Bears repeating: It doesn’t seem as though there’s really any way cable TV survives in its current condition.
Bears repeating: It doesn’t seem as though there’s really any way cable TV survives in its current condition.
TV used to be free over the air.
Then Cable TV showed up and you had to pay for it, but on the bright side, there were no commercials!!
Then they added commercials.
Then it got really expansive.
Then the shows mostly got bad.
I cut the cord a few years ago. No regrets.
I’m looking for a way to cut cable out, but it has to be in such a way that Two Kids’ Mom can still have access to her Investigation Discovery shows, like Joe Kenda.
I’m considering cutting cable and looking at Sony Vue. Monthly expense would drop 46% and I would save $94.50 per month.
“...It doesn’t seem as though there’s really any way cable TV survives in its current condition....”
They need to LOWER their rates and IMPROVE PROGRAMMING/MOVIE quality.
The ONLY reason we use the cable company is because they have the highest speed internet. That’s it. Once technology equals that out, the cable company rape will cease in my house!
If there was something worthwhile watching on TV, I might consider it. If there were decent movies being made, I might go. Current fare is waste of life and money
The cost keeps going up and the quality of the programming goes down. At some point, cable and satellite companies are going to have to offer pick your programs. Their gross revenue will go down but they may be surprised when their bottom line goes up.
Excuse me while I go find a hanky to wipe the tears.
They continue to make money on providing internet.
What is teh braodband cable that doesn’t allow an individual’s channel selection bundle for payment?
Left Frontier 6 months ago. They had brought up my plan by about $25 from the original price. Went to Spectrum, who were not any better on price. So, I settled for just the internet portion at $44/month, and a TV streaming package for an additional $20. Both services stink, especially the streaming portion. Most of what’s on TV, from Frontier and Spectrum are channels that nobody would watch if given a choice, but we end up paying for them to stay in business.
Tried to get an OTA antenna, and I get most of the broadcast local channels, and FOX (not looking for CNN or MSNBC). MOst of the other broadcast channels cannot be received by the antenna, no matter how many different antennas I’ve tried.
Would be satisfied with just internet service and a good OTA that gets good reception, and where I could just give my middle finger to the TV providers. Don’t know of any such antenna. Dish and Direct TV are not options, since their TV packages are just or more expensive as the cable TV providers.
We live in the middle of nowhere. Our internet is satellite and is serviceable for email and FR.
We have Free Government HD TV and it’s more than adequate. We watch PBS (Cooking and Nature shows) old re-runs (Seinfeld, WKRP) and Beau loves to binge on old Westerns like Gunsmoke and Ponderosa.
College football, when available, Baseball, Soccer, Golf. (Sometimes the Packers, but we’re so over the NFL.)
Between that and movie DVDs I buy second-hand, or borrow from the Library, we do just fine. We usually pick a DVD series to watch in the winter months when we’re inside in the evenings. Foyle’s War, Justified, 24, Dr. Blake, Father Brown, etc. Lots of good stuff through Acorn Media & the BBC.
Online streaming has made cable TV obsolete.
You can get a wider variety of higher quality content, tailored more specifically to your personal preferences, through any of hundreds of online services than cable TV could ever offer.
There’s a not-insignificant chance that TV won’t even exist in 10 years.
Meh. Most, if not all, cable companies provide high-speed internet. They’re just gonna have to adapt their models.
I dunno.
I have a lot of programming. DirecTV, Netflix, Amazon Prime, ROKU, HBO (free) and Starz. When I have time (not often) and settle in to find something to watch I am bored out of my mind, except for the occasionally interesting movie.
I think I have admitted to myself that I actually simply do not like television any more. I just cannot tolerate the endless commercials which often run in blocks of 4 minutes or longer. Way too irritating and disrespectful of my time.
The commercial-free premium sites, such as HBO almost always run left-wing propaganda non-stop 24/7. The other premium sites are okay, but filled with a lot of filler dreck.
Funny that when I was a kid I really liked television. Now, more often than not, I find it boring when not thoroughly irritating.
In my house, I get super duper hi speed cable, a not so good tv package and a land line my daughter needs for faxing. $200+.
We also have 4 cell phones.
I think I’m going to retire to the Swiss Alps with no connectivity.
Too expensive. Most channel offerings are garbage. Few things worth watching.
Last fall I had to go to the local cable office to drop a couple of premium channels.
The clerk said she would bundle my remaining services (basic and first tier cable tv and Internet). My monthly bill dropped $60. First time in the 17 years I have had cable TV/Internet that they reduced my billing.
About 3 months later, they did their yearly fee increases and my monthly bill increased by about $10.
They giveth, and they taketh.
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As more streaming services come online, they are getting competition. Trouble is, most of the new streaming services are following the same ole tier-programming — you have to subscribe to a tier to get the channels you want, and thus, you get channels you don’t want. Their costs are only a few dollars different than the cable company prices.
If any one of them ever goes ala carte, they could own the industry. But, the network conglomerates are keeping that from happening because they want to ‘sell’ half-a-dozen or more channels through the cable/satellite companies.
We still need that for our internet service!