Posted on 08/11/2015 2:54:15 PM PDT by Dacula
The largest swindle big business ever played on the American people — forcing us to pay huge cable bills for dozens of channels we never watch — is slowly coming apart. Even with an ever-increasing population, the pay TV industry (cable and satellite) lost a net 566,000 subscribers last quarter. When you add in Q1, that’s a total of 887,000 lost customers in just six short months. There is just no question that customers are getting tech savvy and budget savvy. The result is a growing wave of cord-cutters (last quarter was the second biggest drop in pay TV customers in history
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Cut the cord...
Been cable free for years and don't miss a show or the bias.
10 Free TV/Movie sites
see above
No competition was permitted in the name of “we don’t need no stinkin’ regulations”. And this is what you get.
The problem isn’t government, the problem is Liberal government.
99% of my TV watching comes from about 10 channels. Ala carte is in the future.
Get a over the air tv antenna like MOHU Leaf for a Smart tv (has network port and a few HDMI and usb ports) and internet only plus a ROKU3 box, download app for Sling tv to ROKU then pay $20/month then $5 for add’ll programming. $15/month for HBO (too expensive) https://www.sling.com/signup/channels?var=b
From Sling website: Watch for only $20/mo. Best of Live TV and sports, plus new movies, breaking news, and more. With ESPN, TNT, TBS, AMC, Adult Swim, Disney Channel (ROKU already has 2) Food Network, HGTV, Cartoon Network, Polaris+, and others. Featuring SportsCenter, NBA on TNT, Chopped, Property Brothers, Adventure Time, and so much more!
ROKU also has more shows to download you might like. Most free.
https://channelstore.roku.com/browse/movies-and-tv/popularity
Why pay $60, $70 or more for cable tv that has the same channels and for network tv have lower screen resolution due to compression. The only difference is you end up using 2 remotes and change channels a bit differently. One more thing is to get Netflix and or Amazon Prime. Both are cheap at about $8/month.
2001 here. After a short period of withdrawl, it’s all good. Far ... F A R better in fact.
Not paying for your own demise is an empowering thing.
Cable could have been a good thing. But like everything else liberals touch, they ruined it.
The FOX ‘debate’ is only the latest debacle to cause more to grab those scissors and ‘cut the cord’.
2004 for this household.
We live too far from Atlanta proper to get OTA signal. I like the Sling idea.
Recently had 2 PCs fail and had to move to Chromecast.
My husband has to watch the Golf channel and like HGTV. Pretty soon we’re going to both be watching football. So how do you do that with no cable?
I am in withdrawals over FOX - but I’ll get through it with FR.
People watch the darndest things. My did sits all day and watches people house hunting. Think about that. I saw a show on where a guy was fixing a bolt on a bulldozer with dramatic music and all.
There is something called WWW.TVADDONS.AG - also named KODI.
My Russian tech guy set it up - said you can watch anything for free. I haven’t done it yet but plan on trying. When he was here he found Game of Thrones available. I refuse to pay for HBO.
I could literally watch episodes of “How It’s Made” all day.
The problem with cable TV is I pay to have the trash taken out, not delivered...
....”Been cable free for years and don’t miss a show or the bias”....
Myself as well.... saved a “bundle” of money and get all I want and need right on my computer....or pop in a cd movie of my favorites here.
My family says that they will disown me if I watch one episode.
However, if they ‘want’ something or it’s my birthday - guess who gets to watch How it’s made? :)
I could literally watch episodes of “How It’s Made” all day.
How It’s Made
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjHsPBHX1NNbIqTy4eXVTig
never had a chord, or a tv. no problem.
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