Watching TV from your laptop

[Vlad the Impaler]

Can someone point me in the right direction on this.

I see stuff advertised all the time for things like this yet the reviews seem to tell a different story as in "waste of money"

I am just looking to watch normal real time channels/ sports online.

Can it be done for free or is there a nominal cost involved. I hate going to some of these shady sites. Is there something I can buy at best buy or something.

 

[HarryCaray]

I can just go to directv.com and watch whatever, but obviously I pay a cable bill. I would seriously consider SlingTV though. $25ish a month for quite a few channels. That's < $1 a day.

 

[DNoonan]

Live sports is tough but slingtv as HC said should get you most of it

think they have free 7 day trial going and a couple different options in terms of channels you get

 

[slapshot]

If you know someone who has Dish with the slingbox get their login for the dish app

 

[HarryCaray]

If you know someone who has Dish with the slingbox get their login for the dish app

You don't even need a slingbox anymore per se, I can watch pretty much anything directly on the DirecTV app. My brother lives overseas and uses my login all the time without issue (I think he has to use a VPN too, HMA fo life).

 

[HarryCaray]

You don't even need a slingbox anymore per se, I can watch pretty much anything directly on the DirecTV app. My brother lives overseas and uses my login all the time without issue (I think he has to use a VPN too, HMA fo life).

I may be wrong about this. I can't remember. 99% of the time if I absolutely must watch something live and can't wait to get home to the DVR, it's sports. And I just do that on the Sunday Ticket or At Bat app, or WatchESPN app.

Slingbox would be cool though, ESPECIALLY for international travel, where most of the apps dick you.

 

[slapshot]

Sling is built into the Dish receiver

Every channel and all recordings are watchable

 

[slapshot]

And the receiver has to be on a TV nobody watches cause that's the one you are watching

 

[tatehill2000]

Live tv... can't help.. live sports.. easy..

Every normal popular TV show.. easy.

With my local Internet provider COX, I pay for the midgrade level of speed.. 50ish gigs per second,

All sports will stream now..
Front row sports is who I use Mostly..

 

[Hamilbet]

reddit streams are really good too.

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

I may get this sling tv.

It looks like I don't need anything except internet to make work? Can get 7 day free trial. May have to check it out. Before I paid Comcast $160 a month for internet/ Cable on 3 TV's but had a ton of channels. I could have gotten it cheaper though.

 

[tatehill2000]

internet for the midgrad (which is dam fast) is 70 a month for me,,,

 

[Vlad the Impaler]

Can you change packages after you sign up?

Seems to good/ cheap to be true. You could get a damn near every channel and upgrade for about $60 a month and hook it to TV to save over $100 a month

 

[patswin]

download kodi on to your pc then install a build and you can get pretty much everything for free

 

[halekulani]

i use slingtv
slingtv app also available for amazonfire tv so i have that whenever i am not using my laptop