On Sun, 22 Jan 2012, Matthew Junk wrote: > As far as ditching cable or satellite all together. I can get 32 > subchannels with a good over air antenna. In addition, with a Roku > (some TVs and DVD players will work too), I can watch Amazon on Demand, > Netflix, Hulu Plus, etc. > > Amazon on Demand is paid per movie or show. (They also have a prime > option.) > Netflix is like $8 per month. > Hulu Plus is like $8 per month. > > With this who needs cable or satellite? Exactly. We have Netflix, with streaming, a Roku, which works great (and has Linux inside) and we still have DirecTV and it costs something like $1000/year. I'm ready to dump that, but I'm pretty used to recording a lot of programming via DirecTV DVR that I can get over the air (OTA). I would like to record the OTA programs with my computer. Are many of you using MythTV? I don't know much about it. I'm thinking it would be great to have a computer-based way of programming to record TV shows, and I think MythTV does that. Do I need a special card for the computer to be able to take in digital info from an antenna? How would you recommend I get started? Mike