Comments on: Do You Still Have Cable TV?

By: scott

scott — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:19:03 +0000

if there were better sports offerings on hulu and netflix, i would cut the cord tomorrow. unfortunately thats not the case. sports programming is the biggest reason i still have cable

By: Nancy

Nancy — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 04:05:35 +0000

I would love to get rid of the satellite bill but, like everyone else, not sure where and how to get what. Are there consultants for this? Can you watch HGTV or Food Network on any of those internet streaming choices? Also, can’t miss the NFL!! Probably my ignorance is keeping me with Dish.

By: Charles Laughlin

Charles Laughlin — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:58:55 +0000

The number of channels that my wife and I watch (about 60 – obviously, not all at once) obviates us from “ditching” cable. “Ditching” cable is not an option. The alternate resources you list could not possibly provide the different programming types that we watch. I have 6 DVRs OR DVR like devices to record all the programs we enjoy. That way, we can skip commercials (about 18 minutes average per program) and not have to suffer through them. Maybe I am in a sweet spot as far as cable goes as our cable switching station is located within a mile of our location and our provider is COX (I can count on the fingers of one hand the number of times our service has been out in the past 32 YEARS!!). I pay about $300 a month (includes every imaginable option in a full optioned bundled package – cable, internet, and telephone) and it is WORTH EVERY PENNY!! Sorry, I “ain’t” ditching cable!!

By: Wesley

Wesley — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:33:07 +0000

Pretty much all the OTA (over the air) stations have Closed Caption and if not most tvs can do it stand alone anyhow. As far as CNBC ? Not sure what their site provides, but believe me they will be offering more as time goes by and more people migrate away from status quo. Remember advertisement is what has and always will support television in any form and if they can get you to sign up to their site with your personal info to target you better, they will give you all the content you want

By: Heather B

Heather B — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 03:19:46 +0000

We still have Verizon Fios for cable. There is no way with all the shows we watch to get all of them via Hulu, Netflix, Amazon, etc. I actually have a word doc in order to keep track of all of them, including the ones I tape. We’ve tried Netflix many times, even streaming video to our Sony TV. But many times all of a sudden the video just freezes – no matter how many times you re-play it our even downloading it again. Don’t think we’ll ever make the switch until something changes. Had direct TV, but too much weather gets in the way of watching TV sometimes and that got too frustrating. I have watched some shows I missed for free on NBC and such on my laptop…but that get’s tedious, at best.

By: gordintoronto

gordintoronto — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:15:38 +0000

Hockey, basketball, baseball, CNBC, (Canadian) Business News Network, CP24, that’s what I watch. About 2% of it is over-the-air. MLB.tv is “out of market” games, so I can’t watch the home team.

With tax, the satellite costs about $80 a month, and I would love to eliminate it — but I won’t give up CNBC World for my late-night viewing.

By: DOS_equis

DOS_equis — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 19:08:30 +0000

FYI, I’ve been able to get two Netflix streams to run at the same time at my house. If you only need two at a time I think it allows this with the entry level subscription, which is what I have (unlimited net streaming and one disc out).

By: thorlo6

thorlo6 — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:53:01 +0000

You guys must not have Comcast cable. I would love to pay only $120 a month for cable. I’m paying $177 a month for cable, internet, and home phone service. I’m disabled as also is my wife, so we are on a limited budget. So, I also am looking into killing the cable. We watch so little on cable anyway so that has been a big factor lately. We don’t watch anything from the local channels so an outside antenna would be useless. So I am looking into just HS internet with Roku and Amazon Prime and maybe another Netflix account.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:20:36 +0000

I would love to dump cable, but I need the closed captioning and the last time I used streaming Nextflix (before they screwed us and made it a separate bill) there was no closed captioning as it was an extra expense for them.

Do any of the other services offer it?

By: Wesley

Wesley — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 17:57:56 +0000

It’s going on year 4 since I exiled Dish and Comcast. I knew there was only of handful of channels I watched anyway and even those you don’t miss much after being away from them. Even out near the suburban/rural line my little indoor amplified antenna picks up 22 HD channels. A few of those being independent channels with some unique programming as well as 4 PBS channels( Nova, Nature, etc)I have Netflix, Hula, and Youtube plus all the websites that provide programming(Natl Geo, History, Discovery, etc) For sports otherwise not seen on major networks there are plenty of stream torrents out there. Saving about $ 1200/yr