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Brynn Marie

Brynn Marie

Brynn Marie
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We've decided to finally cut ties with the cable company.

It's just too expensive. Since we are usually busy and watching stuff the next day on DVR paying for Hulu will be cheaper....plus we already pay for Amazon Prime and Netflix.

The only downside...our internet was also with our cable company. We decided to switch that too. Our service at the house wasn't supposed to be cut until the end of our current billing cycle....can you guess where this is going?!?!

Yea, they already shut us off....so I have no net at the house until the new one comes and gets set up. It's day like 6...I'm getting antsy :giggle

Has anyone else dropped cable? Did you guys go cold turkey and just give it up or are you doing the streaming thing now?
 
We have our phone, internet and tv in one package and then still pay hulu and netflix separately. I just can't bring myself to cancel anything. Plus, hubs like to watch hockey so our cable justifies that I guess.
 
We still have satellite but i cut it to the lowest package long ago because we just don't watch it that much. Mostly just the kids shows. They only reason I didn't completely cut it is because of college football. My husband and I are both huge fans and I can't imagine fall without it. We are no longer on a plan so I can switch things around how I want and I just click a button in the fall to have access to ESPN and the games and then switch the package back to the old cheap one after it's over. Overall I know we could survive without it though. There's nothing but garbage on it for the most part any way and I gave up shows a long time ago. I would much rather be scrapping.

I thought my kids would be really upset when i cut the whole Disney etc.. channels and although they "thought" they were upset about it at first, it's not even an issue now. They have never even asked for it back.
 
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Yes, we dropped cable about 4 years ago and it hasn't been bad at all. I was pretty amazed at the time it freed up for other things, not to mention the extra money :). We did subscribe to netflix earlier this year so I have started watching a few things that I missed and it gives the kids a few more options than just PBS.
 
We dropped cable about 6 years ago. We're HUGE sports watchers so we bought a digital antenna for around $25 a few years ago. We watch what we can on public tv. If it's not on a public broadcast channel we either don't watch it or go watch it at my in laws if it's that important.

Between things being on super extra premium channels for another billion dollars on top of the billion you already pay and blackout regions for so many games, I think no way is cable worth $100+ per month for sports.

We have netflix and hulu plus. We also have amazon prime but I always forget about it lol, I have it for the shipping, not the streaming. So that's something like $20 a month for way more tv than we could ever watch.
 
Welcome to the dark side!

We have not had cable in 3 years. We do subscribe to Hulu+ (which is kinda like a DVR or at least that's the way I use it) and Netflix and have a digital antenna for regular TV. Besides not having any CBS shows on Hulu+, it's all good.
 
We are huge sports people and that is what kept us from doing it sooner. I've been looking on Amazon at the HD antennas and I think we may go ahead and try one of those out too with the Amazon Fire TV.
 
We cut cable last summer and lasted an entire year until they made some changes with our internet price and the special they gave us basically made it so that we paid $7 to have cable again....so we cut Hulu Plus and are breaking even.

We survived pretty well. We got a digital antenna so we could have access to local channels and then had an HDMI cable to play shows through Hulu or CBS from my computer onto our TV. I will say it has been nice to have it again and I am enjoying some of the sports stuff and just being able to fast forward through commercials. But we missed it much less than I thought we would when we didn't have it.
 
Husband works for DirecTV so we get our satellite for free. It's not clear, though, whether once the merger with AT&T goes through we'll get to keep that, so we'll have some hard choices to make. My husband watches as many as eight games at once on Sundays, and he might completely die without Sunday Ticket.
 
We still have Dish Network (Satellite) but I could totally get rid of it. I haven't watched TV using it in years! I watch everything online or on Netflix, when I watch anything at all... but my hubby would die without History Channel, Discovery Channel and the sports stuff, so we keep it. We do have a pretty basic plan though. He'll add sports related stuff on occasion for a month at a time as needed.
 
My husband rarely spends money on himself. He really enjoys having the baseball and football packages with Directv, so I'm sure we'll never cancel!
 
bderby said:
We cut cable last summer and lasted an entire year until they made some changes with our internet price and the special they gave us basically made it so that we paid $7 to have cable again....
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this was us. unfortunately, there are no other reliable high-speed options in our area for internet. so we dropped netflix, etc. and now can watch all our favorite team events in HD - for the same price as just high speed internet, unbundled. you, over a barrel, that's where you are.

really would like to see the FCC blackout rules on local sports changed! that way you could watch through Appletv, Roku, what have you - without the above kid's view scale advertising. Makes no sense in this online all time world.
 
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