Locast - Free Local TV - Comments Page 1

Sounds like an interesting service. Even though it is not in my area, I am sure Miami could use the service as I live far from the broadcast towers I would love to have LOCAST. My complaint is the cable and satellite services only show the major channels. There is a lot of interesting content on some of the minor channels which I would love to see.

This sounds like a wonderful American ingenuity idea--that benefits urban dwellers. I just want to point out "again" that those of us living in rural areas are still handicapped by very slow internet speeds. We will continue to be left behind for any technological advances until the urban dwellers understand that we need their support to push for better internet services. Note that I have only one provider, cannot stream movies (buffering takes too long), cannot access over the air tv streaming, and have no other choices because my internet signal is so slow. (And perhaps most urban dwellers don't understand that cellphone signals are also spotty in the country.) Don' get me wrong: I love my country home. I just find it increasingly sad that we cannot do most of the things that city people take for granted.

Would I ever like a way to get away from Spectrum and their thirst for more fees. I could do it all except for the local (well, relatively) part.) Too far away for most network locals.

Erred by allowing the site to know my location. No matter which city I click the result is "No broadcasts within your area". Will try again later today with a different PC and browser.

PS I want to retain my "cookies".

Bob the Google-Gmail 2 factor authentication doesn't work if using outlook to get your Gmail ? keeps asking for the user name and password!

Bob - Thanks so much for your other e-mail about your flower gig!!
Who knew???
I'm about to jump over there right now and continue shopping for my Valentine's Day delivery.

Cynthia said it all!

P.S. I'm gonna put an icon on my desktop for the site, and as long as this first order goes according to plan, I will likely use it every time I have need for flowers.
Thanks again.

I currently use locast, which works great for watching local news reports, sporting events such as the superbowl. I don't have cable but just internet.
I use Kodi and a free legal addon is the locast addon which uses their service.
Works great so far!

I hope there will be some equivalent soon in Canada! I can dream, can't I?

Thanks for the tip Bob. I'm too far from the broadcast towers to get over-the-air but streaming Lowcast to my laptop's DSL line works beautifully.

First attempt failed (see above).

Second attempt: SUCCESS via Roku. Used Roku to sign up for an account: enter email address, create a password and select SIGNUP.

Bob, Thank you very much. This is definitely an OMG moment.

You said it, Cynthia!!!

I was going to vote for this candidate.

Disagreed with just about everything that came out of her mouth.

But, her main platform was high speed in rural areas.

Turns out she was in a different state.

And lost.

You said it, Cynthia. Speed . . . and data limits. :(

Sounds like a good VPN service could allow a lot of people to use this. The one I use has several servers in New York.

I cut the cable today! There are so many choices. I could not get over-the-air signals at my house, but I surmised, and proved, that I could get OTA signals high up on the hill behind my house. I mounted two antennas up on the hill, with two 500 foot RG11 cables coming down to two HDHomeRun boxes. With the boxes, I have full DVR capabilities, scheduling, and pause and rewind. I've been running concurrently with cable for a month, but when my phone was ported to MagicJack overnight, I called and canceled the TV and phone. I just get internet from the cable company, saving about $200 a month!

Daniel Knorowski - you had to allow site to know your location. They don't go by the city you pick, they check your location. Mine shows my city because they could get the location from work and I could watch there, but they can't determine it at home even though the city is known from work login, so I can't watch it from home. Older OS at home. Lost cause.

I wouldn't say it is all that "free" because if you don't pay the $5, they interrupt the broadcast every 30 minutes and force you to restart. Other than that it is a great service for out of towners using a VPN.

LOCAST only works with ROKU if you are in Philadelphia. Works ok with a browser in Boston.
I really want it on ROKU, it's easier than casting

You talk about recording Locast for later viewing. Can you recommend a simple method for recording Locast programs?