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Or eat something else. If they are going to charge the same for turkey as rib roast, have yourself a prime rib Christmas!

I think the back should be, "If You Can Read This, You Must Be In My Bedroom" in deference to the lockdowns.

I don't really budget for Christmas because the $ is not the most important measure. I pay a lot less for a lot of things than retail, so equity is hardly ever measured in dollars. That said, I have two iPhones on my list, so ...

A couple of mine hit the rag bag this year. Very good quality shirts that get a lot of use. I thought I discovered an unworn shirt, but it was a fatwallet shirt which is a different kind of treasure altogether.

All I want is a t-shirt...

I am now officially a fan of The Holderness Family. Thanks for finding them for me.

I love the Recast. I have the four tuner/1t version, but I do not expect there is much difference for most people. Either way, you can only stream to two devices concurrently. I love the way Amazon has integrated streaming and OTA. I love that I can stream to any Echo Show in my house. I think most of the whole house devices are softer than the set top boxes, but you will not likely notice unless you are comparing. I actually like the Sling TV DVR better. You can get it for $100 if you prepay for three months of Sling TV, so $200 for a 1t DVR that can stream outside the home. Your avatar makes me think summer never ends for you.

Of the bunch, the Sling DVR is the best deal. Integrated disk and out of house streaming are important to me. I like the Recast, but you have to be in the Amazon echosystem. It's the best way to watch television on the Echo Show devices. You have to add a disk and a service for the Tablo TV DVR. Of course, if you are just looking for 'trick play', it's tough to beat the TCL Roku TVs.

Amazon Fire TV Recast, over-the-air DVR, 500 GB Digital Media Player | $129.99 Shipped from BuyDig.com Tablo DUAL LITE OTA DVR with WiFi Black TDNS2B-01-CN - $89.99 Shipped Best Buy AirTV Anywhere DVR + HD Antenna for $99 ($244.98 value) when you prepay for 3 months of SLING

You are probably going to miss the DVR. Lots of times we wished we could pause or rewind. Lots of options out there for you.

It's not that hard. You do not have to do everything at once. First step is to determine if over-the-air or FREE TV is an option. If you want to post or PM the GPS coordinates of the spot you expect to put an antenna or your street address, I can tell you what you can expect to receive.

I cannot remember life before Plex. I've used Plex to serve up videos for as long as I can remember. I paid for a Plex Pass so that I could watch and record broadcast television via an HDHomerun. Plex has always intrigued me, always brimmed with potential, and always failed the WAF test. The WAF test is Wife Acceptance Factor or the likelihood that a solution will be embraced by nontechnical people. To be honest, despite having a robust library, it is rare that I run the Plex app on a television. I think that is about to change. Three changes have made Plex a very interesting television option... A 'modern' user interface The latest Plex update introduced a new user interface which is tiled, but includes a description of the highlighted program.Content Plex is a 'free content' provider adding 14,000 on demand movies and 100+ channels of streamed 'live tv' ATSC 3.0 Plex supports 4K OTA Free TV via the SiliconDust HDHomeRun Flex 4K.Plex pluses include... Unattended viewing Autoplay option facilitates binge viewing and lets me doze off to a favorite show. Autoplay stops after two hours of inactivity. Setting the television to do the same means I wake up to a quiet home after falling asleep to television.Antenna flexibility Plex integrates multiple network tuners so you can point multiple antennas to broadcast stations in different directions for best OTA reception -- no rotors is a good thing.Plex server requirements are modest. I run it on the HP Pavilion 590p0050 I bought in November of 2019... 2.8GHz Intel Core i5-8400 6-core processor with up to 4GHz turbo frequency and 9MB cache memory16GB memory1TB hard drive16GB OptaneGTX 1650 OC 4GBPlex runs in the background and I do not even notice. In fact, at times, I run the Plex web client on the same PC as I am running the server while doing other stuff. No problems. I use USB 3.0 disks for storage. Right now, you can get a PC for use as a Plex server for $249.00. Happy September!

