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bevandtomH · 09-03-2017, 07:18 PM

I would recommend you talk to Dish. As long as you have a domicile to get their signal, you should be able to watch your 'local' channels. Assuming you/they are in Wis.
Full disclosure, I've been a Dish subscriber for twenty years but am now just looking into the Hopper, Joey, etc. so pretty ignorant about some of this, but learning.

brandss · 09-03-2017, 07:24 PM

I almost spit my drink reading this. Mainly because I understand your pain and I'm younger than you. Thanks for the laugh, for now my kids help me with me electronics and so forth.

I think I can actually help you with the whole HDMI thing. An HDMI is simply a cable that connects from your laptop/desktop to your tv. You plug one end of the cable into your computer and the other into the back of your tv. Now, whatever you play on your computer will show up on the TV. The only other thing you have to do, and I hope your eyes aren't "glassed over".....still so funny....take your tv remote and change the input from, say, antenna, to HDMI. I will help you if you would like. I can't go without my football either.

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Originally Posted by tizzyfit

That sounds great but probably way above my pay grade. If you have a 7 year old I could borrow to explain how to do this, I'd be grateful. Talked to an employee at Best Buy. After 20 seconds, both eyes glassed over and I almost passed out. How can those people talk at 400 words a minute and expect a 73 year old to grasp what they are saying.

BBelanger · 09-03-2017, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by brandss

I made a darn mistake with the name of the service, but, you may be even happier. Sling TV is what I use now, and, it may serve the purpose but what I meant to say was slingbox. It's a small box that you plug in and have the antenna from friend or family go into it then from the slingbox to a tv. Then, wherever you are, you can log on and watch the tv just like you were sitting at your friend or family's house. Anything they get via antenna or cable, you would get in your rig. When I used it i hooked it up to a seldom used tv I had in my woodshop because if I took over the tv online, the wife would not be able to watch what she wanted. Not sure this makes sense but when you read up on it, probably will. There is no monthly fee, a one time purchase for the reciever. Hope this clears it up and sorry for the confusion.

As I suspected, you need Internet. It's called sling if you have a hard internet connection and dish anywhere if you use cell service. Like you said, you need to "log in"