I am thinking about turning off Cable & getting Roku streaming

[irisblue]

any advice? The Cable/Internet charges are finally too costly to pay. I want MSNBC, DIY network, HGTV channels in particular. Thanks for any help.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. As far as I know, these are not on Roku

But I wouldn't have watched any of them anyway, so I really didn't look.

[LawDeeDah]

2. Do It.

MSNBC is not on Roku. You can get snippets of shows after the fact on Nowhere TV, a free channel, but you don't get live and up to date. I think MSNBC has live and entire broadcasts on the net tho - I stumble there once in a while but have no need to watch it, like I used to.

Youtube is on Roku, which in itself is a freaking encyclopedia of wonderment that easily replaces Tweety and those other fools.

[angstlessk]

3. Netflix seems to do those programs, though bet the are old shows

subscribe to netflix (7.99 month), hulu plus (6.99 month)..and amazon prime (99.00 per year (includes free 2 day shipping on most orders))..and there are MANY shows available

[Goblinmonger]

4. That's the 3 I do.

I still have DirectTV but I could live without it if it weren't for NFL football and AMC.

I find that I use Hulu the most for new shows and I love that the Criterion Collection comes with Plus, Netflix for older shows and some movies, and Prime the least. Though, for me, it is work it for the 2-day shipping and free book I can borrow each month on my Kindle.

[Stardust]

7. AMC is on Sling TV which is carried on Roku. The shows are live so you still get commercials

and some older shows might be On Demand, but I'm not sure. I've read conflicting information and got into an argument with the Retension guy at AT&T about it. I just signed on and am waiting on my free Roku streaming stick before I try watching it. I can get it in my phone but I like a big screen. Good luck in cutting the cord.

[LibinMo]

8. Best part of Amazon Prime for me

is the free music. It seems almost limitless.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

5. I have Netflix, Hulu Plus, and AcornTV ($50 a year)

I'm really enjoying the foreign TV series on all three services. Going back to U.S. TV after you've seen some of the best British, French, and Scandinavian dramas is like going from a novel to a grade school textbook.

[valerief]

13. I do Netflix and amazon. As soon as my Verizon contract ends, I'm dropping it and going for Hulu.

That's a good mix.

[yellowdogintexas]

6. we run Amazon Prime, Netflix and HBOGo on our ROKU along with Free Speech TV

Free Speech TV has Amy Goodman, Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, Ring of Fire and other progressive TV and Radio shows.

As soon as the HBO Now is available to me I will subscribe to it and cancel my cable.

[totodeinhere]

9. The NBC Roku app has some on demand MSNBC programming but not the live stream.

As far as I know there is no legal way to get a live MSNBC stream on Roku. But Roku does have the live Free Speech TV stream.

[Crystalite]

10. I've been playing with Roku, using Hulu, Netflix, xfinity...

girlfriend has Hulu, I have xfinity and netflix, we can use one another's accounts but not at the same time. My xfinity access isn't to my home-- it's to my parents' home.

I don't have cable but I do have internet, still trying to figure out the best deal.

I'm beginning to think no internet, no cable, but an unlimited smart phone plan would be the cheapest! Then tether that to laptop...

All on cellular plan, I wonder if that would work, $40/month.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. A smartphone would be cheap

but powering a computer through tethering and running video might use so much data that the company will start to throttle it.

[Crystalite]

12. Thank you for the reply.

I hadn't thought about throughput speed.

Just because a plan might have unlimited data, that doesn't mean it will have the speed to stream video and TV.

I'm just overwhelmed by bills that we never ever had in life back when we had a phone bill, that's it.

Now we have cell bills and cable bills and internet bills, all of it on top of rent, etc.

[TexasBushwhacker]

14. Unlimited HIGH SPEED data still has a cap

And you need high speed to stream. You can get Xfinity Plus for $50 a month. That's internet and local channels.

[Ino]

15. Do it!

I don't miss cable at all. I have Netflix streaming on Roku, and there is so much to watch I'd never run out of interesting things. Not too much in the way of recent hit movies, but I can get them from the library. I've gotten used to being a year behind in TV series & movies.

I watch MSNBC online here http://www.livenewschat.eu/politics/
CNN here http://www.hulkusc.com/cnn-news-live-streaming/

[DiehardLiberal]

16. I desperately want to cut the Comcast cord but am confused about the best way to do that. I have 1

Samsung Smart TV where I get Netflix, Amazon Prime and can subscribe to HBO. But I want CNN for election coverage, other event coverage. I also have 2 smaller Samsung tvs that aren't 'smart' so need signals to them. We only have Comcast or CenturyLink for internet options in my area (outside Portland, Or). Is Roku redundant if you have a Smart TV with apps?
Thanks for any help! I'm on my own and just so confused about what to do.