Posted on 10/12/2018 7:47:37 AM PDT by US Navy Vet
My wife and I did get hooked on Suits. However, somewhere around season three it stopped being a great court drama show and became a soap opera with a law office as a mere backdrop. My wife kept watching, but it was difficult for me.
I ditched Dish Network ($109/mo) for DTVN ($40/mo for all the channels we generally watched) several months ago. It has gotten consistently better and we are very pleased with it and the $69/mo (less taxes) we save.
Yup, it has a very nice interface, works on other devices than Playstations too.
Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV and Android boxes with 4.4 or better.
I checked and it is not available at wither if the houses we own in VA or NC.
I’ve been in the ROKU/YouTube camp for years now.
Cutting the cable was one of the best things we ever did. Saved a bunch of money, and we get to watch what we want, when we want it.
HULU also ran public service commercials for NO Bama Care plus standard commercials plus charged a monthly fee. FT!ATHTRIO
Seriously thinking about getting Layer3. Very impressive product, IMO.
LOL!
Went ROKU and Netflix 2 years ago.
Saved over a $150 a month without DirecTV. Don't miss a thing the liberal partisans are spewing out for us to believe.
All the news I ever need is right here on FR.
bookmarked for later
I've never understood the term "cable cutter" or "cord cutter" since the streaming device has to receive the stream from somewhere, usually the cable TV provider.
I used to have a DSL from ATT but it's not nearly fast enough for streaming.
I have Roku as well. If you like British murders mystery TV series there a lot on Britbox, which is only $5.99/month.
I haven’t had cable for 5 years. People asked how I can live without it. Well it’s not a necessity, so living without it really isn’t that hard.
Paying for cable and satellite TV is like buying oil from the Middle East. We are giving money to groups that want a future filled with progressives, socialists who will rid the nation of the deplorable people that they hate so much.
Encouraging people to cut their bill is fighting back against those who hate us. Many are in their TV rut and are afraid to cut the cord.
We’ve been getting ACORN TV since it became available. Best British and Empire TV. Easy to use interface. Good customer service. $49.99/year when bought by the year.
OTA here also, and we get more TV than we care to watch.
We are cancelling Sling at the end of this month, since the SF Giants didn’t make the playoffs. I should have cancelled last month.
Prime TV is our tv provider via Comcast Business internet. We pay $110 a month for blazing fast internet and two phone lines/numbers with free calls everywhere. We live on a cul de sac where a large number of kids go to college. Every Friday/weekend, holidays and during the summer time, regular Comcast slows down with these kids and their younger siblings using the Comcast wifi and internet. Our Comcast Business has no slowdown.
We pay for $5/month CBS shows, we watch about 10 of their shows, zero ABC/NBC/Fox shows. Zero sports and zero cable/net work news. We can watch the CBS shows live or on demand.
We donate $5/month to PBS and get a ton of current Brit and past Brit shows. We now get Masterpiece on live and on demand.
Also, we pay $5 a month for Acorn tv via Prime for more Brit shows/movies. We have been paying about the same for Hallmark and may drop it.
Tubi tv is free, and they do run commercials.
Our total monthly cost will be about $125/month, which includes internet, email and phones.
Some friends in this area have gotten price quotes for their latest basic Comcast renewal package. They will be paying $335 at a minimum/month next year.
Here in Canada I need Fox News. I lose that if I cut cable sadly.
“A plain-vanilla Android tv box with Kodi and addons would work even better.”
I tried that, but it’s not only very complex, the services that are available disappear without warning. I was never able to get live tv to work properly with Kodi.
I have ATT direct tv and you still pay the fee. I have package, home phone (which is not much used), internet and direct TV. I watch about 2 channels on all that... monthly fee, $115. This was for 2 years and it’s up in May.. leaving ATT then.
I have nothing but trouble from the first day.. They dug a huge ditch all the way through our subdivision to lay ATT cable. They cut in my watering line, and when I left comcast, to go to ATT, I thought I’d be connected to the box in the yard they put from the cable. But they came out with a huge dish. No one told me there would be a dish and no one told me there would be 2 separate installers for all this.
Someone ordered a disconnect and when I got my bill it was for $400+ for the disconnect and reconnect. Of course I was on the phone.. have been on the phone many times since, keeping them at what they promised. I have not been satisfied... when a heavy cloud comes over, the dish loses contact. etc and etc.
Got a call 2 days ago offering me the same for $84 and 3 yr contract. NOPE.. won’t do it. My son has ROKU and an antenna... he has comcast for internet.. and they still keep raising prices.
He also said verizon is coming out with something that will put comcast/xfinity out of business. Don’t remember what it was, but someone here must know.
YouTube alone has enough content to last me the rest of my life and they are adding THOUSANDS of hours of new videos every hour! Granted, a lot of it is crap but even if 99% of it was crap, you would still not have enough time in your life to watch even a fraction of the remaining 1%.
Almost every documentary ever made is available on YouTube. Just about every vintage movie or TV show. Virtually every song ever recorded - not just the official MTV video but live versions, alternate takes, cover versions...
That's just scratching the surface of what's out there. So how does YouTube get away with it? You notice now that almost all copyrighted material now requires you to watch an ad. So the content providers get revenue which is fine by me. In many cases, you can click past the ad after the first five seconds.
Traditional television is dead. They just don't realize it yet. It's sort of like where the music industry was in 2000. Most people were still buying their music on compact discs even though the handwriting was on the wall. Within a decade, everybody would be streaming and downloading and CDs went the way of the 8-track.
I also have Netflix and Amazon Prime Video but those are luxuries. I could easily cut back on those and just rely on YouTube alone.
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