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Our HOA fee is around $400/year iirc.  Well worth it to me for the quality of amenities we get.  

That makes sense.  My Internet went out today for about an hour but the sat was still up.

So far, I'm really pleased with the Roku and DirecTV Now. A little bit of buffering now and then, but it lasts only seconds.

I've never used Amazon Firestick or AppleTV so I can't really compare.  A friend had the Chrome thing and its interface kind of sucked.

I've played a little with the Amazon, and we have an AppleTV on the second TV, and I agree that the Roku is much better. I hate the remote on the AppleTV, b/c like typical Apple they try to go with the "lack of buttons" approach when sometimes buttons are freaking useful. I've never tried a Chromecast.

Good to know on the Roku. I've actually bought three Roku Expresses at ~$27 each and couldn't be happier.  We have a TV in our master bathroom and one in the kids' game room that I quit using when everything went digital and TimeWarner/Spectrum wanted to charge me $7/box/month.   Now, for the investment of $27 per TV, those are back up and running.

And for the TV in our master bedroom where I previously had a DVR box, I've been trying out a third Roku Express and haven't missed the DVR at all, so that's another $11/month savings.  So those have all paid for themselves within a few months.

One thing to keep in mind though, is that one big reason this is really working for me is I still have the Spectrum account cable subscription, and am using the Spectrum app through Roku to watch live TV.  But when I did the math on dropping the Spectrum cable subscription and moving to one of the streaming services, with the VERY large increase Spectrum charges for unbundled internet-only, it was going to come to just about breakeven for me between the cost of the internet-only, and any of the streaming services like DTVN, or Sling, or Youtube.

So... anyway... how bout them HOAs?

So, an HOA can't keep you from putting up a satellite dish. A lot of them will scream, and cajole, and fight homeowners that try. But they can't stop you.

They can if it is in the covenants.  In my HOA, the roofs are covered under the maintenance and the structures are covered under a blanket insurance policy so nothing can be attached there.  Homeowners who want a satellite dish have them mounted in the yard.

They can if it is in the covenants.  In my HOA, the roofs are covered under the maintenance and the structures are covered under a blanket insurance policy so nothing can be attached there.  Homeowners who want a satellite dish have them mounted in the yard.

When it's community property, that is true. I.e. in a condo or townhome you can't attach it to anything you don't own.
I've never heard of this with free-standing single-family homes, though.