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Episode: 1071
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Title: HPR1071: How I Cut The Cable Cord: My Settup
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1071/hpr1071.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-17 18:26:48
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Hello Hacker Public Radio, Brockton Bob here.
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Today's podcast is the audio from a video I made about my setup for how I cut the cable
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cord.
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This video was uploaded to YouTube and I'll put the link to it in the show notes.
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This video shows my over-the-air antenna, its hook-up, and the set-top box as I use.
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I also explained the play-on software and how to use it.
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So please take a look at the video, I think it will help with your setup.
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Hello Hacker Public Radio, YouTube, my friends Ron, Donald, Bill and Steve.
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This is my video on how I cut the cable cord.
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I'm going to show you from start to end on how I did it.
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This saved me over $100 a month and right now, having this over 3 months, I paid for everything
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I bought.
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So let's start with the beginning.
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Beginning is my bow tie antenna.
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If you see my bow tie antenna, I have it on a bracket so I can move it around and get
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a better signal.
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And there we have our CA signal amplifier and this is hooked to my TV.
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Now on the hook to the TV, I have the NetCare EVA 2000 and, let's see if you can see it
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over here, the Roku box.
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With these two boxes, I can watch just about anything.
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Now with the NetCare box, it's hooked to a computer running Windows XP.
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That's the only Windows computer I have in this house.
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The reason I have that is because I'm running play on software.
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Play on software is created by a medium-all software company.
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So let's see how this runs.
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I have it set on TV right now, I get my remote and as you can see, this is antenna.
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Just a clear.
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I can switch channels, let's see.
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This is high-death crystal clear over the air.
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Okay now I'm going to switch to my boxes.
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I'm going to go to my play on box, okay, this is my play on box, here I have my remote.
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And now I'm on my play on software box.
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This is server software running on the Windows XP machine.
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I'm going to hit my collection, go to my network, and there you see play on on my compact
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computer.
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Now a play on tons of plugins, plugins galore, Hulu Netflix, HBO Go, Amazon, VOD,
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NBC, Comedy Centro, TV.com, let's go to TV.com, it takes a little while for this to load,
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but you can wait a few seconds, it doesn't hurt anything, okay, we'll see all shows.
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Let's see, look at all the TV shows you have.
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Let's go back up, let's see, we'll pick something, I like CSI, New York.
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Like I say, it takes a few seconds to load because it's running on the network, picking
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an episode.
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So these boxes are both wired to my router, and this is running off my Windows XP machine.
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We're in the commercial right now.
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Okay, so let me get out of this, and what I want to do is, this is my NetGaer EVA2
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3000, okay, running play on software, off my Windows XP machine, let's see, only Windows
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machine I have, I usually use Linux, like I say, all the plugins you can get, tons of
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stuff, tons of stuff, movies, this is Crackle, last drag, and I need to crackle it,
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crackle it as commercials, but oh no, it's pretty good, like I say, it takes a few seconds
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to load because it is running on a server, another commercial, but you see the quality,
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I have the sound turned on on the TV so you can hear me instead of the TV, okay, it's
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getting ready to load, there you go, the movie starting, this is on the NetGaer box, hard
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wired to my router, this is on my Windows XP, Windows XP machine, running play on software
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from MediaMole software, MediaMole software, I paid $39 for the lifetime subscription
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and key, the EVA2000, I got for $49, and the Roku box, I got for $69, and the three months
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I've had, this hookup, I've paid for everything, the cost of cable would have been over $300
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for three months, so at least there you see the movie, I'm going to get out of this, my
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assistance is walking around here, okay, so now I'm going to go to back to, now I'm going
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to go to my Roku box, okay, there you go, grab my remote, I have Roku plugged into the network
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and there you go, see if I can get a better shot of him, we're going to go to Hulu Plus, I
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have Net, I have Hulu Plus and Netflix for a total of $15, $98 a month, that's what my
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cost is, $15.98 a month, I have already paid for everything, it's loading an episode of
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the game, I'm going to turn up the volume just a little, look at the picture quality,
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I mean you have to put up with commercials, but this commercial is on cable, you know, so,
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you see the picture quality, I'm recording this in 720p,
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the sound is beautiful, the picture is beautiful, I mean it went episode of Roku,
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so I can switch back forth, I'll use my remote, if I don't want this, I can go back to home on my Roku box,
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I can go to Netflix, pick something there, Netflix is loading, this is one of my
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wife's favorite television programs, it's a British show called Cash in the Attic, she
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loves this program, always playing an episode of this, this is hooked to my network route,
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the Roku box comes with wireless, it'll do up to wireless end, but I like hard wire,
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one of my wife's favorite programs,
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and with the Roku box you get the channel store, you can pick all kinds of programs,
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Netflix, Hulu, Crackle, Pandora, and this is how you pick, you go to the channel store and you pick,
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most of them, there's a lot of paid and there's a ton of free, so there's even a
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adult channel right here, free, and then with this you can connect to your play on
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software also, there's a plug-in for that, finding the network, look at this, what's new,
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you can play Hulu, Netflix, HBO, Amazon, all this through the Roku box too, but I
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like to go back, and I want to show you one thing about the
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Neckier EVA2000, and that is, I'm going to switch back to that,
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go back into that, okay so we're back into the EVA2000, when I hit my collections,
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I have a USB hard drive attached, and on this USB hard drive I have over 300
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gigs of movies, television shows, musicals, everything, so I'm going to do that
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and show you, I picked up the hard drive for $55 at Best Buy on Clarence, I put everything
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in the folders, I'm going to go to television, you see my shows, dirty jobs, castle,
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I movies, doom, from Paris with love, and then I like to create folders for the
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months, so I'm going to try to find a folder here with something that I just put
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on, let's see, so like I say, everything is hard wired to the router, I have one
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Windows machine that's connected to the network, running, play on software from
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a medium all, this is great, now I click on my April folder, and this some stuff
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I put in the end, CSI, New York, movie called Hair Wire, that's a great movie,
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a girl with a dragon tattoo, a mentalist, we'll try something,
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hit it,
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and there you go, get a better shot away from that,
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oh my god, this is my copy of the mentalist,
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you know, the guy in the car, I'm not going to see him at first,
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is he still alive? I don't think so, no, I mean, how could he be?
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the captions, beautiful, beautiful copy, beautiful copy, so we're going to go back,
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get out of this, go back to my TV, so that's how I did it,
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I save myself over $100 a month, I figure right now $125 a month in savings,
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my total cost for Netflix and Hulu Plus is $15.98 a month,
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I regular internet service that I've always had, is only $19.99 a month,
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so I've saved over $100 a month, my hardware that I bought for this hookup
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is already paid for in three months, so I hope this was helpful.
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