Who has dropped cable using NAS/SAN?

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DaPayne

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Ok, so I know I was an early adopter, I had a HTPC for years, have had a NAS setup for years, but now I have all Roku's/Chromecast's/XBox on the TV's and we just get OTA programming, anything from cable I want to watch I just download with my NAS setup, I am running ZFS on 4 6x4TB drive array's all into one zpool. I do keep company data on it as well and have it duplicated at my office.

Who else has went this far? Are you still using HTPC's? If so why? If I want to web surf I just goto one of my PC's I use large PC display's as well.

Also I use the following currently.

Sonarr(Download file move director)
sabnzbd(News group down loader)
Transmission(Last resort down loader)
Plex(Lifetime subscription, but open to suggestions if someone knows something better tried emby but wasn't impressed last year)

If I want movie content I do get the DVD and rip it off/encode to my storage system.

My storage system has been bullet proof for 8 years, and ZFS has went through MANY upgrades. Solaris(Original Sun Fire Thumper that was our engineering evaluation unit ended up at my house)/FreeBSD/FreeNAS/Nas4Free/FreeBSD/FreeNAS in that order, I have some snap shots that are 3+ years old right now.
 
If you are using usenet, and then storing said usenet data with your company data... you are pretty dumb.
 
I still use an HTPC for the TV in my living room. Only because I game on it though.
 
I use an HTPC. I have been using a PC to play media on large screens long before the HTPC term was coined.
Since I am down in the garage most of the time these days, I only use the HTPC setup when I go to bed.
I'll queue up a documentary or two or one of my favorite movies and watch till I fall asleep, timer on the TV will cut off the receiver and the HTPC will go to sleep 10 minutes after the last file closes.
 
The usenet data never goes upstream to the office. I own the company.
 
I've never had cable TV since I got married over 9 years ago.

Netflix and Hulu and DVDs.

Don't even have an HTPC.

Paying for cable is just a waste. Huge number of worthless channels you have to pay for in order to get a couple shows that are worth watching.

Oh yeah.. I really want 300 channels of crap I will never watch just so I can watch 1-2 shows.
 
I am getting ready to drop cable in favor of OTA plus usenet for all other shows you can't get.

WMC (OTA TV only)
Plex(plus paid mobile app for 2 devices)
sickbeard
Couch Potato
sabnzbd

I have a VPN connection so I can add shows etc from my phone. Everything is automagic I love the setup. Getting everything setup takes just a bit of time and requires some $$$ for equipment and a nice NAS/Media server but once you do it will pay its self in 2-3 years tops.
 
cyclone3d said:
I've never had cable TV since I got married over 9 years ago.

Netflix and Hulu and DVDs.

Don't even have an HTPC.

Paying for cable is just a waste. Huge number of worthless channels you have to pay for in order to get a couple shows that are worth watching.

Oh yeah.. I really want 300 channels of crap I will never watch just so I can watch 1-2 shows.
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Better than blatantly stealing it...

It's one thing to cord cut, it's another thing to cord cut and still watch the same content. You aren't really a pioneer just stealing your shows off the internet instead of paying for them.
 
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