Trying to watch the NCAA tournament was absolutely ridiculous. Two minutes of basketball followed by five minutes of commercials.
Anything I want to watch I get off the net. Don’t need cable—they’re worse than the old “Maw Bell” phone company in terms of customer service.
TV providers will change to keep up
but the govt regulations on them make them carry so many of the channels that no one wants to watch anyway.
The religious lobby is very strong and it makes the govt. force the CATV providers carry those channels no one wants to watch. So it flows down if the catv companies carry those then why not carry the others...
its kinda a double edged sword too cause the CATV companies are the primary provider of High speed internet..
IMO streaming is over-rated because the quality is mediocre. However, paying a lot for channels one never watches is a terrible idea; and it is costing the cable/satellite companies in this economy. They need to get into a la carte programming.
You got that right John.
TV used to be "free".
Now they got all the tax paying peon to pay to watch their commercials, which have already been paid for.
45 years ago, they told ya it would all be commercial free, for a small fee.
it's one of the biggest con jobs ever.
There are 100 million Cable TV subscribers in North America. There’s a ways to go before cord cutters make a significant dent in this. When you can get the full gamut of live sports without cable, then you will see a bigger number opting out. I don’t see that happening in the foreseeable future.
They are about to lose another one... Me!
We are checking out Antennas so we can get our football games. Once we get them installed we are dropping Time Warner TV cable but will keep their Internet.
The raised our bill over 600 bucks a year. I'm not paying that when I can get all the same stuff by using Hulu, Netflix and Amazon for a sixth of what Time Warner Charges me a month for TV.
Just like the newspapers. The cable company bravely keeps putting crap on the tv and wondering why nobody is watching it.
I’m one of them, I dumped TV!!! Currently, I use an antenna and Channel Master HD/DVR with dual tuners to pick up/DVR around 45 free OTA stations. Couple that with netflix, and my family now watches a lot less TV, but we enjoy the little we do watch. No more mindlessly watching Pawn Stars, Chopped, Storage Wars, etc..
I recommend it for all.
The only issue is the cable sports, and even that can be worked around. For the naysayers when it comes to that, it’s the only time I am actually forced to watch commercials ;)
hulu commercials are too creapy to entice me to go to their product. (not with so many other options)
We’ve never had cable. Probably never will. We have an old fashioned TV Antenna. With a $30 power booster, we’re able to get about 25 channels.
Kids get movies from the library or Redbox. We haven’t done the Hulu thing too much but probably will soon.
When I travel for work, I find that I only watch a few channels anyway. FOX, Discovery, History, SPEED.
Satelite tv is not much better.
I can proudly say that I haven’t watched TV for about 5 years.
It’s liberating.
Cord-cutting may be real, but providers will still get their pound of flesh.
Take Comcast, the internet provider for a lot of folks. Once enough people start cutting the cable bill, you’ll see a corresponding rise in the cost of internet connectivity. They’ll still win. AND, if people start to claim that a internet connection is a “right”, and demand regulation of said rates like a utility, we’ll begin to see stagnation. Cable is subsidizing the internet connection.
Dump cable and save some money for the time being, but don’t buy the illusion it will always be this way.
I got rid of my subscription (DirectTV), but not to jump to streaming. I just don’t turn the darn thing on anymore.
It will be one more at the end of this month.
IMHO, the worst part of buying into a TV service is that when the services first started, they were advertised as “commercial free TV”.