Chapter 5
Watching Live TV
IN THIS CHAPTER
Getting live TV signals through an HDTV antenna
Streaming live TV through third-party apps
Managing live TV channels
Watching live TV on your Fire TV Edition device
Through free streaming services such as IMDb TV and YouTube, subscription streaming services such as Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, and web-based videos available through Fire TV browsers such as Amazon Silk and Firefox, you have a huge collection of movies, TV shows, and other video content at your disposal. Not, however, a complete collection. What’s missing? The biggest gap in your Fire TV video-watching toolkit is the absence of live TV, which refers to content that can only be watched at a time predetermined by the broadcaster. (In contrast to on-demand content, which you can watch any old time you feel like it.) Live TV generally refers to two types of programming:
- Prerecorded shows broadcast at specific times
- Live events, such as sports and breaking news
It’s quite possible you can exist happily without live TV. However, if you’re a sports nut, a news junkie, or someone ...
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