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Cord Cutting?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Jamee Mikell Oct 4, 2012. 14 Replies 0 Favorites
How many people are looking at alternatives to pay TV?A couple of years ago, I looked at the $100/month pay TV bill and determined we regularly watched less than 20 hours a month that wasn't…Continue
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Jamee Mikell replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"Fortunately, I'm not afflicted by the sports demon. :) But I know many people are, and that is one of they key roadblocks for many potential cord cutters. You say you have Roku. They do have MLB, NBA, NHL, and some college sports, but I think…"
Teknophyl replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"There's some software called PlayOn that actually supplements channels using scripts. It's $40 a year I think.
I go back and forth with cord cutting too. I've tried it in spurts and it is a lot to ask my wife, who is not technically…"
Jamee Mikell replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"I'm going to say the 2-yr-old will adapt quickly if you give him a reasonable alternative. Note that reasonable means "any alternative that's vaguely similar." I think between the channels' web sites and PBS (which runs kids…"
Fabian replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"I have been debating cutting the cord. Right now with my two year old, he loves Disney Channel, and it would take some convincing to get my wife on board. I generally find more entertainment on the Internet and by playing video games. My wife,…"
Ian stephenson replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"Cord cut...
We moved a week ago, and currently have no phone, or cable, and limited network. I found a broadband/phone combo that's going to work out at about $200 a year, which is a nice saving on the $80 a month we were paying. It goes live…"
Tim Bailey replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"Once we came off of autopilot in front of the tv, I found myself getting picky about what I was willing to make an effort to watch--and found time to do lots of other, more FUN things too! Teaching our kids not to be mindless tv zombies is a…"
Jamee Mikell replied to Nathan Barry's discussion 'Is Algebra Necessary? [Recent NY Times Article]'"You triggered a memory of a math teacher I had in high school (many years ago). He was working on an English degree to go with his math degree. He said something about English majors and math majors usually not overlapping and wanting to be able to…"
Jamee Mikell replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"I second ripping media to softcopy and serving it up over the local network. So much easier than managing the physical media."
Jamee Mikell replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'">> Otherwise, we've watched less tv than ever and are happy that way!
Definitely.
Within six months of getting a DVR with satellite TV many years ago (seems like), we'd stopped watching live TV except on rare occasions. There…"
Jamee Mikell replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"That kind of lock-in is annoying. In the US I think providers are required to offer bare data services. They don't like to (ATT keeps wasting paper to tell me about their latest TV deal), but they do it. A few years back, ordering bare DSL was…"
Jamee Mikell replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"The perils of being a sports fan. :)
FWIW, Roku has NBA, NFL, MLB, and the other major US sports--and costs about a month or two of cable. The math might work out favorably over a year or two."
Ian stephenson replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"Here in the UK the online Olympic coverage was amazing. The BBC released an iPad Olympics app, and were streaming 24 (TWENTY FOUR!) online channels of coverage. I didn't actually watch any of it, but I was still impressed.
Between the ages of 3…"
Tim Bailey replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"We were looking for ways to cut down on monthly expenses a few years back and dropped our cable package too. We found that over-the-air HD was a higher quality signal (no compression by the cable company) and came in crystal clear on a few…"
Ian stephenson replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"We're moving house next month and it's going.
We did the maths and figure for what we spend on TV we can buy a couple of DVD box sets, or a whole bunch of shows on iTunes. Mix that in with the free to air shows and it's a much better…"
A is for Alien replied to Jamee Mikell's discussion 'Cord Cutting?'"yep i'm in the same boat, i wish there was a pay per channel service.I hate paying to watch 3 station and 600 channels of crap + ads.
i wanted to cut the cord time and time again then NBA season comes back around and i'm stuck.
so it…"
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