weather is stormy and we need to see weather broadcasts - forget it. I lose my antenna signal way before my Dish one. We have a high quality aerial antenna mounted on a tower outside, about 30 feet high. Remember - if you put one of these on your roof - kerBOOM Lightning loves them! LOL Check out this link for reception. I have found it to be dead-on accurate. transition.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/dtvmaps/
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May 2, 2016 17:46:26 GMT
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Post by padresfan619 on May 2, 2016 17:46:26 GMT
The caveat with a lot of shows on Hulu is that they will only keep the five most recent episodes of the current season on available to watch. It isn't like that with every show, but a lot of the ones I watch are like that. So if you aren't the type to keep up with a show at a reasonable pace, then you will want a recording device. If you can keep up, it works out just fine on its own.
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May 3, 2016 0:53:21 GMT
Post by dewryce on May 3, 2016 0:53:21 GMT
I don't know the answers to your questions but I wanted to bring up the topics of sports if any in your family watch. That has been the biggest problem we had with dropping cable. If the game for our local team is on TNT or ESPN we can watch it through other means, but if they are on the regional sports provider we haven't found a way to view those. Just something to take into consideration.
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May 3, 2016 12:05:15 GMT
Post by amandad74 on May 3, 2016 12:05:15 GMT
We are cord cutters too and have not regretted it at all. We have Hulu and Netflix. We had Sling TV in the fall only for sports (my kids and dh are big college football fans). Only thing was underestimated how much data we would use, so we did pay to extra for unlimited data on our internet plan to be able to stream movies and tv shows. Have not missed cable at all! I do have an antenna for local channels - when it rains or windy that doesn't work as well but that is okay with us. Good luck!
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May 3, 2016 12:41:58 GMT
Post by debmast on May 3, 2016 12:41:58 GMT
Are you getting rid of internet as well? If not, why would you need data?
We still have DirecTV, but my girls watch Netflix a lot on their tablets/phones, but thru Wifi. Don't use any data.
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May 3, 2016 12:45:11 GMT
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Post by anonrefugee on May 3, 2016 12:45:11 GMT
I think I've finally convinced DH we need to do this. Are AMC series on HULU? They've been advertising interesting new ones during Turn: Washington Spies.
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May 3, 2016 13:21:06 GMT
Post by FLA SummerBaby on May 3, 2016 13:21:06 GMT
We have Netflix and an antenna and can see most all the programs we like through Sling TV.
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May 3, 2016 13:36:01 GMT
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Post by myshelly on May 3, 2016 13:36:01 GMT
OP, don't discount Netflix bc of the movie thing. Most of the tv shows I watch are on Netflix not Hulu.
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May 3, 2016 13:36:48 GMT
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Post by myshelly on May 3, 2016 13:36:48 GMT
I think I've finally convinced DH we need to do this. Are AMC series on HULU? They've been advertising interesting new ones during Turn: Washington Spies. I'm not sure about Hulu but I know a lot of amc series (turn, walking dead, breaking bad) are on Netflix.
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May 3, 2016 13:48:22 GMT
Post by mimi3566 on May 3, 2016 13:48:22 GMT
We cut the cable cord about 5 months ago and have not regretted it at all. We were already paying for Netflix and Hulu (we added the ShowTime add on) and found we were watching one of those most of the time. I added CBS All Access to the lineup for 5.99 per month. This allows me to watch one of the major networks live should we feel the need to watch the news. Adding all 3 subscriptions together costs us about $30 a month and we can watch all of our shows anytime we want on anyone of our devices or the TV through the Roku.
Our basic cable here no matter who the carrier is was costing us between $50 - $80 per month which offered 300+ channels, most of which offered crap shows and most were never watched. We watched probably about 5 or 6 channels on occasion so the choice was a no brainer for us.
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