I paid full freight for an Xbox One Series X last year. I can't tell you how many hours I spent trying to secure it. I was relieved when I finally prevailed, but I am still butt hurt for paying retail.

Not in the market myself, but the Ninja Foodi 6-in-1 Smart XL Indoor Grill with Air Fryer checks out for $161.99 with this code. Minus $30 Kohls Cash, $8.10 Kohls Rewards, and $5 Kohls Cash for picking it up, the net cost is $118.89. If I did not LOVE my NuWave Primo, I'd be all over this.

from http://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/332427-gottadeal-2021-black-friday-prize-club-thread/?p=1497588 I am a very lazy TV viewer. I turn on a television in the morning when getting ready for work. I turn one on when I am preparing dinner and cleaning up. I fall asleep in front of one at the end of the day. Mostly, I just channel surf until I find something interesting. That's not hard these days. If I cannot find something over the air, I switch to Pluto. The thing is, I do not want to have to find a show or movie every 30 to 90 minutes. That's too much work most of the time. If I am actually going to sit down and watch television, I include the shows saved on my TiVos, Amazon Prime, and my Plex server. Occasionally, I will watch a disc. It's been years since I have done that. I am a very lazy TV viewer. I rarely have time to sit down in front of a television, but I do have a special place to do that. I am passively shopping for a tenth television for that place. I'd like a 4K 75"+ LED for my living room. Or, maybe, a projector. Projectors are getting very good at reasonable price points and are easy to dispose of. That room has a nice home theater, a six foot air hockey table, a legends ultimate arcade, and a couch. It's my favorite room in the house. The 1080p 60" plasma in this room is not very smart, but it's attached to a TiVo Mini and a 4K Fire TV stick. I used to watch football in that room. Not so much these days. I have a 55" 4K TCL Roku TV in my bedroom. That's where I watch most of my television. I have two 3t TiVo Roamio OTA DVRs attached to that television harvesting great programming (Blue Bloods, Hill Street Blues, House, Hunter, JAG, Monk, Nash Bridges, NYPD Blue, Rizzoli & Isles, and The Closer) all day long. When I get a chance to upgrade the other three Roamios, I will have 15TB of archived programming. As long as TiVo's service is running, these programs will be available on any television with a Roamio or Mini in tow. Even after TiVo quits, the shows will still be playable on a directly attached television. There is a 32" LED on top of my refrigerator. Most of the time I am in the kitchen, my back is to that set. I have a 10" Echo Show on the counter between the sink and stove. Besides maintaining my shopping list, answering my landline, acting as an intercom, converting measurements, playing music, and serving up recipes, the Echo Show plays over the air television via my Amazon Recast whole house DVR. I have another 10" Echo Show on my desk which does all those things too. Our family room television is probably second most used. It's a 55" TCL Roku television. Most of the time, my youngest son is planted in front of that TV with a game controller in his hands. Just the same, I've attached a 4K Fire TV Stick for the occasions when I want television on while I am doing something in that room. Last week, I watched the 'good guys at sunrise' on Heroes & Icons while I assembled a smoker. Good times. My sons' rooms each have a 55" TCL Roku TVs with 4K Fire TV Sticks attached. One of the shortcomings of the Amazon Recast is that it is limited to two concurrent streams. For the TCL TVs, I use the Fire TV Stick's Live Guide, but integrate the Sling AirTV Anywhere's over the air channels rather than the Recast's. That gives me six concurrent streams in total. Plenty even for my needs. One of the Sling AirTV Anywhere's streams can be watched outside the home. Nothing like a little live television when stuck in traffic. Plex, at my house, is still experimental. I have a Plex Pass so I can stream and record broadcast television. If ATSC 3.0 ever happens, I can add an ATSC 3.0 HdHomeRun to add 4K programming to my guide. With the Recast and Echo Shows, small screens are very portable. When I sit out on trick or treat, I set an Echo Show on the bistro table next to the bowl or candy and a glass of merlot. I can set one on a table next to my whirlpool. I can watch TV on the deck while smoking or grilling. I pay $50 per month for unlimited, uncapped, unthrottled high speed internet and $59 per year for Prime. So, $55 per month for more entertainment than I can watch.

