Cord Cutters

[JerkFace]

Anyone who uses Kodi have any good ideas on sports apps? Castaway and SportDevil hardly ever have accessible streams.

ProSport is the best but somewhat hit and miss. I find Phoenix to be vastly better than Castaway and Sportsdevil. None of them are overly reliable though.

 

[Covert Rain]

Also, if you have a borderline signal get a booster. I don't mean those cheap ones. Go to Fry's Electronics or something and get a good one. They are well worth it.

 

[Southpaw]

Big sale on OAAs


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[AsUpRoDiGy]

So for all you KODI users...do you use VPN's while using KODI...especially when watching new release movies and such? Or have you ever been contacted by your ISP for using pirated content?

 

[Covert Rain]

So for all you KODI users...do you use VPN's while using KODI...especially when watching new release movies and such? Or have you ever been contacted by your ISP for using pirated content?

If you don't you had better start. They are going to start coming down hard on folks if recent articles are any indication.

 

[AsUpRoDiGy]

If you don't you had better start. They are going to start coming down hard on folks if recent articles are any indication.

I've had my internet shut off for streaming movies via popcorntime. But I'm not sure if KODI uses the same P2P file sharing that torrents do. I haven't heard of anyone getting warnings for using KODI, so that's why I'm inquiring

 

[Covert Rain]

I've had my internet shut off for streaming movies via popcorntime. But I'm not sure if KODI uses the same P2P file sharing that torrents do. I haven't heard of anyone getting warnings for using KODI, so that's why I'm inquiring

I will try and find the article but I believe it was talking about KODI users.

 

[AZ Native]

At my age I would not know how to begin to cut the cord and watch what I want, so i guess they got me right where they want me.

 

[BigRedRage]

Big sale on OAAs


http://enews.mcmconnect.com/q/JJqXF1J47SpEz8ttqM77dHJHTeYbha72kvFpN_y0PouxqRwQz-IobQL8n

Odd, once I clicked on one its was 44 instead of the advertised 13

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[BigRedRage]

So for all you KODI users...do you use VPN's while using KODI...especially when watching new release movies and such? Or have you ever been contacted by your ISP for using pirated content?

I just did a basic novice back of a fire stick and that was that. I don't believe Kodi is considered pirated content because it is streaming instead of downloading

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[BigRedRage]

If you don't you had better start. They are going to start coming down hard on folks if recent articles are any indication.

Ugh

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[BigRedRage]

At my age I would not know how to begin to cut the cord and watch what I want, so i guess they got me right where they want me.

Well, what do you want to watch?

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[BigRedRage]

Has anyone tried the preloaded Kodi tv boxes online that claim to auto update? Would that add vpn?

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[AsUpRoDiGy]

I just did a basic novice back of a fire stick and that was that. I don't believe Kodi is considered pirated content because it is streaming instead of downloading

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I have bought a fire stick as well...and was going to download KODI on there. Have you ever heard of popcorn time? It's the same concept as KODI where you stream movies before they're even released...but they come from pirated torrents which have watermarks in the files that the distribution companies track and report to your ISP. I have several friends who use Kodi and never have problems, so that's part of the reason why I bought a fire stick.

 

[AsUpRoDiGy]

Has anyone tried the preloaded Kodi tv boxes online that claim to auto update? Would that add vpn?

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VPN is a separate service. I have the free version of HideMe, but it's only good for 500MB...

 

[BigRedRage]

I have bought a fire stick as well...and was going to download KODI on there. Have you ever heard of popcorn time? It's the same concept as KODI where you stream movies before they're even released...but they come from pirated torrents which have watermarks in the files that the distribution companies track and report to your ISP. I have several friends who use Kodi and never have problems, so that's part of the reason why I bought a fire stick.

I have only used Kodi aside from torrent stuff in the early 2000's

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[BigRedRage]

So I had an idea, put it into play last night and I am rather excited:

I dont have cable, cord cutter, etc. My new house antenna reception blows. Football season is coming, with a cardinals game tomorrow I needed to get NBC STAT.

I thought, you know, this house was wired for cable in the past, couldnt I just run an entenna into the main line instead of the coax for cox and have antenna throughout the whole house?

