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Everyone is stealing TV. Fed up with increasing subscription prices, viewers embrace rogue streaming boxes.

https://piefed.social/c/television/p/1741197/everyone-is-stealing-tv-fed-up-with-increasing-subscription-prices-viewers-embrace-rogu

Feb 5 at 12:16amWeb
Show threadtidderuufFeb 5
Won’t be long until someone buys one of these devices and discovers their credit cards and identity being used in Hong Kong.
Show threadweegee90Feb 5
Or a bunch of them are involved in a botnet.
Show threadandyburkeFeb 5

Don't do this. You can get a tuner and a little PC to get HDTV over the air with no accounts or ongoing costs.

You can do it for less than you would spend on a single year of a similar cable package.

HDHomeRun, a linux PC, and Jellyfin and you're good to go.

Show threadRedMariFeb 5
Looks like that only gets you public channels though?
Show threadandyburkeFeb 5

I live in a major metro in the US. I get something like 100+ digital HD channels. Most of it I have never looked at to know what it is. I get the major broadcast networks, which means I can see most sports.

For me, when I bought the antenna, tuner and pc, there wasn't wild price gouging, so I was done for < $500, a one-time cost that netted me essentially a broadcast HDTV DVR setup. The only ongoing cost is $35 a year for guide data if you want to be able to schedule recordings.

YMMV.

Show threadRedMariFeb 5
Lol I live in a very rural area. Would not get anywhere close to 100 channels based on what I checked. Glad the set up works for you though. Now a days, people are way more spoiled by variety and on demand viewing as well to switch to that instead of paid or unpaid streaming.
Show threadandyburkeFeb 5

I mean ... I didn't disconnect my internet.

If you want a project, you could check if your TV already has an antenna input (usually a coax input) and grab a $40 indoor HDTV antenna - if it looked interesting you could always invest more for a roof antenna and/or stuff for doing DVR with it.

Show threadSchwim DandyFeb 5

I agree with not doing it but suggesting OTA as a realistic replacement for the vast majority of viewers is…… not rooted in reality.

I for one can’t even get a channel’s signal in my rural area. I’d have to switch to listening to HAM radio operators for my fun time.

Show threadSaveTheTuaHawkFeb 5

You can get a tuner and a little PC to get HDTV over the air

but TV sucks, 80% ads for drugs.

Show threadandyburkeFeb 5
Sure, that's what the DVR bit on the pc is for. 👍
Show threadinclementimmigrantFeb 5

I went from content to paying for various streaming services to cancelling them all and going fully back to torrents and self hosting.

Greedy assholes couldn’t be content with most of the money, they had to have all the money and put in crappy AI.