What does it take?

What can you get?

not sure about getting channels like on sat / cable.

but for movies / tv shows there is netflix, hulu, crackle, etc.

that and speedy internet.

I think I'm going to try a Dragonbox

Many tv's can be hooked to a computer to act as a monitor. If you have a HDMI plug on both the tv and computer, it's just a matter of a single cable and telling your computer to use it as a monitor. You can stream internet content direct to the tv rather than watching it on a small monitor. You can also user the computer to play DVD's that way.

Our Samsung "Smart" TV prefers to be logged into our home wireless. I can eventually find my way to screens that offer movies and such, but it isn't at all like the real internet.

Not only do I not watch movies, but the few things I have tried to see turned out to be pay-per-view. For me, it's useless.

We also have a Samsung smart tv. The browser is close to useless and it's very slow, too slow for surfing. A wireless mouse and keyboard greatly improve the browser. However, if you can find a movie or videos you want to watch, it works very well. Netflix, Amazon Prime, and many other movie sites are built in so no surfing is needed.

Google Chrome and Chromecast

You have to start with a "smart TV" which is one that can be hooked to the internet, or a TV with an HDMI connection that you can hook up an internet device to.

My TV is the latter so I got a Roku box, the Roku III. The Roku gets the internet signal - either directly through a cable or remotely if you have some kind of wireless setup in your house - and passes it on to the TV through the HDMI connection. I had to do a little setup to register the box on my computer but that's a pretty easy process, just follow simple step by step instructions when you turn on the Roku box.

That lets you get Netflix, Amazon, Hulu and a ton of other streaming services. They offer new and old TV programs and a bunch of movies. Netflix is all inclusive for one monthly charge, about $7.99 I think. Amazon Prime also has a monthly charge but it only offers some stuff free with that, the rest is pay as you go, like $1.99 per episode for the latest episodes of current TV programs. The others are a mix of free and pay as you go although a lot of the "free" ones stick commercials in the middle of the movies - Netflix doesn't do that btw.

I cancelled my cable TV subscription several months ago and couldn't be happier. Cable TV had 100 plus stations, 96 of them were garbage and the other 4 only had a few decent programs on them. I was flipping through commercials all the time. With the streaming services you choose what you want to see when you want, stop them in the middle and pick up where you left off etc. You can see current TV programs if you don't mind paying, or just wait until Netflix streams them. I missed the last episode of Walking Dead last year and finally saw it when they added season 5 this past Saturday. I could have paid $1.99 to see it on Amazon Prime long before this but I'm too cheap.

We use Netflix a lot. Lately we've been going through the entire 12 seasons of NCIS. There are a lot of episodes that we'd missed and we'd forgotten the rest. Each show lasts 45 min because there are no commercials.

I get by with Netflix, Hulu +, HBOGO, FoxGo and Sling TV. All comes over the internet, with good reliability. Cost for the service to me is $36 a month.

in Miami, with the air antenna, I get 60+ channels. That gives me all the main TV like ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox. Sling along has probably 100, and Netflix and Hulu have hundreds. History Channel, Discover channel, cooking channel, Disney, TBS, ION, and many, many more

Another vote for the Roku 3. Have yet to see anything else as fast, reliable and easy to use.