Just curious if anyone can give me an approximate estimate of what it would cost for me to get a combination of Amazon Prime, Hulu etc that would match anything I can get on premium cable/sat minus movie channels?
Basically I want to be able to watch Detroit Tiger games, NASCAR, The SyFy channel, Walking dead etc without paying $200 per month.
Sports is the hard part. I can't tell you about anything other than NASCAR, and that only historically... I despise most sports and always have, But I used to be an avid NASCAR guy (too boring and too many jangley things on the screen nowadays... I am a fan no longer).
BUT a couple things in that regard.
Probably foremost in reliability is a digital antenna. Depending on your area and what channels you can receive, it may well solve the sports problem for free , after the initial investment into the antenna. It is probably a good idea anyway, as if the cable is down in some emergency, you can still get local channels and local news and such.
At the time, when I was still a fan, the Nascar contract was bouncing between NBC and FOX, both of which broadcasted locally, so my viewership remained, uncontested and free.
Another trick is to find a local station somewhere that is streaming their broadcast - No doubt local Detroit is broadcasting Detroit sports, as an instance.
Lastly, often times one can find European stations that stream American sports.
As for syfy and other cable offerings, you can't think in 'channels'. You must think in individual series. I just recently signed up for Netflix, and really haven't subscribed at all, but all of it is almost immediately available online for free.
That is why I like the flexibility of having a pooter hooked to the tv rather than a digital box. I can surf around with my laptop and find new sources... And if my laptop can get to it, so can my tv.