[ale] cord cutting for TV, SiliconDust, MythTV, recording to PC, etc.,

[Chuck Payne]

Plex isn't really for cord cutting, it more of a media center. It's like
kodi but you have to pay to use outside your home. I've been using for 5
years now. I spent 5 months ripping all my DVD and CD, and I been using to
share my media with my kids at my ex's home. The add-on's for plex don't
give you any live tv. But, again it for personal media, home movies, your
own dvd's, cd, and pictures.

Kodi does pretty much the same, but you can get add on's that will let you
watch live tv or pirate movies. Just be careful, watching a movie online no
different than downloading in the eyes of DMCA.  I prefer Plex over Kodi
because the search engines that they use are so much better than those on
Kodi.

I know that are some India Service on Kodi.

https://addonhq.com/best-kodi-bollywood-addons/

I use Roku and Amazon Firestick, you can get a free Amazon Firestick from
DirecTV after you pay for one month ( $35 ), I currently have DirecTV Now,
which is their online server gives 100 Channels ( HBO ) for $35, but you
have to act now. The only local channel that they offer is Fox ( Channel 5
), you can get CBS Access for $5 a month that gives you access to online
and live tv. USATVNOW is is free, but the stations aren't local and it can
be used on Roku and Kodi.

https://www.ustvnow.com

Playstation Vue offers packages and includes ( 5 and 46 ) works on Roku, I
believe others. Packages price depends on what you want. You can try for 5
Days free.

Sling is another service, I tried last year, it from Dish, so you can get
your India packages for $25, it says it offer Fox ( 5 ), NBS ( 11 ) and
more, that their blue packages for $25, so if you want India and US
Channels $50 a month still cheaper than get Dish.

https://www.sling.com/hindi

Two more are coming is HULU and Youtube TV.  Youtube TV said it will let
you stream 6 accounts at once and offers an online DVR all for $35 a month.
Now I don't know if this is true, but their ad says ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC,
that the most local channels I have seen.

https://tv.youtube.com/welcome/coming-soon/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwt6fHBRDtm9O8xPPHq4gBEiQAdxotvLnDTIdoYhBAiOhkKY3PbYOIeY-7gw-PM9KUHYpuoU4aAi3q8P8HAQ

http://fortune.com/2017/03/02/hulu-live-tv/

I hope that helps.

The one service that was awesome but courts shut it down was Aeroe. For $8
bucks a month you got all the local channels, but greed shut down.

On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is plex server a software that you run on a PC and it has a nice interface
> to SiliconDust to schedule recordings ?
>
> Is Kodi a nice interface  on my HTPC that connects to the plex server and
> helps navigate the recordings (I presume live tv as well) ?
>
> Didnt understand the $50MB and the $50 Intel CPU comment you made, JD, can
> u elaborate ?
>
> -N
>
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There's stuff on TV worth watching?
>>
>> OK, Archer.
>>
>> On Apr 9, 2017 4:32 PM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Rather serendipitously, I am looking again at getting off my ass and
>>> making a DVR solution that is not at the mercy of custom hardware.
>>> My 3rd ReplayTV appears to be dying (power supply or motherboard - I've
>>> already done a disk replacement), and I'm tired of the dance to get those
>>> boxes working.
>>>
>>> I'm not looking to cut the cord so much as break free from the tyranny
>>> of the schedule.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen a good reference for getting an RPi to record OTA or
>>> from a cable box?
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:06 PM, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sunday 09 April 2017, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>>>> > Antennas are like real estate - location, location, location. If you
>>>> are
>>>> > in a valley without line of sight to the transmission towers,
>>>> > forgetaboutit. Keep paying dish/cable guys and move on with your life
>>>> ...
>>>> > or put up a high pole with an antenna facing the correct direction.
>>>> TVfool
>>>> > can let you try out different ground heights to see how much it
>>>> matters.
>>>> >  10 ft higher DOES MATTER.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the link! Sadly I am in a valley and even with an ~37' out
>>>> side
>>>> antenna all Atlanta stations are shown as "Edge" at TVfool. Actually get
>>>> most of them well enough except channel two which fades out at times.
>>>> Played
>>>> with virtually running my antenna up to 60' with none improving to line
>>>> of
>>>> site.
>>>>
>>>> BTW channel 14 may be based in Rome but they broadcast from near
>>>> Waleska.
>>>> Still probably the most distant station for many, but my closest and
>>>> only
>>>> line of site station.
>>>> --
>>>> William
>>>>
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