I don't miss cable tv
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I don't miss cable tv
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#2I don't think I've ever heard of someone giving up cable/TV and regretting it. I don't have a TV, and I don't watch shows online either. I've been entirely TV-free for close to a year, and I haven't missed it once. I watch movies once a week at most, usually much less often. Don't miss that either.
Honestly, I don't see how people find the time for it. Between work, keeping up my home, and spending time with my wife, I already feel like I don't have any spare time.
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#3I don't think I've ever heard of someone giving up cable/TV and regretting it. I don't have a TV, and I don't watch shows online either. I've been entirely TV-free for close to a year, and I haven't missed it once. I watch movies once a week at most, usually much less often. Don't miss that either. Honestly, I don't see how people find the time for it. Between work, keeping up my home, and spending time with my wife,…
I just dropped my cable TV, I never watch it and anything I do watch comes from Netflix, including TV Shows (like Mad Men and Dexter right now). Still playing with what / if I want to get a replacement box (Google TV / Apple TV / Roku) but for now, now cable tv for me, and frankly I won't miss it either.
Of course Charter in their infinite wisdom decided that they were going to cut of my "cable" which means TV AND Internet. The level of incompetence of ISPs have reached these days is mind boggling.
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#4I don't think I've ever heard of someone giving up cable/TV and regretting it. I don't have a TV, and I don't watch shows online either. I've been entirely TV-free for close to a year, and I haven't missed it once. I watch movies once a week at most, usually much less often. Don't miss that either. Honestly, I don't see how people find the time for it. Between work, keeping up my home, and spending time with my wife,…
If you stopped watching the movies, would you miss them? That is basically how I feel about the few remaining shows I do watch - they have been selected for awesomeness, and I consider the time I spend on them worthwhile.
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#5I really, honestly, cannot wait to join the growing trend of ditching cable / satellite TV. I consume the vast majority of my content through Netflix, Hulu, and simply downloading episodes.
That said, until the NCAA and NFL are willing to provide a stand-alone service that lets me subscribe to Georgia Tech and Atlanta Falcons football games, the whole concept of ditching cable is a non-starter for me. Since I'm no longer local to Atlanta, I have to have an option for viewing. ESPN3 is great for NCAA games but requires a partner cable subscription. I still usually resort to finding illegal streams of falcons games online since I have literally no other option.
I recognize that HN might not be a bastion of football fans; but having grown up in Atlanta, GA, football is a part of fall that I'm just not willing to go without.
Live sports are really the last stronghold that cable & satellite have.
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#6Between dumping cable and using an ad blocker in Chrome, the only political ads I saw this past election cycle were the occasional billboard. It was absolutely blissful.
Here's hoping ad buys on Hulu continue to remain so expensive that politicians can't get in on it.
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#7I really, honestly, cannot wait to join the growing trend of ditching cable / satellite TV. I consume the vast majority of my content through Netflix, Hulu, and simply downloading episodes. That said, until the NCAA and NFL are willing to provide a stand-alone service that lets me subscribe to Georgia Tech and Atlanta Falcons football games, the whole concept of ditching cable is a non-starter for me. Since I'm no lo…
Fortunately, with ESPN3 I think things are getting better (and we'll eventually get to the point of full IPTV), but until every big game is available officially online, there's just going to be no way for me to ditch cable completely.
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#8I really, honestly, cannot wait to join the growing trend of ditching cable / satellite TV. I consume the vast majority of my content through Netflix, Hulu, and simply downloading episodes. That said, until the NCAA and NFL are willing to provide a stand-alone service that lets me subscribe to Georgia Tech and Atlanta Falcons football games, the whole concept of ditching cable is a non-starter for me. Since I'm no lo…
ESPN3 does not require cable (tv) subscription, only cable company subscription. I have Comcast (only internet) and happily watch ESPN3.
I understand you, I only get cable TV for NBA finals. Then I cancel it again :) On a big TV, ESPN3 is not always great enough quality.
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#9We've not had cable tv service in 8 years. Don't really miss it.
When my, then, fiance and I bought our house, we never bothered to get it connected because we were going to be travelling so much to MI with wedding stuff.
We just never hooked it back up. About 2 years ago, I built out a mythtv server and hooked it up to an OTA antennae for local content. The rest of the stuff we would "acquire" and then buy the DVD box sets when they came out. We also had Netflix.
Now, with Netflix streaming, we rarely watch anything except what MythTV has picked up (usually PBS shows for the kids) and whatever's available on Netflix. We listen to UofM games during football season over the internet.
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#10I'm an America who lives in the UK and I have yet to use any sort of cable/sat provider since moving here.
Setup: Acer Aspire Revo - http://www.ebuyer.com/product/225756 £300 + Loaded with Boxee + Proxied to an old laptop at my parents house in the US
Services I use: 1. NFL overseas Gamepass package (~$250 for whole season) - every game in full HD (yes literally just as good as watching it on cable HDTV...NO JOKE) 2. Hulu (via proxy) 3. Netflix (via proxy) 4. BBC (awesome programming) -> BBC iPlayer