werkkrew
13-05-2013, 08:12 PM
Hello All -
Some years ago I was pretty heavy into the DirecTV scene and had all the equipment and knowledge I needed to enjoy DirecTV at home for free. As I am sure most of you know, that became more and more ***bersome as the years went on and once I couldn't get a card to stay active for more than a few hours, I gave up.
Now, I am trying to convince my wife that we should cancel our cable subscription which is costing us well over $100/month in favor of going back to satellite and I am hoping I have come to the right place to find the information I need. I am really out of date with the scene and how everything works now so I have no idea where to even begin.
Before I start posting around the forums with a bunch of noob questions, can anyone help point me in the direction of how I would develop a solution which might look something like this:
I have two beefy media center PC's, one in the living room and one in the bedroom. One runs OSX the other runs Linux - both us XBMC as the HTPC front-end. Currently I only use them for downloaded or streamed media. I download all stuff to my NAS box (Synology) and have it all shared over NFS.
Now that XBMC has pretty good Live TV integration I am basically looking for the most up-to-date solution for me to ditch paid cable and switch to free satellite (be it free to air or card sharing, etc) where I can be using XBMC as the frontend for watching TV (as opposed to a set top box).
In my initial research it seems like I would use something like tvheadend/oscam on my Linux box and some sort of IPTV capable receiver and I could use my HTPC's to watch live tv without needing STB's on every TV. PVR/DVR support is not a priority.
Can anyone who actually reads these introduction threads attempt to point me in the right direction of what equipment I would need and what sort of solution I could develop for essentially ditching paid cable entirely but still allow my wife and family to enjoy live television through our existing media centers?
I am extremely tech savvy so it can be complicated to set up and run, but the end-user experience should be pretty smooth so I don't have my wife bitching that we ditched cable, spent a few hundred bucks on satellite equipment and she wishes we still had cable :/
For what its worth we only really watch a handful of paid cable channels.
If anyone can help point me in the right direction I would sincerely appreciate it. I'd rather not start posting noob questions in the wrong forum sections if I can avoid it!
Some years ago I was pretty heavy into the DirecTV scene and had all the equipment and knowledge I needed to enjoy DirecTV at home for free. As I am sure most of you know, that became more and more ***bersome as the years went on and once I couldn't get a card to stay active for more than a few hours, I gave up.
Now, I am trying to convince my wife that we should cancel our cable subscription which is costing us well over $100/month in favor of going back to satellite and I am hoping I have come to the right place to find the information I need. I am really out of date with the scene and how everything works now so I have no idea where to even begin.
Before I start posting around the forums with a bunch of noob questions, can anyone help point me in the direction of how I would develop a solution which might look something like this:
I have two beefy media center PC's, one in the living room and one in the bedroom. One runs OSX the other runs Linux - both us XBMC as the HTPC front-end. Currently I only use them for downloaded or streamed media. I download all stuff to my NAS box (Synology) and have it all shared over NFS.
Now that XBMC has pretty good Live TV integration I am basically looking for the most up-to-date solution for me to ditch paid cable and switch to free satellite (be it free to air or card sharing, etc) where I can be using XBMC as the frontend for watching TV (as opposed to a set top box).
In my initial research it seems like I would use something like tvheadend/oscam on my Linux box and some sort of IPTV capable receiver and I could use my HTPC's to watch live tv without needing STB's on every TV. PVR/DVR support is not a priority.
Can anyone who actually reads these introduction threads attempt to point me in the right direction of what equipment I would need and what sort of solution I could develop for essentially ditching paid cable entirely but still allow my wife and family to enjoy live television through our existing media centers?
I am extremely tech savvy so it can be complicated to set up and run, but the end-user experience should be pretty smooth so I don't have my wife bitching that we ditched cable, spent a few hundred bucks on satellite equipment and she wishes we still had cable :/
For what its worth we only really watch a handful of paid cable channels.
If anyone can help point me in the right direction I would sincerely appreciate it. I'd rather not start posting noob questions in the wrong forum sections if I can avoid it!