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Cable - Cord Cutting

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It'll work with either. From what I've read it tends to be pretty laggy with the Fire Sticks but works smoothly with Fire TVs.

I don't know myself, I don't have either, but I'd be willing to pay more for the TVs and the better experience if that's really the case.
 
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In case anyone cares...my Vue trial ended over the weekend. I'm sold. It's not perfect, but it's good enough in my opinion. Especially when you look at saving $40/month vs. other TV/Internet combinations. My wife is not sold yet, I pitched her on a setup with essentially what I said on the previous page: Vue, WOW Internet, a Tablo for broadcast networks and Fire TVs as the interface to the whole setup. She thinks it's weird and complicated, which I supposed it is more complicated than just having a box from DirecTV that has all the channels on it. I think it will be a pretty gentle learning curve though.

So, we'd have a marginally less convenient setup (for instance if I'm switching between games on ESPN and ABC I'll have to switch between the Tablo app and the Vue app on the Fire TV), have to put up some cash up front for hardware and I'd probably want to figure out how to hardwire the Fire TVs...but I keep seeing that $40/month difference.
 
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So can someone recommend a standalone DVR solution? We have minimal PC power at home...a worthless laptop my wife uses for work and iPads. We are looking at going with an HD antenna (the RCA ultra thin comes recommended and picks up the largest number of channels in our area it seems) combined with our Apple TV and Sling TV. My wife's only concern is not being able to record shows, although we talked about being able to use a family member's cable to login to possibly watch recently aired shows on some of the apps like NBC, CBS, etc. But we'd still like the ability to record a show or a sporting event when we want to.

It seems like Tablo is an option but I'm a little confused. Will it record stuff over Sling TV as well as over-the-air antenna broadcasts? My understanding is that the 2-Tuner would still require a $5/month or $50/annual subscription...is that correct?
 
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wadc45 said:
So can someone recommend a standalone DVR solution? We have minimal PC power at home...a worthless laptop my wife uses for work and iPads. We are looking at going with an HD antenna (the RCA ultra thin comes recommended and picks up the largest number of channels in our area it seems) combined with our Apple TV and Sling TV. My wife's only concern is not being able to record shows, although we talked about being able to use a family member's cable to login to possibly watch recently aired shows on some of the apps like NBC, CBS, etc. But we'd still like the ability to record a show or a sporting event when we want to.

It seems like Tablo is an option but I'm a little confused. Will it record stuff over Sling TV as well as over-the-air antenna broadcasts? My understanding is that the 2-Tuner would still require a $5/month or $50/annual subscription...is that correct?
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I haven't used it, as I haven't cut the cord yet, but check out the ChannelMaster DVR+ and see if it fits what you're looking for. Its supposed to integrate with Sling and no subscription fees.

Now that I'm back on a computer let me expand a bit...I was having a hell of a time on my phone for some reason.

Anyway, Tablo won't record Sling to the best of my knowledge, over-the-air broadcast only. When I was originally piecing things together, I was looking at a ChannelMaster because of the no fees aspect of it, but ended up sliding more towards the Tablo because it can offer a "whole home" DVR solution through apps on the Fire TV. But yes, if you want the full guide and full services it's a $5/month or $50/year or $150 "lifetime" subscription.
 
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Thanks @CentralMOBuck

I think we'll have a decision today...I got a "do what you want" this afternoon. Which of course...

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So we'll discuss more tonight and hopefully come to a conclusion.
 
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Well...we're cutting the cord. The wife's still not 100% sold on the service or the setup, but the monthly savings were enough to put it over the edge.

We're spending more than I would if it were just me in order to make it easier for her and for guests to access everything. Rough math says payback on equipment comes sometime between about 7 months (comparing new bill vs. what we're paying now) and about 17 months (vs. the best available package out there that gives us the channels we want and number of TVs we're hooking up), so we've effectively given ourselves an 7-17 month contract to see how it does.

Now just have to get the timing, she has shows she wants to watch on the existing DVR before we cancel DirecTV and lose them. At her pace we'll get this done sometime around mid-2017. :lol:
 
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The biggest thing you'll notice is how to do addictions change after you cancel cable. We've replaced some of that with Netflix and Hulu, but you lose the obligation to keep up with shows. You go back to watching things because you want to do so.
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That's kinda where I want to be. Especially with a 4-month-old we don't want to come home and just sit in front of the TV, and we do that too much now. Sometimes it almost feels like work to try and keep up with everything we're recording.
 
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There's currently 5 or 6 shows that I watch via recordings, most of which could be accessed via on demand services now. The rest mostly comes from either netflix or amazon prime. I'd much rather watch a season straight through over a few days instead of having to wait a week to watch a new episode.

I always thought I'd miss sports, but lately I've found myself watching less and less lately. I really only watch Buckeye's football and basketball anymore. If I don't have a vested interest in the game I usually end up falling asleep.
 
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There's currently 5 or 6 shows that I watch via recordings, most of which could be accessed via on demand services now. The rest mostly comes from either netflix or amazon prime. I'd much rather watch a season straight through over a few days instead of having to wait a week to watch a new episode.
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Be careful on the on demand stuff. They generally only keep 5 episodes alive online at a time
 
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