Posted on 11/22/2016 6:00:43 AM PST by RKBA Democrat
I’ve been trying to convince the wife for about two years. 90% of everything we watch is on streaming media. She still has a hard time breaking from the news. I have had a difficult time convincing her that it’s all on the internet.
Sounds too good to be true. Link?
Good for you! That’s a significant savings.
We have Dish and it’s currently $50.00 a month for a reasonable package - and my Dish contact is superb.
We cannot receive OTA in our location due to our location on the side of a mountain and we are in the shadow of virtually every antenna in our valley. We cannot even receive local radio...
Only in the last half-year or so have we been able to receive internet faster than 1.5 MB and we now have 5 MB and it’s great.
I can’t imagine cutting the cable for us with our location and lack of access to OTA...
I have cable internet as well. Paying about $40 a month plus $10 for netflix. More TV than I’d ever want to watch. No cable TV though. Let them sell CNNMSNBC to someone else.
You still need Internet from cable.
Cut the cable TV this last summer. Only use Charter for internet connection at $39.95 a month instead of previous $165!!! Love it, should have cut it sooner.
I understand; when if works for people, it’s a huge savings. We are apparently in a pretty ideal location for OTA, so we have a little antenna to bring in some stations.
But my brother is about 30 miles away and surrounded by hills and buildings that make it far from ideal for him.
#11 Purposeful Viewing vs. Passively Watching Garbage
Very well put. I gave up cable a dozen years ago, and it changes the way you watch tv.
Now, that being said, I don't have "cable TV;" I have cable Internet. I don't have any recourse in Central Indiana. It's either DSL (which where I am is pretty slow), or a cable connection. The costs are about $75.00 a month versus $120 or so for both.
Exactly.
You Tube also has the full night’s election coverage from just about all of the news organizations. You can fast forward through the evening and watch the mood change as the results come in.
One thing I wasn’t aware of, the Clinton people were all over the place at first, then around 9pm they disappeared completely and never came back. One reporter called it ‘radio silence.’
You might get a subscription to OANN. Can get it direct for about $5 mo. Or I think sling TV offers it. All the news without the leftwing bias.
You can check out brief snippets on youtube if you want a sample.
What about the 4k tv’s out there. 65”. Any use for them?
Yes. But its the difference of paying $40 a month for cable internet and $150 or more for lots of stuff you don’t watch and don’t want to subsidize. I would have cable internet anyway so the cost difference for me is what I pay for netflix.
Some places have other services like google wire or FIOS. It just depends on what you have available.
Roku has OANN.
I’ve never had cable. Better stuff is free on the net. Good books are still around too. And hobbies. If I ever get bored by my piano I’ll learn how to play a guitar. Then there’s blogging and volunteer work. Gardening.
If you have kids it’s even easier to live without cable.
I’m too much of a sports fan to drop cable. Sure, I could be a criminal and steal a game broadcast online, but that doesn’t solve the problem of how to flip between multiple games at one time.
How did cable morph into an undesireable monopoly?
When did the connection owner get to dictate content?
Does Verizon dictate smartphone content? Somewhat but limited.
ISP cannot censor your websites. How can cable?
Trump could End the Monopolies, please.
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