This is all over the place but I need to figure it out as a high point and what will work and not work.. and what to do. I do not know about all this so wanted to get yalls thoughts...
my goals.
1. cable tv all over house
2. stream tv to web for phone when not home (we miss stuff due to kids sports so would like to have the ability)
3. lower bills
so with that..
in the basement will be a
1. 75" samsung tv or 80" sharp tv (or 92" hd projector if i can talk wife into it)
2. xbox one
3. hdhomerun
so that does hit a few of what I want to do. Getting to the cable tv part... is lengthy...
Ok so i currently have comcast double play. We have verizon for home lan line.. wife feels the need to have a lan line. Well at one point verizon was $60 a month so I found out our bill would go up some going triple play. Wife called verizon told them and they lowered our bill to like $35.
Well a year is up and we looked.. $80.. GAHHHHH
so im going to call for xfinity tripple play but talking to a bud I am now in a loss on what to do...
my bud has a tivo with lifetime. He said he got a cable card from comcast for it. it has 4 tuners and is a dvr too. He said the cable card is a non HD one so he doesnt pay HD prices but it is a HD tivo.. not sure how that is working out...
he then rented a HD cable box for his new tv in the basement he finished. They charged him $30 a month and after 4 months and not using it he said screw it.... returned it.. bought the tivo mini lifetime for like $250...
it talks back to his main tivo.... dvr features, etc.....
seems cool. What am I missing on his setup? we do not have dvr now.. i would love to have dvr... he has comcast triple play...
we dont have fios in our area... i want to drop the lan line costs...
so lets start there..
my goals.
1. cable tv all over house
2. stream tv to web for phone when not home (we miss stuff due to kids sports so would like to have the ability)
3. lower bills
so with that..
in the basement will be a
1. 75" samsung tv or 80" sharp tv (or 92" hd projector if i can talk wife into it)
2. xbox one
3. hdhomerun
so that does hit a few of what I want to do. Getting to the cable tv part... is lengthy...
Ok so i currently have comcast double play. We have verizon for home lan line.. wife feels the need to have a lan line. Well at one point verizon was $60 a month so I found out our bill would go up some going triple play. Wife called verizon told them and they lowered our bill to like $35.
Well a year is up and we looked.. $80.. GAHHHHH
so im going to call for xfinity tripple play but talking to a bud I am now in a loss on what to do...
my bud has a tivo with lifetime. He said he got a cable card from comcast for it. it has 4 tuners and is a dvr too. He said the cable card is a non HD one so he doesnt pay HD prices but it is a HD tivo.. not sure how that is working out...
he then rented a HD cable box for his new tv in the basement he finished. They charged him $30 a month and after 4 months and not using it he said screw it.... returned it.. bought the tivo mini lifetime for like $250...
it talks back to his main tivo.... dvr features, etc.....
seems cool. What am I missing on his setup? we do not have dvr now.. i would love to have dvr... he has comcast triple play...
we dont have fios in our area... i want to drop the lan line costs...
so lets start there..
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