Hate to be that guy, but you need to search for "cord" cutting, and not chord. :)

Has anyone on here tried ditching cable/satellite completely and replaced it with something similar using Android TV?

I have, yes! I don't typically watch sports, so I don't pay for any access apps... But I also live in an area where I'm able to pick up local channels via antenna. If local channels will have what you need, then you should be good. If not, then you may have to do some research into alternatives. I agree with u/HansWursT619, definitely check out the r/cordcutters sub! They have a lot of great info that helped me out.

I've had great results augmenting my Android TV experience with a TV tuner and a good antenna. This gives me access to local news and sporting events. Believe it or not, the picture quality of a free OTA signal is superior to cable or satellite, as it uses less signal compression, but you have to be pretty close to the transmission towers to avoid glitches.

All you need is a good tuner (I recommend a Silicondust HDHomerun with transcoding) and an antenna appropriate for your distance to the towers.

Here's a website for finding the location and direction of the nearest towers to you. https://www.antennaweb.org/

Alternatively, you can find many cable and network stations apps on the app store, and if you "borrow" the login of your close family or friends, you can watch live TV through them. At my house, we get HGTV, Food Network, Travel Channel, Disney, ABC, CBS and Fox Sports this way. (I'm not sure of the ethics of this method where you live, so be aware of the laws in your municipality.)

I got rid of the cord. Currently I'm set up like this.

HDHomeRun in my closet to get OTA channels. This is hardwired via CAT6 to my Shield for my network channels. Fox/CBS/NBC/PBS. I have shield running plex and I use the plex integration to record my shows.

2nd, I have slingTV. T-Mobile ran a deal so I am currently paying $14.99 a month for sling. I use this primarily for ESPN / AMC. This doesn't record (but apparently this will change shortly).

For me, it works, and is cheap. The initial hardware (about $199 each for shield and HDHomerun). Thats basically 33 bucks a month for 1 year, then its paid off. To me it was a no brainer.

As far as baseball, I do know there is a MLB app for androidTV. Tmobile in the past has given year subscriptions for free (1 week signup period per year).

I currently have only Android Devices on my TVs. 1 Gen 1 Chromecast - 4 year old's room 1 Nexus Player - 6 year old's room 1 Gen 2 NVIDIA Shield TV - Master bedroom 1 Gen 1 NVIDIA SHIELD TV (500 GB) - Living room 1 Google Home - Living room 1 18 TB Home server

I plan on adding NVIDIA Spots in the hallway upstairs and where ever else may be needed when they are released.

My live TV is provided by a HD Homerun Connect, which allows 2 live feeds at once (more than enough for my situation)

I have all of my media on my home server and I use Plex to access my media anywhere I can get an internet connection.

There are 2 ways to do it, legally or through pirating.

/r/cordcutters may be worth a look for you. I am not familiar with the way media is distributed in the US, but Android TV does offer all the media I consume. But I don't watch sports at all. So I am not sure how live content is available on Android TV.

An antenna will help with local broadcast of sports but the rest of sports you are going to need to pay for multiple services or pirate and you won't get much assistance with piracy and it's a never ending chase for good quality. I use shared credentials for some streaming apps but even then things get blacked out.

Fox Sports has an Android TV app but requires a cable login.
Sling TV has a package that includes Fox sports networks and has ESPN. Somebody else already mentioned ESPN having an app that also needs a cable login.

I would guess PlayStation Vue would have packages with sports channels. Lack of NBC sports app is annoying.

reddit has links to sports streams, so I just use those on my laptop and cast to my Shield. I've heard of others using a repo in Kodi to find streams, too.

Cord cut for going on 5 years.

Netflix. Amazon. Hulu. HBO Now.

/r/SmoothstreamsTV for sports

And a sabnzbd and usenet sub for anything that falls through those cracks.

I pay roughly the same as I did for cable. Although I also pay for the fastest they offer - 300mbps - and I have access to virtually everything I could want to watch and short of live sports, no commercials.

It doesn't look like anyone mentioned the soccer matches which you can get from PuppetMaster.TV. In the REKODI repo is the BBC iPlayer plugin and the Hotstar plugin. Both have soccer regularly and Hotstar also has cricket regularly.

For football (American), the Twitter Live app has Thursday night football.

I use Nvidia shields in my home theatres and Rokus in bedrooms with Hulu, Netflix, prime video, Plex, HBO now, and tablo. I don't watch sports. I'll never go back. Tablo is acceptable but not amazing.

I did this about 2 years ago, the only shitty thing is going to someone's house that does watch TV. It sucks, because I forget how annoying commercials are, and they piss me off to no end.