I’m starting to move away from cable. Bought myself a tablet last weekend. Just have to get everything hooked up.
I had a cable bundle costing me almost $200 a month. Got rid of the Internet and phone, but still am paying $90 plus a month. Once I get the tablet set up, I might keep a couple of local channels just for local news. If they stream their news, I might not even keep those channels either.
If you still have large tvs in your home make sure you buy a digital a/v adapter for your tablet. That way you can mirror movies etc on your tv.
Be sure to immediately buy a screen protector for your new tablet. I didn’t and my almost new iPad Air with Retina display has a nice scratch on the glass. It sparkles colors when watching old B&W movies. I just bought a Zagg Glass protector. Too bad the horse already escaped the barn.
Put the protector on immediately after opening the box.
My bundle runs about the same. I am interested in options but many of the shows my wife watches are not available except thru cable.
Why would you switch from a nice TV screen to a tablet screen?
$35 Chromecast, sling any video you can pull up in a browser window to your TV, without cables. Cheap and easy.
$99 or less, Roku streaming box. Works more like traditional TV. 1400 channels of video. A little more expensive, but easier to use for technophobic people.
We are streaming White Christmas on the Roku right now. My boy grabbed the Chromecast and is streaming something else on his TV upstairs.
I have an antenna for local channels, free and easy.
Yep, keeping cable for a few local channels is not worth it...try out an antenna. May be as many as 50 free “OTA”(over-the-air) local/digital channels your local TV market (including the “Big 3” & Fox, “MEtv”/oldies, etc.. TVFool.com will give you channels & signal strength. (Just use your Zip Code if you are wary of giving your whole address on TVFool).
http://www.tvfool.com
and
http://disablemycable.com
Me too - My cableTV company just started requiring data decoder machines attached to every TV, and the added cost of renting the machinery from them just put me over the top. I only watch maybe five of the channels anyway, and often there just isn't anything on any of them that I care to watch... More often than not, the TV is muted or off, while I play something I DO want to watch on the laptop.
So my kid found me an old Vista era pancake style computer for 25 bucks... a decent little dual core with BlueRay DVD and HDMI inbuilt... I refurbished and reloaded it, and it now sits where the (non-blueray) DVD player used to sit... runs HDMI to the flat-screen, hard wired net gives me access to my local machines and internet. I run it by VNC from my laptop or from a wireless KB w/ inbuilt glide-pad... It has quickly become the multi-media hub for the house, containing my music and movie libraries, adding internet streamed music and movies too... It is SO awesome that I am kicking myself that I didn't do this years ago.
I am less than 75 bucks total into that setup, and that is paid for just by the savings from the rental of that TV's digital decoder for 10 months (not to mention the savings of the cableTV service itself yet).
It won't be very long at all and I will have a similar setup on every TV in the house, then it's seeya later CableTV. I am so very HAPPY to part ways.