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I thought it meant getting rid of cable, Sat or phone service that provides tv to the home. Then erecting a digital tv antenna to get all the local channels. free tv Does it have other definitions? Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | ||
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The more modern definition is getting rid of your high dollar cable company and switching to streaming services. For me, it's at least a 53% cost savings every month (65% cost savings is more likely). Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. | |||
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you are still on "The Cord" ,just not the cable companys cord ? Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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No. But, added to the OTA TV part is streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, perhaps a package such as Hulu or the like. As with anything else there are degrees. Yes: "Really cutting the cord" would involve dumping all that subscription stuff and just going OTA, but that would mean individuals that want to have Certain Things giving them up. So mainly it's any time somebody dumps an expensive subscription package in favour of varying degrees of less expensive things. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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I have heard that Verizon FIOS will under some duress switch your optical network terminal (ONT) to give you an Ethernet feed, with the gigabit speed configuration, so you also don't have to rent their stupid routers with proprietary software. This is where I hope to go soon. ------- Trying to simplify my life... | |||
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You're still relying on high-speed internet for surfing/streaming purposes, which is often also acquired through the cable/phone/satellite company. So you're cutting the "television" cord, but still connected to the "internet" cord. It's a way to save money, but it's still not totally free. For example, when my wife and I "cut the cord" a couple years ago, we discontinued cable television, but we still get our high-speed internet through the cable company. Our new cable bill for just internet is less than half of what we were paying the cable company before for internet + TV. | |||
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Yep. I got rid of DirectTV and have Roku, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu. All of that is cheaper than DirectTV was. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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I'm curious, tell me more about this. "... and please, speak to me as you might a young child. Or, a Golden Retriever." - Jeremy Irons as John Tuld, Margin Call. "We have a system that increasingly taxes work, and increasingly subsidizes non-work" - Milton Friedman | |||
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Yes, I am very curious. I have ADSL, but it's pretty slow for large file downloads and if I want to use Netflix and so on. I can get standard FIOS - the box at the Telco end is wired. But they will have a hell of a time running the fibre from their box to my house - They'll have to run under the house to get to the house telco connection. Looks pretty ugly to me. Can they do this Ethernet over standard copper but at higher than ADSL speeds? -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master. Ayn Rand "He gains votes ever and anew by taking money from everybody and giving it to a few, while explaining that every penny was extracted from the few to be giving to the many." Ogden Nash from his poem - The Politician | |||
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Cutting the cord may take on new meaning yet again over the next couple years with the roll out of 5G wireless. In that new world, you may be able to ditch the physical cable connection to your home all together, and trade it for a new modem with SIM card getting almost gigbit throughput speeds. So in that world you could.... 1 - Ditch your current internet connection (wire). 2 - Have multiple options of internet service providers given it will be wireless. (Maybe bundle it with your cellular service for additional discount.) This will be a game changer given the current monopolistic cable provider arrangements. 3 - Ditch your current cable TV provider for whatever streaming service(s) you opt to subscribe. 4 - Stream everything you want over the air at previously unavailable speeds. If you don't think this new communications technology doesn't have the likes of Spectrum and Xfinity a bit nervous, surf the web a bit. 5G is likely to change the entire game once its fully implemented and the bugs have been worked out. Personally, I can't wait.  ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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Same here, except from Uverse. Shared Netflix acct, prime via my job. Hulu on us, along with YouTubeTV. The Enemy's gate is down. | |||
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I didn't "cut the cord" per se when it comes to my internet service, but what I DID cut was about $100 in my Xfinity bill due to getting rid of cable TV. I had over 150 HD channels, but I was watching maybe 4 or 5. So I ditched cable TV and now I stream Netflix and Amazon Prime...both have an interface on my TV. Since I watch hockey all season long for two teams through NHL.TV on my Windows 10 Media Server, I'm busy watching 164 games in the season. Then when the playoffs start, games are broadcast on NBCSN and I pick those up off their web site. There are several shows I watch from cable, such as Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, and others. I can't watch them live, but the next day I can stream them through their respective web sites...AMC.com, namely. So...Since ditching cable for right at $100/month and considering Netflix for $12/month and Amazon Prime for approx. $10/month, I'm saving $78/month, or $936 per year by getting rid of cable. That's some serious dollars and cents!! "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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FiOS doesn't use your telco connection, it uses its own network interface. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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I had a 4G LTE aircard from Verizon. It was pretty damn fast, easily fast enough to stream tv or movies. Problem was, you paid per GB at that time. Now Verizon offers unlimited, but they throttle you down after so many GB's, depending on your plan.....so if you're using it for streaming tv everynight, it might get pretty slow when they throttle it down. As for the thread. My comcast cable bill had creeped up to $109 per month without any pay channels on comcast. I also had Netflix at $10 a month. Now I have PSVUE with ALL of the same channels I had before and a few new ones for $55 including taxes and everything. So I'm saving almost $700 a year. Quality is the same, and I now have a dvr out of it too and can stream it on tablets as well, same as comcrap. Now if Comcast was more reasonable in their pricing, like the introductory rate I had, which ironically was around $60 for a year with taxes, I would've never switched. | |||
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or, you could cut t.v. don't miss it at all. | |||
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I'm in the process of cutting the cable TV cord now. I had Amazon Prime, so I purchased the Amazon Fire Stick. Yesterday I bought an indoor amplified antenna for around $35. First scan got about 40 local channels, so I'm happy with that. We were planning on getting a TV for our living room anyway, so I thought I would try using it with the antenna and Fire Stick first, before I caved in and got another cable box. My cable bill is about $170 per month, and I think internet only is around $50, so that should save about $120 month. I suspect I'll also get Hulu or netflix, so that will be an additional cost, but seems like I'd still come out ahead. We"ll see. | |||
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We cut the cord several years ago (had DirecTV), but dropped it. We already had a good OTA antenna that picks up all of the PHX stations perfectly. But we find ourselves mostly watching Amazon Prime video, which is free for Prime members. The only extra expense was a one time purchase of a streaming device. We have VDSL, providing about 36/5 speeds. The streaming use tops out at about 10Mbps. I think it would step down to a lower quality if you didn't have that level of Internet speed. I occasionally grab a month of Netflix when there is a series I want to see, but then I cut it off after one month, so very little expense there. Here is a daily graph of our router bandwidth utilization. It's pretty obvious when I am streaming video:  This message has been edited. Last edited by: henryaz, | |||
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We've a NetGear LTE modem on a 6GB T-Mobile plan. I use it for automatic fail-over for when our Comcast service suffers an interruption. (It's not often, or, usually, for long, but it does happen.) I'm not going to purposely fail it over to verify, but ISTR I actually get more bandwidth out of that than I do my cable Internet connection (business class at 50/12). We've actually been watching Netflix or AP when the connection failed over and never noticed an interruption. Only reason I knew was the email notification I eventually noticed. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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We were paying around $240 a month for combined internet, phone and TV. We looked at it critically and we didn't use the phone at all and really only watched one or two channels on TV with any regularity. Most of what we actually watched was streaming. I'm now paying $60 a month for internet plus basic HD local channels. Proverbs 28:1 | |||
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You're still thinking within the old paradigm. 4G has overall limitations in terms of the total bandwidth available, which opens the doors to wireless companies charging for overages and throttling speeds. 5G is going to expand that bandwidth (and speed) exponentially, and if I'm reading my tea leaves correctly, will bring all sorts of new participants into the market to provide internet service. 'If' that happens, the old business plans for this sort of service are going to go out the window due to increased competition. Once reliability and speed can be achieved on 5G, removing the need for a physical cable, it should be a whole new game. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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