What do you use to stream and why?

So here’s the deal, we haven’t had cable/sat in over 7 years. We have streamed everything in multiple different ways, whether its off a laptop that I don't have anymore or off my iPad or the main thing we use is my Xbox 1.

My questions is we are planning on moving and I will have a “man cave” area to put my xbox so I can play games downstairs. Problem is now what do I use to stream stuff full time with? I was thinking Apple TV so I can just throw my iPad up on the tv or maybe roku. We do have a smart tv but really don't use it like its intended to be used. I mainly stream stuff off apps like espn, Netflix, fox, pac12 network, tnt, among others. I do use reddit at times to stream things which is why I use my IPad mainly. Any thoughts on which way I should lean without having to get a bunch of subscriptions to make it worth it??

PS It would score mega points if whatever I got could use the xfinity streaming app since I can use my parents account if needed but I have been running into issues of it not being able to connect to my tv via IPad and lightning to HDMI connector.

 

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I use an internet ready TV. No box, no duplicate subscriptions. No cable/sat. One remote. All Wi-Fi.

 

what do you have for a tv

 

Samsung.

 

Maybe I’ll have to learn how to use mine like it’s supposed to be used then

 

I currently have DirectTV, wanting to cut them off. ppl keep saying youtube-TV. $50.00 a month. havent done my homework, hoping you can and then update me.

 

we use ROKU or my work pc.

We have a "smart" LG tv but it's not smart enough to have an HBO app. I'm going to make it a dumb tv again just so i can have one less thing tracking me

 

that’s what I’m running into is having certain apps on my TV I’m not able to find them

 

I use our xbox one to stream

 

So do I but that’s not gonna be an option when I put it downstairs in my man cave

 

Why can't you use it there?

 

I stream pretty much everything from my AppleTV 4K to my LG OLED.. Text me what apps you're looking for and I can let you know if it has them available or not.

 

I can use it there but then that leaves nothing to stream from in the living room.

 

I’ll hit you up later unless you wanna come up for a drink

 

got it. If you use your TV to stream you're probably going to need an additional device like a Firestick, Ruko to get certain apps. Might be easier to get another Xbox so you can stream, that's what I do now so I can stream in our family room and office.

 

I use google chromecast and a raspberry pi. I can stream from any app that supports chromecast (a lot of the major ones do outside of the competition) and I sync data from my server to my raspberry pi or my phone can cast via VLC player.

 

FireTV with ala carte subscriptions to the different streaming services.