{"id":1130,"date":"2011-05-27T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2011-06-13T11:52:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T17:52:46","slug":"cutting-the-cord-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting the Cord: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been without pay TV (excluding Netflix) for about a year now and now that we have most of the kinks worked out, I thought I&#8217;d give you an update on how we&#8217;ve done it.<\/p>\n<p>For our cord-cutting experiment, we&#8217;ve tried three different solutions. This has been fun for me to be able to try out different options, but it also means that it&#8217;s been hard for Julia since she&#8217;s had to learn how to use three different TV setups. Luckily, though, she&#8217;s pretty smart and has picked it up really well, but it&#8217;s not always easy to teach new visitors how to use our new setup. There&#8217;s certainly a lot of room for improvement in that category, but hopefully it won&#8217;t be too tough.<\/p>\n<h3>Goals:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Play back our media collection from any TV<\/li>\n<li>Ability to watch and record TV<\/li>\n<li>Watch Netflix from any TV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/network_diagram1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1170\" title=\"Network Diagram\" src=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/network_diagram1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/network_diagram1.png 627w, https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/network_diagram1-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Other Parts of <em>Cutting the Cord<\/em>:<\/h3>\n<p>Cutting the Cord: Introduction<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-part-1\/\">Backend: Desktop Computer (acting as file server) and TV Tuner<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-part-2\/\">Master Bedroom: Roku streaming<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-part-3\/\">Living Room: HTPC and TV w\/ built-in Netflix<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/cutting-the-cord-part-4\/\">Basement: Original Xbox with XBMC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been without pay TV (excluding Netflix) for about a year now and now that we have most of the kinks worked out, I thought I&#8217;d give you an update on how we&#8217;ve done it. For our cord-cutting experiment, we&#8217;ve tried three different solutions. This has been fun for me to be able to try [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1133,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/1133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fefnet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}