August seems like a good time to start discussing the charts. I want...

Love your commas

MA: 43% of New COVID Cases FULLY VACCINATED | The Daily Plane Greatest risk at this time is people acting like they are immune given ample evidence to the contrary. Camping is a great way to get away, but, if you are being a tourist where you camp, take care.

from Vegas workers will put masks back on, but tourists won't have to under new rules - News Break Workers in Las Vegas and other parts of Clark County, Nevada, will have to resume wearing masks indoors but customers will not under new rules. The Clark County Commission voted Tuesday in an emergency meeting to require face coverings for all employees working indoors and around co-workers or members of the public in an increase in Covid cases driven by a more transmissible variant and a slowing vaccination rate.

You're gonna want to leave the sheep at home. You'll lose them for sure.

I love Heroes and Icons from the Good Guys at Sunrise (westerns) to JAG, Nash Bridges, House, and Monk in the afternoon, to Hill Street Blues in the wee hours. I watch Start while preparing dinner for two hours of The Closer. I also enjoy Only in America (Larry the Cable Guy) on Circle. We only pay $59 per year for Prime and I am starting to consider life without it. I cannot remember the last time I watched anything on Prime.

Gross, but yeah!

I stopped in every time I flew in or out of Dayton -- which is a lot. I was there so much that some of the people who worked at the museum recognized me. I planned a vacation around a stop there so my kids could experience the museum. We drove from New Hampshire to Hershey Pennsylvania. We camped at Hershey Park. From there, we visited Gettysburg to watch a reenactment of Picket's Charge. We did all the Hershey attractions. The day we spent in the amusement park, Billy Joel was in concert next door and they pumped the concert into the park. Then Amish Country where I learned that the plainly dressed merchants were not actually Amish. I found an actual Amish restaurant where we enjoyed a simple meal. Then we 'relaxed' in an Ohio campground where I got a ticket for picking trash up off the beach -- it turns out that trash is property of the state of Ohio and I was stealing it. Never camped in Ohio again. From there we visited the AF Museum and spent a day in Cleveland (Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame and Hard Rock Cafe). That was my second visit to Cleveland and I attest to the fact that the city is grossly underrated. NICE and HELPFUL police were more like tour guides than law enforcement ("Just follow me and I will take you to free parkiing"). Then we stopped in to Canton which was very disappointing. Then Niagara Falls (where I will get married if I marry again) and Fort Niagara). And, finally, Cooperstown -- which is spectacular. My favorite exhibit at the MLB Hall of Fame was at the very end. They had a TV looping Abbott and Costello dong 'Who's on First'. The benches were filled with little kids who were laughing out loud at the timeless skit while their parents and grandparents smiled over them.

