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Has anyone decided to cut the cord on your ridiculous cable bill and go with an HD antenna? Ive been tossing around the idea of using an antenna and paying for internet only so I can use services like netflix, hulu, amazon, etc. Could probably save around $1500 – $2000 a year by doing so.
Haven’t had cable for years. All the televisions I own are for DVD/Blu-ray watchin’, Netflix, and NFL games from Sept. thru Feb.
That and the vast majority of television programming is ‘fer shit, IMAO.
And with the likes of HBO going the Netflix-route, now you can just pay for what exactly you want.
I was thinking the same thing. Roku is the best Internet player that hooks to your TV and WiFi. They have all the bomb channels like Netflix, amazon, hulu, HBO, showtime…. Cable is getting ridiculous. It expensive and I don’t watch but 3 channels out the hundreds they have. Internet TV is the future. But I haven’t cut the cable cord yet because my wife would kill me lmbo[emoji23] [emoji23]
But I will….. Eventually
^^hahah I havent even brought it up to the wife yet. I’ll need all the help I can get prying her from the damn kardashian show. God I cant stand that
And the commercials. OMG. Just kill me.
Seriously…you watch an episode of M*A*S*H and there’s a total run-time of about 27minutes…that’s 3min of advertising when it aired originally…now’a’days, runtimes are at the 22minute-mark, leaving 8 minutes for ads. The same ads. Over and over and over and over….
you guys still have TV’s?
I have been kicking around this idea myself. I watch Netflix and thought adding Hulu might make it easier. A lot of network shows are available online.
kodi will give ya pretty much everthing
I’ve had a computer hooked up to my tv for going on 5 years now. No cable, just 40$ a month and all the commercial free trash I could want. Plus, my wife loves shopping from the big screen. I figure we’ve saved 5k-10k easily by now.
I’m making the jump and getting rid of cable August 1. I’m moving into a new house and I figured I can save probably about $120 a month just by getting internet rather than a cable/internet/phone bundle. I have a bunch of random networking hardware so I keep getting these really elaborate ideals of how I would like to wire up my whole house for streaming from a centralized media server but for the time being I will probably just use a Roku box on my TV and possibly an HD antenna because my area gets a good amount of over the air HD stations.
Looks like that is the way of the future. Of course when that goes mainstream it will seriously jack up the price of the internet TV options. And it will all be a moot point. Just like if they came up with a tablet that you could drop in the gas tank of your car and make it get 50 mph the price of gas would go to 20 dollars a gallon. That’s the way of the world.
Killed Cable TV, has well as all “professional” TV Content.. I do have a TV in the shop, connected to an Apple TV, to view YouTube content, and I also have “How-To” and Documentary videos in my iTunes Library. The only issue I have is, at this point I am not saving a ton of money, has there are no Internet only providers in my neighborhood.
**I do pay for the NHL Season Pass
-Steven
I got rid of cable about 3 years ago now. I went with a roku and plex media server. Between Plex, amazon and netflix, there isn’t much that we miss at all.
It’s not really a solution for those that aren’t technically inclined, but it works great for us. I miss having a live TV stream exactly three times a year – Thanksgiving day, New Years Eve and the 4th of July. I’ve been meaning to get a digitial antenna, but we live so far out, I’d have to get a big’n and climb up on the roof to mount it. Needless to say, this is a fairly low priority thing.
I don’t mind cable tv the problem is they priced themselves out of the market. I guess the people back in the day that though you were crazy for paying tv were right!! It wasn’t bad till the FCC let these companies get big and merge. We have competition here in Metro Detroit, but the prices are not that great
If you’re going to do internet only, check your internet speed. As well, think about going only wireless, and upgrade to a wireless ac router. Wireless “TV” internet opens up a world of opportunities for living organization.
We’ve actually been thinking about cutting cable but the kids love it and wifey records so many shows they would kill me!!! It’s getting pricey though ….
Remember the saying MikeZ happy wife equals happy life!! Although that savings could buy a boatload of tools!!
True dat. The DYI channel is cool and this old house is a great show as well.DR99 wrote:
Remember the saying MikeZ happy wife equals happy life!! Although that savings could buy a boatload of tools!!
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. Lol dude ur bad bro!! Just imagine I could buy a big tool once a month hmmmm lol!DR99 wrote:
Remember the saying MikeZ happy wife equals happy life!! Although that savings could buy a boatload of tools!!
That Milwaukee tool chest could be yours if you can talk the wife into giving up some TV shows!!
Oh btw if MikeZ’s wife is listening buy me the Milwaukee toolbox, and I will totally convince him that he can’t live without cable tv!!!
. Bahahahahahah!!!!DR99 wrote:
Oh btw if MikeZ’s wife is listening buy me the Milwaukee toolbox, and I will totally convince him that he can’t live without cable tv!!!
I dropped cable years ago! Get yourself a roku 3, and you’ll be paying next to nothing!
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comp56 wrote:
kodi will give ya pretty much everthing
This guys got it!!
The Roku is nice but the Amazon fire stick is where it’s at!! It’s allows you to run 3rd party apps like (kodi and a few others)
You can do your own research but all I will tell you is you can pretty much watch tomorrow latest and greatest movies today!!
Among all TV shows and live..even some pay per view stuff if you set it up right!!
Got rid of cable a few months ago. I didn’t want to lose the DVR more than anything. I picked up Hulu & Netflix and don’t miss cable a bit. Hulu is kind of like a DVR so it works great.
We get HD OTA with our antenna. 6 channels. Suits me fine, Netflix and the home theater PC is enough for us.
Most of the stuff I watch is loaded on the internet the next day so this is probably a good idea to cut the cord.
I get my cable and Internet for free
Logan p wrote:
I get my cable and Internet for free
How??
Justin Hernandez wrote:
How??
My dad works for time warner cable and employees get all services for free
Nice, free is always good
Still havent made the jump yet. Talked to a few friends who have and the biggest loop you have to jump through is getting the provider to only give you internet. They try and convince you that you cant.
Yeah we are paying about 220 bucks a month for everything including internet. That’s for 6 TV’s with HD on three of them and recording capability on the three with HD. A very expensive luxury to say the least.
Woah!! 220 a month that is pretty dang crazy!! You need to call and negotiate!!
I’m on month 4 of no cable and I have not looked back since. I have HBO Now and Netflix. Plus the local channels. We don’t really need much else. Cable TV is dead to me. Way to expensive and definitely not worth it. I am so behind on HBO shows and Netflix that it will be a while before I’m bored. even then though, more content will be added. So I guess I’ll never be bored in that sense
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Big media is going to have to do something younger people don’t have extra money and cable tv is an easy thing to cut. I wish my city would do municipal fiber. I don’t think google fiber will be making its way here anytime soon.
If they offered a service where you could stream Fox News and CNN I’d be all over cutting the cable. I’m a news junkie though, really enjoy watching their programming.