I cut the cord

[Tavarious Jackson]

I now have HULU with live TV. I'm so happy. I'm saving a couple of hundred a month.

[samnsara]

1. and you can get PLUTO for free as well and they have live news!

...from BBC but the cable news programs are a little delayed. AND 24/7 MST3000! And Slow tv.. you can watch an entire Norwegian train trip. Just the sound of the train on the track....real time..

[Tavarious Jackson]

2. I'm loving this HULU

So many movies and shows. Helps me tune out Trump news. After 3 years of depression I can not take it anymore. I have to take care fo myself.

[eleny]

34. I just found a 7-hour Norwegian train trip on Your Tube

Thanks for the idea of it. This will make such a neat background video on the table when I practice my watercoloring. I'm lousy at the painting but now it'll be more fun since I'll be traveling in Norway while I'm at it.

[vishnura]

3. Cutting the cord

Did the same a couple of months ago Netflix, Amazon and HULU enough TV for me!

[Tavarious Jackson]

10. I have Amazon fire and HULU.

I thought about Netflix but for now I am happy with this.

[OnDoutside]

24. You can sideload Mobdro on to the Amazon Fire TV too, and get UK channels.

[LuvNewcastle]

37. That's what I have, too, and it's

more tv than I could ever watch. I get my news from DU mostly, and I get the weather from the app on my phone. I don't need to know what is happening all over the world 24/7. There aren't enough happy pills to get me over the depression that live tv brings.

[Jersey Devil]

4. I am using Playstation Vue

on Fire TV with Prime. Saving about $90 per month over what I was paying for DirecTV. Very satisfied, get all my local networks in NC plus (if I sign in with my VPN) I get all the New York locals including YES for the Yankees (I am a NYC metro transplant) and all the NY locals for the Giants.

[Tavarious Jackson]

8. Yes! I can't believe I waited so long.

I'm saving about $200 a month. I was using comcast.

[mokawanis]

5. Good choice

I cut the cord two years ago and have not regretted the decision.

[grantcart]

17. +1

[JHan]

6. :) Good choice.

[R B Garr]

7. Nice! Can you get cable news? Or were you avoiding

it since you said you were tired of it? I always have MSNBC on in the background.

[Tavarious Jackson]

9. I am watching MSNBC right now.

I can watch all the news channels and a ton of movies. I didn't have HULU until yesterday so I missed all the handmaids shows. I have a lot of catching up to do. I suspect cable news will start airing the orange butthole 24/7 non stop like they did inn 2016. I'm ready to tune cable off now.

[R B Garr]

20. That's good to hear. MSNBC would be hard to give up. We

looked into a couple things before but found out we needed done kind of expensive router or something and some of the channel lineups missed E! and/or Bravo which I do like sometimes.

We’ll have to check this out again. Enjoy! I’m assuming you get internet separately?

[Tavarious Jackson]

23. Yes. 40 a month for internet.

I was paying 350 a month including taxes and fees.

[R B Garr]

38. Wow! What a breath of fresh air to get out from under

that! Great work.

[OnDoutside]

25. Do you have an Android phone, Firestick or tablet ?

[R B Garr]

39. No, but my hubby has an Android and we were sort of looking

into a Firestick. Is that for channel selection or something?

[Tavarious Jackson]

40. I have firestick.

[grantcart]

16. I listen on my phone

[R B Garr]

21. Yes, we have been doing that lately in the car.

Love it.

[meow2u3]

11. I have DirecTV NOW on my Roku

I'm overall happy, but there's one problem: I'm getting the wrong local channels, probably because of a geolocation error on "their side."

[MurrayDelph]

12. Sorry, I'm a belt and suspenders guy

Just a few minutes ago, I saw a Facebook memory where a young friend of mine (mid-20's back when I was late 50's) commenting that he doesn't buy hard media (DVD, BluRay) anymore because "that's what the Internet is for."

I don't agree (in my case). I live on the north Oregon Coast, where the Internet access sucks (both low speed and reliability). So I got satellite TV so I have access to the world even when Internet is out (and vice versa).

If both go out, I still have DVDs.

(Maybe I should look into getting an emergency generator).

[hunter]

22. Our kids have Chromecast dongles attached to their televisions. That's it.

No antennas, no cable, no DVD players, nothing else; everything on the internet. Their computers don't even have DVD drives.

My wife and I quit television years ago. This was before Comcast offered internet service. I got irritated with Comcast one day when they raised their rates while dropping a few channels we watched, replacing those channels with garbage, and trying to bait and switch us to an even higher cost contract plan. Then we were only watching DVDs we bought in thrift stores or rented.

Our youngest kid, who is crazy about movies and still aspires to work in the industry, gifted us with Netflix, which we originally watched on our kids' left-behind Nintendo Wii. We've been Netflix subscribers since.