On this Independence Day, I would like to talk about Pay TV. More specifically, my independence from Pay TV. It's been eleven years since I fired Comcast. I've saved some money, but mostly I have simply enjoyed television -- which I love -- the way I want. WHAT HAPPENED When we moved into our brand new home in 1990, the first thing I did was to call the cable company. They said installation would be about $5000 as there was not yet any cable on the new cul-de-sac. Heron suggested I work with my neighbors to split the cost. Instead, I bought an antenna and put it in my attic. As I was dragging the boxes to the bottom of my driveway, a Heron cherry picker was string cable on my street. We did not consider pay TV again until my oldest entered kindergarten in 1998. We thought it was important that he could talk about Sponge Bob Square Pants and such things with authority, so we had Dish Network installed. By 2008, Heron had been bought by Adelphia and Adelphia sold out to Comcast. We were paying for television, internet, phone, local long distance phone, and long distance phone services. When we bought our kids a PS3, we got our first HDTV and Dish wanted more money for HD boxes and a 'technology fee'. Comcast offered to provide all those services for less than $100 per month...for two years. At the end of the two years, I offered Comcast $150 per month for that service if they locked the price for life -- Comcast declined. We settled on a 'skinny' plan at a discounted rate for six months. I spent that six months planning my independence from pay TV. In 2009 I purchased an OOMA hub from Best Buy for $210. My Comcast bill said I was paying $50 per month for phone service, so my break even point would be five months. When I cancelled my Comcast VOIP, my bill only decreased $5 per month as the 'triple play' discount almost entirely offset my VOIP charge. In January of 2010, I purchased a DB8 antenna from Amazon. In February of 2010, we lost power for more than a week! I had a generator, so we had heat, hot showers, and other necessities, but we were without internet and tv. I hung the DB8 from the rafters in my attic and snaked a coax cable from the antenna to a television in my bedroom. Just like that, we had FREE TV! When power was restored, my family started watching Comcast again...I didn't. I left the television in my bedroom connected to the antenna. By 2010 Comcast had begun the shift to 'digital tv'. This change compelled me to replace old CRTs with HDTVs. In 2010, Comcast began moving 'premium' channels (including HD locals) to channels that required a set top box. One day in March, my oldest asked me to put his TV on the antenna. His younger brother ('Me Too') asked for the antenna as well. By April of 2010, only our living room TV was using Comcast. After reviewing the recordings on the DVR, we decided we did not need one. In May, we cut the cord. It took us about a week to figure out we used a DVR for more than recording unwatched shows. All of a sudden, we had to choose between a phone call and tv. We had to 'hold it' until the next commercial. We actually had to PLAN dinner around TV. Worst of all, we had to rely on TV stations and the news for instant replay and slow motion. So the quest for 'time shifted TV' began. I was SHOCKED to learn that an 'all-in' TiVo cost $800. I looked at PC based options like MythTV, XBMC, and Windows Media Center. All of these were too expensive, too much work, and low WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor). I stumbled across an Echostar DTVPal on Ebay. There were a lot of these recently discontinued OTA DVRs and I snagged one for less than $200. Within hours of receiving my DTVPal, I was back on Ebay looking for a second. Eventually, we had one on each of our five televisions. My wife and kids loved the DTVPal as it worked just like the Dish DVR we had before Comcast. I loved the price. Five cost only a little more than one 'all-in' Tivo. I still only pay $50/month for unlimited, unthrottled, high speed internet. From time to time, I check out Xfinity prices. It would cost me close to $200 per month to service my nine televisions. Regardless, using my 'lifetime offer' or $150 per month as a benchmark, I figure I saved $100 per month for 134 months or $13,400 overall. I've spent about half that on infrastructure and set top devices, but I am very happy with the results. WHAT FREETV IS LIKE At my house, this is what is on TV... WBZ: CBS programming including AFC football games Start TV: CAGNEY AND LACEY, THE CLOSER, COLD CASE, CROSSING JORDAN, DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN, FAMILY LAW, GHOST WHISPERER, THE GOOD WIFE, IN PLAIN SIGHT, MEDIUM, NASHVILLE, RIZZOLI & ISLES, SUE THOMAS: F.B.EYE, TOUCHED BY AN