OK. I've read a lot of Freepers have said they have cut the cord to the cable and subscribed to streaming services. What do I need to know to get moving in that direction? I am fed up with my basic Spectrum package - the ole Bruce Springsteen "57 channels and nothings on" crap. We just purchased a new smart TV and will have the modems installed this week.
1. What streaming services are available out there?
Amazon Prime, Hulu, NetFlix, YouTube (free and subscription), etc.
2. How do I determine their content? Will I still be able to get local news, FNC, FBN, FOX sports channels without a cable subscription?
Thnx in advance ...
given that they are -in unison- conducting
serial sedition and serial treason,
why is the USA KNOWINGLY giving them
a FCC LICENSE rather than a federal RICO COMPLAINT?
Here is my argument, I want to pick and chose the TV cable programs that benefit me, these packages all include CNN, MSNBC, korea, japan, BET, MTV (woke rap crap non music) and the list goes on, why am I paying for this?
I’m a recent cord cutter. I save $165/month. I bought a digital antenna and get 40 some channels free. We were planning to get a streaming service but it’s nice not to have the TV on all the time. I like saving the $165.
I did sign up for KloudTV for free to see OAN. I’ll buy that service after 12/31/2020. I like OAN.
When you cut Spectrum cable or streaming service, Spectrum throttles you band width and justscrews with the internet.
The problem I have with streaming is Fox News. Foxnews is not available except through one of the services like Spectrum or Comcast or Youtube TV.
I have youtube TV and Fox News is the only channel I watch consistently.
Fox should offer a subscription service for all it’s products including Fox Newa, Fox business and the new one .
In the 1950s, the wrong people were blacklisted; actors, directors, writers.
They should have blacklisted the studio and media executives and owners who told the others what to make. Their pus finally erupted on TV in the 70s.
Make sure you have GOOD, RELIABLE, FAST Internet. 10mbps is probably minimum, the faster the better. YouTube TV is pretty good as a package. I’ve heard HULU and Fubo are good if you’re looking for a preconfigured package too. You can just go on and pay for individual sites like HGTV, DIY, Food Network, ESPN family, Motor Trend etc. To get your locals you’ll have to have a package like the ones mentioned above or an antenna for over the air broadcasts. The streaming is a viable option, but I don’t find it as convenient as satellite and depending on what you get it can be close to as expensive to match your content level. But you do have control over what you watch and pay for which is nice. If you don’t want CNN, MSNBC or the Gay Bravo, LOGO channels you don’t have to get them.
Hope this helps.
Get a roku
Cut the cord on CONcast three years ago at just over $150/month. Don’t miss it at all. $5,400 not paid.
Leaf antenna gets enough over the door digital channels.
Turn my phone into a WiFi hotspot.
This connects to my laptop and smart tv for ewetube and web (fr mostly) surfing.
Happy as a clam
...btw...why are clams so happy?
My dad pays $220 a month for ENDLESS reruns of Law and Order: SVU, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie, Golden Girls, Bonanza, Night Court, Match Game, Friends, Seinfeld, the Cleveland Show, Family guy, Two and a half men, Mom, Southpark, simpsons, Endless ghost crap on the Travel Channel, People bitching about shower heads while purchasing million dollar log cabins, midgets, pimple poppers, white trash baby mommas, ghetto rejects, Kardashians, “hilarious” clips of stupid people almost killing themselves doing stupid stuff, endless repeats of Emergency, Adam-12, Murder She wrote, The Any Griffith show, etc etc etc etc..
Turn on the TV at 2am it’s the same crap on at 2PM.
TBS and USA is a complete joke now just like TLC, History and the Travel channel.
EVERY FREAKING DAY.....It NEVER changes.
What a frigging WASTE of money.
I’m on the spectrum pick 10 plan. You get the basics plus 10 non-premium channels of your choosing. Works for me. It was the cheapest way I could keep the wife content with still being able to watch Bravo.
