Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
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Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
Anyone here doing it?
All my contracts expire within 2 weeks and I'm strongly considering just ditching TV service completely. If I could have a service that just had Discovery, History, Travel and Nat Geo that would cover 90% of what I watch now.
All my contracts expire within 2 weeks and I'm strongly considering just ditching TV service completely. If I could have a service that just had Discovery, History, Travel and Nat Geo that would cover 90% of what I watch now.
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Re: Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
Haven't had cable in over 2 years and don't really miss it. Just get Netflix.
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Re: Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
I'm about 6 months into it. I miss being able to tune in for specific news items from time to time, and I have to download some shows that I want to watch - anything on AMC for example. Otherwise, Hulu and Netflix are good enough. I have a jailbroken AppleTV to watch the downloaded shows, using Plex Media Server. Add in MLB on the Xbox as of this week, and I'm pretty well covered.
Random sporting events are kind of a pain - the Superbowl was one. Missed a lot of IU basketball since I couldn't get Big10 network. Not sure what I'm going to do if the Cards make it far into the postseason. I don't think there was an online option for the World Series last year.
Random sporting events are kind of a pain - the Superbowl was one. Missed a lot of IU basketball since I couldn't get Big10 network. Not sure what I'm going to do if the Cards make it far into the postseason. I don't think there was an online option for the World Series last year.
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Re: Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
mlb.tv offers postseason i thought? Or is that just radio streams?
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Re: Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
I don't have it and definitely don't miss it.
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Re: Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
For the past couple years I've gotten cable October-March for baseball playoffs, college/pro football, and college/pro basketball. I cancel it April-September and get mlb.tv and netflix to catch up on movies and shows. I don't think I could ever completely cut the cord, mainly because of college and pro football.
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Re: Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
It was there for the tbs games but not once fox took over.go birds wrote:mlb.tv offers postseason i thought? Or is that just radio streams?
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Re: Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
On the complete other end of the spectrum, I'm actually thinking of keeping all the movie channels when my free subscription to them ends. I've watched like one movie (a few times) on Cinemax and I haven't watched any Starz, TMC, or Showtime that I can think of, but I think that's probably because I'd already seen all the movies that have premiered on them recently.
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Re: Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
i got rid of it, but missed baseball and hockey too much, so had to sign up again
unfortunately living in st louis, the only way to watch local sporting events is to have cable
unfortunately living in st louis, the only way to watch local sporting events is to have cable
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Re: Cutting the Cable/Satellite Cord
Or have friends with cable or go to bars a lotSecret Weapon wrote:i got rid of it, but missed baseball and hockey too much, so had to sign up again
unfortunately living in st louis, the only way to watch local sporting events is to have cable