Please help me understand Streaming TV.

Much easier (to me) to manage all of that crap on a tablet or phone and connect through chromecast.

- Get your own modem and router, dont rent from ISP
- Up your internet service (i have family of 5 and have 2TB per month service)
- Use FireTV sticks on all TVs and 3 kids have their video game systems as well
- Streaming subscriptions
—YouTubeTV
— Amazon Prime (already had it)
— Disney+ (Hulu and ESPN included)
— Netflix (already had it)

I still save ~$80 per month from when I had bundled service through ISP amd dvr option with satellite receivers

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HailToTheChiz

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$80 internet (2TB, 200down, 40up)
$15 disney+
$12 netflix (had before)
Amazon prime (had before)

Internet 50mb - $30/mos
Att Now - 80 channels including locals - $40
Local Antenna in the Attic - $0 - ~50 channels
Plex movies/shows/live dvr via fire sticks or iPhone/ipads - $0

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you're just a salty old man that's not worried about it. And I ain't mad at ya! I was paying about what you stated for the similar channel lineup, but it was a waste when we wanted to throw a movie on to chill and spent 30min checking all the bullshite On Demand channels of the movie channels. I have a SAN and plex server at home and most any movie accessible in a moment.

Do you have a cellphone? why are you paying for home phone service? Probably for your $50/mo alarm monitoring...2 physical device DVRs when cloud is readily available. Are you paying monthly rental rates for modem, router, and DVRs?

Please, this is not an attack at all....but you could probably be saving a shitload....and you can simplify

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Total bill $292 a month

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We’ve been with Cox since 1977 and get Legacy/Loyalty pricing

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I already had Netflix for Blu-ray rentals

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Total bill $292 a month with fees and taxes and no hassles and swapping stuff around. We’ve been with Cox since 1977 and get Legacy/Loyalty pricing.

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Hate to break it to you, but new customers can get everything you have for ~$200. To Cox, a "loyal" customer is one they can jack up rates on and they won't leave. Have you threatened to cancel in the last decade? If not, you should. They'll find a special "promo" rate for you real quick.

Oh, and cancel the telephone service. Pay the one-time $20 or whatever to port the number over to Google Voice and just have it ring your cell phone(s) for free.

I just saved you $800+ per year. My fee is very reasonable. Contact me at my username at gmail for details.

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I use plex, too, but let's be honest about this. It's only free because it's technically theft and we know how to use the technology.

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well i consider the RIDICULOUSLY OVERPRICED inferior product the cable company forced onto me for years by means of a shitty DVR CRIPPLED BY DRM that didn't capture the end of football games, couldn't figure out when to start recording shows that were delayed by something else and quite honestly, had shitty shitty storage space meaning i could only keep a few dozen of my favorites before i had to start making the hard choice of what i had to lose forever my payment for having my own set of movies & tv shows forever controlled by me, for me and only me at any level of quality I desire.

so there's that

if you didn't offer such a shitty product plex wouldn't exist. "life finds a way"

(eta not directed at you bottomland; directed at the shitty cable company)

eta2 i own the original Blade Runner VHS, Director's Cut VHS, LASERDISK (sitting right behind me), DVD Director's Cut, "Limited Edition DVD Collectors Packaging" and HD-DVD.

so frick OFF if i want to download a 4K HDR copy of that movie to play locally. EAT. A. BAG. OF. DICKS. i've paid plenty for one movie.

How do y’all get movies for a plex server?