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Post by Lead Dong on Dec 8, 2014 21:02:49 GMT -5
I'm sick of paying U-verse a small fortune every month. Has anyone discovered a good way to cut the proverbial cable wire?
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Post by The Hoff on Dec 8, 2014 21:04:14 GMT -5
I'm sick of paying U-verse a small fortune every month. Has anyone discovered a good way to cut the proverbial cable wire? Talk to Gazoo about that. He did that a few years back. He posted about it on SI.
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Post by waxing on Dec 8, 2014 21:19:33 GMT -5
Biggest problem is losing easy access to Fox Sports Detroit, ESPN, etc. There are backdoors to streams, but that becomes such a pain when all you want to do is flip on the TV and watch the Wings/Tigers/Pistons. As a sports wonk, I've yet to find a way to pull the cable plug without giving up what's my most important viewing. There really isn't much left over the air anymore other than NFL.
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Post by 4intheair on Dec 8, 2014 21:45:05 GMT -5
If you are not into watching live sports its easy. If you are, you won't enjoy low def streams on extremely low security sites. The leagues do an amazing job shutting down streams.
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Post by mtdman on Dec 8, 2014 23:01:43 GMT -5
My biggest issue with cutting the cord has always been the sports teams. I didn't watch more than 5 hours of tigers games all last year. I did listen to many of them on the radio. I think I am at the point where I could pull the trigger now. I haven't watched a red wings regular season game in years, and forget the pistons. Tigers is the only thing I worry about.
I pretty much dvr the shows I want to watch, and watch those on my schedule now instead of watching live tv. If I have to flip around live tv I am bored. I've got the roku box, amazon prime, and the wwe network. Im a sign up for netflix or hulu and then uverse is going away. I've just got to convince my wife to go with me. She likes to flip on the premium networks and watch movies a lot. But there are a lot of free movies on amazon prime and roku to watch. Then all I've got to pay is the internet connection.
Only thing I'm not sure about is the local network channels. I still like to watch the local channels for news or in the am. And I gotta have a fox channel to watch football if the Lions keep winning.
When did it get so that cable tv costs $200 a month? That's just stupid.
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Post by Lead Dong on Dec 9, 2014 0:16:23 GMT -5
You just gotta get a digital TV antenna for your locals. I've heard the HD picture your get from an antenna is better than what you get from cable.
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Post by Pollux on Dec 9, 2014 10:51:38 GMT -5
My biggest issue with cutting the cord has always been the sports teams. I didn't watch more than 5 hours of tigers games all last year. I did listen to many of them on the radio. I think I am at the point where I could pull the trigger now. I haven't watched a red wings regular season game in years, and forget the pistons. Tigers is the only thing I worry about. I pretty much dvr the shows I want to watch, and watch those on my schedule now instead of watching live tv. If I have to flip around live tv I am bored. I've got the roku box, amazon prime, and the wwe network. Im a sign up for netflix or hulu and then uverse is going away. I've just got to convince my wife to go with me. She likes to flip on the premium networks and watch movies a lot. But there are a lot of free movies on amazon prime and roku to watch. Then all I've got to pay is the internet connection. Only thing I'm not sure about is the local network channels. I still like to watch the local channels for news or in the am. And I gotta have a fox channel to watch football if the Lions keep winning. When did it get so that cable tv costs $200 a month? That's just stupid. Comcast led the way to $200 a month cable. By the gist of the posts here I'm guessing 'getting rid of cable' means streaming everything? I haven't had cable for years. I went to dish and I have all my locals and sports channels for about $70 a month.
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Post by robdiddy on Dec 9, 2014 17:36:57 GMT -5
Real talk.. T mobile with unlimited hot spot and data... My gym membership let's you control the TVs.
I never miss anything
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Post by mtdman on Dec 10, 2014 23:54:31 GMT -5
The problem for me with the dish is the internet service. If I have to pay for dish and a separate internet service, I'm just going to stream everything.
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Post by tommyz on Dec 11, 2014 7:05:15 GMT -5
Ive wanted to do the same for years, but as has been posted it comes down to the sports networks...I watch the tigers and wings on fsd...Espn and BTN will have Michgan (no options) Lions I can get Local so no problem there..It all comes down to sports for me...And really when you think about it, Half my bill right now is internet..I pay $100 per month
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Post by detroitrockcity on Dec 11, 2014 9:41:40 GMT -5
Well...
If one where to say, have a relative that pays for a cable/sat/whatever package that includes internet...said package includes email addresses. Have that relative set you up with an email address. With that, you can use it to authenticate to say, ESPN's WatchESPN (it has all their networks that matters). It would be like when you travel. Go to a hotel, bring up WatchESPN...it blocks knowing you aren't on your home network and access for your prompts for your provider credentials (email mentioned above). Bam, you are in.
Works on smart TVs, phones, tablets, laptops, etc...at home, on the road, anywhere you have internet access with the device you want to watch on. ESPN isn't the only one that has this feature/app. In fact, some providers have their own app, and you login with that...and get all your channels like it was in front of you.
Or...just buy a SlingBox, set it up at a friend's house that has an extra cable box for you (or pay them the monthly fee for an extra cable box)...and as long as you have internet, again, you can watch everything.
