"...three years"
Posted on 03/06/2019 9:00:16 AM PST by EdnaMode
I would think that streaming would have killed cable almost overnight. It is so mindbogglingly superior.
People are just sick and tired of anti-Trump 24/7.
I dropped DISH, they offer 3 “packages” that didn’t appeal to my needs. They need to offer ala carte channels at a reasonable price, perhaps $1/channel per month with perhaps a $25/month minimum and then I would subscribe.
"...three years"
I use DirectTV Now on an ATT DSL line.
It works pretty well at 20Mbps.
Pretty much all the same content for about half the price of Spectrum (Charter).
Yep, why pay to get abused.
I should also say that most people are sick and tired for paying for ESPN channels and Disney channels.
The thing that keeps them alive is you have to pay the cable company anyhow as they are also your ISP.
So you are really not saving that much by streaming.
Streaming for anything live is a pain. And even non-live, streaming services are cheap until you get a bunch. The smart cable companies are leveraging the stream. Cox DVRs can connect to Netflix and Youtube. They even have the search hooked into them, so you can search for a show, it’ll find episodes on Netflix, OnDemand, and soon to be broadcast. Pretty impressive actually.
For ESPN (or as Clay Travis calls it MSESPN) as well.
A $15 digital antenna about the size of a sheet of paper gets our daughter close to 30 HD channels where she lives.
I haven’t had cable or Dish in over 15 years. Don’t miss it a bit.
OTA TV has plenty to watch, and we rent or borrow DVDs from the Library or find TV series at Goodwill. I think the last movies we saw in a theater were TLOTR series because Beau wanted to see them in 3-D, which was cool, except, of course, for 3-D Orcs! Eeek!
Even Dear Old Mom, at 82, switched from Dish to basic cable for internet and TV - saving herself $100 a month. (My Step-Dad, RIP, had ALL the bells and whistles on his Dish package.)
I don’t use cable and don’t have a phone land line. All of my internet and Amazon Primve video usage, as well as Netflix, is through my AT&T phone as a hotspot. Works great. I even work from home at my job occasionally using both VDI and VPN.
We live in the sticks.
9 years for me ...
Why send ammo to your enemy every month?
I have books.
I don’t need a TV.
We got more reliable audio-video at higher quality back when we were picking up VHS tapes at Blockbuster.
Do you have to have an ATT DSL to use Direct TV Now? I have Century Link.
We got more reliable audio-video at higher quality back when we were picking up VHS tapes at Blockbuster.
And before cell phones, did you ever hear someone on a landline say, to the person on the other end, “Can you hear me now?”
Can you post the make and model of that antennae?
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