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The "CRT TV" thread got me wondering how common it is for people to cut the expensive cable TV cord and rely on internet, OTA broadcast & other digital media to replace the "cable tv" experience?
Last summer we finally got fed up with the price of Comcast cable. We were on a fairly high tier (though no Showtime, HBO, Starz or anything) and the cable bill (including TV & cable internet) was $150/month. We cancelled the TV service and kept the cable internet (price went from $55/month to $65 because we no longer had TV service). It has been well worth it. I haven't missed cable TV one bit.
We have a blu-ray player and a Mac Mini hooked up to the big TV, so that provides any internet content that could be desired, including Netflix and iTunes for movies. There is so much content out there online to be found, even sports! My husband is a little irritated sometimes with trying to find sports to watch, but that's his problem, not mine (I'm a nerd, and would rather watch a documentary about string theory than a NBA game.) A old-fashioned set of bunny ears picks up almost 30 channels here. We did have to get converter boxes for our 2 older CRT TVs that don't have digital tuners, but that's not been any problem. We have an AppleTV (first gen) hooked up to the other flat-screen TV, which streams iTunes content from the Mac Mini, and an blu-ray player with wifi that does Netflix too. DVR software is readily available, if you want the DVR experience, though we haven't done that yet.
My brother dumped his satellite TV provider several years ago, and hasn't looked back either, and my parents have said they're dumping their sat TV service soon too. It's just too expensive, for so few channels that we actually watched! 150 channels and we maybe watched 15 of them regularly.
Any other experiences with canceling cable/satellite and going OTA broadcast and internet?
Last summer we finally got fed up with the price of Comcast cable. We were on a fairly high tier (though no Showtime, HBO, Starz or anything) and the cable bill (including TV & cable internet) was $150/month. We cancelled the TV service and kept the cable internet (price went from $55/month to $65 because we no longer had TV service). It has been well worth it. I haven't missed cable TV one bit.
We have a blu-ray player and a Mac Mini hooked up to the big TV, so that provides any internet content that could be desired, including Netflix and iTunes for movies. There is so much content out there online to be found, even sports! My husband is a little irritated sometimes with trying to find sports to watch, but that's his problem, not mine (I'm a nerd, and would rather watch a documentary about string theory than a NBA game.) A old-fashioned set of bunny ears picks up almost 30 channels here. We did have to get converter boxes for our 2 older CRT TVs that don't have digital tuners, but that's not been any problem. We have an AppleTV (first gen) hooked up to the other flat-screen TV, which streams iTunes content from the Mac Mini, and an blu-ray player with wifi that does Netflix too. DVR software is readily available, if you want the DVR experience, though we haven't done that yet.
My brother dumped his satellite TV provider several years ago, and hasn't looked back either, and my parents have said they're dumping their sat TV service soon too. It's just too expensive, for so few channels that we actually watched! 150 channels and we maybe watched 15 of them regularly.
Any other experiences with canceling cable/satellite and going OTA broadcast and internet?