This document discusses alternatives to cable TV, including the equipment and internet access needed for streaming services, popular streaming devices, and a review of various streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Britbox, and Sling TV that provide live TV and on-demand content for lower monthly fees than cable. It provides information on costs and included channels for different plans from each service.

1. 400+ Channels & Nothing
Worth Watching:
Alternatives to Cable and
Broadcast TV
Presented by Jonathan Bacon

2. What’s needed for
Streaming Services?
• Internet
access
• Internet-
connected
device: smart
TV, game
console,
streaming
media player,
set top boxes,
smartphone
or tablet

3. Cutting the Cable
Cost Checklist
• What TV
channels you
require/want?
• Use antenna?
• Internet
connectivity?
• What streaming
media player to
use?
• What streaming
video services
to use?

4. What Internet providers
are available in my area?
https://www.highspeedinternet.com/

5. Popular Streaming
Media Players
• Amazon Fire
Stick
• Apple TV
• Google
Chromecast
• Roku
• PS4
• Xbox One
• Xbox One S

6. Streaming
Services…
• Typically no long term contracts
• Monthly or yearly pay option
• 7 day free trial
• Big screen to mobile streaming

7. Acorn TV $5.99/mo or
$59.99/yr or $4.99/mo thru
Amazon Prime
• Agatha Raisin
• Doc Martin
• Martin Clunes
Manhunt
• Miss Fisher’s
Murder
Mysteries
• Queens of
Mystery

8. Amazon Prime
Video $12.99/
mo or $119/yr
• Agatha
Christie’s ABC
Murders
• Bosch
• Gardeners’
World
• Hanna
• Unforgotten
• VictoriaTo add channels, Account & Lists > Memberships
and Subscriptions > Prime Video Subscriptions >
Add More Channels or

9. Channels on
Amazon
Prime Video
• Acorn $4.99/mo
• Hallmark Movies Now $5.99/mo
• HBO $14.99/mo
• Showtime $10.99/mo
• Britbox $6.99/mo
• CBS All-access $5.99/mo
• Starz $8.99/mo
• PBS Masterpiece $5.99/mo
https://amzn.to/2q1AYnp

10. Britbox $6.99/mo or $69.99/yr
• Agatha Christie’s
Poirot
• DCI Banks
• Doctor Who
• Midsomer
Murders
• Miss Marple
• Poldark
• The Office
(British version)

11. CBS All-Access
$5.99/mo or ad
free $9.99
• The Good Fight
• The Twilight Zone
• Star Trek Discovery
• Tell Me a Story

12. Curiosity
Stream $2.99/mo or
$19.99/yr
• The Body
• Speed
• Wild Chile
• The Real War of Thrones
• Out of the Cradle
• Explore programs on
Technology, Science, Nature,
Society and Lifestyle

13. PBS Masterpiece
$5/mo for $60 total
• Call the
Midwife
• Downton
Abbey
• Les
Miserables
• Mrs. Wilson
• Poldark
• Sherlock
• Unforgotten
• Victoria

14. • Limited
commercials
$5.99/mo
• No commercials
$11.99
• Only one screen
at a time
• No need to add
DVR, Hulu offers
steaming library,
not live TV
Original
programming
• Ramy
• The Act
• The Handmaid’s
Tale

15. Hulu Live
• Hulu Live with
limited
commercials,
$44.99/mo (50
hrs cloud DVR)
• Hulu Live with
no commercials
(applies to live
TV viewing)
$50.99
• Two screens
simultaneously
• Original
Programming

16. Hulu Add-Ons
• Cinemax
$9.99/mo
• HBO
$14.99/mo
• Showtime
$10.99/mo
• Starz
$8.99/mo

17. Hulu Live Add-Ons
• Cinemax, HBO,
Showtime, Starz
• Enhanced Cloud
DVR $9.99/mo
(200 hours)
• Unlimited
Screens
$9.99/mo
• Enhanced DVR +
Unlimited
Screens
$14.98/mo
• Español channels
$4.99/mo
• Entertainment
$7.99/mo

18. Sling TV: Blue and
Orange
• Blue $20, Orange
$25, Both $40 per
month
• Add 50 hrs DVR
@ $5/mo
• Sports Extra
$5/mo
• Comedy Extra
$5/mo
• Lifestyle Extra
$5/mo
• Showtime
$10/mo
• News Extra
$5/mo
• Live TV streaming
or on-demand
• If using Apple TV,
requires 4th or 5th
Gen

19. Sling TV
Orange
• Currently 23
channels:
AMC, BBC
America, CNN,
Comedy
Central,
Disney
Channel,
ESPN, HGTV,
History
Channel, IFC,
Lifetime, TBS,
TNT and more
• 1 stream

20. Sling TV
Blue
• Currently 49
channels:
AMC, BET,
Bravo, CNN,
Comedy
Central, Fox,
Fox Sports 2,
FXX, HGTV,
History
Channel, IFC,
NBC, Nick Jr.,
Lifetime, NFL
Network, TBS,
USA and more
• 3 streams

21. Netflix
• Basic Plan $8.99
(SD, single screen)
• Standard Plan
$12.99 (HD, 2
screens)
• Premium Plan
$15.99 (4K, 4
screens)
• No ads, no live TV,
includes Netflix
originals
• DVR not needed,
all programming
on-demand
• Orange is the New
Black, House of
Cards
• Offers 30 day free
trial

22. Questions or Comments?