bethben Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 Basically, I want to watch certain shows not at the scheduled show time, but at the times I actually can. Is there a way to do this? I have tried the HGTV.com channel, but the commercials are really glitchy for me. Lately, I've missed the end of a lot of shows because it's stuck on a commercial that keeps playing every time you want to return to the show. I've looked into Sling, but it seems like you have to watch the show when it airs. I can't do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
itsheresomewhere Posted August 15, 2017 Share Posted August 15, 2017 It can be watched live or they have some on demand on sling. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EMS83 Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Nope. The stations are sold in packages. The best they could do is a la carte the station "families," but the cable company isn't going to do that. I had this conversation once when a cable telemarketer wanted to know what it would take to get me to buy TV service. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErinE Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I wish I could only get HGTV, Food Network and HBO. We pay so much for cable and we only watch a few shows on limited networks. It's very frustrating. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisIsTheDay Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Sling. We only watch Food Network and HGTV, and when we ditched cable a couple of years ago, it kinda sucked. But we picked up Sling last summer. I think the package with HGTV is $25 (rather than $20), a total of something like 30 channels. Not only can you watch more than a dozen HGTV shows on demand, you can also go through the last 2-3 days of shows and watch those anytime. Sling is a pain to navigate through our Roku (but most things are). For $25, totally worth it, imo. I haven't watched Netflix in months, now that I have Sling! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mschickie Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 We just got Sling. We are paying $40 a month because we added on a couple of their additional packages. I now get pretty much all the channels I used to watch on cable plus I found a new one I really like. Between Sling and our antenna I pretty much have all the tv I need. We still do have Netflix but dd is mainly the one who watches shows on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katy Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 If you're going to look into Sling you may want to look into Vue too. DH says he wants to subscribe to Playstation Vue when college football season starts in a few weeks. He looked into both & says Vue is a better value than Sling (apparently you don't need a playstation to subscribe, just Roku, Firestick, or similar). Both have HGTV. YMMV if you have no athletic-loving people in your home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hulu has many HGTV shows. HBO is available by subscription only--I pay $15/mo for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heartlikealion Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I have seen a couple shows streaming. We watched Fixer Upper, for example. I don't remember if I watched on both Netflix and Hulu or just one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 I wasn't happy when they pulled the HGTV shows from Netflix. I had purposely not binged on them, making them last a while. Never again. lol 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prairiewindmomma Posted August 16, 2017 Share Posted August 16, 2017 Hulu carries Fixer Upper, Flip or Flop, Property Brothers and House Hunters. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaz Posted August 17, 2017 Share Posted August 17, 2017 (edited) We watch it on Playstation Vue. It works much better for us than Sling. You can record any shows you like. Edited August 17, 2017 by Jaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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