Posted on 11/01/2017 9:53:28 AM PDT by oh8eleven
Cord-cutting, or at least the speed at which people are ditching pay TV, is on track to be the biggest upset of the year. There’s finally a collection of cheap-ish streaming services widely available, and as you’d imagine, people are jumping ship from cable as fast as humanly possible.
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I dropped cable service several weeks ago - saving me $85 a month. Unfortunately, my internet service (through the cable provider) still takes a $70 bite every 30 days.
Dish Network did that to me too back years ago. I gave them the customary 30 day notice after the contract was fulfilled and still had to argue with them so as not to pay a bogus penalty fee which their agent assured me would not be charged, but was.
Cord cut direct tv, couldn’t justify the expense and my statement to espn.
“Amazon Prime is my one guilty pleasure for watching tv.”
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So you fund Jeff Bezos and his Washington Post then?
All Righty Then.
(not really intending to snark at ya. just pointing out there is no escape from liberals and the empires they created)
Verizon FiOS is better than Xfinity (Comcast). However FiOS isnt everywhere. Verizon DSL sucks horribly.
Look at all the taxes associated with each service. Local, State and Federal.
When those start to drop off, the blood suckers will be gunning to raise the taxes on your internet.
When my wife found out she could get the Hallmark channel on Sling,that did it.
Remind me: When you say “You remind me of me,” you remind me of me.
AT&T highspeed is quite good.
Ours too id lov o get rid f it but the ife likes her silly a$$ shows
Locally, we had only two choices for internet; AT&T over the phone line, and Comcast over the cable. However, recently a provider called Metronet started laying fiber optic cable in the neighborhood utility easements to run fiber optic directly to your home. They are primarily an internet provider although they have TV packages. So, there will be a third option, and being fiber instead of copper, they should offer a lot more speed.
They are having some infrastructure problems, though. Their unlicensed contractors who laid the cable were cutting gas lines and leaving lawns looking like World War 1 trench systems. Several communities issued stop work orders until they can get licensed contractors and provide assurances they won’t blow up the neighborhood. However, if they stop cutting corners and get the fiber run, I’ll pay for fiber optic service. And they will kill AT&T and Comcast who are tied to 1970s infrastructure. And then we’ll just have one big company to deal with.
What could go wrong with that?
Omg that is too funny, mine too! She wouldn’t let go of Directv until she could get Hallmark.
Long time Directv customer here. It started at $35 a month for nice channel package, no premium channels, 2 tv’s twenty years ago. Now for 3 tv’s and an even lesser package I am pushing $100. At one point Directv had me approaching $150 a month.
My contract expires in March and unless they change their tune I am gone to Amazon firestick as I now have unlimited internet at my home.
I had the exact same experience almost three months ago. Charter Spectrum mailed me yet another offer of TV, Internet and Phone service for only $29.99 a month (of course, that will be a limited time introductory offer) with no contract requirement.
I pointed out to the customer service associate I was talking to when I cut the TV from my service that their homepage had incredible prices being offered for the service I already had (TV and Internet), and she replied that the offers were for new customers. I knew this of course, but responded that I didn’t appreciate subsidizing new customer rates nor did I appreciate the absurd cost that continually rose over the years.
In the end, I looked at their offer in the mail yesterday and just laughed at it. I don’t need it, nor miss it. I’m saving over $100 a month and I’m very happy about it.
Barrier for me still remain sports . The NHL and MLB made the post season challenging as a cord cutter. The.NCAA makes their product impossible without cable.
I haven’t cared about the NFL outside the Steelers for decades. This year the Steelers made it easy not to care about them.
I told my wife when AT&T bought Directv it would go to hell rather quickly and I was quite correct. Higher prices, snotty customer reps and piss poor onsite customer service. I had a land line with these douchebags and they were just awful. A big snow storm came through a few years back and brought our lines down. We drove over them for nearly a month and they would call me at work and tell me my lines were now working I would be like really, when, oh this morning. I see, then how come I drove across them to go home during my lunch hour? Hey here is a thought, try and give my home phone a call and see how quick you get a busy signal with no one there. Oh we are so sorry it will be repaired by tomorrow evening. Four weeks of this piss poor service along with the lies. I finally called a family friend who was an engineer with them and he got my service restored in 12 hrs.
AT&T is like a cancer, it destroys everything it touches.
“There is just an amazing amount of content on YouTube and the quality of the video is much improved on the TV.”
Hah! The wife and I are looking at purchasing a travel trailer. I found a dealer up in Michigan that does 10-15 minute YouTube reviews of many models/brands. Very complete reviews right down to pulling out drawers, opening cabinets, swinging the installed TVs out on their swing-arm brackets, crawling under the bed, flipping lights on/off, sliding the exterior gas cooktop out of it’s exterior compartment. We spent a couple hours watching last night and have narrowed it down to 2-3 “couple campers” (as he calls them). Saved us literally days of driving around and being tortured by sales people.
His prices are reasonable, so I would consider him for the purchase even though he’s out of state for us.
We used to get three channels through the antenna. Since the stations have dialed back their coverage area, we can’t get any. It’s cable or nothing. Internet here stinks so that’s not really an option.
Many keep cable for football games. Wonder how many have cut the cord this season.
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