Cut the cord! Cable users of America, you have nothing to lose but your cords!
Bkmk
Cable (and satellite) TV will be gone in a couple of years. I’m ready to leave with 500 channels of QVC and “four hour erections!” Content on TV today is simply awful.
139 bucks a month to watch TV? F ‘em.
For internet I have it through Metro PCS unlimited. I have ised 40 gigs a month and they don’t throttle down the speed.
I’ve been streaming for 4 years. I only pay for Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
Have ready any wireless services that can be refered to.
>>The television screen went dark a month ago as Daniel Fitzgerald watched “American Pickers” on the History Channel.<<
How could he tell? AP is the WWE of those kinds of shows. Faker than a cnn broadcast.
“A Spectrum representative told Fitzgerald that he hadn’t been paying Time Warner enough for the standard cable package.”
Hey pay up the damn bill if you want the services. You cut the cord.
Anything else is just the moocher class wanting things for free.
I read an article a few weeks ago that claimed that phone wireless will over the next several years completely replace cable. The claim was that the average phone subscription will include unlimited wireless anyway so why get internet from cable? And the phone companies will apparently provide the same content as cable.
Many years ago, when I had cable TV, I would get a letter from them a couple times per year that began with "GOOD NEWS!" It would then be followed by two points:
They're adding a couple of junk channels.
Huge price hike.
Ping
Actually, depending on who charters the cable company, there is a lot that can be done. Often such cable services are chartered as local monopolies, and whoever gives the charter can either cancel it, or open it up to competition from other cable companies.
So is it morally acceptable to receive free streaming channels provided by “jail broken” Fire sticks??
The more they tighten the screws the more people will cut the cord, pirate, trade, barter etc.
I already know people sharing Netflix, HBO, Showtime, Amazon accounts etc.while paying for one and trading access for that for the others.
There is going to be so many creative ways for people to cheat this bloated system that aren’t even thought of yet.
If the cable companies don’t think KODI, account sharing etc are going to bury them they’re going to learn the record company lesson of the 90’s the hard way.
They can’t justify 26 minutes of commercials an hour, $140 a month for what passes as basic entertainment. They’re going to get kicked so hard it’s not going to be funny to their stockholders but it will be to the rest of us.
Frequent at contract time.
Cable/satellite company posts that a group of networks refuse to deal with the cable/satellite.
Group of networks post that cable/satellite company wants too much money to air the network’s channels.
The screen goes blank. Eventually, one or the other caves and the programming returns.
Been going for decades.
We cut the cord about a month ago. It took a few days to adjust but I don’t miss it now. Mr. Mercat has found lots of nerd TV on the internet and I’m watching all the seasons I purchased on Amazon Prime back before I retired. It’s great.
And yet TWC/Spectrum cannot figure out why cable internet here after replacing everything goes through bouts of losing DNS. It’s usually a few short rounds then everything stabilizes for several days.
It makes no difference if there is a router in place or not, Windows 7, W10, or Linux.
On my Dell PC, the firewall will detect a zone shift, the hardwire will drop, the wireless adapter shows in the tray, Avast will say something about no internet and then the hardwire connection will pick back up.
I’ve used Open DNS, Google DNS, and auto of course.
TWC pulled the logs for a few weeks and checked against some times I had for the drops and TWC didn’t see any loss.
The neighbor who has the same service says his works fine and is stable.
I’m not a network engineer but am fairly knowledgeable about low level stuff.
It is so frustrating chasing a random problem.
When Spectrum took over a few months ago they sent me an email stating that they were increasing my internet speed by 3x, but it seems slower than before.
Why does the author make a point of pointing out the mans disabled son. As if that’s in any way relevant???