- 1. Enter Our Contest: Win a Boxee Box, WDTV, or Wireless USB-to-HDMI Kit
- 2. Wireless USB to HDMI/PC-To-TV Streaming Devices
- 3. iPad to HDMI/HDTV Connectors
- 4. Accessories
- 5. D-Link Boxee Box Media Player
1. Enter Our Contest: Win a Boxee Box, WDTV, or Wireless USB-to-HDMI Kit
Enter our contest to win one of three devices to help you bring video to your HDTV...in other words, devices to help you say goodbye to the cable company.
The challenge: cancel your cable service. For some, it won't be easy.
For a while there, it looked like streaming video services were going to supplant cable and satellite providers sooner, rather than later. Not so—and not yet. The digital media revolution didn’t happen quite as fast as many of us had hoped. It still—even in late 2011—takes quite a bit of work to finagle a satisfying slate of non-Cable/Satellite viewing options, especially if you prefer to watch on a television and not a laptop. With all of the subscriptions (Hulu plus, Netflix, sports package, etc.) and gadgets you might want to buy to replace your cable channels, there’s a chance you won’t even save money canceling that cable package. However, some of us are up for a challenge, and are stubborn enough to want to prove a point: it can be done.
We’ve put together a guide to gear that can help you get started, at the very least. Click here to enter our contest to win prizes from Newegg, including a Boxee Box, an Iogear PC-to-HDTV wireless streaming device, and 1TB WD TV Live box from Western Digital.
Here are some products to pick and choose from when considering the move off the grid from cable or satellite to Internet streaming, over-the-air high-def, and other unconventional TV-watching options. Don’t forget: if you don’t go for the cable company’s “triple play” you probably don’t have a land line phone, either. Make sure to give your ear a break from talking on a cell phone by using a different kind of headset.
*If you do ditch cable or satellite service, your living room will probably not look like the one in the photo above. In fact, you'll probably have antennae and wires and boxes all over your living room for at least another five years. But you'll have beaten the system.
[Editor's Note: The contest link is live! See above. -Devin Connors, Tom's Guide]
- 1. Enter Our Contest: Win a Boxee Box, WDTV, or Wireless USB-to-HDMI Kit
- 2. Wireless USB to HDMI/PC-To-TV Streaming Devices
- 3. iPad to HDMI/HDTV Connectors
- 4. Accessories
- 5. D-Link Boxee Box Media Player
- 6. Apple TV
- 7. WDTV Live Hub Media Center
- 8. Terk HDTVa Indoor Antenna
- 9. If you miss your land-line phone
I could just be an idiot, but I didn't see where to enter the contest.
boxee + NAS sounds like a really nice combination that could be set up and used by non-techies. I've never tried boxee and my hard drive capacity needs are far higher than what I could afford in a NAS so I've got an HTPC with 3 2tb hard drives in it, and I'll soon need another drive. This solution is not for a technophobe, but windows media center is hardly difficult to control with my logitech harmony remote, especially coupled with Media Browser software.
I believe that this article is missing the link to enter the contest. I see the sentence, "Click here to enter our contest to win prizes...", but there is no link.
So many devices to stream video from the internet on one's TV, and yet I still find a home theater PC the best way to go. Who cares if Hulu is a brat about streaming to TV devices? It will still stream through a standard web browser.
I'll enter! How?
FYI, the WD Hub is very flaky. The forums are full of people with problems many of which are caused by firmware upgrades. How do I know? I'm one of them. It works great when it works. You need to pay attention to what's being upgraded with each firmware upgrade. If there's nothing you need then don't upgrade.
FYI the iogear has dropped win7 support for their wireless device. i got that from chatting with tech support.
i have it and don't use it because they do not support in anymore
Hi everyone,
Just in case you didn't see the note I left on the bottom of the first page...
[Editor's Note: So we goofed and forgot to create a contest page for the prizes in this article. We are still doing a contest for the Boxee Box, WDTV hub and USB-to-HDMI kit, but the link won't be live until tonight or very early tomorrow. We apologize for the inconvenience. -Devin Connors, Tom's Guide]
Devin Connors, Tom's Guide
The contest link is live! Check the first page of the article for details.
-Devin Connors, Tom's Guide
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All you need is a PS3, or an HTPC chances are people already have one or the other. If you dont, go out and buy one. It will cost a lot less than paying that $100+ sat bill. Think of the return on investment, 3 months worth of sat = PS3. You dont need to factor the internet in because you already have it (I pray you arent using your sat for internet, I feel your pain if you are and suggest you move just for that reason alone.)
Bonus = People that use 4G service from Sprint and have it available at their house can use it for streaming purposes as well!
I pay my cell phone w/ unlimited data plan, thats it! Streaming everything to my HTPC's and PS3's depending on which room of the house your in.
I've been Sat, cable, lan line, local internet free for over 1 1/2 years. It feels good, kinda like finishing up a AAA meeting
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Sorry about all the hassle with this survey link, guys. I just fixed the problem, and double checked to make sure it works. Enter away!
-Devin Connors, Tom's Guide
These devices still have a looooong way to go in order to compete with cable and satellite. It all be perfect if cable companies just dropped their excesive prices a little, but since they still dont see any competition from the above, its not going to happen. People should do an OCCUPY CABLE protest.