<p>My family recently cut the cord. We have no Cable tv. I must say it is refreshing. We have a roku and watch our “channels” a.k.a. EWTN, Netflix, TheBlaze, and Amazon Instant videos. Sports is difficult but worth the 35$ a month we save. Anyone else cut the Cable/ Satellite?</p>
<p>No cord to cut - we’ve never had cable. It’s a lot easier now with Hulu and Netflix. The only sports we watch are the Olympics and the Soccer world cup.</p>
<p>We would do it in a heartbeat but dh can’t live without basketball, golf and football.</p>
<p>We haven’t had cable since the kids were born.</p>
<p>We have only basic cable which is under $15/month. We watch maybe one show or less a week.</p>
<p>Just the opposite-- my DH decided to finally bite the bullet and get some premium channels now that the kiddos are gone. He got hi def too. I wouldn’t know. I don’t know how to work the remote and spend all my spare time here at the computer screen :(</p>
<p>While I know I can read news online, I think I would be crazy if I couldn’t listen to the news/weather/traffic while I got ready for work in the morning. I can’t get the local network channels (ABC, NBC, CBS) without cable because I’m too far from Detroit and too far from Toledo to get either in well. For this reason, I can’t cut that cord. I would miss some local sports too- Red Wings, Tigers, U of Michigan football and March Madness.</p>
<p>As for the news, lots of station live stream their broadcasts. I would cut it in a minute, but my dh couldn’t live w/o football games. Anyone know a way around that? I suppose I could send him to the sportsbar, ha!</p>
<p>We were without cable for three years and I hated it. I can’t do without my sports and the sports package was about the same as cable. </p>
<p>Comcast royally screwed up our internet and bill three times so now we have cable for free for a year. It’s been wonderful.</p>
<p>I get news/weather/traffic from the radio.</p>
<p>We have had cable for a three-month promotion which we cancelled after the promotion period. Outside of that, we’ve used an antenna in the attic and what’s available online for free (which is considerable). We get sports on ESPN3 which Comcast gives us for using them as our internet provider.</p>
<p>I thought that this was about cutting the other cord - the landline. A coworker did that recently - I need to check with him on how that is working. The main use of our landline these days is to connect telemarketers to our answering machine.</p>
<p>We have the most basic cable; this past winter the only thing we watched Downton. I usually get news and weather online but often listen to Morning Edition and All Things Considered. </p>
<p>We used to have a more expensive package so that we (I, really) could watch college basketball. We decided it was silly to pay for that when months would go by (especially in the summer) when the tv was never turned on. Now we take the money we used to spend on cable and go to one of the local taverns if there’s a game I want to see.</p>
<p>Here’s my latest quandary- We are contemplating taking out the wall between our kitchen and family room. As it is now our (rather small) TV is tucked away in a corner cupboard and the only way to watch it is sitting on the couch. I like that this requires mindfulness when it comes to watching the television. Otoh, if we remodel I could wall mount a bigger TV and have the option of listening to the weekend cooking shows or an occasional game when I’m working in the kitchen. But it’s a slippery slope between an occasional game and getting in the habit of just flipping it on whenever I’m in the kitchen. . .</p>
<p>I gave up my landline five years ago; that number is now my cell. No regrets.</p>
<p>We live on the foothills of a mountain. Our foothills block the signals from a vast array of towers which broadcast sporting events (among other things). No cable for us means no signal whatsoever. I only wish I could cut the cord.</p>
<p>Nope, not going to cut the cord. I could never give up football. Also, I’m a HGTV junkie. I would probably go into withdrawal if I couldn’t watch my favorite shows.</p>
<p>I don’t watch reality TV, but I do enjoy Modern Family, The Closer (well, now the spinoff), The Middle, and my beloved Seinfeld re-runs. Watch the occasional Dancing with the Stars also. We don’t get HBO, Showtime, or any of the premium movie channels.</p>
<p>I decided I needed to watch a football game (network broadcast) during a cable outage last fall, and rigged up a makeshift wire antenna to connect to my hd tv. It was crudely improvised, and not properly designed to receive digital signals. </p>
<p>Despite its shortcomings, I found that I could receive the OTA digital broadcasts from all the major networks, and a bunch of other broadcast channel. There were several dozen in total. </p>
<p>To do this, you can buy a cheap antenna and a “feed line” (coaxial cable) to connect the antenna to your tv. Then work through the setup menu on your modern tv and let the tv search through the channels to find the OTA ones that are available. You have to set the tv to ‘antenna’ rather than ‘cable’ for this to work properly. </p>
<p>I was very surprised at the quality of my reception over-the-air. Unfortunately, I like ESPN and CNBC and other channels that are only available on cable,so I still have the bill. But this is useful to know about in the event of an “emergency” where you have power, but no cable.</p>
<p>I just read an article about moving a landline number to Google Voice. Google Voice will port mobile phones but not landlines. The solution is to port your landline to a mobile phone and then port the mobile phone number to Google Voice. It will cost a few bucks for a cheap phone but this is a solution that I like. Basically we will use Google Voice for incoming and outgoing calls.</p>
<p>The outgoing calls can be made on PCs. We can take incoming calls on our tablets (we have three of them). These will be to the home number. People can call us directly on our mobile phones if they have the numbers. We will get all of the great call screening options, voice-to-text translation for voicemails and portability for if/when we move. We don’t pay much for landline service: only $16+/month but I wouldn’t mind getting rid of it just to dump all of the telemarketers.</p>
<p>Well, we just got tethered! </p>
<p>We have never had cable TV and never wanted it. We have cable for internet and phone and recently we were looking for ways to drop our phone service with them. I even posted here for other landline phone options but none would have really saved us much money by time the taxes were added in. So we decided to keep what we have for now. Then last month, my husband noticed that our cable bill went up by $5 a month. Turned out that it was the phone portion that went up. By adding TV to the bill, our bill actually went down due to a triple-play deal that they were offering at the time. So we have cable TV now (very, very basic) and we still don’t watch it. </p>
<p>Next year, when our one year deal will end, we will be revisiting this situation. I hate having cable TV (we much prefer DVDs and Roku) and if were not for the cost savings, we would not have it. Hopefully in a year, there will be a new option for us.</p>
<p>Like musicamusica, too rural for cable, too mountainous for TV reception or cell service. Needless to say, we are a family of readers.</p>
<p>Anyone in NYC planning on trying this service?</p>
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<p>Rats, they are not expanding to our area yet :(</p>