Looks like I “need’ a dictionary too, :-)!
I bought a plug in to 110 AC antenna and get over a dozen channels that I still don’t watch. Drop cable until they make service available with no channels except the ones you choose to have, which will never happen because they use your membership to get advertising monies. It is like using centurylink.net for email. They load their ads continuously so you cannot esacpe the dead-head ads or the regime propaganda, like nothing but queers klissing and smiling as they destroy the nation that allowed them to exist in the first place.
Just do it.
All you need is a library card,
I finally went to Netflix, after 25 years or so without watching anything but DVDs, as they have a good amount of documentaries and I need something quasi brainless for working out, but overall I wouldn’t be sad if every last TV and radio station stopped working forever this instant.
i did years ago... there is too much free stuff on the internet AND ‘how to’ videos on youtube (which i love)
The day after my mother passed away I disconnected Direct TV. That’s about $90/month to spend on other things like ammo, junk silver, etc.
Got ROKU for streaming audio and music. I think it is $20-30/month.
Don’t miss the rest at all. Live in the mountains and so don’t have normal reception and have to rely in the I’net.
I use Chromecast and from that I can get lots of shows I watch from YouTube, Daily Motion, Hulu, Netflix and BitTorrent if all else fails.
Tons of classic TV shows, international news programs, and documentaries are posted to YouTube to the point where I watch stuff from there most of the time. I’ve totally forgot regular TV exists until I visit my parents.
Antenna for local channels. Your options for other stuff are wide open. Smart TVs can tune in a lot of material, as can smart BluRay players. I use Roku because of it’s simplicity and wide range of available channels. I pay $8 per month for Netflix and 8 for Hulu. You can subscribe to a wide variety of sports channels too. SlingTV has 4 ESPN channels and other stuff for around 20 per month.
We’re way out in the country; no cable, nothing, just the tee-vee with what ever channels it happens to pick up. -
AND, IT’S MORE THAN ENOUGH !
I cut, dumped most TV watching, and got a Roku2, and pretty much quit watching any scheduled programming. I have Amazon Prime, we watch some stuff there, often we throw content from our smart phones and YouTube to the TV to watch free as a built in function of the Roku. I do have the “Mohu Leaf” antenna for over the air TV, but haven’t watched it in about a year. And then we still have a ton of DVDs and the DVD player, but haven’t purchased a DVD in a long while. Good luck, there are a ton of choices, this is the one that worked for us.
I would go with Netflix, your over-the-air local channels, and just an internet connection. I admit....having Fox News, TMC, and the History channel would be nice, but the idiots don’t package small like this together.
I would note this in Europe. Netflix has arrived and the under-30 crowd are flocking to that offering....triggering a downward spiral for cable-TV and state-run TV. It might take twenty years but I think most state-run TV operations in Germany and a few other countries will cease to exist.
If my job ever goes south and on a tighter budget I will dump the Dish. And Verizon too.
No history on the pawn stars and ancient aliens channel. No science on the science channel. No news on the news channels. No sci-fi on the horror movie channel that sometimes has wrestling.
No TV since 1994. My children lived through it. I recommend it. I can predict hurricanes and weather as well as the TV weather-readers do. One way or another I hear about the wars around the world.
All you need is a library card and FreeRepublic.
Oldplayer
We got rid of our cable over two years ago, and we haven’t missed it. We have Netflix, and our local cable provider still gives us the local channels, CSPAN, PBS, and a few others for free.
Sprint offers those channels in packages that cost $10/month, and you can stream over your WiFi and onto your television from your phone (really only most practical for single person). This does not use your data allowance, by the way.
There are Internet-based streaming websites to consider. One had, I think, virtually all of the channels you described. It was offered by a Christian-oriented business.
I’m in the youtube camp. So much good stuff there. Free.
Besides, cable means you are sitting too much.
I cut it off completely back in January. Nobody in my family misses it.
Check out the ROKU box and Netflix/Hulu Plus/Amazon Prime.
More sources are jumping into the streaming video, so look for changes in pricing and offerings in the coming months.
Of course, you will need a good Internet connection to make use of streaming video.
Cox Cable just upped their middle-range plan from 20 to 50 Mbps and from 250 to 350 Gb up+downloading per month. They are preparing for more 4k video offerings.
CBS, HBO, STARZ, Showtime are some that are in the process of developing Internet offerings that are separate from cable/satellite.
Note that many of the ‘regular’ cable channels can be accessed via Internet, but many of those do require a cable TV subscription. Collusion on the part of networks and cable/satellite.
Some sports concerns (NHL, MLB, NFL, etc.) offer standalone service through various devices (android tablets, ROKU and similar gadgets, etc.). MLB does state that they may black out some broadcast areas and those blackouts could include the Internet service. [That seems ridiculous to me, since I am on the fringe — 300 miles away — and my purpose in subscribing would be for games the cable company won’t broadcast.]
I don’t watch TV but I watch sports via Comcast on my computer.