Cord Cutting

[Felixwaw]

Hello LTT community,

 

My latest project is to cut the cord at home using plex and I'm looking for any advice people have out there! 

 

I'm living in Montreal Canada if that helps for suggestions for parts. These are the parts I am thinking about. Let me know your opinions am i spending too much money on some part or not enoguh on others so here it is:

 

QNAP 4-bay TS-451A personal cloud NAS: $569 CAD. 

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-107-515&_ga=2.28961716.98802334.1519061641-1537557468.1504108004

-    This is for expandability and the CPU is strong enough to stream 1080p content

 

Rosewill RHTA-15004 Super Thin Digital UHF/VHF HDTV Antenna: $20 CAD

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16886228055&cm_re=digital_antenna-_-86-228-055-_-Product

-    This is only 35 miles/15 feet im not sure is this is long enough but its 20$

 

SiliconDust HDHR5-4US HomeRun Connect Quatro 4-Tuner Cord Cutter: $250

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815345034&cm_re=hd_homerun-_-15-345-034-_-Product

-    This seems kind of like over kill. But plex suggests the HD Home Run so Im looking for better suggestions to this!

 

Plex Pass Lifetime: $160
 

[Donut417]

8 hours ago, Felixwaw said:

Hello LTT community,

 

My latest project is to cut the cord at home using plex and I'm looking for any advice people have out there! 

 

I'm living in Montreal Canada if that helps for suggestions for parts. These are the parts I am thinking about. Let me know your opinions am i spending too much money on some part or not enoguh on others so here it is:

 

QNAP 4-bay TS-451A personal cloud NAS: $569 CAD. 

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=22-107-515&_ga=2.28961716.98802334.1519061641-1537557468.1504108004

-    This is for expandability and the CPU is strong enough to stream 1080p content

 

Rosewill RHTA-15004 Super Thin Digital UHF/VHF HDTV Antenna: $20 CAD

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16886228055&cm_re=digital_antenna-_-86-228-055-_-Product

-    This is only 35 miles/15 feet im not sure is this is long enough but its 20$

 

SiliconDust HDHR5-4US HomeRun Connect Quatro 4-Tuner Cord Cutter: $250

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815345034&cm_re=hd_homerun-_-15-345-034-_-Product

-    This seems kind of like over kill. But plex suggests the HD Home Run so Im looking for better suggestions to this!

 

Plex Pass Lifetime: $160
 

Plex is nice, with as little as Ive played around with it. Antenna wise, you should check to see where your TV stations are located. That is how to determining on how good of an antenna you need. Also, keep in mind outdoor antennas are miles better, but they are not for every one. My family uses individual indoor antennas on each TV. The higher the antenna the better reception you should get in most cases. Though I have notice that on nice sunny days, some times channels dont come in, so thats a thing. NAS wise it depends on features I would say. I know some NAS's offer Plex server built in, so I would say look for something like that. You pretty much hit the money on the network tv tuner. 

 

My family uses antennas on each TV. We get maybe 40 stations depending on the TV. We sub to PlayStation VUE, its ok, but Sony's servers can suck some times. We also sub to Netflix. Depending on your ISP depends on how well streaming will work out. Comcast our ISP has a 1 TB cap, while there is an unlimited option its $50 USD, so we just stick with what we got.