We cut the cord here at the 'Jam household back in June, and frankly I'm not really missing anything. We signed up for PlayStation Vue and generally like it. It's not perfect, but we get almost everything we were watching on cable (all the "critical" content, with the exception of The Daily Show) and we're saving about $60 a month...and that includes HBO as an add-on. What's more, the HBO on-demand catalog is so much deeper on Vue than what we had with our cable box. Also, having Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, and PBS Kids all integrated into the same device with PS Vue is just so convenient.
The biggest gripe we have is that the way the DVR works is not all that awesome. It's not really DVR in the traditional sense, actually. You can add a specific show that you want to record, but it will record ALL of that show. You can't just record one episode. Also, if you want to start watching from the beginning of a show that is being recorded (live), you first have to go to the current time and then you can play from the beginning. This sucks for sports or anything with spoilers (ie - any show with any sort of plot).
Maybe the worst is that you can only pause live TV for 4 minutes. That's nearly a useless amount of time for pause, at least for people with small children. ;D My cable box could pause for 2 hours, and it was 8 years old. But, I'm doing all the PS Vue stuff through a Roku, which has no local hard drive to dump on.
My internet is 65Mbps down and about 25Mbps up. The cost is ~$65 a month. I ask about this because I'm curious what others are getting / paying. Once you cut the chord, MB is the name of the game.
I haven't lived in a house with TV since I moved out of Mum and Dad's place.
Cable TV in NZ is like rocking horse shit. Everyone is on satellite, or DVB-S, here.
While I was at Mum and Dad's, I set up a MYTH TV Linux media PC, with three Technisat DVB-S cards. Absolute utter brilliance. The worst part was getting XWindows Linux (not MythTV, but Linux itself) to work with a 1366x768 TV. The initial impetus for building it was an utter, complete, and absolute hatred of advertising.
Can't help with the DVR conundrum, but my world changed with a new router. Had long wait times, stutters, loading and didn't realize it was because I was still using an "N" router.
Got a new "AC" router and, whew, it was on.
I cut the cord about a year ago and haven't looked back
I use Sling and Netflix now. I occasionally use Amazon Prime too.
I tried YouTube TV for a while as well.
Yes, the cloud dvr sucks on all of them but it's better than nothing.
Overall, I am happy and I am saving money.
I think my line is between 150-200mbs
We haven't had cable in at least 5 years. Don't miss it a bit.
Honestly, the way we get around the DVR thing is that we just don't follow any shows anymore. We just watch stuff on Netflix and Amazon. Every few months the pickings get slim but that not bad cause we'll stop watching so much tv for a while. doesn't bother me much.
We use a program called Plex for our media library, it's mostly just movies for the kids. It is a great program though. Apparently they added some type of dvr feature recently but I haven't tried it yet.
There are a very few options for OTA dvr but they do actually exist.
https://www.cnet.com/products/channel-master-stream-plus/preview/
Quote from: peAk on December 22, 2017, 05:00:29 AM
I think my line is between 150-200mbs
Damn, that's fast. I'm not even sure how I would use that kind of speed. It's only so often I need to download the latest Linux ISOs... like right now.
I live in an urban area and recently cut my comcast cable and went local dsl and my speeds and connectivity improved greatly. I usually have hd streaming on a ps4, and multiplayer gaming on switch and pc going on at the same time with no issues. And no more throttling and kick offs.
https://www.mythtv.org (https://www.mythtv.org)
There's the MythTV link, btw. I used the MythBuntu version, nice and easy. When I moved out, Dad refused to let me take my media pc unless I built him one first.
I rarely watch tv but I have no need to cut the cord. Opposed to the US, France has much more competition and the prices are lower. We have the choice of 4 high speed fibre providers. I pay 15 a month which includes speeds of about 85 mbps down and 45 upload. And the cable box comes free with the package. The cable box is an android box so there are all the google apps to download, I've been using Kodi a lot lately. If you have a cell phone with the same company they throw in even more goodies. In the bedroom we use the DVB-T (Aerial) signal which is free. But French tv is mostly crap. As with as telecom companies after you've been with them a few years they don't care anymore and start raising prices. Then you just need to change providers to get a better deal again.
I've been weaning the family over to cord cutting a little at a time ... it took a while for Netflix to get good enough to get rid of some of the premium movie channels ... same for hulu and sling with regards to getting rid of the rest of cable tv. hardware has gotten better too ... our older smart tv is not nearly as good at streaming as our blue ray player or roku box. living somewhere that doesn't have bad storms and tornadoes that all but necessitate having cable just for the local channels has eased the transition as well. also helps if you have a family member to split the cost with ... for instance, we pay for hulu and they pay for netflix
my cable is asynchronous 100 megabit service ... real deal download speeds of something around 11-12 megabytes per second over bit torrent ... which is a lot closer to the advertised speed than I was ever expecting to get.
I would gladly cut the cord, but Comcast is unfortunately the only provider of reliable high speed Internet where I live. DSL is sort of available in the sense that Verizon would happily take my money for it, but I'm too far away from their hub (or whatever it's called) for it to be usable. All other providers in my area are just Verizon resellers.
