Posted on 10/25/2020 5:21:34 AM PDT by MacNaughton
If you want sports, fubo TV is a good one.
Interesting....... I’ll check it out
Competition is finally bearing down.
Now we need to work on competition as an internet provider for Spectrum
I cut the cord in Spring 2010, and haven’t looked back since.
One of my friends told me things will change drastically when the 5G network is in place. Says TV will not be how we know it today. He did not elaborate on this.
Thank you. That’s very helpful!
It's very encouraging to hear all the testimonials for cutting cable. I never had it and got rid of the TV in 1999. Other than Trump rallies and the like, my video watching is almost zero. Frees up a lot of time and when I catch some TV at the nursing home or a friend's house I find it to be astonishingly low quality including the commercials.
"I threw my TV away back in '85 and you should too!" 😁
Moved a couple months ago and dropped cable. Only staying here another few days then migrating south for the season.
So we hooked up the OTA powered rabbit ears. We get about 26 channels local.
We also have a tendency to obtain movies or series on DVD or Blu-ray we like and will sit and watch a series from beginning to end over a period of time. On your own schedule and you OWN the material so the whims of the broadcaster don’t play into it.
Only potential downside is you have to have some storage area for the media.
You can also find some great used titles at local flea markets and yard sales for bargain prices if you wanted to look.
I’d really like the a la cart idea. But so far most of the cord cutter packages all include CNN etc and I would like to be able to NOT support those f’ers.
I cut the cord with the boob-toob 11 years ago when they shifted to digital transmission. I hadn’t been a cable user for 15 years or better so when they went digital my TV went dark.
Turns out I quickly discovered that I didn’t need anything that they were pushing and the few links to broadcast TV that still interested me were available via Internet.
Broadcasters had us as captive audiences for decades and learned nothing. Now we are finding other methods to get what we want and, since they did not respect us, we find it easy to walk away from them.
It's the product stupid. It sucks. It is too expensive.
I'll put my media executive hat. Deliver excellent content at at decent price. Excellent content by my definition should not be pushing an agenda. So don't fill sports with leftist politics. Don't have multicultural, alphabet (LBGTQ+) casts to intentionally sway my opinion.
If I am paying for cable, I don't want to pay for commercials. I don't want to watch PSAs and charity ads. They are in your face over every GD thing. TV should be an occasional escape, so don't remind me of the China Flu, world poverty, starving children, climate change, etc. I don't want to watch a contrived reality of racial demographics to sell product. Blacks make up 12% of the population, but they are in 90% of commercials. There is a constant parade of Asian, Hispanic, Black, and women in ads. When white men appear, they are made out to be stupid or faggots. I don't want to pay for that.
Deliver the news without bias. They have 24 hours to fill with a world full of news. News today runs 3 to 4 stories and only those stories. I can absorb more than that. Tell me something I haven't hear about before. Fill the 24 hours with detail. I'm okay with leftist and conservative talk, but give me a program where you have only conservatives and the argument is between conservatives trying to "out-conservative" each other. Put RINOs in their own program, don't water down real thinking with the likes of Dana Perino.
Don't feed me with bull schiff conspiracy theories like ancient aliens or reality TV that is far from real. There are several history channels with no history. There are multiple music channels without music.
Stop infecting the minds of women with bull crap daytime issues oriented programs that scares the crap out of them about every little thing - from drinking water to letting your children go to the park by themselves. Why not run real educational programs - like college level classes in STEM? Of course, without an agenda.
Lastly, don't remake old programs and movies. I saw the good ones already. Give me new content that is better but still maintains traditional American values.
With all that said, most of this is on the Internet for free, but not done by real pros. It lacks polish. But the price is right. Guess what I watch today? There has to be a hugh and series change to cable TV to ever get me back.
Cable/Satellite have to go à la carte or die.
We have an ANTENNA.
Grit, Circle, weather, A.Griffith, Gomer Pile, Court TV, Local “news”, a science channel, others....
Well, I have literally a TV for every room and haven’t watched one in over a year.
Can’t stand the biased “news”, the mandatory “diversity” , and have already seen most of the old shows several times when they were new and then re-runs.
Nor will I pay big$$$ for hoping SOMETHING interesting will show up.
My phone and internet bundle at $85 monthly is expense enough.My location is beyond the cable anyway.
And the hours not wasted passively watching TV are needed for other activities.
I sorta fit the first part of that statement but definitely not the second. I’m firmly in the “Do what works for you” category.
I just hated being pushed around by the cable industry and when they went digital my choice was go back to cable or find Internet based solutions. I chose the Internet.
I am ok with over the air.
Internet providers/satellite/cable do not need to sell my viewing preferences
I too cut the cable cord 4 years ago and have tried various internet streamers, youtube, fubo, sling.
Currently Sling meets my viewing preferences, and it's a steal at just $30/month.
For me cutting the cable was quite an adjustment because I don’t watch much TV. My preference has been to catch a little TV on demand for a short period of time and then go to my other activities. I would surf through a bunch of channels and find something quickly.
Now with Netflix, Amazon etc I have to plan ahead and find content to watch. It is a different model but I have adapted. Good luck.
Most of the stuff on History channel is unsolved mysteries.
I cut the cord six years ago mostly because I’m a broke senior scraping along on Social Security. I was in a fringe area for over-the-air channels. For a while I tried to cling to some of the shows I liked (NCIS, ELEMENTARY) but their content veered away from what I wanted to see, and none of the new shows attracted me.
I was able to find enough stuff online. And now a strange change has made me utterly indifferent to anything the relic channels are offering. I visit friends and family and see them torpidly absorbing all this vacuous crap.
TV has created a passive America addicted to lowest-common-denominator pandering. I’ve chosen not to be part of that pack.
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