Stop Paying!!! Here it goes Steemit! Why you should cancel your Netflix and cable

in #steem8 years ago




Hi Steemit!

Let me ask you a question. What's better been watching your favorite shows and movies? How about watching your favorite shows and movies for free!!! Not just free but also instantly. What does this mean?

https://youtu.be/6npgtrAWywE

This means no more

No more Cable bill - $123.00 per month (The average US cable bill)

No more Netflix bill - $7.99 per month

No more Hulu bill - $7.99 per month


Yearly Cable cost - $1476

Yearly Netflix cost - $95.88

Yearly Hulu cost - $95.88


Think what you could do with an extra 1500 bucks.

Meet Kodi (formally known as XMBC)


Available across all Android devices as well as PC and Mac computers. You can also install Kodi on a Raspberry Pi

I first heard about kodi a little over a year ago while hanging out in a Gear VR chat room. I met a cool kid who made me feel my age. "What!!! You don't know about kodi!!? Look it up lady it's free and it has everything!"

"OK kid sure I thought."

About a week later with my insomnia at full strength around 4 am in the morning flipping through my cable and there was nothing I wanted to watch, 900 channels and nothing to watch first world problems right?. Then it came to me Labyrinth!! Yes I am what you could call a fan girl of the 1980,s David Bowie movie, dont judge me! So I opened up Netflix only to find out that was not Available online. Hope diminished but not obliterated I opened up Hulu but it was not there either. Feeling completely defeated I returned to cable only to land on a rerun of Family Feud. Then the memory of that kid jumped in to my head.

"What!!! you don't know kodi!!?"

So I thought what the hell. Grab my laptop and searched for Kodi. After researching for nearly four hours, I installed kodi on to my laptop and began to explore. What I found was exactly what the kid told me. Kodi had everything and it was free! I was able to find and stream everything I searched for. From old TV shows to brand new movies it had it all. After several months of testing it out I canceled my cable, netflix and hulu. There was no need for them any more.


Now you know how I came to learn about kodi and it's benefits. So let me share with you what I learned so you too can watch what you want to watch without the cost.




Step 1.

This one is easy just click here for PC http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/win32/kodi-16.1-Jarvis.exe

Click here for Mac http://mirrors.kodi.tv/releases/osx/x86_64/kodi-16.1-Jarvis-x86_64.dmg

And save to your desktop or to your preferred download location.


Step 2.

Install

Click next Then Click I Agree Select Next


Select your install destination Then click Install Smile its Installing


Click Finish and open up Kodi

Step 3.

Configure Kodi

First things first go to System and click on File Manager

Then click on Add Source


In the Top field type http://fusion.tvaddons.ag/ In Bottom field type Fusion


Click the house in the bottom right corner and it will take you back to the home page.


From here click on System then Settings


Now click on Add-ons


From There Click Install from zip file and Select Fusion



select Start Here


From here instal the top selection by double clicking


Then Return to the home screen and select Programs


Select Addon Installer from the list then Video Addons


From here Scroll down until you Find Exodus and Phoenix and install them both and return to the home page


They look like this


Now that you have installed those to amazing add-ons go back to settings under the System bar


Now select Add-on shortcuts and click Add-on 1


Select Exodus for Add-on 1 and Phoenix for Add-on 2 then return to the home screen


Now when you hover your mouse over the Video bar you will see your Add-ons for easy access


Now that you have everything installed let me show you around.......

Exodus Tutorial

https://youtu.be/ylRv8mhEN_Y


Phoenix Tutorial


So I really hope that everyone checks this out. Whether or not you choose to use Kodi instead of your satellite/cable and Netflix like I did, or whether you just use it to look up extra movies and shows your are looking to watch I hope that this post helped you out and that you share the knowledge with someone else, pat it forward steemit!!!

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Really great tutorial. I've been trying to tell people about this. ill share this with my friends.

Great post Audrey and very informative. I'll come watch any show with you any time lol! 😉

How do I get the free vid Audrey?

how does this works. where is the content stored/owned and whats the business model?

If I understand it correctly, it's just a nice interface that scrapes the web for streaming links to stuff you're looking to watch :) So it's just stored throughout the web, not in a central "Kodi server"

I'm a sucker for freebies so I upvoted. Great post.

Awesome! I hope it helps you out!!

Thanks for this.. with kids every penny counts.. really appreciate the step by step directions...

this helped so much thank you

I'd just like to point out that both Exodus and Phoenix are banned Kodi add-ons, because they illegally stream pirated content via P2P. See here:

http://kodi.wiki/view/Official:Forum_rules/Banned_add-ons

Further, they do so without a VPN. So your IP address is in the clear to any content provider who'd like to sue. Never mind the ethics involved in pirating copyrighted film and television. If such matters concern you, that is.

Hmmm I had never heard that before, Thanks for the info

COOL! i should try it!

Free TV always good. But that's cool that this works on a computer and on Android :)

Hey Audrey great post very helpful.

Great post Ima look into it

Thank you for letting us know about this.

Really nice Audrey you did a really good explanation on every step.and you even show how to search for movies and everything thats really nice of you.... plus i really like to hear your voice ;)

Very helpful. Thank you audrey :-*

Hmm, great insight. Will have to look into it. Thanks love.

free tv!!!!!

I spend so much all Netflix,Hulu, and cable too. Can't wait to try this and cancel them all

awesome, thanks for posting about this! :)
We got Kodi a couple of weeks ago, but it's super laggy and glitch :( however, we're in Canada and were running it off a fairly low-power laptop so either of those could have been contributing factors. We'll keep playing with it, and hopefully soon we can cancel our cable!

Have heard about this but honestly was too lazy to look around to figure it out. Thanks for detailed instructions all in one place :)

Awesome... im going to get this.

I finally found the time to get to this like you have been talking about! Thank you for this. I have been looking for different solutions, I will definitely need to look at this more.

Great Tutorial Audrey! I'm not in the US but I'll try it out. Thanks for the helpful info. My direct tv bill is super high because I have fox + plus the naughty channels lol

Great video, so places online sell google boxes preconfigured with this for over $200. thanks for videos

Thanks for the info, I'll definitely look into installing this on the weekend.

Looks awesome, will try.

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