Who among you has cancelled your cable tv, satellite tv, etc.?

powernoodle said:
After a long time of fantasizing about this, I'm about to cancel my cable tv package. We Powernoodles have figured out that $70/month (and some of you cats pay a lot more than that) is a lot of money for a bunch of cr@p that we never watch - and much of which makes me wonder where civilization is headed. We watch Netflix mostly, and have Amazon Prime. There are tons of good stuff on both. What gripes me just a little about cable is that I can't select only the channels I want, but have to pay for MTV, the Kardashians and Honey Boo Boo if I want ESPN and the Discovery channel. And even the Discovery Channel has jumped the shark with stuff like Naked and Afraid. Geez. My 16 year old astutely noted that even if I do find a show or two I like on cable, we are paying $70/month to watch it.

So without cable, you still get high def "free" television through the airwaves of the Big Four networks, plus PBS etc. And tons of cable and network stuff ends up on Netflix the following year. We are about to give season 1 of The Americans a try on Netflix, which was a big hit on FX last year.

Btw, Mrs. Powernoodle and I love the British Crime dramas on Netflix, like Vera and Sherlock. In my view, the chasm between Sherlock and Glee is the distance of infinity.

So have you guys pulled the plug on cable, and how did it go? Thanks.
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Once you cancel your TV service...do you have any antenna in mind?

I'm fixing to move (local...13 miles away) but ATT Uverse TV service is not available where I'm moving to so I am going to cancel all services for now. I'm considering some kind of indoor antenna because those seem to typically have about a 30 mile reception range from what I've read.

John
 
I use Netflix instant (although I cancelled it for the time being to save a bit of money), and I get a ton of TV/movie DVDs from the library (lucky to have a very good one). If there's something specific I want to watch, I can always go over to my parents as they have DirecTV (which I'd never pay for).
 
Caress of Steel said:
Once you cancel your TV service...do you have any antenna in mind?

I'm fixing to move (local...13 miles away) but ATT Uverse TV service is not available where I'm moving to so I am going to cancel all services for now. I'm considering some kind of indoor antenna because those seem to typically have about a 30 mile reception range from what I've read.

John
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Digital TVs (true flat screens produced in the last 5 or 6 years) have built in antennas. You would not need anything additional. I work with a couple of the big cable TV providers on the West coast and I've heard that the FCC has suggested that cable TV providers may end up having to go the "PPC" route inevitably. Pay Per Channel is something that Charter, Comcast, Cox, Time-Warner, and the other big names are looking at as time goes on. There have been enough customers fed up with the "same garbage" on almost every channel, and will typically cancel their contracts and service all together (except internet). If these providers went to an "iTunes" style business model, things might be better for everyone in the end. The current "all or nothing" ideal is not working with the newer emerging markets.
 
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