Got the dreaded "We're improving your service" notification.

[dcalder]

After many years of using a HomeRun cable card system, I received a notice from Wave/Astound that they will no longer support cable cards at all, starting in September. They extolled the virtues of their replacement service, but I didn't see anything but more commercials, less control, more rental boxes and surveillance of every touch of my usage.

Even though I'm in the middle of 6 million metro area, I'm in a bad dead zone for all over the air stations but one Spanish language channel. Even a 30 ft pole mounted antenna on the roof barely brought in a few more channels. A storm took that plus the guide wires took that down (I get bad wind here).

So unless I want to give into their manipulation to use their cable equipment and their anointed streaming apps, it appears I only have internet only subscription streaming access as a choice, with just as much noise and monitoring of what/how I watch.

Since I'm apparently starting from scratch, is there any recommendation on how to build a Homerun app based system in these circumstanced. Or is anything coming up that I should hold off for?

Seems to me the near equivalent would be to have the broadcast station's live tv app set up to kick on, using the current tv guide service we now use, to record the scheduled show for later viewing on the HomeRun app. This may required paying for the individual broadcast station's apps and more ISP data, but it would be worth it to me to pay, even if a bit more than I do now with cable, to avoid the cable TV industry completely (except for the broadband internet that would be required).

I've shut down cable TV for years before I found HD Homerun, so I know I can survive without. That seems to be the direction I'm heading. I've got a nice library of books that I need to get through.

Thanks so much for the years of features that actually gave me control and saved countless hours of mind numbing dreck that comes with most services.

Dave

[SpencerC]

Look into youtube.tv. That is probably the direction I will be going in once Xfinity/Comcast cuts off my cablecard. This doesn't just affect my HDHomeRun, it also affects my Tivo's. Sigh.