We cut a while ago. We use a Roku, YouTube TV, Netflix, and Spectrum just for internet. Dropped our cable bill from $210/month to $130. Not a huge drop but a savings nevertheless. We really like YouTube TV. We get all the local channels & Fox News. I also like how YouTube lets me arrange the line up of how I see the channels. So most watched channel at top of list. Also, on Roku, Pluto TV is pretty good as a free service for programming.
I’ve spent a fair amount of time looking for streaming services that offer what I want and it has been a real pain in the ass. A good example is Hulu. Go to their website and try to figure out what channels they offer. If you figure it how, please let me know.
I’m sticking with cable for the foreseeable future. I get almost everything I want there without having to screw around with companies like Hulu that try to get you to sign up without even telling you exactly what you’re paying for.
We cut the cord 2 months ago. Wish we had done it a year ago. The best setup for us is to subscribe to Hulu pay for $60 a month. We get all the sports stations I need, ESPNs, ACC, SEC, and BIG10, FS1, and FX. We get FOX News, FOX Business, all networks and local, A&E, and more. Get it on all TV’s and phones. I bought ROKU to manage the streaming. It’s easy to add and delete channels as you want. This is best set up for us.
We cut the cord 2 months ago. Wish we had done it a year ago. The best setup for us is to subscribe to Hulu pay for $60 a month. We get all the sports stations I need, ESPNs, ACC, SEC, and BIG10, FS1, and FX. We get FOX News, FOX Business, all networks and local, A&E, and more. Get it on all TV’s and phones. I bought ROKU to manage the streaming. It’s easy to add and delete channels as you want. This is best set up for us.
Get a good internet connection.
If you don’t have an internet-enabled TV, get a Roku stick.
I subscribe to Netflix and Amazon Prime. Lot and lots of movies and TV serials. Good value, IMHO (Prime has paid for itself many times over in Amazon shipping).
If you want live TV, you can go with Hulu, Youtube Live, Sling, and I think Disney and others are now in the game. Each has a a variety of service levels (e.g. HBO) that you can subscribe to monthly. Live TV will include most local news. Beware that Hulu will not let you move your subscription from place to place, so it’s no good for summer homes/cabins or hotels. I’m using Youtube but they just jacked up their price.
I’d never consider cable again.
You don’t need it your TV either.
This is an excellent article.
It turns out that the best way to crush Disney and the other leftist media owners is to _slowly_ cut the cord, not all at once!
I had not thought of that.
If everyone disconnected at once, these insane leftist would save a fortune on the cable TV programming costs and infrastructure.
A slow bleed forces them to maintain the infrastructure while losing their economies of scale.
This is beautiful!
I suppose overlapping copyright problems would make this impossible, but it would be interesting to have either cable channels or a streaming service group product by year. I wouldn’t mind watching media from 1955 to 1970 or so.
We cut the cord 7 years ago and do not miss it. We have a Roku and currently subscribe to AcornTV. We tried Hulu and Netflix, but did not keep them. I am looking into Britbox. We watch Trump rallies and other events on Youtube.
You just need an Internet connection.
My mother has a Roku device, but we bought a television with a Roku as its main “brain.” I prefer Roku, due to its impartiality on content.
However, with each platform, you can usually get “apps” that provide all the content access of the others. This is not universally true, because Apple’s TV streamer, with special Apple series, is not yet an app for other streamers.
There are hundreds of apps on Roku, and these serve as a single “channel” or as a complete platform of embedded stations (think “cable package” without necessarily needing to pay, because they give you commercials).
We have Amazon Prime, Disney+, KlowdTV (OAN and others), and Hulu. We still have an Over-The-Air antenna that gets dozens of local channels. However, we have been binge watching The Roku Channel, due to having CBS’s former series “Cold Case” on it.
Having such a “channel” lets you watch all the content on demand, which for us, means all years of episodes to be watched in any order one wants.
It’s so much nicer than having to accept what a channel on a cable package gives you at 8 PM, because you choose from the available content what you want to start watching AT ANY TIME.