Best service for streaming movies and other programming?

[Jim]

Finally got Dishy McFlatface up on the top of his tower and the directional antennas installed to send Internet from the park up to my house. So goodbye ViaSat and hello Elon!

Today I will fire ViaSat and soon to follow, Dish Network. Hope to replace Dish with a good streaming service. Who do you guys (and gals) use?

TIA,

Jim

 

[Neemer]

We have been using YouTube tv for a couple of years. Pretty happy with it.

 

[GypsyR]

We are poised to cut our cable. One show my wife and I both like to watch is Live on Patrol (Live PD). That can only be had affordably on Philo with the addition of "Reelz" so subscribing to that is helping the transition quite a bit.
Pluto TV is free and we have it but I haven't exercised it much.

We have two Roku TV's and Roku has a moderate variety of stuff that comes with having a Roku anything. Not a lot but it tends to be free.

I'm not much on TV shows because I can't keep up with them. But I have watched several series from episode zero to the the final one on Hulu. I like it more for than than the occasional movie I watch on there.

Our Tmobile plan comes with Netflix free. I don't really watch it except for movies or to check out whatever their new show is making waves. I feel better about not having time to watch it now that I don't have to pay for it.

I looked at Youtube TV a bit. Good TV channel selection but for the price I figure might as well hook the cable back up.
That's all I've personally messed with. Son in law is all agog over something called "jarvis" which is $50 for six months and that's all I know about that one so far.

 

[Neal]

Finally got Dishy McFlatface up on the top of his tower and the directional antennas installed to send Internet from the park up to my house. So goodbye ViaSat and hello Elon!

Today I will fire ViaSat and soon to follow, Dish Network. Hope to replace Dish with a good streaming service. Who do you guys (and gals) use?

TIA,

Jim

Nice work.

Cable (cord) cut...

Well, for the first time ever (brown paper bag nearby) I cancelled my TV service. I have gone Internet only at home, I spend most of my time watching YouTube and I need to spend more time reading instead of wasting life watching TV. Again, I rarely watch TV other than maybe DDD (Diners...

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[Jim]

And here's Dishy McFlatface at the top of his new world! You gotta look close, he's quite a ways away!

 

[Scotttkd2]

+1 for Toutube TV. Also I use FireTV or stick, and just subscribed to ESPN+ to get the NHL. Working well for us!

 

[sheridany]

Yiutube tv. We got rid of direct tv in all the houses except the coach. If there is ever another coach in my lifetime (the DW says there isn’t) I’d go without any dish services.

 

[Neemer]

And here's Dishy McFlatface at the top of his new world! You gotta look close, he's quite a ways away!

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Do you have a flashing red light on that for low-flying aircraft? Holy carp.

 

[Gizmo]

I'm another YouTubeTV fan we get HBO Max free with our AT&T phones. Other than that we signup for a pay service then Cancel it at the same time and watch for 30 days then move on to another pay service. If you pay for bunch of them just more than you can watch.

 

[Jim]

Do you have a flashing red light on that for low-flying aircraft? Holy carp.

lol, we were joking about that earlier. It's up there a ways.

 

[Jim]

 

[J&JD]

lol, we were joking about that earlier. It's up there a ways.

@Jim , will that hold up with a snow load and/or a serious wind?

 

[Neal]

@Jim if you're an iPhone/iPad user here is what I would do, and what I do:

Buy 2 x Apple TV's, one for the forward zone which plugs in where your firestick went and a second one for the bedroom TV.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJLDVJTC/?tag=rvf01-20

With this device you can do about anything and everything. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Apple TV or not but you install apps such as YouTube, YouTube TV, Prime Video, HBO, etc. etc. and watch anything to your hearts content (subscriptions required of course).

I'm really liking YouTube TV. I suggest giving the Trial a try.

 

[Jim]

@Jim if you're an iPhone/iPad user here is what I would do, and what I do:

Buy 2 x Apple TV's, one for the forward zone which plugs in where your firestick went and a second one for the bedroom TV.

Amazon product ASIN B0BJLDVJTC
With this device you can do about anything and everything. I'm not sure if you're familiar with Apple TV or not but you install apps such as YouTube, YouTube TV, Prime Video, HBO, etc. etc. and watch anything to your hearts content (subscriptions required of course).

I'm really liking YouTube TV. I suggest giving the Trial a try.

OK, got two coming!

 

[Neal]

Forgot, you may want some quality HDMI cables (2) too:

3ft (all you need):

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or 6ft:

Amazon product ASIN B08M9HND4F

 

[Fish]

blah blah apple blah blah

I have fire tv's and android phones, don't know wth you're talking about.

 

[Neal]

blah blah apple blah blah

I have fire tv's and android phones, don't know wth you're talking about.

 

[Gizmo]

I like the Shield because it has two USB 3 ports that I have hooked thumb drive and even a 10.5 TB drive directly to the Sheild. I use one USB slot for a thumb drive for app storage and game storage so they are mostly local basically only limited by the size of the thumb drive. It has a built-in Plex that uses network storage devices or hard drives connected to one of the USB ports on the Sheild. Also, it has an AI that upscales video and I think it makes a lower res look like it is 1080P. It is really fast and easy to use. I did buy a Apple 4k but seldom use it

Amazon product ASIN B07YP9FBMM

 

[RKins]

@Jim , will that hold up with a snow load and/or a serious wind?

He may need to add a heater strip to melt snow build up?

 

[Jim]

@Jim , will that hold up with a snow load and/or a serious wind?

I sure hope so! It's a good, solid, and well built tower, so it should do just fine. But to be honest, that's the first thing I thought too.

Here is a picture of what it looks like and how it's built. This is not my tower, but it's a picture of one that is exactly like the one I put up.