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OTA and Prime is it for me. I have Prime for a number of reasons but you get a lot of content with it both viewing and music. Lots of other free stuff out there is available. Pluto tv is pretty good lots of movies and Gunsmoke channel 24/7! Commercials of course but I'm a casual tv watcher so commercials don't necessarily bother me.


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Watching grass grow and leaves fall. Still $0.00
Very true. Also, same price for downloading library loans to a Kindle e-reader.



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I have no TV service, cable/satellite/internet or otherwise. I have no desire to sit through commercials, or have to watch only what some programming manager decides that I should watch at any specific time.

Instead, I have a few streaming video service subscriptions year-round, including Amazon Prime and Netflix. Then I may subscribe to another like Max, Apple, Hulu, Starz, or Paramount for a month at a time when there's something specific that I want to watch there (like an entire new season of certain shows), then cancel


This is the way.


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Never had cable TV. Got rid of Netflix a few years ago. I believe Amazon paid for itself this year. Don't subscribe to any Paramount+ or anything of that nature. Give it a little time and everything ends up on YT, Tubi, Freevee etc. Lost internet for a few days and had to fire up the OTA digital antenna for entertainment. Felt like living in 1990s again. Worst case I'll just put in a DVD or CD. My PS2 is also at the ready.
 
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29 channels of broadcast tv.
Monthly bill: $0.00


I now get 101 OTA channels since my attic antenna is in direct line with Washington TV hill, Baltimore, and Annapolis.


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$10 increase is pretty steep. I would ditch YouTube but it's the closest thing to cable for us. I have Amazon prime but that's just because I have Amazon prime.

And I'm in between sign-ups where i sign up for a month or two and I binge watch what I can then I lay low for a while.

I also do Fandango at home but infrequently.



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29 channels of broadcast tv.
Monthly bill: $0.00



You just have to be willing to watch 175 commercials per hour. 12 commercial per break. How's Joe Namath these days?


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I was angered by YT increase. I tried Sling for a day, as it is $40. No bueno. Really bad user interface. No local channels. I decided to drop my Apple package subscription of $38 to only the 2 TB storage, to keep my overall subscription costs down and maintain the superior YTTV.


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"You just have to be willing to watch 175 commercials per hour. 12 commercial per break. How's Joe Namath these days?[/QUOTE]"


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Being retired,
The president has stopped calling,
E-mails from fans are non existent,
Military leaders can't be bothered to return correspondence.

A third of the friends and family are dead,
No kids or grand kids,

My schedule seems to be on the open end, these days.

Waiting to croak doesn't require top tier entertainment.





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Until late 2022, I was paying around $210 per month for internet and cable TV. Then I "cut the cord" and went internet only and OTA. I do have Netflix, and piggyback off my son's Amazon. We can get almost anything we want to watch OTA or streaming now, or online for some sites. My only complaint now is that internet services also are increasing; I pay around $88 just for non-fiber internet.
 
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I pay around $88 just for non-fiber internet.


I'm at $95 and I'm sure it will be going up any minute. That's why the whole "cutting the cord" thing never made sense to me, adding a bunch of streaming services seems crazy to me (money wise, I can't afford channels now, so there's nothing to cut out). The industry is so fractured now, with so many options / streaming services they're shooting themselves in the foot IMO. (especially now with people's value depleted dollar stretched so far.)
 
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So far it looks like these are my only real close alternatives and the first two are already at or more than the price that YTTV is going to and Sling seems to be very limited with channels and few or no local channels?

Hulu + Live TV
DirecTV Stream
Sling

Anyone here use these?

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Originally posted by 4MUL8R:
I was angered by YT increase. I tried Sling for a day, as it is $40. No bueno. Really bad user interface. No local channels. I decided to drop my Apple package subscription of $38 to only the 2 TB storage, to keep my overall subscription costs down and maintain the superior YTTV.


That's what we are now looking at. Seems like YTTV is still the best one and they know it. We may drop another streaming service or two to compensate for the increase.


 
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We've had Hulu + local channels through a Roku for a few years now. It also keeps going up in price. Our last monthly bill was $95.25. My biggest issue is I live in the mountains and I can't get local channels OTA. I think Hulu is much cheaper if you don't need local channels.

If it was up to me I'd cancel Hulu, but my wife wouldn't stand for that.
 
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