Streaming Devices

we've got a smart TV in the mancave, a wii in the breezeway where we work out, and a sony boxy thingy in the living room.
we really should get rid of cable too. so far we watch JUST enough of it to keep us hanging on, but it's so expensive!
khairete
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Blu Ray player in the family room/bedroom, Wii in the living room, and ipads. We use Netflix, and tried HuluPlus for a brief free trial period, and currently also stream via AmazonPrime. We still haven't cut the satellite, though. Sports. Ugh.

We use a plain old blu-ray player on the TV in the living room for Netflix. The kids use their phones, Wii, IPad, etc, as well for Netflix.

We went down to basic cable recently, too. It was just creeping up year after year to the point where it just wasn't worth it. We did call and nicely ask for discount opportunities before we cancelled, but they refused to offer us anything. It's $100 a month less now. Geez.

:)

We use an X-box in the living room and Roku in our bedroom. Both are easy to use.

I haven't had cable for at least 3 years. We have Hulu plus, Netflix and Amazon Prime, and for the local stations we have antenna's.

I use a Wii for the living room TV and a Roku stick for the bedroom TV. I prefer the Roku because it has many more options than the Wii, but the Wii is great for gaming, which admittedly doesn't happen at all now that my daughter is away at college.

I'm not a sports fan, so I don't know what's available on the Roku, but you might find something here: https://www.roku.com/whats-on

We have netflix and we use apple tv to steam it. We also just watch on our computer often times. We cut out cable almost two years ago, don't miss it at all.

I *just* finally made this decision myself! While I can't tell you how it has gone yet, I can share some of my research. I was sick of paying cable rates when we barely watch anything but news and the random events or "How It's Made" on TV. I found this article very helpful to make a decision and do research: http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/01/the-diary-of-a-cord-cutt...

It ended up being between Roku and Amazon fire stick.

I ended up going with the Roku streaming stick because:
- I wanted a remote, not just smartphone control
- Although we are Prime members (for other benefits, mainly free shipping since we live in Hawaii and have to ship many things!), I didn't want the bias of the Amazon fire stick, which mainly promotes Amazon's own content first
- It seemed the Roku interface was more user-friendly, from descriptions
- My husband likes UFC and they have their own app/channel on Roku
- Roku - because they're agnostic - seems to have a lot more robust variety of content providers and apps (e.g. yoga channel, if I can ever motivate to do a downward dog on my own at home!)

(since your husband likes soccer, maybe check out if they have a soccer app/channel and/or if ESPN's new service covers soccer)

Most other features seem similar between Amazon fire-stick, Chromecast and Roku (e.g. cast from your phone or laptop to the TV).

I had considered getting the Roku 3 device instead of the streaming stick, but the only real advantage was for gamers (which we are not) and if you want to wear headphones (since we don't have a TV in the bedroom, didn't think this was necessary).

FYI, the one thing I thought I'd miss was local TV news and some national news shows - since it seems most news shows only show 'snippets' vs. an entire broadcast online. If we end up missing it a lot, getting simple antenna seems to work for most people.

Good luck!

I have an apple TV which is great for Netflix. For other stuff, I have a smart TV and use that.

My daughter tends to prefer her iPad over the TV. So she uses that.

My fear is weather. I need cable or satellite for instant weather alerts. So I can know the instant we are in danger and need to seek shelter. I often am already on the move to get the kids in the vehicle and to the shelter before the sirens go off. I can't give that security up. In bad bad weather of course it all goes away and we should be in our shelters already but having that security helps me sleep at night when storms are happening because I get weather that shows me exactly what is coming at me and how severe they expect it to be.

We have Netflix for movies and Hulu+ for TV. We also still have satellite TV because my husband "needs" the sports channels. We mostly watch on our iPads. We have a device that connects to the TV so we can watch our iPad on the TV but we rarely use it. We could access Netflix through our Blueray or Wii but we never do. We also watch some TV just on network web sites like CBS.com.