Time Warner, Comcast, Charter - Cutting Cable: I've had it these corporate THIEVES!!!

[ZX86]

Look. I just want some background noise while cooking. Some news. Perhaps a little Comedy Central. And these fuckers want to charge me over $200 a month for a bunch of bundled nonsense I don't want or need. Religious crap I don't believe in, foreign languages I don't speak, and cheap gaudy jewelery I don't want to buy. All I wanted was some basic cable, a land line, and an internet connection.

Bundling should be illegal. It's thievery. It would be like going to a restaurant to get a salad but you have to buy the steak and lobster package which includes a fundy sermon and a sales pitch for gold coins and a reverse mortgage.

It's a rip off. It's a scam. These corporate bastards need to die. There's a special place in hell waiting for them.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

1. Did it years ago and don't miss a thing.

Internet, PBS/BBC and Netflix. Aaaaah.

[yuiyoshida]

15. I haven't seen real tv since...

well has to be over 5 or 6 years now. Maybe the last time I went into a bar with friends. Last Year's world series? Listened on the Radio. Hate TV... I won't watch it. Give me something interactive like the Internet!

[eloydude]

2. Cut them off. Go Roku

and you have the pick of the channels you wish to watch!

[sarcasmo]

8. Picked up the Roku 3 this winter

Great little device, Netflix and Amazon Prime with MLB.tv. We no longer need cable.

[Go Vols]

11. More channels here

http://mkvxstream.blogspot.com/2015/04/roku-private-channels-2015-roku.html

and even more if you google "private roku channels"

[canoeist52]

3. You can do this. Starve those beasts!

Been without TV for five years now. I certainly don't miss the obnoxious ads! A life of peace and contentment awaits you.

[TheNutcracker]

4. I have LAVA HD antenna on home for regular broadcast, Roku and Netflix!

More quality TV than I could ever watch!


Cut cut cut that cord!

Antenna: $59.00
Roku 2 $69.00

that's it for all the free TV you can watch. Huff Post channel, Democracy Now, RT, LiveSTream, on and on. Over 1012 movies!

If you add Netflix, one TV it's only $7.99 a month.

I was paying 94.00 for basic cable a month. NEVER AGAIN!

[840high]

5. I got rid of Comcast. Bought an

antenna at Target. Get more programs than I can watch.

[TheNutcracker]

6. Did you know Bernie Sanders went after the cable companies in VT? Made them lower prices!

[ZX86]

9. I knew there was some reason I liked him.

A man of the people.

[Old Codger]

7. As others have said

Got rid of TV about a year ago, tried an over the air antenna but only get 2 channels on that and neither one is worth watching.. Have a really really slow narrow band internet but can stream Netflix and Hulu most of the time, don't miss sat tv at all from the lousy programming to the incredibly bullshit prices...Netflix 7.99 hulu 8.99 .on Roku boxes (have 2 of them) get all the streaming programs I want at decent prices and many choices.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Background noise....podcasts....

Not only did we cut the cord years back, we also cut AT&T cell phone and went to buying minutes.
Now we can spend the 180.00 a month savings on more important things.
Everything we want to see can be found on the puters via various methods, and a Netflix subscription.
We have a small ISP that gives us unlimited internet, no caps, for 30.00 a month.

Have not seen a commercial for years.

[hunter]

14. It changes one's perspective not seeing television commercials for years at a time.

For me watching television interupted by commercials has become intolerable.

I'm even irritated by the commercials they now play at the movie theaters before the trailers.

It's funny how we call something that is shown before the feature a "trailer," but these used to be distributed as the last reel of a multi-reel feature film, with newsreels and cartoons played before the feature.

Showing my age here, as a kid the double feature weekday matinee cost us fifty cents, included cartoons and trailers, and we'd show up at the theater as a mob of neighborhood kids of all ages with no adults in sight. The theater staff were teenagers, the projectionists were teenagers, often the same nerdy guys who'd run the projector in school, and the adult in charge was a big grumpy manager who sat in his smokey office, who'd go off like the Incredible Hulk, even physically dragging kids out of the theater, if anyone disturbed him at his desk.

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Commercials in movie theaters?????? Yikes!!!!

Last movie theater I was in , was ...1986. One of those re-furbished grand old movie houses, with a woman playing the huge pipe organ before the film.
Guess they have changed a lot since then.

Yeah, I remember going to the movies in the 50's, I think we paid a quarter and could still afford candy and cokes, and we sometimes snuck in a free 2nd showing.
Sci-fi/outer space was a popular movie subject then, I vividly remember seeing a lot of what now are considered classics.

[olddots]

12. these companys are the true "Dope " dealers

one day awhile ago our i TV box started not showing comedy central with no warning or explination .

We better get a plan together because this piggy game is just starting and the world will soon be a William Gibson novel .

[closeupready]

13. I've only recently started subscribing to FiOS, and I have to say

that I really enjoy it. The interface is easy to use, and it's entertaining.

[mimi85]

19. We like FIOS also.

The picture is so much better than cable, my internet works 99.9% of the time and we have our landline on it. And we pay much less than $200 for all three.

[closeupready]

22. Ditto - Internet is fast, reliable, and while I don't have the phone,

I pay about $100 month (plus tax) - that's with free HBO. Add-ons are available (like DVR, and more channels). Since I'm not a kid anymore and don't go to night clubs or restaurants anymore (to be honest), this is actually an economical way to satisfy my need for occasional entertainment, and some of that entertainment is really a lot of fun - Raiders of the Lost Ark, Psycho, Bridge on the River Kwai, Chopped, Life Below Zero, Al Jazeera, etc. Even the horse races, lol. You want to watch it? They have it.

[Left coast liberal]

18. DAMN STRAIGHT!

"What they said..."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

20. Me too. Roku and a dear friend turned me onto Netflix.

[1939]

21. A lot of the time

It is the providers that require the bundling. If a cable comp-any wants to carry a very popular channel, say the "Gee Whiz Network", they buy the Gee Whiz Network and GWN says we will only sell it to you if you also carry the following five shows that no one in his right mind would pay money for like 24 hour programming of blind zither players. In other words, you might be paying for ten worthwhile channels but have 30 garbage channels on your tier as well. If the 30 garbage channels were eliminated, your cost wouldn't go down, but might go up since the network bundlers would charge the cable company more for the ten channels you want.

[BainsBane]

23. cut the cord

Use the radio for background noise. Get used to being with yourself without noise.

I cut my cable over a year ago. That's about $2800 I can use on more necessary items. I got a roku and use that. You can also hook up a computer to most televisions with an HDMI cable. The cable companies are thieves, and I refuse to subsidize them further.
I watch far less television, mainly netflix. It means I don't turn the TV on out of habit. I sit down and watch programs I want, and I do other things with my time. I don't regret it for a second.