How to get Local TV over Internet with KPUD's Fiber Optic Network?
With Net253’s Fiber Optic Internet service, you can use any video streaming source that supports “Over The Top” style delivery. That’s a long winded way of saying any video source available on the internet. Some examples are Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, Twitch. These services are all on demand, you pick what you want to watch, when you want to watch it, and it starts playing. That leaves the local channels, how to get them?
There are three solutions available today, at a lower price point than buying a canned video package from a cable supplier.
These services allow you to stream on three or more screens at the same time with the base subscription. Note, you need either a Smart TV or a streaming device per television.
These local channels subscriptions cost less than the base video access channel packages offered by the other ISPs on the KPUD network.
The following link is a website that did a side by side review of the streaming local TV channels.
https://www.fomopop.com/guides/live-tv-streaming/markets/seattle-tacoma-wa
These solutions require either a “Smart TV” or an external streaming device.
What is a smart TV and what does it do? A smart TV, sometimes referred to as connected TV or hybrid TV, is a television set with integrated Internet features. Smart TV is a technological convergence between computers and flatscreen television sets and set-top boxes.
What is an external streaming device? You can think of the external streaming device as an equivalent to a Cable Set Top Box.The streaming device decodes your selected program and displays it on the television, just like a cable box.
There are several streaming devices on the market that can hook up to your TV to enable streaming video programming. You need to have a TV that has an HDMI outlet on your TV. Roku, Amazon TV Fire Stick, Apple TV, and Vidia Shield TV are a few that are available.
Link to PC Mag side by side comparison of several external streaming device solutions.