I was curious about the same thing when I saw the title!
Maybe we need another strand going to check in on how that cord cutting is going…
I have one who thinks he has cut the cord (symbolic umbilical cord), but is still using all of our passwords to login for streaming services (this generation will never connect a cable cord I guess even though his WiFi is from the same company). He also changed all of our avatars/icons/nicknames just to mess with us one night, so at least we have that connection.
Thanks a lot @saillakeerie, @DadSays and @Eeyore123. That’s helpful information, and I’ll explore further.
Mostly just need football - I don’t watch enough of other sports so I wouldn’t miss them that much.
It was also the Weather Channel we missed when we cut everything and started streaming a few things initially. Their website is not as helpful during hurricane season or other dangerous weather events we have.
If you have T mobile I got Netflix 4 screen for the price of one screen. Also got Disney plus and Eson+ for free. They also give you Apple TV for a year but haven’t registered that one yet. Look at deals through your phone carriers like these. FYI.
My goal in cutting the cable was also cutting the costs to just about nothing. Most months, we spend no extra money at all to watch TV. We have an antenna, and Amazon Prime. We have a Roku stick. If we want to, we buy by the month for special things.
But no way would I pay $70 a month…that’s why I left cable!
We didn’t get cable when we moved, but instead just had Netflix ($9/mo then, don’t know if it’s more now) and Amazon Prime/Fire stick. We tried Sling for less than a month and did not like it. Currently also have Discovery + and Disney +, as well as free HBO that I only used a couple of times for Sesame St. for GD.
H will never give up Amazon Prime or Netflix. We had both even when we had cable. I’m tired of the random scheduling on Discovery +. Shows often hit cable weeks or months before Discovery + has them, so we’ll drop it soon. We’ll keep Disney + for grandchildren, in part because their parents objected to some content on Disney Jr. and dropped it.
S and DiL suggested YouTube TV, so we’ll look into it next month. The only cable service in our new area has a horrible reputation, even worse than Charter/Spectrum which I loathe. The only other option is AT&T, which I think is now DirecTV Stream. We had Dish TV years ago, but I don’t know if it’s still around. This thread is timely for us. I’d happily go back to using a TiVO instead of streaming, but that’s not an option.
With my degenerating vision, I can’t read the TV schedule on an 85" TV from more than about 10 ft. away, nor can I easily see the print on the various remote buttons. Sometimes I feel like my late grandmother who was happy with her three channels, TV Guide magazine and a simple remote.
I went from $200/month to this so it’s a savings for us. I have prime, Netflix and Hulu live plus the free above. I gotta have my sports and this gives it to me. Like every college game out there plus… But sure could just to HD attena plus whatever streaming but it wouldn’t be sufficient for my sports.
My cable, internet and home phone bill was almost $240 a month when we got rid of cable 2 1/2 years ago. At least $160 of the $240 was for cable alone. Even with paying for internet and all of the streaming services that we currently have I know our total is not much over $100 a month which is way less than the $240 I used to pay.
Just look at all the taxes and fees and add those all up. I was truly disgusted by it and that was what made me change. Plus I buy my own modem /router.
I am moving tomorrow and need to make a decision, Hulu+ or U tube TV. They both are ~ the same price, and seem to offer the same channels. I have an Insignia smart TV that will support them both. Does anybody have any first hand experience with either, and was it good or bad? I should note my TV remote has a Hulu button, does that make a difference at all? I am clueless on these things and need to pick one today. TIA
No experience with Hulu, but I’ve had good success with YouTube TV. I like the unlimited DVR and ability to continue shows seamlessly on different screens - I can pause a show or event on my main TV, then restart from that same point on my phone or tablet later. Also, I really rely on the ability to start watching a live sporting event from the beginning even when it’s actually already in progress. Football games only take 1.5 hrs if you wait awhile after kickoff, then start from beginning and fast-forward commercial breaks and timeouts to catch up to live near the end. Some streaming services don’t allow this (looking at you, Peacock).
Second vote for YouTube TV for the reasons cited. We have some sort of Hulu subscription my S signed up for and every time I used to try to watch something on it, I received a message telling me I don’t have the right subscription….very frustrating. As a result I stopped using it.
My problem is that we have only one high speed internet provider, the cable company (Comcast) and they have rigged internet-only service to be so expensive that it doesn’t save all that much to drop TV service. They also make it as non-transparent as possible. They make it impossible to get current rates online, forcing you to speak to their agents. Once you do, they quote internet rates for roughly comparable bandwidth (actually somewhat lower) that are only about $40/month less than the “triple play” package that includes TV and voice (which I don’t use). That package includes several services we would use separately if we cut the cord, like HBO and Netflix. So cutting the cord would end up only nominally cheaper and with slower bandwidth.
The real issue is lack of competition for high speed internet – which makes their base offering ~600% what I paid for Internet 20 years ago.
