Online TV Providers

brianlittlejohn

Sling and Hulu can eat many bags of dicks each. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, and of course Kodi are all wonderful.

I just can't watch live sports on Netflix, Amazon, HBO

RojoLoco

A great option for cordcutters is to find someone you know who pays for cable tv and get their cable provider login. You can watch some live channels, plus any network's streaming stuff that requires login.

Alex Sage

@rojoloco said in Online TV Providers:

A great option for cordcutters is to find ~~someone you know~~ a sucker who pays for cable tv and get their cable provider login. You can watch some live channels, plus any network's streaming stuff that requires login.

FIFY

RojoLoco

@aaronstuder said in Online TV Providers:

@rojoloco said in Online TV Providers:

A great option for cordcutters is to find ~~someone you know~~ a sucker who pays for cable tv and get their cable provider login. You can watch some live channels, plus any network's streaming stuff that requires login.

FIFY

My gf's mom has no desire to cut the cord, so she and I get to reap the benefits.

Alex Sage

@rojoloco Nice!

black3dynamite

@rojoloco said in Online TV Providers:

A great option for cordcutters is to find someone you know who pays for cable tv and get their cable provider login. You can watch some live channels, plus any network's streaming stuff that requires login.

Comcast allows you to create user accounts with limited access.

wrx7m

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wrx7m

@brianlittlejohn said in Online TV Providers:

@rojoloco said in Online TV Providers:

Sling and Hulu can eat many bags of dicks each. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, and of course Kodi are all wonderful.

I just can't watch live sports on Netflix, Amazon, HBO

@brianlittlejohn said in Online TV Providers:

@rojoloco said in Online TV Providers:

Sling and Hulu can eat many bags of dicks each. Netflix, Amazon Prime, HBO Go, and of course Kodi are all wonderful.

I just can't watch live sports on Netflix, Amazon, HBO

That might be changing soon. My Amazon Fire TV just told me that Thursday night NFL can be streamed live.

scottalanmiller

Fire TV is adding antenna support now too.

JaredBusch

@scottalanmiller said in Online TV Providers:

Fire TV is adding antenna support now too.

Umm how? The newly announced FireTV has no port for it.

scottalanmiller

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hobbit666

@nerdydad said in Online TV Providers:

However, I do have a question for @hobbit666. Is BBC public broadcast for you (aka free Over the air)?

Yes it a FREE channel and all the BBC's Channels also Channel4 E4 ITV are too.
Most you can get/watch through BBCiplayer ITV player and 4oD (not sure if they location lock though)

NerdyDad

@hobbit666 It is location locked. We have to subscribe to BBC America on cable or satellite and they won't allow anybody outside of the UK watch online. It kind of sucks.

marcinozga

@nerdydad said in Online TV Providers:

@hobbit666 It is location locked. We have to subscribe to BBC America on cable or satellite and they won't allow anybody outside of the UK watch online. It kind of sucks.

Use VPN.

NerdyDad

@marcinozga Attempted that. The app and website both requires your location in order to work and I didn't try any of those location-change apps.

SmithErick

Rolled my own Emby server and piggy backing off a Vue subscriber, works wonders for me.

marcinozga

@nerdydad how do they determine your location? The only way they can is by your public ip or DNS servers you're using.

NerdyDad

@marcinozga I was doing it on my phone.

marcinozga

@nerdydad said in Online TV Providers:

@marcinozga I was doing it on my phone.

Ok, that complicates things a lot, you'd need to kill cellular and GPS, and even then Wifi info can reveal your true location.

Dashrender

@marcinozga said in Online TV Providers:

@nerdydad said in Online TV Providers:

@marcinozga I was doing it on my phone.

Ok, that complicates things a lot, you'd need to kill cellular and GPS, and even then Wifi info can reveal your true location.

How does WiFi reveal your location short of something like Google Collecting it and the vendor checking wifi locations via this?

With Google collecting that stuff, personally I want to get a system that changes WiFi SSIDs monthly. That said, it's probably untenable for most people/businesses.