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Thanks for clicking.

Amazon Fire TV questions coming:

My moms will be in an elderly affordable apartment soon and to cut bills my niece will get her a Fire Stick.

Since I want to ditch Comcast, too, I am looking at the Fire TV. I am kinda clueless about this area. I know I will need a digital antenna for local station. No issues here.

But how will I know if I will get MLB Network and Animal Planet and Nat Geo Wild?

Please enlighten.

And will Kodi be needed for Fire TV? I know it will help Fire Stick people.

Simple Trick Installs Kodi & XBMC To your Amazon Firestick for Free Cable TV - Hack My AppleTV
 
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Thanks for that link... I've had the Fire Stick for quite a while but have been hesitant to jailbreak it. That link lays it out pretty easy so I think I'll give it a go.

As far as your other questions, I've been using Playstation Vue and its pretty sweet. You have to check their packages if that is the route you would like to go. I definitely get MLB...
 

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Thanks for that link... I've had the Fire Stick for quite a while but have been hesitant to jailbreak it. That link lays it out pretty easy so I think I'll give it a go.

As far as your other questions, I've been using Playstation Vue and its pretty sweet. You have to check their packages if that is the route you would like to go. I definitely get MLB...
"Their" being Amazon? I don't know where to start looking for that detailed info.
 

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Nothing more overrated than Kodi.

You’ll need to figure out which TV package you want to buy.

Vue, YouTubeTV, DirectTv - there must be like 8 of them now. All with different price points and combos.

Vue seems the best to me but that’s based off general feedback - I’ve never used it. You can cancel anytime so the most you’d be out is one month if they don’t have a trial.
 

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Nothing more overrated than Kodi.

You’ll need to figure out which TV package you want to buy.

Vue, YouTubeTV, DirectTv - there must be like 8 of them now. All with different price points and combos.

Vue seems the best to me but that’s based off general feedback - I’ve never used it. You can cancel anytime so the most you’d be out is one month if they don’t have a trial.
@whaler11 so these packages are ones I go online to each of their sites and purchase. Like I did with Netflix and Hulu?

Does Fire TV come with a pamphlet with recommendations?
 
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And it looks like if you needed Nat Geo Wild and MLB, you'd need the Elite Package... $54.99/month
 

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@whaler11 so these packages are ones I go online to each of their sites and purchase. Like I did with Netflix and Hulu?
Think of these packages like you're choosing between different cable providers. "Do i want dish, satellite, time warned or DIRECTV" is basically the same question as "do I want Vue, YoutubeTV or Sling?"

Netflix & Hulu are more like "do I want HBO? Showtime?"
Does Fire TV come with a pamphlet with recommendations?
Not really, but it's all very easily navigable. I'm a Luddite and was able to easily figure it all out.
 

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@whaler11 so these packages are ones I go online to each of their sites and purchase. Like I did with Netflix and Hulu?

Does Fire TV come with a pamphlet with recommendations?

Probably fastest to download their app to your Fire and then signup through that interface. Most have a week or two week free trial.
 

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Probably fastest to download their app to your Fire and then signup through that interface. Most have a week or two week free trial.
So, when Fire is running on the TV there are prompts to download apps?
 

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So, when Fire is running on the TV there are prompts to download apps?

Yeah it’s got a whole interface where you can search for games and apps. It comes with a few dozen of the popular ones like Netflix already set up.

It’s like using a smart phone. You start at a screen where you see all your apps and just go in and out of them.
 

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That sure beats $230/month. (Triple Play).

You keeping phone and internet ? Let me know what that runs you
 

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It’s like using a smart phone. You start at a screen where you see all your apps and just go in and out of them.
Exactly this.

And FWIW, it's worth the extra $ to get the Fire TV rather than the Fire Stick, which is old & slow.
 

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You keeping phone and internet ? Let me know what that runs you
I am thinking of ditching those, too. But Mrs. Dove may want that land line.

I will look into non-Comcast Internet options. Any ideas?
 

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I am thinking of ditching those, too. But Mrs. Dove may want that land line.

I will look into non-Comcast Internet options. Any ideas?

depends on your address. You may have one more choice besides comcast (frontier) you may have none.
 
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Tell her to get a job.
 
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I am thinking of ditching those, too. But Mrs. Dove may want that land line.

I will look into non-Comcast Internet options. Any ideas?

Where we are, the Double-Play is actually cheaper than an Internet only option. I have a land-line but truth be told, I don't even know what the phone number is.
 

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Not be a Debbie Downer, but I'm really interested in how the end of Net Neutrality affects cord-cutting options.
 
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Decent internet at Comcast is about $80/mo alone so working a deal with them where the price holds for 24 mo is not bad. That way you don't have to switch to antennae for local. Some areas have bad reception for 1 or more local channels.
 

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Frontier internet sucks outloud.

yes it does. at consumer level.

I get 50 MB/50MB Fiber at work, and Im actually purchasing through ATT but Frontier owns last mile of all runs in state. Its a screamer. But dealing with them is also a nightmare of epic proportions. Frontier can blow me.


And here is the thing with cord cutting. I want to do it so bad. I work in tech, if anyone should be ahead of these curves its me. But every time I do my due diligence to estimate costs of cutting cord and replacing what I currently have I have never once in the last 3 years come up with more than 10 bucks a month savings. Could I save more? Sure. By giving up some services I currently have. Which is another discussion. But every time I go apples to apples the savings just isnt there for me.
 

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