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Does anyone know where I can find a list of what channels I would be able to get? Is it dependent on what state you're in?
It works with a TV tuner, so it's dependent on the channels broadcasting in your area. You can use TVFool[0] to see estimated channel strength in your specific location. [0] http://tvfool.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29
I have both an OTA tuner and a CableCARD tuner. I don't really watch TV, but Comcast did the thing where it's cheaper to buy TV than to not, and I figured I'd rather have a CableCARD in a HDHomeRun box somewhere on my network instead of a set-top box in my living room.
Plex found my 120-odd cable channels, found all my broadcast channels, and it assembled a cohesive program guide with everything that I could conceivably watch with cover art and program descriptions and everything. I didn't have to register with any other services, or screw around with anything outside Plex itself. It just works™; took maybe 15 minutes to go from "Plex" to "Plex is recording stuff".
My favorite feature is something I hooked up yesterday -- automated commercial removal via a postprocessing script that invokes https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip.
Net is that anyone in my household can say "I want to watch this show", Plex will record it, strip ads, and make it available on any device, and it wasn't even a pain to set up. I'm quite happy.
The original title "#$%@ it! We’ll do it live!" is a reference to Bill O'Reilly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_HyZ5aW76c
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OP said it was for people who "find it hard to get away from TV for reasons like the live channels (sports)"... To me that doesn't mean the free over the air channels that occasionally show sports. But hey, that's me.
Sports is probably the only reason I bothered to mount an OTA antenna in my attic. I don't get cable or satellite, nor do I watch any TV shows, but the quality of HD sports with an OTA antenna is great, and it's live. I can't imagine I'm the only one. Sports is pretty much the only thing I can't get from iTunes or streaming.
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Except sports channels are not over the air and thus won't work with this...
The Plex DVR works with cable too-- get a HDHomerun Prime and slot in a cablecard. Of course some cableTV providers (Time-Warner/Spectrum in particular) mark every program with CCI 0x02 "copy-once" DRM, and very few DVRs other than TiVo and Windows Media Center (RIP) allow you to record that due to standard cable company evil.
Edit: I just saw their Supported DVR Devices and Antennas web page[1] and ATI isn't listed :(
Ha, neat. I just got Plex DVR running a couple days ago. I have both an OTA tuner and a CableCARD tuner. I don't really watch TV, but Comcast did the thing where it's cheaper to buy TV than to not, and I figured I'd rather have a CableCARD in a HDHomeRun box somewhere on my network instead of a set-top box in my living room. Plex found my 120-odd cable channels, found all my broadcast channels, and it assembled a coh…
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The Plex DVR works with cable too-- get a HDHomerun Prime and slot in a cablecard. Of course some cableTV providers (Time-Warner/Spectrum in particular) mark every program with CCI 0x02 "copy-once" DRM, and very few DVRs other than TiVo and Windows Media Center (RIP) allow you to record that due to standard cable company evil.
At this point you are more likely to get a response of "What's a cablecard?" or "We don't support those anymore, we have our own great DVRs now" if you ask for one from a cable company. (I heard that's part of why Microsoft dropped CableCard support in Windows 10 because the cable companies decided to not-so-quietly kill it and have made it almost impossible to get them if you don't already have one and have been slo…
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Sports is probably the only reason I bothered to mount an OTA antenna in my attic. I don't get cable or satellite, nor do I watch any TV shows, but the quality of HD sports with an OTA antenna is great, and it's live. I can't imagine I'm the only one. Sports is pretty much the only thing I can't get from iTunes or streaming.
+1 Same here. And I assume Youtube TV knows this as well as they are the only streaming service I know of pushing to include NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC local channels. "Stream live TV from ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN"
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+1 Same here. And I assume Youtube TV knows this as well as they are the only streaming service I know of pushing to include NBC, FOX, CBS, ABC local channels. "Stream live TV from ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, ESPN"
PS Vue also has local channels