/r/cordcutters
A place for those looking to get away from the traditional cable tv model, and move toward cheaper and legal options like over the air antenna, library collections, and streaming services.
/r/CordCutters - Say Goodbye to your Cable TV Provider!
Cordcutting news, advice, recommendations, questions, and information about the latest streaming services, devices, and antennas for cordcutters.
Guide for Getting Weather Reports & Live News during Hurricanes - 2020
NFL Guide (updated annually in late summer/early fall)
MLB Guide (will be replaced once we have an enthusiastic baseball fan who is a moderator)
Because tvfool.com has stopped updating its data, you will need to verify and consult the other sources such as FCC Digital Television Reception Map, Rabbitears.info and the Antennas Direct map websites. If you are posting a request for help with an antenna, please use one of these sites instead of tvfool.com. Unfortunately, we don't know when or if tvfool.com will be updating its data.
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Any promo codes for November out there? I'm about to end my free trial but I want to continue service if there's a promo code to lower the cost. Thank you. -If anyone has the $10 off promo code through t-mobile or sprint that they won't be using I would greatly appreciate one.
So my mom moved in with a relative. In doing this she disconnected her cable and in turn also disconnected her Spanish channels. They had Optimum tv package that had a ton of channels from Latin America and Spain. She also watches a lot of Canal Sur (which was also included).
I looked at sling, YouTube tv and fubo but they only have a couple of the channels. Are there more streaming options that I may have missed?
Hi!! My dad is coming to house sit for me this weekend, and wants to be able to watch espn and college football. I have a Roku and am wondering what the best streaming options are for football? So far my choices seem to be to get Hulu live tv, and possibly also get an ESPN subscription for while he’s here. Are there any other better options? He’s not a tech savvy guy and doesn’t really understand streaming so two apps is going to be a lot for him.
Thank you for the help!!
Or is there an easy to setup device that would let me do this? Building my own is unfortunately out of the question (believe me, I would love to). I'd like to be able to download from Apple music as well. I know I could get an iPad and connect that to the TV, but that's both more expensive and less convenient than this https://a.co/d/ipkZ9vo
My partner and I (23M) are moving into an apartment complex. Our apt offers special rates for internet only at:
- 300 mbps - $35
- 500 mbps - $50
- 1000 mpbs - $65
- 1200 mpbs - $80
I read that most households do not need more than 500 mbps, so I am not considering the higher tiers. My partner has a hybrid work schedule, and I may be hybrid as well (up in the air). He is a gamer (Nintendo Switch, PS5), and we are looking to connect a few Apple products (2 or 3 homepod minis, 2 homekit lamps). How can I determine whether 300 or 500 mbps is the better option?
just wondering if anyone recall from other years how early the sales for black friday come out for streaming im
wondering what kind of deal they will have this year?
Broadcast Antennas = 13-18 miles away SW from my location; however -- topology = I am located up in the hills (with mountains further East) and trees, hills, and buildings between the towers and myself.
Rented Apartment on the 1st floor of a multi-level building (no roof access for me) -- 4-seasons including tornados, ice, and snow. Out of 40+stations -- rabbitears.info shows Signal Strength: 13 = Fair; 13 = Poor; the rest are unspeakable. Tried a leaf style antenna with built-in booster = ZERO channels found! (even on the window facing the broadcast towers).
My only success = Rabbit ears w/loop on the window sill (West facing) with direct line-of-sight to the Broadcast Antennas + Signal booster (set to max boost). I manage to get 25-stations (most are X.Y offshoots; it is really 4-stations).
Antenna = Phillips Rabbit ears
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07BLNWZHS
Booster = DTV signal booster 24dB
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084YQX5Q6
I also tried a Phillips 4G/5G Filter; but found it blocked some of the TV stations! I am not seeing noise from cellular; so I removed the filter. Without the signal booster, I only get ~9-stations.
Any other bright ideas?
I currently live in a building where the landline plug ins are blocked off. And the landlord won't allow them to be used, or anything installed even if I'm paying for it. I'd like to work in costumer service, but a landline is required by my employer. And I was trying to see if there's a way to makeshift some kind of landline without a direct connection.
Has anyone found a way to stream Kojak? It is showing on FAST, but I would like to be able to choose my episodes,
Wrote this out in a comment but thought it could be helpful to have in a post. If I missed anything, let me know!
Free on YouTube: NBC News Now, ABC News Live, CBS News 24/7, LiveNow from FOX, Sky News
Free via Pluto TV: BBC News, NBC News Now, ABC News Live, CBS News 24/7, LiveNow from FOX, Sky News
Free via PBS App: Your local PBS station
Free via OTA Antenna: Your local NBC/FOX/ABC/CBS/CW/PBS stations.
Included in Max: CNN Max (essentially same as CNN US for tonight)
Included in Peacock: Your local NBC station ($13.99 plan only) & NBC News Now (all plans) plus a special feed of Steve Kornacki (all plans)
Included in Paramount+: Your local CBS station ($12.99 plan only) & CBS News 24/7 (all plans)
Included in Disney+/Hulu: ABC News Live (also available free via YouTube)
Included in Prime Video: Special election coverage with Brian Williams
Paid TV Provider Required (Sling/YouTube TV/etc): MSNBC, CNBC, Fox News, NewsNation
Finally a lot of your local news stations may be streaming local results on their websites/apps for free - check with them for details on local races.
my mom really only watches local programming. I was paying for cable to the tune of $95/month and 99% of the time she was watching the local fox station of other channels that are offered over OTA antenna it was a complete waste of money and I got tired of paying $95/month for her not to watch any actual cable channels. I hooked up a digital antenna but honestly it's very annoying. Her tv is located on the wall opposite the windows and the cord for the antenna doesn't reach the outer wall so reception is pretty bad. I'm trying to find a affordable streaming service that has the most local channels including those sub channels which are available with antenna. I was considering YT TV and Sling TV but I'm honestly not sure. I'm in the Milwaukee area. Cost is a factor since she will be paying for the service, not me.
