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jeremy_k
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« on: June 01, 2009, 01:02:58 PM »

Right now I have cable Internet but not cable TV. The only service provider we have in town is Time Warner cable and they charge $50.00 a month for standard cable TV and $30.00 a month for Internet access.

For the most part, I watch what I can on Hulu.com, but there is still a LOT of shows that do not air on Hulu. I know that Time Warner has to basically contract all their other stations out, and I was wondering if perhaps there was a cheaper, online alternative to cable TV?

I already watch a majoiry of my shows online, I wouldn\'t mind paying $10.00 or $15.00 a month for streaming cable as long as it provided standard channels like MTV, Fox and Cartoon Network.

Has anyone heard of any online services like this? Yes I know a lot of these stations show free stuff online, but they are also very selective and a lot of times, I can\'t find what I want to actually watch.


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« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2009, 01:04:45 PM »

Hello:

I have dumped my Sat/Cable vendors for the past 5 years.
Now if you look at the hard cold $$$ $50*12 months *5years = $3000

I installed a used ($45) 400mhz PC and loaded www.getmrio.com
MIRO will farm the WWW 24/7 and will download Videos, you want.
I did install a 100GB HDD in this PC. But I have a total of about 5+TB of HDD\'s on my home network, The last HDD was a 1.5TB at a cost of $88 from www.newegg.com with free shipping (it was on sale)

I upgraded to a 36\" LED HDTV with HDMI and VGA inputs for ($400)

I also have a PC with \"Windows Media Center\" 2TB\'s ($560) on the home network. I have this PC programed to record SDTV & HDTV ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CW, PBS.... programs 24/7.

So my one time cost of $1000 I have the best TV, You could too.
The FREE video player I use is VLC, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
I use FREE Divx, and you can upgrade to Divx Pro codec for $19
 http://www.divx.com/en/win
I use FREE MCEBuddy to down convert \"BIG\" (13GB) HDTV recorded files down to 650MB for long term storge. (have it set to use CPU time on off hours.
 http://thegreenbutton.com/files/24/vista_dvr-ms_tools/entry225930.aspx


Regards


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Adam
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« Reply #2 on: June 02, 2009, 05:25:36 PM »

Hey, i tried almost every website out there but you know how it works.
sometimes you cant watch anything and quality is really crappy.

Recently i found that cool site with online tv.
To be honest with you i would never go back to any other web pages.

There is a catch, its not free, BUT you only pay once ( around $25) and you get over 3000 channels with awesome quality.

check it out

www.squidoo.com/watch-tv-now


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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2009, 05:12:00 AM »

It is too expensive
I use http://watch-tv-on-computer.com
Hope it can help you.


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