Posted on 03/21/2018 6:19:55 PM PDT by EdnaMode
I did the same last summer. Don’t miss it at all.
Roku. We’sa doin it!
I need this info
Disney and Comcast are the parent corps of the malevolent MSM. Neither deserves a penny from the Citizen.
a la carte: cobblecord
Who do you get internet from
Haha. That was a typo on my part. :D
Where do you get internet from?
Anything they try now is far too late.
I’ll try that.
I don't miss hundreds of channels of crap loaded with commercials one bit!
I believe that this chord cutting is simply Cable TV packages. The Cable TV companies are simply becoming Internet Service Providers. Phone companies too, I guess.
Currently the cable and satellite providers force feed their customers, not only fixed content, but at viewing times you may not be able to or want to watch at.
But some of them will shift their business models to an a la carte format and survive.
Some companies will stay ahead of the technology curve and make it okay, while others may make the decision too late and have to close their doors. And new companies will replace them with better content and bells and whistles all the time.
Some of them will purchase or partner with the streaming services or start their own.
It's like the newspaper business. It's dying fast. But the internet versions will take their place. I haven't had a real newspaper in my hands to read for 15 years. But I still read parts of newspapers online almost daily.
Business in a capitalistic system is not static. It is dynamic.
Cable TV is full of liberal propaganda and it costs too much.
Does your viewing mean the whole family can sit down and watch your programming??
That's precisely the group.
The cord being cut is a virtual cord, not a physical coaxial or glass fiber cord. The cord is the TV portion of your cable service. You cancel that and receive your video over the internet — via YouTube, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, etc. You can put the cost of the canceled TV subscription towards a faster broadband connection.
Unless everyone is using their cell phones to watch movies.
That's certainly doable, and you don't have to watch the video on the phone's tiny screen. However, if the video content is coming over your phone's LTE connection, you'll need a big data allowance in your phone plan.
Some folks also get their landline phone service from the cable company. This is another cord to cut. Using, for example, Google Voice, you can run your landline phone service over the internet portion of your cable service.
If you cut both cords, the only one left is internet, and it's carrying your phone and TV as well as your web-surfing. That's more rational, because, in the end, phone, TV, and web-surfing are all just data.
I called Direct TV a year ago and told them I was going to disconnect unless they lowered our payment. They immediately dropped it from $68 to $12.40 for 12 months. This month I called since that deal expired and they gave me a one month extension at $14.40. I’m supposed to call back on the 26th to renegotiate. We are likely just going to dump the cable and hook up an antenna and then subscribe to Netflix.
Had the same bundle. Kept the landline and fast internet, dumped the TV service and bought a ROKU Ultra. Signed up with Hulu live and Amazon Prime. Saving $100 per month right off the bat. The amount of streaming channels available thru Roku is unbelievable and many are free.
Must admit there is a bit of a learning curve to navigating thru all that is available.
I’ve got you situation in reverse, sushiman.
My wife is from Sasebo and so we get the TVJapan satellite station. Next month, DishNetwork is dumping TVJapan and AT&T is picking it up on their DirecTV satellite.
Fortunately our cable provider here in Georgia can supply TVJapan. I watch no U.S. TV, but I get a kick out of Japanese programming as a diversion, such as the Taiga dramas.
Maybe I’m just about the only one but, I get sling or Vue for the 4 months per year of college football season and I get nothing the other 8 months.
Oh I watch plenty of TV....documentaries mostly. It’s just that I can download just about any TV program I want from YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, Veoh, or torrents. I store them on one terabyte external hard drives until I watch them then delete. I watch what I want, when I want for free with no commercials. I’ve been doing it for years. There is lots of great free content out there. Plenty of good programs from British, Canadian, Australian channels in addition to US channels.
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