After a long debate, the wife and I have decided to cut the cable cord at the end of our contract (next week).
Planning to go for internet, keep netflix and prime as we've always had on top of cable.
Use pluto mostly for tv,
add discovery+ and amc+ apps for 13/m total on top of internet which should save us 60/m over cable and still be able to watch most everything we watch today, with the exception of local programming (abc/nbc). I tried an antenna and picked up nothing that doesn't flicker, so that's out. I'm honestly not worried about it.
But I am worried about hooking it up I've pretty much decided that we want to run amazon fire stick or fire cube devices instead of the built-in tv apps (not many options on it and out of date app hub) or Roku. The roku was a big contender for a while but i have 2 sticks already (man cave and guest bdrm) so might as well keep it consistent.
The firestick needs power and i don't have power where my living room tv is mounted. My master bdrm tv is fine, i have power in the sunk-in box behind my tv.
For the living room, HDMI's are in-wall already and I can't see myself being successful at running a 10ft usb power cord up there.
So, i'm thinking since i'm ditching the cable box anyway, i'll just plug the firestick in on top of my dvd player with a coupler like this:
Amazon product ASIN B06XR8RBTQbut that may look stupid just lying on top of the the dvd player... ya know, this is the living room and the wife needs approve of the aesthetics
So there's also the fire Box, but it's from 2019. It seems to have better specs than the sticks (twice the storage, more cores), but it's 3 years old now.
Amazon product ASIN B07KGVB6D6
It will look better on the shelf. I don't care about the voice features at all... have an echo show in the kitchen in the next room over.
the 4k stick is also from 2018.
Amazon product ASIN B079QHML21
The regular firestick is from 2020.
Amazon product ASIN B07ZZVX1F2
None of my tv's are 4k and frankly, i don't care about it, especially now with comcast imposing data caps..... i'm happy to stream at 720.
One thing i have noticed is that the stick fills up. In my man cave, i stream a lot of youtube music videos. I end up having to delete some apps. Im' hearing that the 4k stick has more processing power, but i don't know if that's true any more giving the 2020 update.
The box is looking like the best option for the living room, but it's 100 bucks vs 40 and it's 3 years old.
WWHSD?
Planning to go for internet, keep netflix and prime as we've always had on top of cable.
Use pluto mostly for tv,
add discovery+ and amc+ apps for 13/m total on top of internet which should save us 60/m over cable and still be able to watch most everything we watch today, with the exception of local programming (abc/nbc). I tried an antenna and picked up nothing that doesn't flicker, so that's out. I'm honestly not worried about it.
But I am worried about hooking it up I've pretty much decided that we want to run amazon fire stick or fire cube devices instead of the built-in tv apps (not many options on it and out of date app hub) or Roku. The roku was a big contender for a while but i have 2 sticks already (man cave and guest bdrm) so might as well keep it consistent.
The firestick needs power and i don't have power where my living room tv is mounted. My master bdrm tv is fine, i have power in the sunk-in box behind my tv.
For the living room, HDMI's are in-wall already and I can't see myself being successful at running a 10ft usb power cord up there.
So, i'm thinking since i'm ditching the cable box anyway, i'll just plug the firestick in on top of my dvd player with a coupler like this:
Amazon product ASIN B06XR8RBTQbut that may look stupid just lying on top of the the dvd player... ya know, this is the living room and the wife needs approve of the aesthetics
So there's also the fire Box, but it's from 2019. It seems to have better specs than the sticks (twice the storage, more cores), but it's 3 years old now.
Amazon product ASIN B07KGVB6D6
It will look better on the shelf. I don't care about the voice features at all... have an echo show in the kitchen in the next room over.
the 4k stick is also from 2018.
Amazon product ASIN B079QHML21
The regular firestick is from 2020.
Amazon product ASIN B07ZZVX1F2
None of my tv's are 4k and frankly, i don't care about it, especially now with comcast imposing data caps..... i'm happy to stream at 720.
One thing i have noticed is that the stick fills up. In my man cave, i stream a lot of youtube music videos. I end up having to delete some apps. Im' hearing that the 4k stick has more processing power, but i don't know if that's true any more giving the 2020 update.
The box is looking like the best option for the living room, but it's 100 bucks vs 40 and it's 3 years old.
WWHSD?