Thursday, April 15, 2010

Dropping cable

I have wanted to drop cable for some time because we just don't watch very much TV anymore. My plan was to be able to use my wife's laptop to watch shows on Hulu if there were any shows we still wanted to watch like 30 Rock and The Office.

We have Netflix and a Roku streaming box, which is nice because we pretty much only watch movies these days. However, I like soccer and I don't have a good way to watch the Sounders without cable.

I live in Lacey, WA which is about over 40 miles from the antenna which is in the Seattle area. I don't get KONG6 over the air, which has most of the Sounders games. I then discovered MLS Matchday Live which costs $39 to stream a lot of MLS games. The problem here is that they have local blackouts, so I can't watch the sounders games here either.

I feel like I'm stuck, but maybe once we buy a place, I can mount a big antenna and get over the air signals and use Windows Media Center as a DVR.

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