OT: Cutting the Cable Cord
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Over the past few years I’ve gone from DirecTv ($150/mo) to Vue ($80/mo) which was awesome until it was canceled) to YTTV ($55/mo). With Covid, none of the few shows I like are anywhere near being released and now aim not even watching sports or ESPN because fuck Woke ESPN. I get my news from YouTube and Google News (so I can see both sides - Fox, HuffPost, Politico, Al Jazeera, etc.) I think over the last two weeks I watched a few things on Food Network and an episode or two of that 60 day Fiancé Show or whatever it is (yes I like Darcy’s juicy tits.). I will keep Netflix and Amazon Prime and I have Showtime thru Amazon Prime. Don’t have HBO because all their new shows are super-woke. Without sports I just don’t see the need.
Any of you cut out cable wholly since Covid?
Any of you cut out cable wholly since Covid?
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I rent movies at my local video store. Yes, video stores still exist and they are way cooler than Netflix đź‘Ť
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
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.
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.