Anybody here ditch cable for XBMC?

call and cancel it?

Haven't ditched DirecTV but have XBMC on AppleTV,Raspberry Pi, and Ouya. Look around in here
There are some setup instructions for each device and has gotten pretty easy with the setup wizard and fusion

I mess around with it occasionally but it gets old dealing with broken links, missing episodes, crappy quality.

Its easier for me to just hook up an HDMI cable to my laptop and navigate to the actual hosting sites.

i was thinking of starting this very thread today.

i just got XBMC set up on apple tv2. enjoying it so far with movies and tv shows. install iStream and you can find almost any show in existence. haven't looked real hard, but i can't find any reliable live tv streams.

does it seem like it takes XBMC a while to warm up when you first open it?

I ditched cable several years back and hooked up a Mythbuntu system. That eventually got torn back apart to build Windows machine, but I really liked it. I have a really old version of XBMC running on my modded original Xbox. I liked Mythbuntu better, but I'm comparing apples to oranges as one program was 12 years old compared to an up-to-date OS.

Anyways, ditch cable. Even if you don't have a media pc, you still won't miss it. Another option is this Asus. Get an external SSD and install you preferred linux distro on it and hook it up to your tv.

Its awesome esp since I live overseas. Watching all my american shows with perfect quality if you have high end DL speeds. I have 100meg down so its great.

Not that hard to set up if you can follow basic instructions. Used it alot in Germany. My ISP here blocks 1channel but thats easy to get around.

I have a PC just for streaming live tv off the internet. Have my slingbox mostly for sports and XBMC for shows I don't want to download.

My set up is pretty sweet b/c I also use watchespn if needed and I have Virgin Media tv which picture quality blows anything in the states out the water.