Comments on: Roku + NetFlix + RedBox = TV heaven? http://mnteractive.com/archive/roku-netflix-redbox-tv-heaven Minnesota's Interaction Design, Information Architecture, and User Experience Design Community Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:19:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Amy http://mnteractive.com/archive/roku-netflix-redbox-tv-heaven/comment-page-1#comment-50586 Amy Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:29:42 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/?p=1093#comment-50586 We did the same thing (except we canceled cable service). We use a digital converter box to receive broadcast channels with perfect quality. We use a combination of Hulu.com, Netflix and Itunes to watch our favorite cable shows and just bought a Roku to watch Netflix instant shows and movies. Since we spend a lot of time searching different web sites and services for shows, my husband (a cgi programmer) just wrote a web based tool which does it for us. We are blogging about our experiences with digital broadcast tv and have just posted the '<a href="http://www.cancelcable.com/db/showfinder.php" rel="nofollow">showfinder tool</a>' on our blog at <a href="http://www.cancelcable.com" rel="nofollow">CancelCable.com</a>. We did the same thing (except we canceled cable service). We use a digital converter box to receive broadcast channels with perfect quality.

We use a combination of Hulu.com, Netflix and Itunes to watch our favorite cable shows and just bought a Roku to watch Netflix instant shows and movies.

Since we spend a lot of time searching different web sites and services for shows, my husband (a cgi programmer) just wrote a web based tool which does it for us.

We are blogging about our experiences with digital broadcast tv and have just posted the ‘showfinder tool‘ on our blog at CancelCable.com.

]]> By: Thomas Bohmbach, Jr. http://mnteractive.com/archive/roku-netflix-redbox-tv-heaven/comment-page-1#comment-50454 Thomas Bohmbach, Jr. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:40:32 +0000 http://mnteractive.com/?p=1093#comment-50454 My household recently made a similar switch off the "crap grid" that is satellite and cable premium subscriptions. We now have basic, basic cable (about 20 stations including all the TPT digital and local HD channels), AppleTV for just the "premium" cable content that we actually want (purchased on an episodic or seasonal basis--no commercials too!), and finally a low-end netflix subscription to cover the few things that aren't available on AppleTV (I'm looking at you NBC/Universal). Our results are that we're spending considerably less per month (averaging less than 50%) than we were paying for our previous cable package even after the AppleTV/netflix charges. And, the funny thing is, we're actually watching more content than we were before. The sweetest part of the deal is that if you have comcast internet as well, they basically pay you $2/month to take basic cable TV too (including all the over-the-air broadcast HD channels) via a monthly refund that is actually more than basic cable costs. W00t! My household recently made a similar switch off the “crap grid” that is satellite and cable premium subscriptions.

We now have basic, basic cable (about 20 stations including all the TPT digital and local HD channels), AppleTV for just the “premium” cable content that we actually want (purchased on an episodic or seasonal basis–no commercials too!), and finally a low-end netflix subscription to cover the few things that aren’t available on AppleTV (I’m looking at you NBC/Universal).

Our results are that we’re spending considerably less per month (averaging less than 50%) than we were paying for our previous cable package even after the AppleTV/netflix charges. And, the funny thing is, we’re actually watching more content than we were before.

The sweetest part of the deal is that if you have comcast internet as well, they basically pay you $2/month to take basic cable TV too (including all the over-the-air broadcast HD channels) via a monthly refund that is actually more than basic cable costs. W00t!

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