So I've heard. I may or have may have not used the above mentioned ideas, or have been the relative/friend that provided the above mentioned ideas. :D
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Post by tommyz on Dec 12, 2014 6:56:48 GMT -5
Well... If one where to say, have a relative that pays for a cable/sat/whatever package that includes internet...said package includes email addresses. Have that relative set you up with an email address. With that, you can use it to authenticate to say, ESPN's WatchESPN (it has all their networks that matters). It would be like when you travel. Go to a hotel, bring up WatchESPN...it blocks knowing you aren't on your home network and access for your prompts for your provider credentials (email mentioned above). Bam, you are in. Works on smart TVs, phones, tablets, laptops, etc...at home, on the road, anywhere you have internet access with the device you want to watch on. ESPN isn't the only one that has this feature/app. In fact, some providers have their own app, and you login with that...and get all your channels like it was in front of you. Or...just buy a SlingBox, set it up at a friend's house that has an extra cable box for you (or pay them the monthly fee for an extra cable box)...and as long as you have internet, again, you can watch everything. So I've heard. I may or have may have not used the above mentioned ideas, or have been the relative/friend that provided the above mentioned ideas. :D rock on man
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Post by joeking1978 on Dec 12, 2014 7:17:10 GMT -5
Now that I have Apple TV, I could easily justified getting rid of cable. ABC and Fox and a lot of other networks have apps on Apple TV, and I use my buddies login for ESPN (because I have DirectTV and apparently ESPN pretends they don't exist).
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Post by philly on Dec 12, 2014 8:30:50 GMT -5
I'm too much of a channel flipper. I don't want to log in and out of shit. It's worth $100/month.
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Post by joeking1978 on Dec 12, 2014 11:48:00 GMT -5
We only watch about a dozen stations anyways. ABC, Fox, CBS, ESPN and its affiliates, BTN, Disney, nickelodeon, HGTV, discovery and that's about it. Oh and the wife likes to watch E and bravo...
All of those except HGTV, BTN, E and Bravo are on Apple TV. I can live with not channel flipping. Plus, once you are in the ABC app for example- there are multiple channels to flip through
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Post by The Hoff on Dec 12, 2014 11:50:09 GMT -5
We only watch about a dozen stations anyways. ABC, Fox, CBS, ESPN and its affiliates, BTN, Disney, nickelodeon, HGTV, discovery and that's about it. Oh and the wife likes to watch E and bravo... All of those except HGTV, BTN, E and Bravo are on Apple TV. I can live with not channel flipping. Plus, once you are in the ABC app for example- there are multiple channels to flip through HGTV/DIY are the only reason we don't dump Dish and go over the air/Roku. Those are the most watched (non-over the air) channels in our house, followed by probably History Channel. Starting to lose interest in History Channel-they are showing more and more crap.
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Post by lions_metalhead on Dec 12, 2014 16:05:49 GMT -5
If I could watch good streams of Wings games and if NASCAR would offer proper streaming services I would probably not need to have cable TV
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Post by Pollux on Dec 14, 2014 11:28:54 GMT -5
We only watch about a dozen stations anyways. ABC, Fox, CBS, ESPN and its affiliates, BTN, Disney, nickelodeon, HGTV, discovery and that's about it. Oh and the wife likes to watch E and bravo... All of those except HGTV, BTN, E and Bravo are on Apple TV. I can live with not channel flipping. Plus, once you are in the ABC app for example- there are multiple channels to flip through HGTV/DIY are the only reason we don't dump Dish and go over the air/Roku. Those are the most watched (non-over the air) channels in our house, followed by probably History Channel. Starting to lose interest in History Channel-they are showing more and more crap. I had a free preview of H2 last month and it was great. It had all of the old shows that made History channel great. I used to like History International a lot too but both of those are on more expensive plans.
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Post by The Hoff on Jan 6, 2015 8:32:24 GMT -5
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Post by joeking1978 on Jan 6, 2015 9:17:58 GMT -5
Interesting
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Post by fastfreddie on Jan 6, 2015 11:13:26 GMT -5
A lot of the older shows on these networks were better. For instance, on the Food Network, it is all about these cooking competitions, Iron Chef, etc. And on HGTV it is all real estate and flipping shows. I used to watch them a little bit back in the day, when these networks actually told you how to cook or how to repair/upgrade your house. Same can be said for the Discover/TLC channels. They used to show interesting/science/engineering type programs. Now it is all bike building competition or some type of Kate plus 8 bullshit reality show.
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Post by The Hoff on Jan 6, 2015 11:30:04 GMT -5
A lot of the older shows on these networks were better. For instance, on the Food Network, it is all about these cooking competitions, Iron Chef, etc. And on HGTV it is all real estate and flipping shows. I used to watch them a little bit back in the day, when these networks actually told you how to cook or how to repair/upgrade your house. Same can be said for the Discover/TLC channels. They used to show interesting/science/engineering type programs. Now it is all bike building competition or some type of Kate plus 8 bullshit reality show. I agree, but my wife is a House Hunters addict. I would have to add DIY for their line-up. I watch mostly news and sports, with the occassional movie. I would be fine with this package, two add ons (sports and DIY), and a netflix or HUlu subscription. This would cut my DISH bill in half. If the added DIY shows to Hulu or Netflix, I wouldn't even need to add that News upgrade package.
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Post by mkejb on Jan 6, 2015 13:00:02 GMT -5
cut our cable this summer and it's been really nice. we use a combination of netflix/mohu leaf/apple tv/desktop to get pretty much anything we want. I use my parents cable login for all live TV over the internet, netflix/apple tv for shows and kids, and wiziwig tv for all live sports. cut about $100 off the bill so overall it was a good move.
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Post by robdiddy on Jan 9, 2015 23:16:06 GMT -5
I want the dish thing.. I caved and ordered DirecTV but theres too many trees for service. I tried using the t mobile tv option but it didn't give me what I wanted.
Realistically my phone and hotspot give me everything I need. Every where has free WiFi.. Do I download stuff to my tablet at work and watch at home.. Yes
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Post by tommyz on Jan 13, 2015 9:56:05 GMT -5
Im pretty close to doing this the way detroitrockcity is..
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