Ok I have a question. My Comcast cable is now above 60 bucks. If I were to cut my service where can I able to view shows I like for example: Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy, and I do enjoy watching HGTV? Now would I be able to view my shows like TWD on the same day or the day after?
Netflix, YouTube, hulu, iTunes. We primarily use Netflix. We don’t watch shows right away, opting for a whole season to come out and then watching through. And we have discovered a whole world of series, especially if you can handle subtitles.
We dropped our cable, and it’s been more of a problem for me than for my husband. He likes movies, documentaries, etc. and can get all that from our Roku device with Netflix.
However, I mainly watch sports, news, business news, and HGTV. I have subscribed to MLB, which is nice, but I can’t watch my favorite teams live due to stupid blackout rules, but I miss a lot of other sports. We have an antenna that picks up some local stations, so I hope I won’t miss too many college football games. We can’t get ESPN or HGTV, though.
As for news, the only live streaming news we get is Al Jazeera. Actually, we have been pleasantly surprised at their reasonable coverage of world news. The only way we can watch Fox or Fox Business is in snippets, and it’s really annoying.
Roku just recently added QVC. I guess they became alarmed at the number of people dropping cable and satellite, so they joined Roku to catch some of those former viewers.
I would not go back to cable, though. They kept raising their prices, adding channels to their lousy line-up that we didn’t want, and by donating money to government schools, they were making us pay a kind of extra tax. Local government grants their monopoly, and in return, they raise their rates and give the money to the government schools. It ticks me off.
Netflix has those shows, plus Breaking Bad and many others like that. Also, they have a lot of foreign stuff that’s really good. I got rid of my Comcast and have never regretted it.
Not sure about HGTV stuff and Sons but the Walking Dead can be had from Amazon as a pay for digital download and you can watch each new episode within hours of it being shown on AMC. (I think after the west coast watches it.)