I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.

wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.

We have Tivo but not OTA. It's via Comcast.

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:18:52 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.

We have Tivo but not OTA. It's via Comcast.

That is what I am trying to get away from ;-)

I think the only thing I may miss is CNN and I think I can stream it.
I have too much ad blocking on this machine to do it but I will give
it a go on my media machine when I get a minute. It does not seem to
be on the TiVo. I have Netflix, HBO and Amazon going so far. I was
surprised about how much is OTA these days. They have most of the old
TV that you see on the tertiary cable channels but that stuff wasn't
that good when it was new. My History stuff seems to be well covered
on Netflix (Ken Burns etc). I can watch all of the History channel
type stuff (Discovery, TLC etc) shows too, without commercials.
I really think I will be fine without cable/satellite.

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:18:52 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.

We have Tivo but not OTA. It's via Comcast.

We're using ROKU and AppleTV. I like the Apple interface, but it doesn't get Amazon. I like the way
it displays Netflix, etc, much better than the ROKU display. Finally broke down and bought a
switcher to make life easy.

On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 06:29:14 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 22:18:52 -0400, Alex wrote:

wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.

We have Tivo but not OTA. It's via Comcast.

We're using ROKU and AppleTV. I like the Apple interface, but it doesn't get Amazon. I like the way
it displays Netflix, etc, much better than the ROKU display. Finally broke down and bought a
switcher to make life easy.

The TiVo I have streams but it doesn't get Showtime, neither does the
Samsung smart TV but I get it OK on the TV connected PC that I have. I
get Amazon, Netflix and HBO OK on all of them. The TiVo OTA tuner is a
whole lot better than the one in the Dish box. I ended up needing a
"deep fringe" antenna to make the Dish box usable for OTA and even
then it was flaky. The TiVo locks up all of the local channels and I
get a marginal signal from Tampa/St Pete/Sarasota. It is enough to
trip the channel scan but not enough to actually watch. If it was
analog I suppose you would just have a picture with some snow. (sort
of like watching blacked out Redskin games from Ch 6 Richmond back in
the day). I am down to losing CNN. I did find the AOL news channel
that rolls up segments from a lot of feeds. I still have not tried the
CNN streaming service on a PC that does accept all the spam (no popup
blocker, eats 3d party cookies etc).
I am also looking for a few Outdoor channel and Sportsman channel
shows that I watch but I bet I can find them somewhere. It is
certainly not $170.11 a month worth of TV. We already have Netflix and
Amazon Prime so I will only be buying HBO and Showtime to get back
where I am but I may end up with Hulu and some other streaming
services. I still to not see this going over $50 a month.

On 7/16/2016 1:25 PM, wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.


I got one of these;
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And this Flash Drive for storage.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

A hard drive is the optimal storage device for the unit, but the Flash
Drive is for my wife to carry shows back and forth from home to work
where she can watch here soaps anytime she's not busy.

The Mediasonic HW-150PVR works very well, but has it quirks, one
being, if you set it up to record weekly for a daily soap, it does this,
but it also records Saturday and Sunday. It does not seem to have a
calendar, it just records at the same time everyday. Not a huge problem,
it's easy to delete unwanted shows.
This is for OTA only it will not record cable channels.

Mikek

On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 09:40:43 -0500, amdx wrote:

On 7/16/2016 1:25 PM, wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.


I got one of these;
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And this Flash Drive for storage.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

A hard drive is the optimal storage device for the unit, but the Flash
Drive is for my wife to carry shows back and forth from home to work
where she can watch here soaps anytime she's not busy.

The Mediasonic HW-150PVR works very well, but has it quirks, one
being, if you set it up to record weekly for a daily soap, it does this,
but it also records Saturday and Sunday. It does not seem to have a
calendar, it just records at the same time everyday. Not a huge problem,
it's easy to delete unwanted shows.
This is for OTA only it will not record cable channels.

Mikek



What do you use for a program guide?

On 7/17/2016 11:45 AM, wrote:
On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 09:40:43 -0500, amdx wrote:

On 7/16/2016 1:25 PM, wrote:
I just got a Roamio, still waiting for it to set up.
I am fix'n to cut the cord. (dump Dish) I kicked Comcast to the curb
years ago. Gonna be OTA and streaming.


