re: Oh well. My cord cutting experiment is over.

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Doesn't bother me. I am totally fine with spending the extra money to get what I want without a bunch of hassle.

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For our family it boils down to: you get what you pay for. My spouse and I are both technical so that aspect of cord cutting is not an issue. The hassle and inconsistent quality of streaming is very much an issue. Tonight I was trying to stream the Georgia game through Watch ESPN back on this computer while the new TV was playing the game on Cox Cable up in the living room. The streaming quit working often and as usual the cable reception was flawless. We have fast internet access so that's not the issue; the issue is streaming sucks fairly often and as you aptly point out it's not ready for prime time for viewers who don't want to put up with a bunch of bullshite.

It's not for everyone especially if you're expecting to have the same experience as cable and satellite. It's going to be different and the question is can you adjust and adapt.

The most complaints I hear are around getting all the local channels OTA as well as getting all the sports games.

I'm planning on dropping DTV soon and that will be the biggest challenge for me. I know it's going to drive me nuts for a little while until I get a system or some solution down to bounce back and forth between games.

Sorry man, that sucks. My OTA is in my home office on the wall hooked to a Tablo. Directv Now was flawless for the LSU game.

I brought an antenna to a draft party last night for a guy who cut the cord but didn't have OTA for the bama game. I had to explain to half the people there what an antenna was and how it was a free way to watch live local tv. So weird!

All of your reasons for going back to cable make sense to me, but you started out with a confusing game to stream. I'm pretty sure ESPN has the streaming rights to those 11AM ACC Network games even though it is syndicated in Baton Rouge on CBS.

DIRECTV now just added cbs

I've been without cable for almost 2 years. Used Vue and Sling from time to time. I had my dad's login for WatchESPN.
My internet bill went up to $90/mth, which is just retarded.
Called Cox and got one HD box, kept the internet and it's $102/mth now for internet and cable. When the bill goes up in a year i'll get rid of it.

I really don't need the cable other than for DVR purposes. Kodi just isn't reliable enough anymore for me and i'm tired of dealing with it. I looked into buying a Tablo or HD homerun, but it ends up being like $300-400 for everything you need and it would be a PIA to hook it all up.

I'm betting there will be an app that can record your antenna channels soon. That's what I want. I would like to plug in a hard drive via USB to my tv and record my antenna channels through either an app or something like the USB TV tuners. I've got two USB ports on my tv, so one for the hard drive, the other for the USB TV Tuner than you plug your antenna to.

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Why didn't you just watch CBS using your OTA antenna?

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It doesn't get WAFB in Baton Rouge

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Except ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX

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Given my previous posts in the thread, it should be obvious that I am talking about when supplemented with an antenna.

I understand that doesn't work for you. I don't blame you for spending the money on cable if you got it and want the additional convenience. But you are an outlier in that situation. To say that streaming has "no answer" is ridiculous to the circumstances of a majority of people.