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Tech Savvy ladies/TV stream box thingies

whimsy515whimsy515 member
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As you can tell from the title, I'm not the most tech savvy girl. DH and I are thinking about ditching cable next year. I looked into Amazon Fire TV and Roku 3. I'm thinking about the Roku 3, but please tell me if I'm doing wrong. My main question is that with Hulu Plus, Netflix and Amazon tv subscriptions will I miss out on anything? For example, because it's the holiday season, I love my Christmas movies/marathons. Do these apps have all the Christmas movies imaginable? Do they have shows like I Love Lucy, Seinfeld, and Walking Dead? Do I have to wait a year to see brand new episodes of Walking Dead? I'm always hearing that Netflix changes what they have available so I get confused as to what I can watch. Can you believe that I'm a millennial and don't know this crap?!
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  • whimsy515whimsy515 member
    Good to know. For some reason my DH is against buying DVDs. I don't know why. Even at the dollar store, he won't budge. I think it's because he couldn't care less, so why should I? It's so frustrating. That's why I was curious about the movies.
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    edited December 2014
    the streaming devices only give you a way to watch your services on a tv, so it all depends on what content is licensed to each service. I don't have Hulu plus anymore so I'm not sure. what content they're offering. You would have to wait a long time for the walking dead, AMC doesn't put seasons up on Netflix for like a year afterwards. IMHO cutting cable for streaming is definitely a more fun way to watch tv but it doesn't truly save money if you start loading up on multiple subscriptions to streaming services and buying shows on iTunes that you can't wait for.

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  • KatzaliaKatzalia member
    We have an apple tv box, and then do amazon prime and netflix. It works well for us. I'm not the best judge on letting go of cable though. I've never been a big tv person, so cutting cable was an easy choice for us.

    @kittyriot‌ , so jealous you get american and canadian netflix. I'm always amazed at what's available when we're up in TO visiting family.
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  • whimsy515whimsy515 member
    edited December 2014
    kittyriot, I'm like you. I like to channel surf and settle on a repeat, so I feel like it would be weird getting used to. However, we have the most basic of channels and still pay a small fortune. For the basic cable and internet we're paying over $100, so the 3 subscriptions would be on the cheaper end for us. All my favorite shows that I can watch over and over again mindlessly aren't even on our cable package anymore, so I do feel better that I can watch those on the apps we get. I feel like this is a bigger decision than getting married

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  • jenb_99jenb_99 member
    We have a Panasonic blu-ray player that can access all kinds of apps -- Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, and lots of others. We could totally get by without cable if not for DH's sports obsession.

    Netflix and Amazon have tons of Christmas movies. Lots of Hallmark and ABC Family.


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    jsquaree I was wondering about the chromecast. I'll definitely keep it in mind!
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  • jenb_99jenb_99 member
    Forgot to mention that we started out with the original Roku years ago and absolutely loved it. We would've just upgraded to the next model if our DVD player hadn't pooped out around the same time as the old Roku. The Blu-ray player killed two birds with one stone.


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  • EmmagkEmmagk member
    we cut the cord 4 years ago and don't miss it at all. At first we had a boxee box which was great but then they stopped updating and shut down the service. We now have it hooked up to a tv in the bedroom for nexflix only. 

    In the living room we have a PC hooked up to a smart tv with a wireless keyboard/ mouse. The PC runs windows 8 which is actually pretty good for multimedia use. It has a netflix app and I can watch shows 24 hours after they air on the main TV channel websites. However we are in Canada and I believe a lot the US channels don't stream their content online. We also pay $50 a year for a VPN service, currently it's set tot he UK so when we turn it on we can access the BBC, ITV and C4. If we had hulu or amazon subscriptions it would be simple enough to just watch through the browser.

    Before cutting the cable we paid $160 a month for basic cable and internet. We now pay $90 a month for fiber op with no download limits. The province we live in only has 2 internet/ cable providers so it's all rediculously expensive 
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  • lrmrtnlrmrtn member
    We've been cable free for over a year. We've bought some DVDs of our favorite shows, watch some online and are considering Amazon firestick too. We were only following a couple new shows and found we were mindlessly watching a lot of crap so for us it was worth the savings.
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  • Nikkipal82Nikkipal82 member
    We haven't missed cable much at all since cutting it off a few years ago. PP covered a lot, but I thought I'd mention that with an antenna (depending on where you live), you can get quite a few basic channels in hd for just the one time cost of the antenna. Of course, you have to watch tv the old fashioned way, but you could see your Christmas specials that way (as long as you're home when they come on). This is also how we watch a lot of sports, and local news.

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