So one of the points I've been hammering home to my Dad is that he should really look into streaming services to replace his DirecTV subscription because he's funding the same MSM he's been complaining about for basically my entire life.

Thankfully, I setup an Intel NUC attached to my parent's HDTV (it's running Windows 10 with strong enough stats to stream stuff at the TV's resolution without issue) so the TV can be used a computer or they can stream stuff over the internet and watch it like they would TV (without the commercials), especially since there's a wireless keyboard that uses a dongle on a USB extension cable. That's actually a hack I learned a long time ago with wireless mice that greatly improves battery life because the wireless device will usually keep transmitting until the batteries die if they've got line of site to dongle and the dongle is within a yard or two of the device.

However, I'm still doing research into the streaming services and I'm not terribly knowledgeable as I'm trying to figure out how to patch things together so they can still get their Hallmark movies, documentaries, sports, and other stuff without having to end up replacing one cable subscription for another. Anyone have any insight into how to do this, and what services to look into?