Posted on 01/24/2015 6:36:09 AM PST by C19fan
I don’t want to just pick the channels that I pay for - I want to pick the sports that I pay for. About the only thing I follow these days is NCAA football.
I was a sports junky from ‘72 to about early 2000.
Then I realized, why am I following a bunch of guys that hate me. If one doesn’t realize that most of these athletes vote and actively support those that are blatantly destroying our Country and attacking us - or that they wear Hoodies to support Trayvon - or Hands Up for Mike Brown - will men here in the US ever learn?
No sane man can make excuses for this masochistic support. One thing you have to admire about blacks in this Country, they don’t put up with anyone or anything they deem racist. They stand up and fight.
Can’t say that about white folks today. They are experts in denying what’s being shown to them on a daily basis 24/7.
“All the expensive sports channels should be extra and not included in the base packages.”
Exactly.
I give a shi...er...Obama about the outcome of any sport event.
Ala Carte...the only way to get just what you want, and pay accordingly.
My brother just gets the Internet from his cable company and gets his tv entertainment from Netflix and Hulu and gets his home phone from vonage all pretty cheap
I have a Roku box hooked up to my TV and subscriptions to Amazon Prime and Netflix that amount to about $20 a month. That provides pretty much all the movies and TV shows I need and I get them all commercial free and uncut. I also like how they pick up where you leave off. For instance, if I'm watching Season 3, Episode 7 of "The Sopranos" and I turn the TV off halfway through the show, it will remember my place when I turn it back on, even if it's a month later and even if I watched a bunch of other stuff in between.
I don't miss the regular cable TV at all. All those hundreds of stations of the same old cooking shows and restaurant reality shows, and all the noise and commotion. I'm glad I don't have that anymore. All those local news shows blaring the latest murders and scandals. I've got the Internet to catch up on news and weather.
The only thing I might miss is watching the ball game but if I'm so inclined, there's a Buffalo Wild Wings (and other sports pubs) in my area with about a zillion TV screens and so on a Sunday afternoon, I might head over there and see the game over a plate of chicken wings and sipping on some microbrew beers.
All in all, not a bad existence at all. And I get to come home to a quiet and uncluttered house.
That’s pretty frustrating. I’m on Time-Warner and when I flip through the channels I see LOTS of sports channels, and I watch none of them. I think I watch about ten channels total of all the ones I have to pay for.
“I don’t miss the regular cable TV at all.”
I dropped the basic cable plan I had and lost only two channels with an antenna. I picked up several channels that show old movies. One channel’s daily program starts with 2 episodes of Wyatt Earp (Hugh O’Brian), 2 episodes of The Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore), 2 episodes Zorro. Later on that channel they have 2 episodes of The Rifleman, 2 episodes of Superman (George Reeves). As a retiree I’m reliving my childhood TV watching!
Then I saw their starter channels--4 local, 3 mexican, 3 shopping, 3 CSPAN, 2 TBS, 1 PBS and the CW.
PHEW, what worthless dreck!
I remember splitting the cable with Ma back about 1970, when we got it for $3 each a month, there were 12 channels, and it was a neat thing...and getting rid of that damn antenna WAS nice.
And, Detroit! Cleveland! Ghoulardi! Now, it's 600 channels, and nothin's on...
Exactly, but you need to understand that the government is already in it. Going a la carte .. allowing a la carte.. requires a change of laws and fcc regs that effectively prohibit it. It’s not so much a new law as getting rid of bad law and bad regs.
SlingTV is coming! That’s dish’s online streaming TV with ESPN, ESPN2, TNT, and several others for $20 a month. Start/stop when you want with no contracts (like Netflix). Start it up during college football season (3 months) then stop it until next year. SlingTV is the end of the stranglehold that cable/satellite providers have on sports fans.
Add a TiVo OTA DVR for 15 bucks/month and you have 20+ channels that you can schedule recording, pause, rewind, all the things you love.
Small cable operators are venting in blog posts and in letters to consumers that sports programming fees at ESPN are out of control. They’ve complained that the sports network forces them to take all-or-nothing bundles of ESPN channels, even if their customers aren’t interested in them.
Irony is so ironic. That is exactly what the cable providers do to their customers.
Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, A TV tuner PC card w/HD antenna and some DVR software and i will cut the cord.
Soon....soon
Popcorn Time
https://popcorntime.io/
It looks like Netflix but I believe links to sites that have recorded the shows.
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