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[Nuttmeg]

A social media site "Reddit" has two sub groups one 500K members who discuss cord cutting.

The second sub has about 130K subscribers. 

The subs are r/cordcutters and r/Cordcutting. 

You can find them with a Google search. 

[Still Raining]

Went back to check and the FCC site DTV Reception is still there.  It will tell you what you can get over the air.  Gives strength and direction and distance too.  

If you have trees or hills or buildings in the way you may to go high with the antenna.  

A good starting point.

[Spurt]

@gardenman @Icegoddess 

Same with me and I checked out TV with an antenna....In my zip code I'd only get good reception on only 6 channels no matter what type of antenna......Interference from various things in my area....Not an option for me either

[Icegoddess]

@Spurt Thanks, I'll look at the article.  

The only sports I'm really into is College Football and PBR Bull Riding which usually shows on CBSSports Network.  I don't think Sling carries that one at all.  So, if I went with them I'd have to give that up.  I would need to add the Hollywood channel at $6 (last time I looked) to get REELZ for my weekend OP Live watching. which is non-negotiable.  Or, I guess for that price, I could just add a separate Peacock+ stream and then I would get all the Peacock+ content for the $6.  

Our internet is not bundled.  We currently have DirecTV, but we do already have high speed internet, but not fiber.  DH upped our bit rate last year instead of getting the Comcast/Xfinity Fiber that dug up all our yards.  So, we're kinda stuck with WOW for our internet for a couple more years.  No real complaint here.  

With Sling, we would have to use an OTA antenna for ABC, NBC, CBS.  YouTube TV does have the local affiliates included, but it doesn't have REELZ available at all, so I guess I'm back adding a separate Peacock+ stream.  

I sorta hate doing the separate stream only because I often see people having problems with it while watching the live show, and I can get frustrated easily when tech doesn't work.  

[Spurt]

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@Icegoddess wrote:

@Spurt Thanks, I'll look at the article.  

The only sports I'm really into is College Football and PBR Bull Riding which usually shows on CBSSports Network.  I don't think Sling carries that one at all.  So, if I went with them I'd have to give that up.  I would need to add the Hollywood channel at $6 (last time I looked) to get REELZ for my weekend OP Live watching. which is non-negotiable.  Or, I guess for that price, I could just add a separate Peacock+ stream and then I would get all the Peacock+ content for the $6.  

Our internet is not bundled.  We currently have DirecTV, but we do already have high speed internet, but not fiber.  DH upped our bit rate last year instead of getting the Comcast/Xfinity Fiber that dug up all our yards.  So, we're kinda stuck with WOW for our internet for a couple more years.  No real complaint here.  

With Sling, we would have to use an OTA antenna for ABC, NBC, CBS.  YouTube TV does have the local affiliates included, but it doesn't have REELZ available at all, so I guess I'm back adding a separate Peacock+ stream.  

I sorta hate doing the separate stream only because I often see people having problems with it while watching the live show, and I can get frustrated easily when tech doesn't work.  

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@Icegoddess 

There's also a delay on You Tube ... in an exciting college football game I get to see the final outcome with my cable before my sister does with her You Tube Tv

[Icegoddess]

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@Spurt wrote:

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@Icegoddess 

There's also a delay on You Tube ... in an exciting college football game I get to see the final outcome with my cable before my sister does with her You Tube Tv

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@Spurt Yeah, I'm familiar with that.  With DirecTV, I'm able to stream on my tablet and sometimes I'll have my OPLive on the TV and my team playing on the tablet.  But, if I switch over to the game on the TV, it's always ahead of the game on my tablet.  Even within the house, there's a delay between the main tv and the kitchen TV that my husband watches a lot.  He often leaves it on, and if I end up on the same channel, I can hear the kitchen TV echo what I just heard on the main TV, often by several seconds.  

I don't usually talk to others while watching the same game.  i would only get spoiled if I happend to see a post on Facebook, or if my husband texted me from his watering hole if they happen to have the game on there. 

I just looked through that article.  It was written in 2021 and didn't mention YouTube tV at all.  Also, the one thing not discussed was the ability to record.  I guess that's not as important if you're able to stream on-demand.  It also didn't cover DirecTV Stream which is in the running for me since that's a newer service.  

[SilleeMee]

@Icegoddess 

When I switched from Directv satellite to Directv Stream, they gave me a $200 Visa gift card, a free Gemini box/with remote and unlimited cloud storage for recording. I got the 'Ultimate' package.  They offer four different packages.

[SilleeMee]

@Icegoddess 

With the 'Choice' package you'll get a $150 gift card and with that you can buy additional Gemini streaming devices which surpasses Roku in performance and speed. Gemini connects via HDMI or USB for very old TVs. Otherwise you can download the app on Roku but it's slow and difficult to navigate using Roku's remote.

[Icegoddess]

@SilleeMee Thanks.  After talking to DH, it seems DirecTV Stream wouldn't save us anything.  He said our current biill is around $170, but that DirecTV added some Bonus pkg to our bill a few months ago and neither of us knows what that could be.  Since we're not using it, he said he was probably going to call and delete it and that would drop our rate down to around the $108 we'd be paying for the Choice package anyways.  

In general, he just doesn't like ATT and DirecTV is owned by ATT.  He had a  bad experience with them a few years ago when he tried to get upgraded Internet and they couldn't even get the speed he bought to the house, much less inside.  That's okay except the supervisor tried to tell him he was getting what he was paying for, which was a flat out lie, even the technician knew that.  Plus, they tried to still charge us for the installation/de-installation and didn't want to let him move his phone number back to our internet provider.  And, to add to that, they disconnected my phone number which wasn't any part of the deal to begin with.  

I still have ATT on my landline, but I'm thinking about ditching that.  My bill went up another $4 this month and it's close to $80 now and I don't even have long distance.  

[goldensrbest]

I so want to understand how to get my cable bill down, i have comcast. 1 tv,1 laptop, no phone from them, i have consumer cellular for phone, just raised my bill,to $187,74, how do you all get internet,if you stream?