Could You Cut the Cable or Satellite Cord?
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Could You Cut the Cable or Satellite Cord?
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#2Just did it. Bought an HD antenna, got an HD tivo. Cut DirectTV. Not looking back.
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#3Cut the cord a couple years back and I honestly do not miss it.
Using a Roku box for Netflix, Amazon and a few other misc providers such as Revision3.
iTunes brings me stuff that I absolutely want to watch and hulu for mediocre content.
All in all it's great to not sit through hours of commercials at the end of the week.
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#4I haven't had pay-for television in almost 4 years now. Hulu + Netflix + bunny ears for OTA TV satisfy all my TV-watching needs.
I don't miss it. Almost all of my TV watching happens on a secondary monitor while I work, anyhow; dedicating time to just watching TV feels terribly unproductive.
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#5If I could get NFL Sunday Ticket and fine a box/plan that had everything else I needed...yes.
Right now, Apple TV is simply more expensive (the content, not the device) than it's worth, and Hulu+ is missing some good stuff.
I find it odd that the music industry is moving towards single monthly and unlimited watching, whereas the TV industry seems to be moving in the other direction.
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#6Made that break almost ten years ago, never miss it.
Now I'm trying to move past optical media, I hate it.
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#7I haven't had pay-for television in almost 4 years now. Hulu + Netflix + bunny ears for OTA TV satisfy all my TV-watching needs. I don't miss it. Almost all of my TV watching happens on a secondary monitor while I work, anyhow; dedicating time to just watching TV feels terribly unproductive.
I've been without TV for about 5 years now after noticing a creeping & growing revulsion for what I saw on it.
Even if I'm not more productive, I'm less desensitized without one.
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#8Watching TV mostly makes me angry. Idiots selling idiotic things to idiots. In the past month, at least three times I started yelling at the TV and left the room, only to realize that I was being melodramatic.
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#9I haven't had pay-for television in almost 4 years now. Hulu + Netflix + bunny ears for OTA TV satisfy all my TV-watching needs. I don't miss it. Almost all of my TV watching happens on a secondary monitor while I work, anyhow; dedicating time to just watching TV feels terribly unproductive.
I've been without TV for about 5 years now after noticing a creeping & growing revulsion for what I saw on it. Even if I'm not more productive, I'm less desensitized without one.
No argument there. The vast, vast majority of TV content is abysmally bad. I like that I get to just pick what I want to watch and don't have to mess with the rest.
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#10I haven't had pay-for television in almost 4 years now. Hulu + Netflix + bunny ears for OTA TV satisfy all my TV-watching needs. I don't miss it. Almost all of my TV watching happens on a secondary monitor while I work, anyhow; dedicating time to just watching TV feels terribly unproductive.
The only reason I have pay-for television is I'm punished if I don't.
Boston is referred to as the "hole in the fiber donut", where Mayor "Mumbles" Menino refuses to give Verizon a tax break, which is reciprocated by a complete lack of a FIOS rollout in Boston proper (but in every city around Boston... just to rub it in).
This leaves DSL and few other viable options. So I have Comcast. Additionally, if I don't have a qualifying cable TV package, Comcast charges another $10/mo. So I pay $13.60 for "Basic Basic" cable, which is mostly the major networks. QAM works fine. So for $3.60/mo I don't have to deal with an ATSC antenna, nor do I have to deal with a carrier set-top box (which on top of leasing fees, will actually consume $6 to $8 of electricity a month!)
However when's the last time I've watched broadcast television on the television as it aired live? A perfectly good question. Virtually none in the past 3 calendar years.