r/Cordcutting

Looking for an alternative to cable

Greetings,

I have to get rid of my cable. It’s way too expensive and the only cable I have access to is Spectrum which is the worst cable company I’ve ever had and I’ve had cable since the mid eighties.

I am looking for a way to watch a variety of streaming shows.

I watch a lot of sports. NFL, MLB, men and women college and pro basketball, college softball, all kinds of wrestling, and all kinds of racing including motorcycle, drag, and auto racing on dirt and pavement.

I also want access to poker shows, television shows, and movies.

And, because I work at night, I would like the ability to tape shows to watch when I get home.

I know I have access to some of that with my allegedly smart TV but some of that I access for free thru my cable and I can’t tape on my TV using a flash drive.

I would appreciate any help and advice!

 

Thanks!

I currentlly use a fire stick and I've struggled forever to keep organized on shows that I've watched. This has to be the my most frustrating experience with no longer having cable and a DVR like my beloved TiVo. I just want a single interface where I can go to see all the shows that I'm currently watching and it lets me know when they're back on.

There are some streaming networks that I only go to for 1 or 2 shows so I don't look in them often, then one day I realize a new season for a show I watched has been out for months. I think this is further made worse since shows today air at random intervals vs the every year, a new season for a show starts in September and ends in May model that was persistent for decades. I really don't want to have to write down apps and track on my phone.

There has to be some streaming setup where I can just favorite a show and see all of them in 1 spot.

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Rather than focus on cable channels lost during cord-cutting, I thought I would focus on the free stuff that suddenly becomes available to all cord-cutters. Yes, you can pay for HistoryHit. But you can now get this channel for FREE on Plex. It's a great channel to watch if you love all kinds of history. As of right now, the focus is on WWII. But there's a wide, wide world of other history programming that HistoryHit focuses on. All of it is very, very, very good.

This is a service you will not get by paying $300 per month for cable and internet service. You will only get this channel through free streaming. Right now it's just on Plex, but I imagine it will show up on PLUTO and Tubi in the near future.

This isn't some channel showing old documentaries produced 50-60 years ago. Although every once in a while they will show some of the old stuff. The vast majority of programming, however, is brand new. It is meticulously well-researched and the shows feature excellent production values.

Don't look at what you lose with cutting the cord. Instead, look at what you gain. I love this channel!

Is this something that exists? I can't find a package that matches this.

I have Disney+, Hulu, ESPN Plus and I am being asked to add ESPN Unlimited, which duplicates ESPN Plus.

Cutting the cord sounded like such an obvious money-saving move until I actually started researching it.

People online always say “just cancel cable” like it’s this super simple thing, but then you realize every single channel/show/sport is scattered across different apps and half of them want another subscription on top of the subscription you already pay for. I started trying to recreate what I already have with cable and somehow kept ending up near the same monthly price once live TV and sports entered the conversation. Listen I have a big family, and a lot of people want different things...

I mean I am getting there, making some compromises, but it ain't that easy, as some people here like to say.

My boyfriend set up Jellyfin for us and honestly it’s great once you actually start watching something. But I’m still paying for Netflix.

Not because Netflix has better content, but because it’s just easier. Open TV, app is there, everything works instantly. With Jellyfin we have to open the browser on the TV first (it’s not Android TV), then log in again, then figure out what to watch, download it, wait and only then we can watch it.

I didn’t expect convenience to matter this much, but apparently it does.

For people who fully switched to Jellyfin/Plex - did you eventually make the setup feel seamless enough for everyday use?