Direct TV turn off date

2oldman wrote:
No, I almost never never have outages. Only torrential rain can do that, and that's extremely rare.

Can I stream CNN, Jeopardy (ABC), Id channel, MGM movies, Smithsonian and TNTHD? Can I record shows?

Yes, you can do all of that. recording might require an account like sling. We pay $25/mo for that. What sling doesn't offer you can find elsewhere. As far as recording - on demand is just that. No need to record something if it's available anytime you want.

On a firestick there are apps you can load that allow you access to literally anything- movies-tv - anything. It's open source programs that basically builds an app around web searches you'd do one-off. You can you tube how to do it. Granted not all of it is live. Sometimes content isn't available until 1-24 hours after it aired. That was a tough concept for me to get over. But I finally got over it. I mean if you record a show it's no longer live anymore right? And the added bonus, most of the time there are no commercials or you can ffd through them.

Streaming does sometimes require some poking around to find what you want. It's not packaged, but that's the point. I was tired of paying almost $100/month for cable only to have them almost double that after the introductory rate. I also had about 90% of the channels I was paying for that I never watched. Now I pay about $30/month and get what I want whenever I want it and pay nothing for channels I don't want. Add to that it's totally portable and easy.