ANGEL, UNFORGETTABLE DABL: Martha Stewart Living (Everyday Baking, Everyday Food, Martha Stewart Living weekend, Martha weekdays), Escape to the Country, Emeril Live, Essence of Emeril, Home Again with Bob Vila, Jamie's 30-Minute Meals, Jamie's 15-Minute Meals, Kitchen Nightmares, You Gotta Eat Here!, Doctor & The Diva, CityLine, The Living Room, Sell This House, Flip This House, Flipping Boston, Flipping San Diego, Cesar 911, In the Kitchen With David, Pet Project, Pick A Puppy, San Diego Zoo FAVE TV: Run's House, The Jamie Foxx Show, The Wayans Bros., Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team, Auction Hunters, Bar Rescue, The Challenge, Punk'd, T.I. & Tiny: The Family Hustle WCVB: ABC programming MeTV: The Abbott and Costello Show, Adam-12, The Addams Family, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Andy Griffith Show, Barnaby Jones, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Big Valley, Bonanza, The Brady Bunch, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Bugs Bunny and Friends, Cannon, The Carol Burnett Show, Columbo, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Donna Reed Show, Dragnet, The Best of the Ed Sullivan Show, The Flintstones, The Fugitive, Gilligan's Island, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Green Acres, Gunsmoke, Happy Days, Have Gun - Will Travel, Highway Patrol, Hogan's Heroes, The Honeymooners, In the Heat of the Night, The Invaders, The Invisible Man, The Jetsons, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, Land of the Giants, Leave It to Beaver, Lost in Space, The Love Boat, The Lucy Show, M*A*S*H, Mama's Family, Mannix, Matlock, Maverick, Mission: Impossible, Mr. Lucky, My Three Sons, Perry Mason, Peter Gunn, Petticoat Junction, Popeye and Pink Panther's Party, The Powers of Matthew Star, Rawhide, The Rifleman, Saved by the Bell, Star Trek, Svengoolie, The Three Stooges, The Time Tunnel, The Tom & Jerry Show, Toon In With Me, The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Wagon Train, The Waltons, Wanted Dead or Alive WHDH: Independent local programming and actual local news. ThisTV: Mostly movies plus The Avengers, The Saint, In the Heat of the Night, Sea Hunt, Bat Masterson, Mackenzie's Raiders, Awesome Adventures, E/I, Get Wild at the San Diego Zoo E/I, Whaddyado E/I, Wild About Animals E/I, Wild World at the San Diego Zoo E/I WMUR: ABC programming WENH: Main NHPBS programming / PBS, Explore, World, Create, PBS Kids WBTS: NBC programming Cozi TV: Charlie's Angels, Columbo, Emergency!, Frasier, Highway to Heaven, Little House on the Prairie, Murder, She Wrote, My Favorite Martian, Roseanne, Smell-a-Vision, Starsky & Hutch, The Bionic Woman, The Munsters, The Nanny, The Office, The Six Million Dollar Man, Will & Grace WFXT: Fox programming including NFC football games LAFF: According to Jim, Grace Under Fire, Home Improvement, How I Met Your Mother, Night Court, That '70s Show, he Bernie Mac Show, World's Funniest Videos: Top 10 Countdown** WSBK: Two and a Half Men, Impractical Jokers, Bloodline Detectives, The World Is Yours, The Coolest Places on Earth, The King of Queens, The Young Icons, Justice With Judge Mablean, Cooking with Emeril, The People's Court, Judge Judy, Divorce Court, Judge Mathis, Friends, 2 Broke Girls, black-ish, The Big Bang Theory, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Seinfeld Heroes & Icons: STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, WONDER WOMAN, ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN, BATMAN, BAYWATCH, BLACK SHEEP SQUADRON, COMBAT!, CSI: CYBER, THE DEAD ZONE, THE DISTRICT, THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, THE GREEN HORNET, HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL, THE HIGH CHAPARRAL, HILL STREET BLUES, HOUSE, JAG, LANCER, MACGYVER, MARTIAL LAW, MAVERICK, MONK, MUTANT X, NASH BRIDGES, NUMB3RS, THE PRETENDER, THE RAT PATROL, RAWHIDE, RENEGADE, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES, STAR TREK: VOYAGER, TOUR OF DUTY, 12 O'CLOCK HIGH, THE UNTOUCHABLES, WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE Comet: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, DUST, NIGHT GALLERY, QUANTUM LEAP, SLIDERS, STARGATE SG-1, THE OUTER LIMITS, THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER, THE X-FILES Charge: CSI: MIAMI, KNIGHT RIDER, CHIPS, MAGNUM, P.I., HUNTER Circle: The Dailey & Vincent Show, Opry, Bonanza, Coffee, Country and Cody, Chasing Down Madison Brown, The Patty Duke Show, Hee Haw, Soundstage, Phil Vassar's Songs From the Cellar, The Jeff Foxworthy Show, Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, Fury, The Lone Ranger, Petticoat Junction, Ditty TV Concert Series, Authentic America, The Southern Weekend, Landmarks: The Stages