We have hundreds of our favorite movies on our Dish DVR. We'd like to cut the cord, but buying hundreds of DVDs would be a mess to manage and expensive. If we buy the DVR from Dish, can we keep viewing our old recordings on it?
I was thinking of signing up for a trial of Sling or another service, but I want to watch the results tonight without needing to pay for a whole month of service. I didn't see any other posts with this question, so I thought I'd throw it out there for others as well.
Does anyone else have problems with this?
I save videos I want to watch in playlists and now it's not there anymore in the Roku app. The only things left on the left hand side are search, home, settings and YTTV.
EDIT: Just searched the YouTube sub and apparently this is broken across multiple platforms.
Haystack News had many options during the debates though I cannot recall if NBC or Peacock was one of them. I am interested in watching wall to wall Steve Kornacki on election night. I'm not interested in new or trail subscriptions nor watching the feed on the computer. TIA.
RabbitEars.info signal search reports display the coordinates of the search to 0.01 degree, but this is far from the most precise location info on the report. Each TV transmitter on the report is listed with a distance (to 0.1 mile) and bearing (to 0.1 degree) from the search location which is more precise (except for longitudes close to the poles, 0.01 degree in global coordinates is more than 0.1 mile). At first it seems like this would provide a roughly 0.1 mile diameter area for the search location, but by combining the data from several transmitter locations, it is usually possible to get significantly more accurate. Using only data available to public viewer of a shared report, I calculated the location of the search to within 0.0002 degrees using 15 transmitter sites (most of that accuracy was obtained with just 5). This is just a few houses in a suburban neighborhood; much more precise than I previously thought these reports provided.
If your area is flat, you can easily use a public place close to your home to get largely similar results that would still be useful for antenna advice; but if local terrain it involved, it could be more difficult to provide a useful report that does not share your location with such precision.
I had yttv but it's just as expensive as cable now. We were doing fine with a firestck and paramount+ for 11.99 but then we needed espn for nfl and I'm back up to $52 and we still don't have nfl on fox sports...
Has anyone else noticed that if a channel has an ATSC 3.0 signal and an ATSC 1.0 signal that the 3.0 signal is delayed some?
I'm watching the Seahawks game and was on the ATSC 1.0 channel (22.2), but it was acting up, so I went to the 3.0 channel (13.1) and it was delayed by about 5 - 10 seconds. Not a big deal, but just wondered if others have seen that any 3.0 channel is delayed behind the 1.0 counterpart.
Sling announced that it was rolling out Warner Bros. Discovery’s streaming service Max as a new add-on, which will let customers subscribe to the on-demand streaming app and get access to several HBO linear channels to supplement their cable channel bundle with even more entertainment
https://m.imdb.com/news/ni64922418/?ref_=nws_nwr_li
https://www.sling.com/programming/max
Max (ad free) + Sling live TV (either Orange or Blue) = $52
Good deal or no?
I log in with my TV provider credentials and there’s no place to select to watch Red Zone? The only spot where redzone is clickable it says “subscribe to NFL+” even though my tv provider is logged in?
Some weeks the redzone stream will just appear and other times it won’t, super frustrating. This week I am unable to watch it, it just keeps telling me to subscribe to NFL+ even tho I’m logged into my TV provider
Found this in our apartment dumpster. Could this be used to make a high gain antenna if I attach a balun to it
https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php?request=result&study_id=1796668
Mainly trying to get WEAU NBC 13
Was able to get it only briefly with this antenna mounted at about 20 feet
https://www.rcaantennas.net/indoor-outdoor/?sku=ANT705E
Oddly I can get 7 and 9 with the simplest 6" ring antenna inside the first floor but not on the RCA antenna mounted 20 feet up outside, maybe it's bad at VHF?
https://www.rabbitears.info/s/1796652
Will a mud flap do it or do I need to go bigger?
After two failed attempts to find a good HD antenna, I decided to search my area and see if there are any professional services. There is a local installer who offered a ballpark estimate of $400 to $500 for an antenna (this would include the antenna, going up on my tower to remove the old one, install this new one, and run lines to the rooms that need them). Is this a good rate for this?
Got an Antennas Direct Clearstream FLEX earlier this week. Works really well, but I can't find anything worth watching, beyond maybe local news. Not interested in stuff like CSI:etc., SNL. I see Bob's Burgers on Sunday nights, but that's about it. Reruns I either have DVDs for, it can watch on a FAST service. Thanks.
Asking about a different address to see how feasible this would be for a family member.
https://www.rabbitears.info/searchmap.php?request=result&study_id=1796480
Mostly care about CBS (WCBS) and PBS (WEDW, WLIW)
House is single story, but I imagine the antenna can be installed outside on the roof. There are also a lot of trees.