We've been cord cutters for a long time, just going with Netflix and a digital antenna for years until last year, when I got a really sweet intro deal on DIRECTV Now. So we basically get everything now, although we still watch very little live TV. I'm on a beta for the DVR service, which is sort of handy. I never had one when we had cable, so I guess I don't know what I'm missing. Ha.
There is an awesome local fiber provider expanding bit by bit in Rochester. We got it last year, and it's amazing. 100x20 for $50/month, all inclusive. And I hit those speeds very consistently. Was super fun to kick Spectrum (then Time Warner) to the curb.
Quote from: EBK on December 22, 2017, 01:22:58 PM
I would gladly cut the cord, but Comcast is unfortunately the only provider of reliable high speed Internet where I live.
What I meant by cord-cutting is getting rid of cable TV. That's where the greatest cost is. I still have Optimum (Cablevision) for my internet. So technically, I have not cut *their* cord, it's just that a lot less is coming through it now. ;D
Quote from: culturejam on December 22, 2017, 02:35:34 PM
Quote from: EBK on December 22, 2017, 01:22:58 PM
I would gladly cut the cord, but Comcast is unfortunately the only provider of reliable high speed Internet where I live.
What I meant by cord-cutting is getting rid of cable TV. That's where the greatest cost is. I still have Optimum (Cablevision) for my internet. So technically, I have not cut *their* cord, it's just that a lot less is coming through it now. ;D
Well, Comcast carefully keeps us bundled to their TV service because they always seem to have some sort of promotion that is somehow cheaper than Internet access by itself. They tend to recover my savings in the bill after the promotion ends, as I accidentally end up paying full package price for a month before we jump onto the next promotion.
Quote from: EBK on December 22, 2017, 02:42:23 PM
Well, Comcast carefully keeps us bundled to their TV service because they always seem to have some sort of promotion that is somehow cheaper than Internet access by itself. They tend to recover my savings in the bill after the promotion ends, as I accidentally end up paying full package price for a month before we jump onto the next promotion.
See, here on Cox, the promotions are ONLY for new customers. You get 1, then tough, deal with it.
Been on the Netflix/Hulu/AmazonPrime/HBOGo thing for about 5 years. No regrets. Also got ATT fiber internet a while back on a promo because google fiber just came through. $70 per month gets me about 350Mbps download and about 100Mbps upload. Far more than I ever needed. I used to have the 25Mbps download service and never. Prices issues.
Cut the cord many many years ago. I got epb fiber optics with10gb down. I only get about 3 to 5, but there are no spikes like cable. I use koditv, Hulu, sling and Netflix. I work at T-Mobile, so Netflix is free. My wife just got amazon prime, but I not seeing anything worth watching there. No real need for ever since it's all available all the time. We get free hbo previews from time to time through sling, that's when I catch up on series like sonic highways.
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My wife and I cut the chord when we got married. We use Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon (since we have prime) all through my PS4 or my wife's Amazon Fire Stick. We have tried Playstation Vue a couple of times but we realized we don't care about live TV enough for it to be worth it. So we usually just buy the series on amazon (Doctor Who) and then save a few bucks that way. The only thing I miss is football and I don't miss it enough to go out and buy a digital antenna.
I have a low Fios subscription with 50Mbps up/down. Might upgrade to 100Mbps when I renegotiate my contract at the end of this year. I haven't had many issues with that speed though and that's with: 2 phones, 2 laptops, 1 iMac, Amazon Echo Dot, Amazon Fire Stick, and a PS4 all running on it.
I cut cable four years ago and we have lived on internet, hulu, and netflix. I am very happy with the results. I expect to get a bend-over notification with the net neutrality rollback. A real robber baron move on the Republicans' part. Cable-cutters are about to find their/our heads conveniently laid on a corporate platter.
Quote from: atreidesheir on December 24, 2017, 09:48:22 PM
I cut cable four years ago and we have lived on internet, hulu, and netflix. I am very happy with the results. I expect to get a bend-over notification with the net neutrality rollback. A real robber baron move on the Republicans' part. Cable-cutters are about to find their/our heads conveniently laid on a corporate platter.
This ^^ is unfortunately true. And I doubt they'll be any going back later. Sad thing isn't that it will suck for everyone. It's sad when you're only considered with what is good for the incredibly wealthy.
I'm really considering taking the snip. My bill has gone up, again, and is now just shy of 200$ a month, and more than half of that is the TV package.... and I honestly cannot remember the last time I turned on my TV. I have amazon prime and a healthy dvd collection, so I'm not wanting for things to watch.
With my rent increasing in the near future, I will probably need the extra funds around.
Quote from: somnif on December 24, 2017, 11:22:18 PM
I'm really considering taking the snip. My bill has gone up, again, and is now just shy of 200$ a month, and more than half of that is the TV package.... and I honestly cannot remember the last time I turned on my TV. I have amazon prime and a healthy dvd collection, so I'm not wanting for things to watch.
With my rent increasing in the near future, I will probably need the extra funds around.
I was frustrated that I was paying so much and there literally wasn't anything worth watching most of the time.
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