I got one of these;
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

And this Flash Drive for storage.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

A hard drive is the optimal storage device for the unit, but the Flash
Drive is for my wife to carry shows back and forth from home to work
where she can watch here soaps anytime she's not busy.

The Mediasonic HW-150PVR works very well, but has it quirks, one
being, if you set it up to record weekly for a daily soap, it does this,
but it also records Saturday and Sunday. It does not seem to have a
calendar, it just records at the same time everyday. Not a huge problem,
it's easy to delete unwanted shows.
This is for OTA only it will not record cable channels.

Mikek



What do you use for a program guide?


The system does have an on screen EPG Electronic Program Guide.
It works, You can view a single channel schedule for a large amount of
time, rather than all channels for a couple hour spread. It's not great
but usable. I have a link to a online TV Guide, so I can easily refer to
that if I'm interested.


http://www.amazon.com/Mediasonic-HW-...ews/B00I2ZBD1U

Mikek

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:45:11 -0500, amdx wrote:

What do you use for a program guide?


The system does have an on screen EPG Electronic Program Guide.
It works, You can view a single channel schedule for a large amount of
time, rather than all channels for a couple hour spread. It's not great
but usable. I have a link to a online TV Guide, so I can easily refer to
that if I'm interested.

The guide is the main attraction on the TiVo but I think the Replay TV
software was better overall.
I am still playing with it but the guide has 2 panes. You get the
overall lineup by time and you scroll through the channels or you can
select a channel and look at that one for as long as the current
schedule load will support.
Once you get to the search function, you will get everything on
broadcast TV and also what you can get on the streaming services. I
made a mistake when I said I wanted all the "Nova"s and it gave me
everything since episode 1 on Netflix along with what was coming up on
my PBS channel.
If you punch in "WWII" you get about 1000 hits, most of them streams
that are available from old History Channel and PBS shows on Netflix
and other streams along with a **** load of available movies.
The first thing I have to do is filter by the streams I buy as soon as
I figure out which ones I want. We already have Netflix and Prime.
Thinking about Hulu and maybe something else. I am still looking for a
CNN stream. Somebody must have it.

Counting on my fingers, I am already saving about $150 a month so I
can afford a few more streams. It will take about 3 months to amortize
the TiVo at that rate and it is a "lifetime" so around Thanksgiving, I
should be good.

On 7/19/2016 7:37 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 19 Jul 2016 17:45:11 -0500, amdx wrote:

What do you use for a program guide?


The system does have an on screen EPG Electronic Program Guide.
It works, You can view a single channel schedule for a large amount of
time, rather than all channels for a couple hour spread. It's not great
but usable. I have a link to a online TV Guide, so I can easily refer to
that if I'm interested.

The guide is the main attraction on the TiVo but I think the Replay TV
software was better overall.
I am still playing with it but the guide has 2 panes. You get the
overall lineup by time and you scroll through the channels or you can
select a channel and look at that one for as long as the current
schedule load will support.
Once you get to the search function, you will get everything on
broadcast TV and also what you can get on the streaming services. I
made a mistake when I said I wanted all the "Nova"s and it gave me
everything since episode 1 on Netflix along with what was coming up on
my PBS channel.
If you punch in "WWII" you get about 1000 hits, most of them streams
that are available from old History Channel and PBS shows on Netflix
and other streams along with a **** load of available movies.
The first thing I have to do is filter by the streams I buy as soon as
I figure out which ones I want. We already have Netflix and Prime.
Thinking about Hulu and maybe something else. I am still looking for a
CNN stream. Somebody must have it.

Counting on my fingers, I am already saving about $150 a month so I
can afford a few more streams. It will take about 3 months to amortize
the TiVo at that rate and it is a "lifetime" so around Thanksgiving, I
should be good.


What is the monthly subscription fee for the TiVo?
I'm still using cable, I can't get the wife interested
in going to streaming only. I had 12mbps streaming and I recently talked
to a cable guy and he said that I probably had 30Mbps, that
they had upgraded, I didn't really believe him so I did a Speedtest.
It came up 7Mbps, but I turned around and my son was play a game over
the internet, so I retested and it came up with 30Mbps plus a few
decimals. The never mentioned it or bumped my bill, but I'm sure it is
coming.
I would over ride my wife on cutting the cord if I had a Fox News
stream, but I don't see that being available. I have a friend that says
he uses a feed of Fox news clips that he's happy with, but I like
O'Reilly and Megan.
Mikek