So if I buy this I will get live local and cable stations along with live sports, football and baseball?
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Not much local stations, seems to be radum major stations ABC, CBS,ect. around the U.S. You do get a lot of shows from HBO Showtime, ect. I mean a lot! But make sure befor you buy one that you have a very strong wifi provider, I learned the faster the wifi the better the quality, and will not buffer as much.
1585526
Yes u will i just saw the mma and wrestling pay per view over the weekend and my friend has one too and he's always watching the sports games that aren't on locally
1585527
I am very disappointed w my digitstream. Nothing is easy w it and despite 50 attempts to watch movies we have been able to view 3. Consistent error messages of one type or another. You know you got duped when their cust. Service consists of telling you to go to you tube for help. Waste of money.
1585528
I sent mine back. Don't know if I got a bad box but Digistream gave back a full refund.
1727284
We get by on Apple TV, Netflix, and OTA antenna for sports and seem to be just fine purchasing the individual shows we want to watch. We've never spent more in one month than we used to pay for cable, and that includes the $50/month broadband bill. I will tell you that you can't buy HGTV programming through iTunes or any other way that we've been able to find, much to my wife's dismay.
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As long as you don't want to listen to live sports broadcasts you can get most local radio stations with a few seconds delay from the over the air broadcasts - but many sports events will be blacked out. I can get some college football games via the Internet feed of my local stations. NO MLB WHATSOEVER. Why they didn't include a cheap AM/FM tuner built into this thing is a mystery. I can get radio stations that play Euro-disco from Poland but I can't listen to a local baseball game? Umm, OK. A classic case of technology giving us what we don't need and failing to provide what we do. I'm sure the nerds who work on this stuff don't think about sports though. As long as you don't want to listen to live sports broadcasts you can get most local radio stations with a few seconds delay from the over the air broadcasts - but many sports events will be blacked out. I can get some college football games via the Internet feed of my local stations. NO MLB WHATSOEVER. Why they didn't include a cheap AM/FM tuner built into this thing is a mystery. I can get radio stations that play Euro-disco from Poland but I can't listen to a local baseball game? Umm, OK. A classic case of technology giving us what we don't need and failing to provide what we do. I'm... » Read More As long as you don't want to listen to live sports broadcasts you can get most local radio stations with a few seconds delay from the over the air broadcasts - but many sports events will be blacked out. I can get some college football games via the Internet feed of my local stations. NO MLB WHATSOEVER. Why they didn't include a cheap AM/FM tuner built into this thing is a mystery. I can get radio stations that play Euro-disco from Poland but I can't listen to a local baseball game? Umm, OK. A classic case of technology giving us what we don't need and failing to provide what we do. I'm sure the nerds who work on this stuff don't think about sports though. « Show Less
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Howdy Ron, If the company you deal with already gives you local channels then you can receve them, but only if you stay in you local area for reception. Meaning for example if you live and receive local service in the Philadelphia pa. area and you travel to Virginia, or anywhere outside you local service area, you'll not be able to receive any local service no matter what. I hope i've been of some help. I know this to be fact as I've tried from all over the U.S.. If you leave you home local service you'll not receive the local stations....that's the bottom line! Thanks! Carl
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I have Time Warner Cable and all that is included. Otherwise see if there is a CNN or Fox News mobile app that you can access
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Yes you can. But you'll need the appropriate app like sports devil, to get the live game. Check out tvaddons.ag for more info on the forums.
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From what I can gather, you still have to pay for the channels and a card. This only allows you to stream to all the other devises in your house without having to pay the cable co for other boxes.
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I bought the Football and Baseball devices for my parents. The company discontinued broadcasting the Baseball scores, so the thing became a paperweight. Not sure about football. My bet is that the company did not sell enough of these cool devices to make business sense. Good luck.
63529
No, this is ONLY OTA (over the air) with an antenna to pickup local digital broadcast signals e.g. ABC, ABC, NBC etc.
2188721
It has a digital tuner, so you can hook this directly to an antenna and pick up local over the air HD channels
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It is for the antenna hook up, with a decent antenna you can get 15-30 local channels in high definition.
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Unless you are on cable or satellite, you will need an antenna for Over-The-Air local broadcasts. Just like any TV. If you have strong local channels, a simple rabbit ears will probably work fine.
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If you don't want cable TV anymore just pick up a digital hd antenna $12 to $50 avg. To pick up local stations...a converter box is not necessary
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I use mine indoors and got rid of cable. I get local news and weather along with the PBS stations. I'm not a big T.V. watcher so the 14 stations I pick up that speak english work out well for me,
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Any channels picked up by an over the air antenna are going to be your local stations..........CBS, ABC, NBC, maybe FOX, etc. It will NOT pick up anything like ESPN, CNN, etc. as these are cable or satellite channels. It will also pick up your local PBS channels. I live in a fringe area and get 14 local channels with a different version of the same antenna. If you want more than just your locals, you probably need to get something like a Roku and use your internet. But for basic, local channels......this cannot be beat. Hope this helps.
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I'm using DirecTV with mine so I'm not sure if you'll require an antenna to receive the local channel feed.
228238
I also get local channels from Dish. This unit will still get any off air channels within range including the ones on dish