Cable company Rant

[tsitalon1]

Guys,

I've been using Sage for some time and love it. I have a haupaugge 150 and 500 along with one HDhomerun for a total of 5 tuners.

I am tired of paying $150/month for cable/isp, and am thinking of discontinuing all cable tv programing and going strictly with the HDHomerun for OTA...which is what I do now for network HD...

Any other suggestions to save some money, $150/month is getting old?

Would DTV family package ($30/mo) work well with Sage? I am not sure which recievers they are using and their compatibility....not to mention their hidden costs. Anyone with DTV experience can tell me about their hidden costs..(taxes/surcharges/etc)?

[mayamaniac]

That's way too much. I pay $100 for FiOS TV and internet, and I think its way too much also, but I can't complain about the FiOS 25/15Mbps speed. I was pulling 3Mb/sec on bit torrent.

If all you watch is on the HDHR, then why pay for cable? Get a good roof antenna and the HDHR will be good enough. I'm contemplating about ditching FiOS TV if the Hulu/Netflix importer plugin works well. I rather pay Netflix than Verizon.

[wado1971]

Originally Posted by mayamaniac

.....If all you watch is on the HDHR, then why pay for cable? Get a good roof antenna and the HDHR will be good enough. I'm contemplating about ditching FiOS TV if the Hulu/Netflix importer plugin works well. I rather pay Netflix than Verizon.

I've been off cable for 3 months. It comes with some withdrawal symptoms but after a few weeks you'll never miss it. "If Hulu/Netflix works well" .... Let me confirm, it's fantastic - a must try!

[mayamaniac]

Originally Posted by wado1971

I've been off cable for 3 months. It comes with some withdrawal symptoms but after a few weeks you'll never miss it. "If Hulu/Netflix works well" .... Let me confirm, it's fantastic - a must try!

Hulu seems to work well on my HD200. I haven't figure out why it doesn't work on my HD100 yet. I don't have a Netflix subscription yet, but I've been following the plugin thread to see when all the Netflix issues have been ironed out, then I will subscribe.

[tsitalon1]

I've been happy with Sage for so long that I haven't followed recent advances...Do we now have a HULU plugin that works?

[reeven]

Lol, i pay 20 $ for cable tv( analog or digital, same price) and Internet 50mbs.
Way to expensive.

[wado1971]

Originally Posted by tsitalon1

I've been happy with Sage for so long that I haven't followed recent advances...Do we now have a HULU plugin that works?

Oh ya!! - EvilPenguin released an stvi which uses playon ($40) to stream hulu/netflix/cnn/espn/nbc/'etc' to clients & extenders. The 'etc' streaming source is essentially anything which the playon user community adds via plugins or playon works out with internet content providers. I'm hopeful that playon, because it's there core business, works out some agreements with players like mlb.tv.

ps - think of the $40 as a cheap tuner which doesn't use any HD space - might make the purchase easier to make

[tsitalon1]

This sounds great....I found the HULU/Playon thread and am going to attempt to get it working before I drop the cable company

My only gripe is having to setup Hulu queues before Hulu content is available on Sage. There's no way to browse Hulu with Sage is there?

[lobosrul]

Originally Posted by reeven

Lol, i pay 20 $ for cable tv( analog or digital, same price) and Internet 50mbs.
Way to expensive.

Where the hell do you live??

I'm paying $70 for 12mbps/816k internet from Qwest, and about $50 for satellite. If it wasn't for live sports I surely would have stayed with ota and netflix. But I was so tired of missing out on monday night football and college ball that I finally relented.

[mikejaner]

I too am getting ready to ditch the TV part of my FIOS subscription. I am in a contract till the middle of October, so I have to wait a few more weeks. I just do not watch anything above the local stations. Now that Stargate Universe is on, it sucks to cut TV, but no one show is worth $40 a month

[tsitalon1]

I'm closer to ditching now...Got hulu working, make sure to uninstall COMODO if you have that.

A few more tweaks and a week's worth of testing and I will make that glorious call to my cable company