Best Option for TV at New Lake House

[Dd24skater]

It's about time to get back to the lake house.

[Dd24skater]

Still no tv there

[jgraham37128]

We moved to streaming direct to now. Best thing we ever did, but you have to have an internet connection, but we needed that anyway for cameras and Nest connections.

[LoveMyMC]

Have had a lake house for 23 years, TV is there hanging on the wall......plays nothing but dvd's........It's a lake house.....get outside and do something! If you want to watch TV go home!

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We took it a step further (back)...we only have a VCR. Everyone thinks its soooooo cool.

[uplandbird]

a digital antenna from amazon, which has stopped working for some reason.

Recently there was a reset of the over the air frequencies. I had to auto program again. Hope that helps!

[slalomjunkie]

In case it had not yet been mentioned, a smart TV with BT and setting your cell up as a hotspot

[93Prostar190]

We are really happy with Dish … on the Internet side, I had Hughes but recently went with ViaSat … seems that ViaSat is much better to me in speed, install experience and even the in-home router device they installed.

My $0.02.

[kscrib]

Why do you need a VPN? Are you tunneling back to your main home?

[hunter991]

will you have internet?

[ErrorMacros]

Thanks for the recommendations. Incidentally, what VPN would you choose for Netflix? I've never used such services before. My colleagues advised me to try out the best vpn mac for this. But I'm not sure if this is a decent option.

[jamica joe]

Our lake house is not in the range of local TV (OTA) stations. We have to have satellite or cable to watch the weather (we live in a tornado area).

Dish anywhere is LEGAL and provide by the satellite provider. The speed of the internet controls the quality of picture much more so than does the age of the computer. I would suggest using a computer that is new enough that it has an HDMI connector (of any of the sizes). That will allow you to connect to an a/v receiver or directly to the TV.

Has anyone done anything with a consumer grade VPN or tunnel to allow network connectivity between the two residence?

Thanks for all of the ideas... I think that we will be changing our home service to Dish and utilizing the Dish Anywhere service as well.

I to am interested in "anyone done anything with a consumer grade VPN or tunnel to allow network connectivity between the two residence?"

Any ideas???

[Lee50thAnniversary]

Alabama has a warm enough fall that football starts before ski season ends. All but a few have left the lake at that point. Best time of the year. Go out in the morning, watch football at night. No lines at the marina and the lake is glass every morning. So yeah, I need a TV at the lake for fall.

We do the same thing here! Also watch F1 races that we record on Sunday afternoon at the boathouse

[mitch]

Gotta have TVs at the lake house...we have 4 hanging in ours, incl one in the garage..gotta watch the Sox in the summer and Pats in the fall!

[jharmon203]

lol the amount of devices connect really does not matter.

what matters is how many will be doing stuff at the same time...

if you have 3 tvs streaming netflix at 10mbps you will be maxed out. think of it that way

This! Your devices aren't going to be pulling a great deal of data when they are idle. 25Mbit should be plenty. This would allow you about 4 simultaneous streams on netflix in HD. If you are planning on having a ton of people at your house, the thing you need to do is a decent router to handle the traffic.

As for a TV, I really like the reviews at rtings.com. They do a great job.

https://www.rtings.com/

[agarabaghi]

lol the amount of devices connect really does not matter.

what matters is how many will be doing stuff at the same time...

if you have 3 tvs streaming netflix at 10mbps you will be maxed out. think of it that way