Posted on 10/12/2018 7:47:37 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
It is doing GREAT. We have done Roku and installed YouTube TV on our Samsung Smart TV and we don't even MISS cable at all. Should have done this YEARS(or when Roku came out) ago! Need to turn in all of our cable boxes/remotes though.
I did all of that last week. Added Hulu and OAN and am good to go.
We did it about 4 months ago, love it!
In the interest of FULL Disclosure we DID keep COX Internet but are looking for viable alternatives to that too.
I’ll go you one better. Mrs. QNQ and I don’t even have an internet connection in the house. We do all our TV watching with an OTA antenna. Sure, there are a few show that we would watch on cable, but we can’t see spending $50-$75-$100 per month to do it - and slog through all the unwanted channels just to get there.
You are not really going to find another way to obtain internet unless you buy a really expensive dish and become your own provider. It’s only slightly easier to do than building your own automobile to not support the corrupt auto industry
We live in a rural area and the cable company jacks ups the internet rates by a factor of three if bubdled services are terminated. Our margins is only a twenty dollars difference once other service is added back.
Of course we have no competitor.
We dumped TV in 1997. I admit that if I liked TV sports it would have been a problem.
I had so much free time that I picked up a few new hobbies. I became a bass player and have been in 12 bands since then. We’ve always had a TV but used it to watch dvd’s and BlueRays.
Then we got a “smart” tv about 18 months ago and also discovered that our Amazon prime membership came with free video. So now we stream stuff on demand, when we feel like it. We’ve rediscovered a lot of old TV and movies and caught up on “good stuff” we had never seen. We just watched Phenomenon a couple of nights ago. I had no idea what an awesome movie that was.
We tried to get into some of the modern TV shows but most of them are just time wasting soap operas. I suppose that has a draw if you have to wait a week between episodes. But when you can watch an entire season at your leisure, it becomes pretty apparent they take WAY too long to tell the story.
Case in point: I had heard about a show called “Walking dead” that people rave about. I decided to watch the very first episode last night. I watched most of it. It was well done, but the story took too long to progress. And when I considered how many episodes there would be I shut it off. Same thing happened early on with The Dome. Looked pretty cool in the first half hour, but it quickly turned into a “relationsips based” soap opera, with a bit of sci-fi thrown in every 20 minutes or so to keep the males watching.
I mostly stick to movies.
We completely leapfrogged the cable era.
What do you do for Internet service?ML/NJWhat channels do you watch? (ESPN, NBC, etc)
Beside the TV, what do you have to spend and how often?
Has anyone tried Direct Tv Now? I’m kind of leaning to that but have read some bad reviews, so am not sure.
There is SO MUCH FREE CONTENT online!!!
YouTube training videos, documentaries, old movies, and so much more.
I learned how to wire a 3 way light switch, fix my car, fix the clutch on my motorcycle, do concrete, build a dormer, write MVVM software, etc etc
AND tons of UFO videos!!!
We did the same but went with Sling TV, after awhile we realized we didn’t need that. Mrs. Danderdoc has signed up for the Hallmark channel to watch the Christmas movies and I generally just watch something on YouTube.
Gave up on Netflix a couple of years ago.
Install a HDTV antenna for local channels. Local news and sports.
I will never understand why people think that anyone would be interested in someone else’s utility bills, but the obsession over where one gets one’s TV images from seems to be powerful.
You still have to have Internet.
How much does your internet cost?
I did keep my internet. It wouldn’t work without it.
I cut this about 3 years ago and never looked back. I know I’ve saved several grand and a bunch of irritation.
I think in 5 years time or so, you will have a few choices when 5G internet/tv becomes mainstream and no need for cable. Some healthy competition in the future.
5G will be how you finally cut the cord.
Gigabit speeds even in rural areas by all of the cellular companies will force cable to either compete or fail.
I am currently using a service called Layer 3 TV. It’s like having satellite or cable, with real time channels, but it’s delivered entirely over the internet.
I see a huge future for internet channel streaming where customers can pay a-la-carte for the channels they want and simply not pay for the channels they don’t.
If you still want cable channels, you can subscribe to a service like PlayStation Vue and watch through your Roku.
Another service is Sling TV. There are alternatives to Hulu.
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