of Country Music, Circle Country Countdown, Talking in Circles with Clint Black, Better Half, Rusty's Rockfeast, Circle Sessions, Gospel According to Al Green, Outdoor America, THE WRITE STUFF, Austin City Limits, AMERICAN MUSIC SPOTLIGHT, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, CMA SONGWRITERS, F-Troop, On The Road, OPRY DOCS, STAND UP NASHVILLE!, SOUNDSTAGE WLVI: The CW programming Buzzr: Blockbusters, Body Language, Card Sharks, Concentration, Classic, Concentration, Family Feud, Match Game, Match Game PM, Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, Now You See It, Password, Password Plus, Super Password, Million Dollar Password, Press Your Luck, The Price Is Right, Sale of the Century, Supermarket Sweep, Tattletales, To Tell the Truth, What's My Line? ION: Blue Bloods, Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Criminal Minds, Hawaii Five-0, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, NCIS: LA, NCIS: New Orleans Bounce: Family Time, Grown Folks, In the Cut, Last Call, Mann & Wife, Syndicated, A Different World, The Bernie Mac Show, Catch 21, Everybody Hates Chris, The Game, Greenleaf, Judge Faith, Judge Joe Brown, Law & Order, Living Single, Moesha, The Newlywed Game, One on One, The Real (day-after repeats), Scandal, The Wendy Williams Show (day-after repeats), Without a Trace GetTV: Charlie's Angels, Hart to Hart, Fantasy Island, Tomorrow's World, Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, Hondo, Laredo, Casey Jones, Bret Maverick, Walker, Texas Ranger, Starsky & Hutch, Good Times, Paradise, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, All in the Family Grit TV: eath Valley Days, Laramie, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, and Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre Mystery: Crime Stories, CSI Miami, Forensic Files, Scandal, It Takes a Killer, American Greed, American Greed: The Fugitives, The First 48, The FBI Files, Unsolved Mysteries TrueReal: Wahlburgers, Intervention, I Survived…, Gene Simmons Family Jewelsl, Storage Wars, Married at First Sight, Hoarders, and Little Women: LA. *** Defy: Pawn Stars, Forged in Fire, American Pickers, The Curse of Oak Island, Ice Road Truckers, Alone, Dog The Bounty Hunter, Ax Men, Swamp People and Counting Cars WHAT I HAVE SPENT MY MONEY ON I have nine televisions and nine Echo Shows. I watch television on all of these for FREE. I have televisions and Shows in every room of my home. I don't watch television on all of these very often, but I like to watch when I am on the elliptical machine or soaking in the whirlpool or even sitting on my deck. If you sleep over my house, chances are your bedroom will include a 55" HDTV. I have 4K FireTV Sticks on all of my televisions (many of which are TCL Roku TVs) as well as five TiVo Roamio OTAs and two TiVo Minis. Collectively, the TiVos have about 10t of storage and you can watch shows on any TiVo from any television equipped with a Roamio or Mini.. We can talk about the venerable Echo Show next month, but, with regard to television, the Shows stream over-the-air programming from an Amazon Recast DVR. I have a Show between the stove and sink in my kitchen. When I sit outside for Trick or Treat, I set one on a bistro table at the top of my driveway. The Recast has four tuners, one terabyte of storage, and supports two concurrent streams. It integrates streaming services and broadcast tv in a single, grid style program guide. I have four 55" 4K TCL Roku televisions (one for each bedroom). These are the VERY BEST televisions for 'cord cutters'. For starters, the TV has a magical USB port. Not only does it meet power requirements of the 4L Fire TV Stick (another cord cut?), but if you plug a 16GB USB stick into it, it can play media from the stick or set up a two hour buffer on the stick. Once that buffer is set up, the TCL Roku television can pause, rewind, or fast forward through two hours of broadcast television. Pretty slick, right? If your phone rings, you have to pee, or dinner is ready, TCL has your back. The TCL Roku televisions support PSIP data. PSIP data is programming information sent in the broadcast stream. The data is stored on the television and used to populate a grid style guide. That means, 1) you do not need to connect the television to the internet for a program guide, 2) you do not have to pay for a guide service (TiVo), and 3) you do not need to worry about your provider going out of business (Simple TV). The TCL Roku television has a Roku built in. If you decide to plug your television into the internet, the Roku provides access to a lot of free and for fee streaming content (maybe we can talk about that in September). Finally, the TCL Roku televisions can be programmed to remember the