I will be relying on a few solutions for my television services. The first will be an OTA? television. There will be a rooftop antenna which will collect 50+ channels, and route to a Tablo DVR?. The DVR will be able to record up to 50 hours worth of television. The communications room will have connections for 5 Tablos, and all Tablos will be quad tuner DVRs which if I bought all 5 Tablos, I could record up to 20 channels at one time which is more than enough. Each TV will receive its own Tablo therefore assuring that everyone can watch what they want without the need to interfere with someone else’s preferences.
Next, I will acquire Sling’s Blue+Orange package. This will give me all of the channels that they offer for a reasonable price when compared to cable TV. I would imagine that the Sling service is for one TV only. If so, that will be the Great Room’s TV, and there will be DVR services to record anything I may not be able to watch live. I am not much of a cable TV person, but I will assume the most expensive option when compared to what I will actually do.
Last, I will get the Disney/HBO/Hulu package which will as you might guess give me access to all three of these services. This too might not be something I will venture into, but it would be worth noting. In addition, I will also keep my Netflix subscription – therefore giving me all of the resources I would ever need. Eventually, I will want to build my own personal movie/TV library which I will then reduce the need for these streaming services just by purchasing digital versions, or look for Blu-Ray. Any media server I will acquire, I will also seek to acquire a Blu-Ray writer for importing the Blu-Rays to my server.