I am tired of being nickel and dimed to death as the last fallback on societies ills. My DirectV bill is $142 now (risen incrementally from the $99 package I got years ago. All the premium extra channels are just reruns of bad movies, putrid crap like Bill Maher, Babs, Gore, hagged out liberal starts, and that shithead Michael Moore.
I'll just go with local cable, network and phone bundle and Netflix plus the new BRDs that I really want to see.
[Come to think of it, there's a lot of other needless crap I pay for each month. When I retire in December I'm gonna slim those bills: ADT (won't need it), TRUGREE/CHEMLAWN, my extra iPhone account, cut the mileage on my car/truck for insurance (35K/year), caller ID/home wiring service/etc....probably a bunch of other stuff too.] I'm done doing my part to keep the economy up for a nation half full of leech losers.
I’m with Beck on this one. He left and I will be doing so soon as well. I purchased the Roku device and like it well enough to find other sources to receive the programming I choose to watch. I am tired of scrolling down the long list of crap TV in the hopes of finding anything useful.
As I am involved with racing in a big way, I really want to retain Speed but will give it up. I’ll need to find subscriptions for the stuff I want to watch including SEC and college football on ESPN.
About a year ago we dropped DirecTV because they refused to address an equipment problem. (DVR Box constantly glitched not recording programs or when it did they would not playback.) They sent me two replacement boxes (refurbs) and they would have the same issues with even more problems (box would just shut off or freeze up).
I asked that my bill be reduced for the two months I had issues and until they addressed the problem. They said they couldn't do that so we dropped them for Time Warner.
When I talked with Time Warner I told them what package I had with DirecTV and wanted something the same with them. I got almost the same package for cheaper (though it would be 1080I instead of 1080P) When they quoted me the price I asked them 4 times if the price was an introductory offer. Every time they answered no this was the everyday price.
A few weeks ago we got a bill increase of 600 Bucks a year. When we asked why the girl told us our introductory offer was up. Well that did it. I've a friend who is converting old Sat dishes into HD antennas. He has about got mine ready (we are getting two) That will get us local channels and NFL football. We will use the Internet for anything else. We are done with paying out the nose for programming we don't watch.