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#1 2024-05-20 21:43:39
- Jefferson
- Completely Blotto
- From: East Coast, USA
- Registered: 2006-12-03
- Posts: 454
TV Subscription
We recently "cut the cord," stopping our Xfinity TV subscription. We have wifi and a number of streaming services.
However, there are a small handful of shows I would like to be able to watch that stream, but that require a TV subscription in order to do so. Does anyone out there know a way around this? Someone should offer a TV subscription service for $1 a month that doesn't actually provide any TV, it just gives someone like me a place to say "yeah, I've got a TV subscription here!" If anyone has a work-around, hopefully legal, please let me know.
Thank you.
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#2 2024-05-21 12:42:35
- Eric Storm
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- From: New Port Richey, FL
- Registered: 2006-09-12
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Re: TV Subscription
Yeah, what you're suggesting wouldn't work. The streaming services that are like that require you to have a cable subscription to the channel the show appears on, specifically, not just "any cable subscription".
The workaround (if there is one) would depend entirely on the networks/shows involved.
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#3 2024-07-09 00:29:16
- Dadrepus
- Wasted
- Registered: 2023-01-11
- Posts: 136
Re: TV Subscription
If you have a mobile phone account, check there for free add-ons. We have Verizon mobile which gave us Free Disney, Hulu and ESPN. If you buy through Amazon and you are a Prime member then you have access to all they offer.
If you’re like me then you use Plex and related software and then torrent all the shows you want (with a VPN). I also have an Antenna on the roof with a Rotor (thanks to ebay and radio shack) to pull in all the local channels which I save to our 2 TIVO’s, which you can find on the cheap on your local Craigslist but make sure you get one with lifetime service. It is transferrable.
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