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My wife and I ditched cable as well. I listen to college football on the radio ( regular free radio). Don't miss the TV
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I watch very, very little TV and had zero issues spending the entire summer at our place in Idaho with an antenna I installed years ago. We get may six stations but I only watched the cooking shows on PBS. 
Conduct is the best proof of character.
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Netflix and a few major locals by digital antenna. Probably two years now. Saves about $700 a year over our old satellite bills.
Now with even more aplomb
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College football is the only reason I have TV service, I need to get that worked out.
"Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"
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College football is the only reason I have TV service, I need to get that worked out. Yep! If I could figure out how to get live sports without cable, I'd dump it in a heartbeat.
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I haven't had cable or satellite in 30 years. We use Netflix a lot, though. I get spoiled watching with no commercials and getting shows on MY schedule. I gave up watching news on network tv a long time ago because of the commercials. I get it all online.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
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Cable will be on the obsolete pile with eight track tsps within five years. They will price themselves into obsolescence. The problem is they also deliver about 75% of the high speed internet everyone needs to stream Netflix and other shows. Unless competition for internet services opens up for most of America, you can see where this is going when cable companies start losing revenue to streaming.
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have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
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I have very few reasons for wanting TV, but I do enjoy my football and a few shows. With Verizon dumping the Outdoor and Sportsman channels I am looking hard at options. Step one see what I can get over the air. That may suffice, we'll see.
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with a good antenna, I can pick up about 25 channels in HD - most of them are unwatchable due to their content - music, shopping, etc but of course you get the 4 networks, plus PBS, a local weather channel and maybe some local TV station that shows old shows and movies.
have you paid your dues, can you moan the blues, can you bend them guitar strings
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No cable
No satellite
No antenna
I get by with the net and Amazon Prime for entertainment. This. Haven't had a TV in nearly twenty years and don't miss it a bit. If I want to watch a ball game, I go out somewhere and treat myself to some wings or a burger.
America needs to understand that our troops are not 'disposable'. Each represents a family; Fathers, Mothers, Sons, Daughters, Cousins, Uncles, Aunts... Our Citizens are our most valuable treasure; we waste far too many.
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College football is the only reason I have TV service, I need to get that worked out. We dumped TV 20 years ago. I haven't run across a game I couldn't find on the internet in years. Quality isn't as good as cable yet, but is constantly improving. Stream 2 and up is generally best. Use at your own risk. I run good Virus and pop-up blockers and have never had a problem. Download nothing. Firstrowsports Stream2watch VIPBox
Broncos are officially the worst team in the nation this year.
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I'd drop satellite TV in a heartbeat if our Internet was fast enough to support Netflix, but it's just not to be as we carved our slice of heaven too far from the main road. Get some RG-11U very low signal drops over LONG range. not sure how far back in your are though.
I kill chit. "The Heathens nest"
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Wife and I agreed less TV was better for us, so when she took over the internet/ phone/ cable TV payments, a lot of extra channels were dropped and we went with basic local channels plus Streampix. It gives us some selection without having to pay for 34 extra Asian or Mexican channels with laughable plots and bad acting.
"I didn't realize we had so many snipers in this country." by J23
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We've never had cable or satellite TV.
We do have good internet.
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With the proliferation of free internet porn I haven't watched broadcast TV or Netflix in a long time.
Plus, I can curl 125 pounds with either arm....
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery.
Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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One of my biggest gripes with cable and satellite is the lack of 'ala carte' channel selection.
Several years ago, I cancelled the cable service, and went with just a small indoor antenna.
Here in north Florida, I get 13 channels. Could get more with a better, outside antenna.
I use Netflix, Hulu +, Sling TV, YouTube and HBOGo, to watch movies, and a lot of the channels you normally only get with cable. All that comes in wireless, with my DSL.
Cost for everything is less than $40 a month, and I have more choices than I did when I had cable. My old bills for Cox Cable were over $120 a month.
In my Miami condo, the same little indoor TV antenna pulls in 62 channels. Forty bucks a month seems low. Netflix is at least $8, HBOGo requires a cable subscription, HBONOW is $15, and Hulu + is $8 a month. How much is your DSL service? We use DSL at our place in Virginia and it struggles to stream video reliably.
I'm better when I move.
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I got a cable salesmen at my door that said he guaranteed he could save my $20 in my cable TV Service. I grinned and asked him for twenty bucks. Then I told him I wanted to sigh up and had not owned a TV since 2002 and could put is twenty bucks to good use every month. He said he couldn't do that and was out of there in a flash.
The first time I shot myself in the head...
Meniere's Sucks Big Time!!!
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One of my biggest gripes with cable and satellite is the lack of 'ala carte' channel selection.
Several years ago, I cancelled the cable service, and went with just a small indoor antenna.
Here in north Florida, I get 13 channels. Could get more with a better, outside antenna.
I use Netflix, Hulu +, Sling TV, YouTube and HBOGo, to watch movies, and a lot of the channels you normally only get with cable. All that comes in wireless, with my DSL.
Cost for everything is less than $40 a month, and I have more choices than I did when I had cable. My old bills for Cox Cable were over $120 a month.
In my Miami condo, the same little indoor TV antenna pulls in 62 channels. Forty bucks a month seems low. Netflix is at least $8, HBOGo requires a cable subscription, HBONOW is $15, and Hulu + is $8 a month. How much is your DSL service? We use DSL at our place in Virginia and it struggles to stream video reliably. Netflix is $8 a month, same with Hulu +. Sling is $20. The HBOGO costs me nothing. I don't figure in the cost of the internet, as I use it for a lot of things, and not just streaming services. In Gainesville, the DSL barely keeps up, in Miami, I am getting 45+ MBPS download speed with fiber optic DSL
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Live 30 miles N of Ft, Myers and about 90 S of Tampa, we get all four major networks, 4 PBS stations and MeTV. Also get a bunch of Spanish and religious channels but have them blocked so the TV skips them. I have a small amplified indoor digital antenna and could not be happier. Ditched cable & satellite 8-10 years ago as not interested in pro sports or movies.
Now if the networks would abandon all the sports including golf & beach volleyball!
George Orwell was a Prophet, not a novelist. Read 1984 and then look around you!
Old cat turd!
"Some men just need killing." ~ Clay Allison.
I am too old to fight but I can still pull a trigger. ~ Me
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I've got nothing. No cable. No satellite. No net, save for my 4gLTE. I can use it as a 'hotspot' I hear, but I have never messed with it. My cabin's in the woods and I'm sure Dish would be sketchy at best. No cable company would bother running service that far out for the few residences that are in my 'neighborhood.'
I go to my parents to catch Mountain Men on OnDemand when I can, otherwise it's DVD's for me. That's when I actually watch TV.
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