So last night I finally brought home some coax and I went out to the cox box. Unfortunately, the only way to do it was by disconnected the COX which includes disconnecting my internet but I tried it out anyway. I plugged in a cheap indoor antenna to the line and everything...worked!

60 channels per room! crystal clear!

So, I am no longe rlooking into outdoor antennas unless the rain kills the indoor antenna I have out there on the side of the house.

But then, how do I get internet into the house? I dont really want to run hundreds of feet of coax from that cox line, into my attic and into my bedroom.

So, I examined the coax wiring and I noticed one wire goes in the attic to feed 3 bedrooms and one wire goes right in the wall to feed the living rooms. I want antenna in bedrooms and living rooms so I couldnt bring myself to cut one of those off for internet.

Then I noticed a 3rd wire, that went straight to the babies room who has no TV. It went by itself unlike the other lines that go inside, get split and hit multiple rooms.

So I shot out to the store and got a connecter piece to attach one coax to another and I attached her rooms COAX to the COX COAX line. This allowed me to run antenna through the entire cox installation of wires going through the entire house and only cut off the room with no tv.

I went in the babies room and hooked up the modem and router under her old crib that is now a couch/storage/play area and BAM! Now i only need a single antenna, instead of one in every room and I get 60 channels instead of 4!

Antenna in every room

Wifi in every room.

My daughter thinks its annoying but I walked arround the house yelling BRILLIANT for the next hour.

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[dreamcastrocks]

There is a filter that Cox has to place on your NID to make sure that you do not get free cable. It appears that they didn't do that? When they have to do maintenance on that NID, they will probably see it and remove it.

Use it while you can!

 

[BigRedRage]

There is a filter that Cox has to place on your NID to make sure that you do not get free cable. It appears that they didn't do that? When they have to do maintenance on that NID, they will probably see it and remove it.

Use it while you can!

I'm not getting free cable, first I tried just plugging into the coax to make sure if I had it and I did not.

What I did was dedicated the cox line to one outlet only and then the main "in" to all the coax throughout the house I plugged in an OTA antenna instead of cox's line.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

I'm not getting free cable, first I tried just plugging into the coax to make sure if I had it and I did not.

What I did was dedicated the cox line to one outlet only and then the main "in" to all the coax throughout the house I plugged in an OTA antenna instead of cox's line.

Gotcha.

 

[BigRedRage]

So my primary room with my recliner for football watching, the cable must not be attached to the network the antenna is in! It works in every room but in there!!!

I will watch the cardinals in the other room tonight and then figure it out...

 

[puckhead]

So my primary room with my recliner for football watching, the cable must not be attached to the network the antenna is in! It works in every room but in there!!!

I will watch the cardinals in the other room tonight and then figure it out...

Is there a junction box inside the house somewhere?

 

[BigRedRage]

Is there a junction box inside the house somewhere?

There must be something, Ill have to track that cord. I had from the cox box, two cords going in right away by the box into the living room that is working right. Then I had the single cord to the babies room that I dedicated to the internet line. Then a 3rd cord went all the way up into the attic and no way in hell am I going in the attic in this weather.

So, work in progress. I may cave and go to the attic but will examine other options first, even considering that the TV not working is directly below my bedroom TV so I can add a splitter in my room and drop a cord from my room to the TV.

The only problem with that is im not savvy on dropping it through the wall so I would have it come right from the ceiling and just have to get some cord hider stuff to make it look a little better.

 

[BigRedRage]

Nbc was great until the football coverage started. Now it's a mess. Storm is rolling in too. We'll see if my cheap indoor antennas hold up

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[gmabel830]

Ok - so I think I have the wife fully onboard to cut the cord when we move (which won't be for several months probably).

What's the latest and greatest out there right now (very open-ended question, I know)? Sports and kids shows are most important to us (I have a 4 and 2 year old - so Disney and Nick crap is a must). I'm very much a novice, but have time to learn... was looking at a potential Fire stick/PS Vue combo a little bit ago. We don't have any Netflix/Hulu stuff, and not sure if we'd really use them all that much given our current viewing habits (might need to talk the wife into that).