A single stream of "standard definition" Netflix works fine on our medium speed DSL connection. I've got our router set up to give that priority over everything else.

I have zero tolerance for television "news" of any kind, it's bad for my mental health. I don't want to become that old man yelling at his TV. If the internet should go out, which is a rare occurrence here, I've got my radios -- AM, FM, Shortwave, and everything else. Software Defined Radios, the sort you plug into a computer, are awesome, absolute magic to someone like me who started building homebrew radios as a kid in the 'sixties.

[LeftInTX]

28. My dad had satellite up at his place in Northern Wisconsin

Vacation home in the middle of nowhere.

There is no media market at all, by design

You know what was weird: We got San Antonio commercials!!! At first I thought it was a fluke. Then I started seeing San Antonio personal injury attorneys. I couldn't figure it out because if this is satellite, aren't they picking up local?

(My dad's billing address is San Antonio and he had satellite at his home in SA too)

I just thought it was interesting and shows that satellite is much more sophisticated than it used to be.

By the way, the reception was excellent.

[cynatnite]

13. We cut ours and are using Sling, but it's not all unicorns and kittens...

There have been internet issues such as buffering and a couple of times it's gone completely down. We have 10 mbps, too, which should be plenty to handle all the streaming.

It's one trade off for another. We'll be moving in the next few months and we'll probably go back to cable. We'll go with the cheapest package and keep Sling, too. The premiums are a good price.

[Tavarious Jackson]

14. HULU live is better than Sling.

It has everything Sling does plus more. You should try a 7 day free trial.

[cynatnite]

18. I tried it and didn't like it. I tried Youtube TV, too...

I prefer Sling.

[LeftInTX]

30. My son and his wife have Sling. They are pleased. (Suburb of Houston with good internet)

We still have cable, but we watch it with ROKU.

Don't have buffering issues. We have 1,000 mbps, but that is the max.

Sometimes the Spectrum app isn't available.
Hubby's TV has cable box. The only reason we keep it is so we have something when internet goes out.

My other son purchased an antenna to access TV on his smart TV. He claims he gets 65 channels. ( I think we have 30 or so local, so he probably is also picking up Austin, which is 80 miles away. So it would be a redundancy in coverage)

I can always watch news on my smart phone in case internet goes out.

I don't know why I don't cut the cord!

Google fiber is coming to my neighborhood.

[displacedtexan]

31. We had that problem with Hulu until we got a new rocku. Fast and constant service now.

We also have Sling for CNN, MSNBC and some other channels. If you use rocku, there are lots of free channels, like the rocku channel, YouTube, & Pluto. We got a $25 antenna from Amazon for our local news channels. Add in Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video, and our total monthly bill is less than it was with Comcast cable, internet and Netflix/amazon prime.

[cynatnite]

36. I scour the free channels...

Lots of great options with the Roku which I love.

The buffering is the trade-off with cutting the cord. It's not so bad that we can't enjoy it. Every so often it buffers and there have been two outages since we bought the Roku.

We've had Netflix, Hulu and Amazon prime for a long time now. We also got Starz and Showtime with the Sling package plus DVR, too. All of that combined is still much cheaper than what we were paying with Charter.

I see both having their drawbacks and everyone should go what works for them. I'm still inclined to get cable again in addition to the Roku, but that's a discussion husband and I are currently having.

[Achilleaze]

15. You are helping to Starve the Beast (Fox, inc. - KGOP)

[MyNameGoesHere]

19. Cord cutter over 5 years now.

Fricking cable. What a joke

[Bleacher Creature]

26. Where do you get internet access?

Every time I look into doing the same, I still need to go back to Verizon or Comcast for internet.

[Tavarious Jackson]

27. I went with century link for internet

You can cut comcast back to internet only.

[Mr. Ected]

29. How were you able to shake Comcast off your back?

They never take no for an answer from me.

[LeftInTX]

32. My son cut his and still uses Time-Warner Cable, which is basically another Comcast

They provide internet, but cut out the cable part.

I'm pretty sure if Comcast is the only provider, then Comcast will be your ISP without cable.

I think my other son uses U-Verse or Comcast. (They are cord cutters too)

[displacedtexan]

33. They gave us free stuff every time we tried to quit them.

When we told them we couldn't afford them, we got free home security for a year. The next year they gave us free premium channels. The next year, we told them we loved their service but still couldn't afford them, and they "graciously" accepted the cable box back. It helped that we took the box back in person and there were lots of people in line behind us.

We got Sonic wireless Internet, which has no throttling & no limit for $40 per month.

[Roland99]

35. Cut it 8 1/2 yrs ago. Built an HTPC and put an antenna in the attic

Been loving it!