The SEC Channel starts up in August and one of their first broadcasts will be the Kentucky men’s basketball Big Blue Bahamas exhibition tour. 
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Yeah there is one down side to cutting the cord. (Or maybe it is really an upside...)
I can't watch Live TV now. The commercials annoy me so much I just leave the room or start reading my Kindle. Over Thanksgiving I was at the In-laws House and they had the NFL game on and I could not watch it. We watch all our games now over the net in time delayed mode so we don't need to watch Commercials. Even the Super Bowl is unwatchable for me in real time now.
Yo ho ho and a Game of Thrones, FRiend. I’d be shocked if it took 12 hours to hit the public trackers.
Personally I’m just reading it, but that’s because I’m too antsy to sit around and watch stuff anymore.
The SEC Channel starts up in August and one of their first broadcasts will be the Kentucky men’s basketball Big Blue Bahamas exhibition tour.
We cut it completely - put up an outdoor antenna and can pull in a surprising number of high quality digital stations. The average quality is higher then DTV had for example. For most other stuff we can get it online, or go with dvd. The Public Library often has the latest DVDs for free but you may have to wait for them.
We do not miss DTV at all.
What web site did you use?
Anyone here use Roku? We’ve been thinking of doing that. Our DirecTV bill is $92 and we’re getting a discount because I complained about the high cost. We have not the basic package, but the one just above that.
We have Time Warner Internet Non-business and I have no complaints. The three of us can stream Netflix/Amazon/Hulu at the same time on different TVs/Devices and still get a sharp HD pic. Its much cheaper too we pay 54 bucks a month and I still get almost 8MBPS on the independent speed test site while all three of us are streaming video at the same time.
How can I drop DirecTV and still get college football? If there’s a way, I’m in!
“My main problem with cable is the fact that I pay for hundreds of channels I don’t watch because its the only way to get the dozen I do watch.”
It bothers me, also, that I would be paying for soft porn, which is another reason why I have antenna TV for free.
Do you want to build a snowman?
They change. We don't download them until they are available for purchase so we just do a net search about an hour after the show airs and someone is always streaming it. The sites that do it are all overseas and they change weekly.
Fox College Sports is a network you can watch via Hulu. Not sure if that shows what you want, but it might be worth checking out.
I have all of that plus two golf channels and numerous home shopping channels.
I dropped my landline phone and satellite TV and saved $200 a month. I just paid my car off a few months early and that’s $500 a month I now don’t have to worry about.
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What about sec college football games?
do you want them right away or they can wait?
Amazon Prime has a new relationship with HBO and they are putting their series up for free. GoT is not there, yet.
We don't do College Ball we just watch the NFL via their net package But I bet someone has such available. The NFL package is like 69 bucks for every game of the season.
I dropped DirectTV....the other day.
We just finished our first year “traditional” TV free. We do have Netflix, Amazon Prime and something else. But, I watch TV so much less. I don’t turn it on in the morning, and if it is just me in the evenings, I may not turn it on then either.
If I could get all my college football, game of thrones and the walking dead, I would tell dish network to go jump in the lake.
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