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$143 per month

Wow, my total Spectrum bill - a fairly basic TV package, 30 mbps internet, VOIP phone, taxes and fees - is $160.

Sports is the only thing I need it for. But it's not expensive for me. I just negotiate better rates. In fact reminds me I need to call Verizon again. Price just went from $105 to $137, need to do it every 12 months because one of this discounts/credits they give me has to be manually entered and is only good for 12 months.

Either way here it's impossible to cut the cord because you need Verizon or comcast to get the internet service. Which that component alone is $60-80 per month.

We cut the cable about four years ago and don't miss cable. We use rabbit ears to get over the air channels for local news and other network TV.

Cut the cord at the end of 2012. Don't miss it. Netflix and Amazon cover most of my needs as new TV is mostly shit anyhow. For stuff I can't wait for, I'll buy the season off iTunes for $20-$30 per show.

Cut the cord about 2 yrs ago. Paying about 180.00 per month then with comcast. Now with Verizon/Frontier internet only is about 65.00 with taxes/fees. Wife and I do not miss it at all.If I want to see a game I just go to the local sports bar for some wings and the game.

I went to Directv Now several months ago. I got in on the introductory offer of $37a month for 100 plus channels. I get all the hockey games plus all the MLB and NFL I will ever care to watch. I combo that with Amazon Fire and a indoor antenna for all the local stuff.

The same package I have now will run you $60 a month but well worth it. I recommend any would be cord cutters to chedck them out.

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Originally posted by Hawgster:
It's expensive. all right, but I could never cut the cord..

I thought the same thing, but when I looked at the channels that I was watching the dollars per channel made no economic since what so ever. I slid into cutting the cord slowly, I kept cable for 3 weeks after installing an antenna just to be sure I liked it. I realized I was fine with the change and cut the cord.

You would be surprised what you can watch on the internet for free or with minimal cost. I even looked at Sling but it has commercials ( at least the shows I watched ) and dumped it within the 7 day window. A-Prime was already in place so I just started watching a lot of what was already there.

Ditching commercials, alone, would be worth me paying extra for. I fucking loathe them.

That said, the Netflix DVD collection is still YUGE, which helps offset streaming options.

We used to have cable and ended up going with DIRECTV when we bought our house. Having DIRECTV gives my girlfriend unlimited data with AT&T (they own DIRECTV) and being an AT&T customer means our TV bill is less than $70 a month. I've been happy with it, but wouldn't want to pay much more.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Sports is the only thing I need it for. But it's not expensive for me. I just negotiate better rates. In fact reminds me I need to call Verizon again. Price just went from $105 to $137, need to do it every 12 months because one of this discounts/credits they give me has to be manually entered and is only good for 12 months.

Either way here it's impossible to cut the cord because you need Verizon or comcast to get the internet service. Which that component alone is $60-80 per month.

https://www.playstation.com/en...etwork/vue/channels/

The $45 a month core plan (with taxes and everything) gets you EVERY sports channel and most cable channels you could ever dream of and NFL ticket is $35 for the season. It's FAR superior to sling for not much more money. I have had the $55 elite package for 4 months now and there is NO difference between this and xfinity cable. You stream it in HD, free DVR, on demand shows, live shows, can have up to 5 devices connected to it for free. The ONLY downside is it takes longer to switch back and forth between 2 channels.

Cord free since August 2015. Feels good. It all depends on what you like to watch, but Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Sling + local OTA channels has us covered.

Check out utube, if you are into documentories you will find many there.

We cut the cord 4 years ago but due to living in a signal black hole did break down and have only the local channels for the news and especially the severe weather coverage.

The only cable I have ever had was Santa Barbara in the mid 70's and the apartments paid the bill.

I have always had over the air of some type. At this location, I get 62 channels and at the other location only 8 channels.

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
I haven't found the selection on Netflix to be all that great, it's holding us back from cutting the cord. I'd love to kill the cable bill

Sadly agree on this. Netflix is one of the reasons that we did cut cable some years ago, but recently they have dumped "movies" to put money into their original series. Funny...I'm not interested in those; truth be told there are times that Amazon Prime has s better selection of newer movies that Netflix.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
I haven't found the selection on Netflix to be all that great, it's holding us back from cutting the cord. I'd love to kill the cable bill

Sadly agree on this. Netflix is one of the reasons that we did cut cable some years ago, but recently they have dumped "movies" to put money into their original series. Funny...I'm not interested in those;

Yup. We, likewise, find many of Netflix' original series to be uninteresting. In fact I don't know if there's a one of them we've followed long enough to complete a season, save Longmire, and they "inherited" that.

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Originally posted by Ronin1069:
truth be told there are times that Amazon Prime has s better selection of newer movies that Netflix.

A little >< bit. A very little bit.

AP would get "rental" business from us if their rental rates were even remotely competitive with the local video rental store, but, when they want $4-$5 for HD versions of recent films, while we can wander on over to the local video rental store and get the same thing on Blu-ray for $2.50: I don't think so. Wait until it's no longer quite so new, and we can rent 'em for a buck. AP? Still $3 or more, for movies that are a year, two years, or more, old. Ain't gonna happen.

Rogue, I'm pleased the ChromeCast helped you cut the cord. Sounds like you'll get much more use out of it than did I.