If you find yourself on the wrong team, after cutting the cord… say, you subscribe to Netflix, but really like Game of Thrones… head on over to rabb.it, it’s a nifty little site where you can form and join viewing rooms. Join a Game of Thrones room or watch whatever other people have access to.
Especially fun for big sporting events.
The OP might be able to get the Time Warner/HBO content like Game of Thrones with DirectTV now. He also might be able to bundle that with his internet.
Quoting myself to add some info I learned recently. This applies to movies bought on disc (either DVD or Blu-ray) that did not include a digital version with the purchase. VUDU has a Disc-to-Digital program that allows you to purchase digital copies of movies you already own on disc, at a price that is generally much lower than purchasing the digital copy alone. It works with DVDs and Blu-rays, and it’s $2 per movie to get the same definition (SD for DVDs, HD for Blu-rays) or $5 to upgrade a DVD to an HD digital copy. VUDU has a mobile app for this that lets you just scan the barcode of the disk box and pay the fee. There is a desktop app, too. Not all movies are available, and there is a limit of 100 conversions per year. I have ripped a lot of my DVDs to digital myself and use PLEX to view them, but I don’t have a blu-ray drive and this is a quick, inexpensive option for getting digital copies of some of my old blu-rays.
Thanks! However, this thread is a year old and I’ve long-past done this.
What did you wind up doing? Still DirecTVin’? Any advice for the newest crop of cord-cutters?
Just got $40 internet via Spectrum. Have Hulu via my phone plan, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. Oh, and a HD antenna for the local stations.
Since Prime is something we purchase for the shipping and have had since they offered it, my total cost is now $53/month. When Hulu goes paid, I’ll likely drop it.
I use a Roku ($40?) to control all this.
This sounds pretty cool, thanks!
Wow. I live in SE Indiana (Cincinnati suburb) and am on the edge of Comcast’s service. I pay $140 a month for HD cable, landline phone and 300Mbs internet speeds, along with their router that has both 2.4ghz and 5.0ghz wireless.