Dropout.tv

Tons of amazing original content, and very cheap.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=200w*1 year *%240.14%2FkWh

$245/year assuming constant 200W load which is pretty reasonable for a small web server.

The trick is to have the server do other things like print, Plex, Piwigo, Samba, Shinobi, Frigate, Matrix, etc

It always bugged me how in Man of Steel, Superman has to deal with the moral quandary of breaking the bad guy’s neck at the cost of vaporizing a family.

Like they spent the previous 20 minutes punching each other through buildings. No way that was the first family they killed.

Yes. Radio waves can pierce opaque objects.

Ah. Well if your PC is static, a USB tuner isn’t too much. Plus then you have a built-in DVR.

I hear that. We have an attic yagi aimed directly at Seattle from 10 miles away, and we still get the occasional dropout even on our strongest signals.

Still when it works, it works really well. We watch Nature and Nova on Sundays, and the wildlife footage looks incredible.

Well considering many paid tiers of streaming services also serve ads, I consider it free-er than that.

Also, most of the hardware is already inside your TV. You just need a $20 antenna.

Also attempts to make the ads more invasive (louder in this case) are literally legally limited by the federal government.

See this is what I’m talking about. Cable is not the same as over the air. I’m not sure how your cable works in Hungary content/pricing-wise, but I do find it funny that a lot of younger people in this thread are lumping the two together.

You don’t, but that only applies to sports or things that you need to watch live.

Ah, I remember finding it on stumbleupon like 20 years ago. I always thought it odd that there was no video or follow up story.

Hunted for a link at 1am last night and wasn’t really paying attention. Plus the whole thing grossed me out, so I didn’t look too closely.

Sorry for wasting everyone’s time.

Wait, what? Are you talking about people who upload content and try to slide by the copyright filters?

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So to answer the original question, have you tried it and are you under 25?

That’s interesting! So it’s like free cable TV?

Yeah but instead of $60/mo, it’s free.

Pick up Tablo or HDHomerun. Connect an antenna. Drop it in a closet or wherever you get the best reception. Then just record stuff you like. You can browse from any media streaming box (AppleTV, etc).

There’s decent content in there and after the upfront cost, it’s free.

Eh. There’s also the serendipity of it. There’s a half dozen shows that we regularly watch that we only know about because they were randomly on TV.

Have you looked? A bunch of the new shows on Hulu are broadcast. Lots of reality TV. PBS rules.

Also a bunch of movies. Especially shitty Christmas movies around the holidays which are a personal favorite.

For like $150, you can get a Tablo DVR or similar that records what you want to watch, auto skips the ads, and streams it over WiFi to your phone or laptop. Just leave it on for a year and boom: entire season of whatever show is now yours forever for free.