Considering I was paying Comcast cable tv bill for so many years...since 1991 that started out at $20 a month, to 2019 was then $150 per month...and they kept raising the price slowly every year. Got notice that Jan 2020 was going up to $170, for some shitty slow cablebox for 1 tv, no dvr ability etc....the worst customer service in the world.
$150 x 12month = $1,800 per year just for cable tv
Compared to $80 a year for CDVR...yea.
Ok, ill add in the $25 a month for Philo, my main source or TVE, that is $300 per year.
So $380 per year, saving of approx $1,420 per year.
Money well spent to get much more use out of something than CATV provided. I was using Windows Media Center for many years, with a Cable Card tuner, then Emby, when WMC was killed off.
Start up cost was not bad either, for me was 2x Pi4b's (which i had already from past project) purchased long before the pandemic issues, when the whole 8gb canakit bundles were $80 at Best Buy). HDHR OTA tuner, $150? and a usb 3.0 ssd 500gb, $50, Good antenna $100.