My wife pays the cable bill (I pay mortgage, health insurance and golf club) and it jacked up this month after a 12 month teaser. We don't watch it much, although she liked cooking shows. I used to watch sports but the NFL bores me now. there is too much of it, running backs are not as good as they were and there are only so many times I need to see a perfect spiral over the middle or a lob to the back of the end zone. And I am completely weary of watching analysts go over and over the same crap. And then when they put guys on the air who can barely articulate a thought... I am like who are they programming this crap for anyway? I may miss baseball and tennis at times. I will miss the golf channel. I think that Martin guy is amazing and I like watching the euro tour at night. I felt like a sucker being charged 140 dollars a month for mostly garbage. Knowing some of the reason cable is so over priced is because some of the money goes to leftist networks to promote their propaganda like msnbc and cnn, made the decision a heck of a lot easier. When she said its not worth it and she wanted to stop paying it... I said why not try. We will see how long I deal. I think it will be easy but I am starting to shake a little. I also suspect soon cable will be unbundled. goodbye rachel and al sharpton and friends.
Good move, brother Jem. Good move. Give yourself a while and think about what a "sucker" you no longer are.
I dumped my satellite television service over 2 years ago. For my gf who is not particularly technically inclined we have a Roku box and Amazon Prime. She seems perfectly happy with it as I've figured out how to add most of what she wants, live news, shows that feature well-dressed women harping on each other in elegant settings and a few other "must haves". My personal HD setup is a Boxee box that is hacked to boot Linux over which I have layered XBMC. In XBMC I have a video add-on called NAVI-X (and also use Icefilms and a couple of others). The NAVI-X app gives me access to, well.... everything. Any television channel you could ever think of worldwide and any movie ever made including those that are in theaters. I can stream or download free. The little Boxee box has maybe the best remote ever conceived by mankind (tons of awards). Hollywood lost me back there somewhere. Maybe when they started trying to throw elections. You can build a tiny Linux box for XBMC out of one of those hobby computers about the size of a sandwich for around $100.00 and they have an HDMI port for your tv or monitor.
My last cable bill, a few years back, was $175. As we were only watching about six series, I figured it would be cheaper to fall back to basic cable (for the news) for $50, and just buy those series from itunes. They sell for about $50 each, and last for months. But there's a push on by cable companies to start selling channels singly; when that day comes I'll probably start subscribing again.
Our local news network was touting a new tv antenna. Forgot the name but the web site actually tells you how many free channels you can get, depending where you live. But I'm stuck my wife is an avid sports fan.
did not even notice last night. good so far. I thought about why I don't care about sports now the way I did. I think its steroids. everyone is now strong and fast. even tennis players and golfers. look what has happened to Tiger since golf banned peds. someone said what really may have hurt him is they banned a nerve calming drug... golfers had been using for decades. maybe that is why he lays sod over pitches and chips now.