The END of cable!?!

1littlebird · September 2014

Tomorrow I cancel our cable. I have mixed emotions, but Comcast and I are lifelong enemies. For those of you who have cut the cord, did you go cold turkey or have crutches like Roku? I still haven't seen the RHONY reunion!

jennlin · September 2014

I have never had cable since moving out of my parents house, and they had the full package--hbo, etc. I don't remember if I had netflix right away, but if I didn't, it was shortly after. Then hulu. I don't watch either one much, though.

PinkDahLia44 · September 2014

We just quit cable. We have hulu, amazon prime, and netflix, though. I'm not sure how necessary netflix is now that we have hulu and amazon prime. Also, DH got an antenna and set it up so we get the over the air tv, co like, fox, nbc, cw, pbs, etc...and we have TiVo.

Mini1in5 · September 2014

Following this thread. For those who don't have cable, how do you watch football? If I could answer that question, I could convince my husband to ditch cable.

Teresa1489 · September 2014

We haven't had cable in a long time now, we have Netflix and amazon prime but don't watch either very often. Some networks stream their shows a day after they air also

sweettooth87 · September 2014

The only cancelling we've ever done is every two years followed by immediately signing back up to get new member pricing. How do you watch football? Or is that not big in your house? I don't watch much TV but during football season I pretty much always have ESPN on.

Teresa1489 · September 2014

Oh and we don't watch sports.. Not really sports fans so it works for us

jennlin · September 2014

Mini1in5 said:
Following this thread. For those who don't have cable, how do you watch football? If I could answer that question, I could convince my husband to ditch cable.

Over the air. And for specialty games, etc, finding it online streaming and hook it up to tv.

1littlebird · September 2014

About to watch the RHOOC part 1 now. We are thinking of Apple TV or Roku, then we can watch some sports. My husband is a basketball guy, but we watch all sports. My mom also has cable, so I know we can log on with her info to watch, sssshhhh... I legit haven't read a book (does Baby Lit count?) since DD was born. Cable must go.

Coleslawder · September 2014

We just have antenna channels and hulu and it's plenty. When I go to a hotel or something, I get excited about getting to watch cable but then I just find myself watching network shows anyway.

Not that this is what we're talking about, but something about this thread reminded me of how people who don't have a TV love casually mentioning in conversation that they don't have TV. But then they watch a ton of shows on the internet.

Lee81 · September 2014

We haven't had cable in probably 7 or 8 years. We've got Netflix and Prime and we aren't really sports fans, so it works well for us. We also have an antenna but it's not very good. Dh keeps talking about getting a better one, but I'm not sure I see a point. Between Netflix and Prime, there are more shows than we could watch in a lifetime.

Lee81 · September 2014

Coleslawder said:
something about this thread reminded me of how people who don't have a TV love casually mentioning in conversation that they don't have TV. But then they watch a ton of shows on the internet.

They're probably just glad about all the money they're not sending to Comcast

PinkDahLia44 · September 2014

@Mini1in5 said:
Following this thread. For those who don't have cable, how do you watch football? If I could answer that question, I could convince my husband to ditch cable.

DH streams ESPN somehow. He's been streaming a lot of baseball since we cancelled our cable.

megs1409 · September 2014

Until I was on maternity leave, we hadn't had cable in 4 years. If we wanted to watch football, we'd go to a bar. Football and hockey are important in our house, so we did get cable after DS since it was 1. Winter in New England, 2. I would be home all day (hello HGTV), 3. Football and hockey season and it being frowned upon to bring a baby to a bar for HOURS on Saturday and Sunday (football) and throughout the week (hockey).

We are eagerly awaiting the end of 2 years to cancel cable again!

carawasa · September 2014

If we didn't have access to football or other sports I'm pretty sure my FI would move out

Coleslawder · September 2014

Lee81 said:

something about this thread reminded me of how people who don't have a TV love casually mentioning in conversation that they don't have TV. But then they watch a ton of shows on the internet.
They're probably just glad about all the money they're not sending to Comcast

Ha -- yeah, but I don't have cable and I have a TV! Comcast gets none of my cash money either!

Coleslawder · September 2014

baconface said:

We have Netflix and have the HD antenna for local stations as others mentioned. We have Prime but I've never checked out their streaming. DH made a computer and hooked it up to the TV for streaming. If we ever want to watch any (recent) shows, we download them from... somewhere. The bowels of the internet. We maybe turn the TV on once a week, maybe. Oh and we don't really watch sports. DH occasionally likes to watch the Red Sox, so that is about all he misses.

This is amazing and we need to do this immediately.

carawasa · September 2014

My FI also does that ^^ for when he wants to watch wwe paper views...now we pay 10$ for the network

Eta: my eyes are rolling. The wwe network. Ugh

5speckledfrogs · September 2014

Am I the only one confused by the title?

jennlin · September 2014

5speckledfrogs said:

Am I the only one confused by the title?

i think it's "the end of cable". i read it as that before i realized it didn't say that.

trackgirlparis · September 2014

If you watch as much sports as we do, I don't know how you don't have cable. I think DH and I would die.
#exaggerating #butonlyslightly

1littlebird · September 2014

Totally didn't realize that about the title, whoops. My newbieness is showing!

Teresa1489 · September 2014

Oh yeah DH hooked up a computer to our tv too.. It's just always plugged in and I forget it's there.. It's the only way we watch tv

Amjoy25 · September 2014

We have DirecTV. I would LIT-rally die without cable.

countingthestars · September 2014

We haven't had cable in a few years. We use Netflix and watch a few things on the internet.

kelle017 · September 2014

We have never had cable. We have netflix and prime and a roku box. I do wish we could get basic channels though. Fox usually works and pbs. Abc is super spotty and no cbs or nbc.

muffyvonmuff · September 2014

I wish I could just not have cable from may-september….Summer has no good new shows but in the winter I love me some DVR.

alimama33 · September 2014

We have Netflix, Hulu, and amazon prime....which together has more shows than we could ever watch, BUT the football thing is a big deal, so we have my parent's direct tv login so we can access the ESPN app on the apple tv and watch all the games that way. Before we did that we would always go somewhere else for the important games.

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