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guys i am looking to save money on satelitte tv from dish network and frontier net dsl internet service. I am paying about 100 dollars for dish network and 70 dollars for frontier net dsl. I feel these prices are too high and have heard their are better and cheaper options out their which is why i am posting this thread. What is everyone one using nowadays and recommend. Im trying to save a buck definitely. Thanks everyone

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try bundling multiple services with one company. I have my land line, cell phone, internet, & cable bundled together through ATT/Dish, and it works out a LOT cheaper than if i got everything separately.

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Cut the cord and go internet only. Sling tv, apple tv or whatever streams.

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quote:
Originally posted by 135.0:
Cut the cord and go internet only. Sling tv, apple tv or whatever streams.

This!! I bought a streaming box and everything is on there, will be getting rid of dish when my contract is up in a couple months.

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quote:
Originally posted by 135.0:
Cut the cord and go internet only. Sling tv, apple tv or whatever streams.

+2

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keep em coming guys, if any one knows of a package that is bang for buck or if any one knows how i can still stay with dishnetwork but just get a better plan let me know, i will make a decision based off this thread most likely.

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I've got what's called the world's best box, streams from online, has most shows I can think of new and old, shit ton of movies, all the sporting events, music. Has lifetime warranty and free software updates for life, I think it's like $300 now but well worth the price if you ask me. I can use it over wifi or direct connect to router, hooks up via hdmi, you can also surf the Web with it as well.

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I have comcast which i pay around 90 bucks with internet and cable. I love internet its fast. I would love to go the streaming box route but i think it will do difficult for my fam to get use to it. But i do have an app on my phones that gets all the streaming shit.

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Let me know if you need a streaming box. $100!!! You get all the movies you can imagine new or old, any news or tv shows you can think of and all the games of any sport including ppv (boxing and UFC "FREE" ). Plus music. Built in browser and all. It's the absolute truth. Cut my cable off and upgraded my internet and haven't looked back since. Lmk

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Has anyone used this before? Im thinking about cutting the cable and buying these for the entire house.

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^ I have the gbox and works but not user friendly for the fam. Comcast still has triple play package tv internet and phone for $99/month for 12 months. I originally had just tv and internet but was paying 160. Called them and they offered the triple play to save money. Got my first bill and it's 120.
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Have a box paid 120, great for shows and movies. Not very dependable wen it comes to live tv. But its really good. Lots of add-ons and i have mine down to were i can watch everything i need. Espn,amc etc and ppv add-ons come in a bunch u just have to find the right one. I have direct tv and the box but getting rid of the direct tv just keeping it for the nfl ticket

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quote:
Originally posted by BUKSING:
^ I have the gbox and works but not user friendly for the fam. Comcast still has triple play package tv internet and phone for $99/month for 12 months. I originally had just tv and internet but was paying 160. Called them and they offered the triple play to save money. Got my first bill and it's 120.

Do you know if the xfinity tv go app works on the gbox?

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quote:
Originally posted by Built4Speed:
quote:
Originally posted by BUKSING:
^ I have the gbox and works but not user friendly for the fam. Comcast still has triple play package tv internet and phone for $99/month for 12 months. I originally had just tv and internet but was paying 160. Called them and they offered the triple play to save money. Got my first bill and it's 120.

Do you know if the xfinity tv go app works on the gbox?
No it doesn't.
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Have Comcast triple play. Free install and cost 150 w/taxes. I have 1 dvr box and 3 hd boxes in my house.

Went from DirectTV and astound for Internet. After those discounts from both providers my bill was 160 a month. Had bare bones DTV package and it sucked. Internet dropped at least 4 times a day also. Astound uses Comcast cables as well. Found out when they disconnected our Astound service they also disconnected our new Comcast line, retards. They refused to hook it back up citing some regulatory laws.

I consider buying a box and installing a digital antenna to cut the cable box cord but not sure how family would react. I'm used to ripping stuff off the Internet but they're not and the kid is still too lazy to set up recording options. So I doubt he'll be motivated to learn how to use a streaming device.

[ 2015-11-03, 05:57 AM: Message edited by: stanger00 ]

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^ I did that and got a digital antenna and hd converter. Cool for local channels only but that only lasted a few days.

I like xfinitys new x1 platform. The dvr box has voice command on the remote and the new hd boxes are almost as small as an Apple TV box and I mounted it behind the tv on the wall.

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quote:
Originally posted by stanger00:
Have Comcast triple play. Free install and cost 150 w/taxes. I have 1 dvr box and 3 hd boxes in my house.

Went from DirectTV and astound for Internet. After those discounts from both providers my bill was 160 a month. Had bare bones DTV package and it sucked. Internet dropped at least 4 times a day also. Astound uses Comcast cables as well. Found out when they disconnected our Astound service they also disconnected our new Comcast line, retards. They refused to hook it back up citing some regulatory laws.

I consider buying a box and installing a digital antenna to cut the cable box cord but not sure how family would react. I'm used to ripping stuff off the Internet but they're not and the kid is still too lazy to set up recording options. So I doubt he'll be motivated to learn how to use a streaming device.

150 bucks a month sounds like an extra child support bill or half a car payment.

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I pay $82/mo for internet only (verizon fios - it's fiber to my house)

then I pay:
$100/year for a usenet subsciption
$15/year for a subscription to dognzb.cr (was $10 for lifetime when I signed up, but that recently went away [Frown] )
and I built a home server which runs utilities called sonarr (TV shows), couchpotato (Movies), and various other tools.

I just subscribe to tv shows we want to watch, my server looks on dognzb.cr for a source, then downloads from usenet. Fully automated, I usually have the shows we watch grabbed from someone on east coast so before they would normally air, with commercials already stripped out.
For movies, you can grab anything you want basically, just type in the movie name to couchpotato and it will search on dognzb for you until the movie is available in the quality you specify (720p, blu-ray rip, DTS 5.1 sound, whatever you want).


I currently use about 8tb of space on my server, have ~1200 movies, and 1050 TV episodes.

I run Plex server, so we can watch from anywhere with basically any client that's capable of watching netflix (smart tv's, fire tv's, chromecast, tablets, phones, web browsers, xboxs, playstations, etc)


The only thing I'm missing is sports...

[ 2015-11-03, 06:58 PM: Message edited by: Blind ]

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hey i work for xfinity and got some great deals for you. right now we have our famous triple play plan which includes tv, internet and phone for $89.99 and double play plan tv, internet for $69.99. any one that wants more information just give me a pm or call 5109788801- Amrit Ill hook u guys up!!

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