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Can someone explain the steps needed to ditch cable and watch tv online for someone who knows zero about this subject? Y'all have me interested

1. Get a tuner (HD Homerun Dual) to put over-the-air digital tv with all the extended channels onto your network. Add dual tuners to meet whatever your needs are for simultaneous viewing and recording.
2. Run Windows Media Center (Win7 or above) on a PC that is on all the time.
3. Connect a media extender (XBOX360) to every TV that you want to support.
4. Add Hulu Plus ($7.99 a month) and Amazon Prime ($79 a year) apps to your XBOX. If you want all the same garbage channels you get on cable, add a Roku box (<$100) to each TV.
5. You will need Wireless N (N900) speeds or a wired connection on your network to stream HD.
6. External hard drive or a hard drive on your pc to record live TV. TV Guide just like the one on cable or Dish or U-Verse comes free with Windows Media Center.

This post was edited on 4/17/14 at 9:58 pm

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Posted by Sarsippius

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Posted on 4/17/14 at 10:28 pm to Layabout

Dude...that sounds way complicated and expensive. All anybody really needs is an android TV box (MX) for each TV you want to watch on and a decent HD antenna. I can get pretty much all sports live but not always in HD. The antenna gives me 90% of LSU and Saints games. The other 10% just might not be in HD. This thing is like having every TV series and movie recorded on a dvr. You don't need to record shows because they are already there. I have small kids so it's not as if I can just sit down when a show airs and watch it anyway. Great platform... I just hope it lasts for a few years.

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