last used input at power on. No need to search for the right HDMI input. Most of the time, I watch television on a TiVo Roamio/OTA. I have five of these and am in the process of upgrading each to 3t. I carefully select programming to record on each to facilitate the whole of them as a 10t program and movie archive. I would not pay $800 for any set top box. I got my first three for $300 (May of 2015x2 and August of 2015) each with the 'all in' service. I added the last two (November of 2016 and November of 2017) at $200 each with 'all in'. The two Minis are attached to less used televisions. The Minis are supposed to be wired, but I find they work fine using ethernet over premise wiring. TiVo requires an internet connection at least once every two weeks to function. I do not think TiVo will be in the set top DVR business for long. I do not expect them to release an ATSC 3.0 set top DVR. I do not expect them to pull the plug on their service any time soon and broadcasters are required to simulcast ATSC 1.0 for five years after transitioning to ATSC 3.0. I can live with that. To date, I have had the five TiVos for a total of 316 months with a cost per month per TiVo of $4.11. I have a couple SiliconDust HDHomeRuns. I bought these to add Live TV to my Plex server. I mostly use them to point, monitor, and maintain my antennas. These could be my ATSC 3.0 solution as additional ATSC 3.0 (already available) could be integrated into my existing infrastructure. I have a Sling AirTV Anywhere DVR. I got it on the cheap and like the way it integrates OTA with their streaming services. Only use it to stream my antenna outside my home. I got a TabloTV DVR on the cheap as well. This is the very best whole house DVR for those who do not want to stream. TabloTV requires a service (monthly, annual, or lifetime) to access premium features and requires internet access to work even without the service. WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR MONEY ON Maybe Comcast. If your taste in television aligns with Comcast's programming, you may be better off paying them for what you want. If you are also paying for cell phones, a security system, and other Comcast bolt on services, you may find their total cost is not much different that what you could get by wheeling and dealing and doing a lot of work yourself. If you are not good at troubleshooting and maintaining a home network, streaming media infrastructure, and other such things, maybe it's worth an extra hundred bucks a month for 'a guy' who will take of those things for you. On the other hand, if you would like to declare your independence from cable bills, start at http://TitanTV.com. Set up a guide for antenna reception for your zip code and see if you are satisfied with available programming. Then head over to RabbitEars.Info and enter your location. I like to stand at the location where I plan to install an antenna and use a compass app on my phone to get the longitude and latitude and use longitude and latitude to create a study. If your study and programming are favorable, it's time to choose an antenna. The best antenna for you will be one that receives the stations you want. Antennas are not HD or Digital. They are designed to collect radio signals at specific frequencies. In the case of television VHF-low (ch. 2-6), VHF-high (ch. 7-13), and UHF. You can purchase an antenna that receives all three, but those are large and expensive. In my case, combining a VHF-high antenna pointed northwest and a UHF (ch. > 13) antenna pointed south, I was able to receive stations from two directions without rotating the antenna. If you have multiple televisions or plan unattended recording, this might be important to you. This is a good time to join AVS Forum and ask your neighbors to recommend an antenna (Local HDTV Info and Reception | AVS Forum). Most cord cutters I know simply install an antenna and run a cable to a television. Some just put one of the mud flap antennas on the wall or in a window. Some install a bigger antenna in the attic or on the roof. You can still buy rabbit ears that sit on each television. This is TRULY FREE TV and is, in my humble opinion, a great place to start. Invest $200 in an antenna and a coax cable and see what you get. That is how I started out. If your televisions are not digital, you will need a digital to analog converter. For most people, I would recommend replacing the television. Low cost sets from Hisense and TCL will provide a huge improvement in your viewing experience for just a little more than a converter. Black Friday is only five months away. If you run a rabbitears study and need some help picking an antenna, post or pm a link to the study. I'm pretty good at sorting things out. Happy Independence Day