OT: Cutting the Cable Cord

No cable for years, I use SlingTV for $40 a month, have Amazon Prime and Netflix. Use a HD Antenna for regular TV though it usually only during football season. I usually get the NFL Ticket which has an app on my Roku but I probably won't this year since the games are gonna probably stink and will just cast the streams I can find to my TV through Chromecast.

I don’t have cable

I rent movies at my local video store. Yes, video stores still exist and they are way cooler than Netflix 👍

And I know a website in which I can stream most of the major sports for free, including ANY NFL game and the quality is good and I get very little to no buffering

Reddit usually has lists of streams for games. If not shoot me a message, i may need it this year.

I have YouTube-TV (YTTV), seemed a like a good value - when YTTV started a couple of years I think it started at $35/mo - it's increased w/ time and channels-added - it recently went up again from $55/mo to ~$65/mo after they added a few more channels including Comedy-Central - seems a bit hard to find a package that has the channels-you-want/best-price - IDK the inner-workings of these things but I assume often times they don't have a lot of choice w.r.t. increasing prices, there seems to be a lot of interest$ involved - I assume channels like ESPN charge the carriers an-arm-and-a-leg and it's a big reason for the increasing costs - paying these primadonnas like LeBron $40+million per year, that cost is gonna get past down to you and I w/ a multiple of interest$ taking their cut along the way.

I too can do w/o ESPN b/c of the woke BS - I'm currently not watching any sports b/c of it except Formula-1 and MotoGP (with Formula-1 being shown on ESPN) - I have about 70-channels on YTTV but only watch about 5 or so - my fave channel is "The Smithsonian Channel" since I don't have "The History Channel" - I also watch "National Geographic" but not as much as Smithsonian - and watch a few other things in 2 or 3 other channels - def would be nice if one could choose the channels one wants a-la-carte but the providers are like handtied w.r.t. that to a large extent since they probably have to tack-on a certain # of channels to get the best price possible and offset expensive vs cheap channels.

Sports and Entertainment are a HUGE biz so I can only imagine prices rising more although I'm currently turned-off by most of it and don't watch it like I used to.

Cable is gone and I do mlb.tv for baseball.

SlingTV is the best value.

No cable for about 5 years. Don't even have a TV anymore. Netflix and mlb.com are all I have. Following D-2 basketball in the winter (while it was happening) via the school websites. Been reading a lot more, which is a good thing. Generally, the books are far better than the movies.

I haven’t subscribed to cable since I separated / divorced almost 10 years ago. Don’t really miss cable at all. I have antennas pointing that pull in the Baltimore and Washington DC stations to a DVR. And Amazon Prime & Netflix. I only care to watch four or five sporting events a year, so I’ll go to a sports bar or even SC on those occasions.

I had directtv, $180 a month for just TV, I have spectrum online tv ( pick 15 or so channels plus basic for $30ish and works on my phone as well, HBO for a little extra) netflix, hulu, Disney +, Amazon prime and internet for around $120 a month. Literally I had more TV during Covid than I needed. Spectrum as lets you get AMC, history and a bunch of other channels Apps. Cant imagen Cable or satellite will be a thing much longer.

I quit cable TV about 10 years ago. I am a movie buff but really don't like the cheap made for TV movies or series type shows. I have Netflix, Hulu/Starz that I pay for and I have add Tubi TV which is free with limited commercials. It has lots of old but good movies. Tonight I watched "It's a mad mad mad mad world" that came out about 50+years ago. Talk about nostalgia!

Thx for the replies gents, going to cut out YTTV and see how it goes.

Cable is the fastest and most reliable internet provider though. Until that changes, I"m not sure I"m going to cut the cord.

Wr have cable. Irs $55 a month. Probably 200 channels. Mlb and NFL in basic package. Three stooges in 10 minutes.

I wish I could cut the chord, but we have a few favorite channels that we can't get in one place otherwise, including a couple that still have exclusive satellite/cable deals. Once my kids are older it will probably get easier.

i only watch sports, and i have youtubetv as that fits what i want best. i only get internet through the cable company.

We have Netflix and Amazon Prime and it's tempting to cut the cord entirely. But Dish is dirt cheap and it's not cost effective to let them go...at least not yet.

Wife likes a few TV shows and I like sports when they're actually happening. Right now I pay $131 a month for cable and internet.

One cool thing, my cable provider recently added an app that you can run through a ROKU, or a newer model VIZIO, Samsung or LG TV. You can get all your channels through the app, no need to run cable or need for a cable box or cable card. Pretty cool, I wanted to put a TV in every room in the house but I was talked out of it. I don't know what's the point I didn't turn on the TV since March until the other day when the NBA playoffs started.

The only time i had satellite was in northern arizona for the wife. after our split (and divorce) no satellite or cable. i get 40 channels on antenna tv at my arizona casa. my cabin in the southern california gets NO antenna tv and i won’t pay for cable or satellite. i’m just not at the cabin enough to justify the cost. besides that money is better spent on a sexy girl interaction.