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todd ellis · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 10:57 am Post subject: OT: experience with xbmc?

i'm finally ticked enough to drop cable tv and do ... something else.

i'm drawn to xbmc with a combo of netflix/hulu plus/streaming/1Channel/whatever

anybody have any experience with this - or something else i should be looking at?
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bransom · DC Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 650 Location: St. Louis, MO

I'm interested in this, too. Really tired of what I'm paying vs. how much I'm actually watching (not much).
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todd ellis · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 12:00 pm Post subject:

i'm getting DEEP into it - i'll let you know.
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Jason Huggins · Posted: Mon Aug 19, 2013 12:05 pm Post subject:

I'm pretty interested too. I've tried Netflix, Hulu Plus, and Amazon's service, and they all were pretty lacking. Almost all of the movies my kids wanted to watch or the shows my wife and I were interested in were unavailable (like Duck Dynasty and Top Shot). If XBMC gets its feed from the other services, it may be lacking too. I'll be watching to see how it goes Smile

Bruce · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 6:14 am Post subject:

We've been fairly happy with Apple TV, watching Hulu, Netflix, and renting movies and such from iTunes. We also have Amazon Prime (which we still have to watch through a computer) which has hundreds of other free and cheap programs the others don't.

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bransom · DC Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 650 Location: St. Louis, MO

Bruce,

You might want to pick up a Roku box for your TV. They're cheap ($49 - $99 depending on model) and will allow you to watch Amazon Prime plus a hundred or so other streamed channels on your TV. We use it for Prime, Netflix, and a few others. It will do Hulu Plus but we don't subscribe, at least not yet while we still have satellite.
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Kim Fuller · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 8:35 am Post subject:

We love our Roku - streaming Netflix and Amazon Prime. Tried Hulu Plus once but didn't stick with it.

Benjamin Stovall · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 9:37 am Post subject:

I tried out XBMC, but ultimately migrated to Plex which is based on XBMC. I've been using it for a couple of years now and am completely cable free. Check it out here:http://www.plexapp.com/
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todd ellis · Posted: Tue Aug 20, 2013 12:27 pm Post subject:

downloaded xbmc to my android tablet last night to check it out - added 1Channel and there seems to be any/every television show i'd ever want to watch - current episodes uploaded pretty quickly --- huge list of movies as well.

i've chosen this box because it's android ...

and this remote because ... well ... it's cool. since it's android i COULD use my phone or tablet as a remote - but don't really want to rely on that.
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todd ellis · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 7:08 am Post subject:

i watched the new episode of "suits" at 9pm cst last night - if i'd had waited till 10:06pm cst, i could have watched it on 1Channel. i think we have a winner. there is also ustvnow, which streams 9 networks live.
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bransom · DC Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 650 Location: St. Louis, MO

I just downloaded a copy to my computer to play with, before I invest in any additional boxes. Got my fingers crossed.

Ben: I'm looking at Plex, too, though I find their website to be less informative as to what it can do than XMBC's.
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ChrisMezzolesta · Posted: Wed Aug 21, 2013 10:17 pm Post subject:

Sounds interesting - we cut the cable 2 years ago and have been doing more watching than ever before - using the cable internet to stream off the laptop via HDMI, and a homebrew HDTV antenna to pick up local OTA stations in HD, it's been pretty darn good. Hulu regular & Netflix have worked fine for us as most of the TV shows on cable are crap anyway. Then there are the, uh, "other" sites and streams....but between that and my beloved Abbott & Costello movies on DVD, we're in good shape.
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georgethetech · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 6:24 pm Post subject:

MY sony blu ray player has built in support for Netflix, Hulu Plus Amazon, Plex and YouTube. I don't care about watching television ever again.
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Bob Stevens · Posted: Thu Aug 22, 2013 8:45 pm Post subject:

Basic cable and internet are provided free in my apartment complex.

Until recently the cable was tolerable at best. Some local stations, TCM and public stations with toms of ethnic channels. Which is ok. I practice my spanish and some of the gals in the novellas are hot. Smile

Earlier this month the cable co went to war with CBS, removed all CBS channels and replaced them with kiddy stuff. In addition the TCM channel is now gone, weather gone, Fox News gone. etc... Some of the good international news, gone as well. About the only thing on basic cable anymore is QVC and soul redemption. You can spend money you don't have on junk and be absolved the next channel over.

I ordered a Roku today.

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todd ellis · Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 5:24 am Post subject:

The one & only problem I'm having is finding a reliable live stream of fox news for xbmc.
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