cardboardboxer

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They will all do it before it's all said and done.

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Eh, not without Congress helping them. ATSC 3.0 support in devices is going backwards because of the DRM crap they are pushing. Most OTA is still ATSC 1.0.

Yeah the flat ones work good if you are near a city, but I have a bad arse $50 one too and I can get Waco stations in north Austin.

One advantage of the Tablo is you can tuck it and the antenna in the attic and then its on your wifi so you don't have to worry about the wife complaining it looks bad

Having a dedicated streaming box is a good idea, but weaker Android TV devices suck and Amazon is muddying their waters on purpose. Here is the hierarchy of streaming boxes:

1. Apple TV - best in class, has best interface performance and best quality apps. Sucks that they shove their service down your throat but what makes it the best is screen mirroring from Apple devices can be used easily with dodgy streaming sites (that is how I watch Saints games this year frick Sunday Ticket). Problem is this is expensive.

2. Shield TV Pro - gives an experience close to Apple TV especially if you are willing to change out the launcher. Doesn't have quite the app polish that Apple TV apps have, but has the advantage of sideloading apps Google doesn't want you to have. Like for example I have SmartTube loaded on mine with allows my son to watch Youtube without ads without me paying for premium. Is expensive though.

3. onn 4K Pro - basically a cheap Shield TV. Has all the advantages of that device at one fourth the price, just a little more sluggish than Shield TV. Only found at walmart.

4. Roku Devices - Has good quality apps, is easy to use, and best of all is cheap compared to 1 and 2. No sideloading, but maybe the easiest interface of the bunch. This is the one I give to family members.

5. Fire TV Devices - has some of the advantages of the Shield TV (sideloading maybe), and has good app support. Problem is interface is STUFFED with ads and you can't change that, plus this year they forked the devices and some are based on Android still and others aren't and it means you have to be careful what to buy. These used to be 3 on the list but I have trouble recommending them knowing that Amazon is working to lock them down.

I will say as an Aggie who has been a fan since the Big 12 era the fact this is even a debate makes me smile

In the Big 12 OU fricking smothered us with a pillow. Each year flipping our recruits, sometimes getting them to rub it in (I will never forgive Venables for the "Mr. Texas A&M" bullshite he pulled).

I personally hated OU so much back then because I felt like they stole our birthrate by taking the second best players in Texas every year (after the Horns got their picks). We would be lucky to get a handful of Texas four stars in the Big 12 era post-Slocum each year, while Stoops was loading up his roster with them.

Texas A&M going to the SEC finally flipped that. We went from fridge top 20 recruiting rankings to consistent top 10 rankings, and OU was the one who paid most of the price for that. You would see it when OU would play teams outside the Big 12 in the playoffs and they didn't have the horses to keep up. Post SEC move those horses were on our roster, and I think the OU leadership waking up to how much conference realignment in 2011 fricked them vs us is why they pushed the Horns to join the SEC with them.

But then Jimbo and NiL changed our equation again. Suddenly we were recruiting nationally, and using money to make it so we were a threat for every four star on the board. That means that both a modern OU and A&M can do well independent of how the other does, especially if the Horns go through another period of decline.

So now I don't hate OU anymore, I hate their coach for what he did to us 20 years ago in recruiting but once OU has a new coach I won't care. I will root for them vs non-SEC teams like any other SEC team not named Texas at that point (because frick Texas).

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Why do all former Aggy QBs talk like incoherent ghetto wannabes?

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Because they don't stay long enough to get straightened out.

I don't see why he wouldn't try the NFL again if he got a shot at it.

Yall really need to consider getting a Tablo plus a decent antenna.

One time purchase of around $120 for both (I got it for $70 in a sale I expect to repeat black friday) and then you can have ABC, CBS, Fox, CW and NBC on any smart device in your house (your phone, AppleTV, Roku, Android TV).

With Tablo you get a TV-guide style menu, you can record games, pause/fast forward in games, and can watch either two or four games at once (depending on which Tablo you get).

Doesn't give access to ESPN, but it gives you access to a LOT of college football without worrying about what major company is fricking over some other major company for the price of one month of Youtube TV (if you get the device on sale).

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If it was the BCS or 4 team playoff Texas A&M would still be in it this year and it would be more meaningful.

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Maybe, we got fricked in 2020 because we weren't a big enough brand name.

Their own AD admitted how far behind on NiL are

Wow I never saw that, so him