<p>To use the Chromecast., you need a wireless router for your internet/computer setup for wifi. Office Depot or Staples were advertising the Chromecasts for $30 in my Sunday newspaper yesterday.</p>
<p>…no additional monthly fee to use Chromecast other than your regular internet service…we pay about $50/mo. for cable internet service.</p>
<p>After never having cable service, using only antenna for our occasional TV viewing, we may get cable just for the broadband service. Our DSL here is balky and FIOS will not happen. The problem is their Internet standalone service is twice as much as our current DSL, subject to yearly rate increase and not that much less than their full Internet/cable TV package. Sigh. FCC needs to stop being beholden to the cable companies and stand up for the consumers. Give us more choices!</p>
<p>lizard is correct that you don’t need a wifi enabled tv to use chromecast. All chromecast does is take the image from your computer screen and put it on your TV. I inserted the Chomecast into the HDMI port on my TV and set it up pretty quickly. Instead of watch YouTube on my computer, I can watch it on my TV. I have a good sound system on the TV so I also cast Google Music from my laptop into the TV’s sound system and fill the room. If it want to type documents on my computer but look at them in very large format, I cast Google document onto my TV. For a one time fee $35 or less Chromecast is a miracle. Netflix and HBO go charge monthly fees separate from Chromecast.</p>
<p>We pay just under $80 just for internet. I don’t get involved but my impression is that we pay for some kind of premium high speed internet. My fiance plays a lot of online games, and we do major, major streaming over wifi from one computer to all the others… he has some complicated system I don’t really understand. When we had cable TV, our bill was almost $200 a month.</p>
<p>Sooner or later we will be wiring the house so his system works without wifi, I gather our internet will be cheaper then but I don’t know by how much. The joys of living with an IT guy.</p>
<p>We have an antenna on the roof, and receive all the TV channels we want (3 pbs channels, plus the big broadcast stations.). We have dsl for $42 a month, voip long distance and local phone through netTalk for $5 a month, and 2 go-phones for $27 a month. Lots of free dvds checked out of the library. Total communication and TV costs, $101 a month…</p>
<p>If it weren’t for sports, I would’ve gotten rid of cable awhile ago. We’re big baseball and college basketball fans. We’d be blacked out from mlb.tv in our area, so cable is the only way to see our favorite teams. With college basketball, you even need a cable account to access alot of ESPN games online. College basketball helps us get through the winter, so we’re not ready to give up on that yet.</p>
<p>We pay $25 for broadband internet, with Clear/Sprint. Our television doesnt have a HDMI port, but we do have a digital converter box & antenna because without them we wouldnt get any reception at all.</p>
<p>Shoot, I pay $74 a month just for Internet. Time to shop around I think. </p>
<p>If I could get the local TV stations with an antenna, I’d be more willing to buy one and get rid of cable. </p>
<p>My fiance made our antenna out of what I believe is an old coax cable. We get 20 channels and the picture is crystal clear. It’s attached to the wall behind the TV with a command hook. </p>
<p>I want to ask him now if we really need to be paying as much as we do for internet for all his crap to work. Paying more than double what most of you are paying isn’t sitting well with me! Seems to me if we can make our own antenna there must be a clever way to get cheaper internet.</p>
<p>We watch too many different cable channels to ever consider getting rid of it.</p>
<p>We have an antennae in our attic so we get a few channels but do not want to pay for cable. We have a Roku box and Amazon prime (my husband uses this account for his business so we get the side benefit of the movies) and that works for us but we are not big TV watchers. We’d love to get to see hockey games but that would require a premium cable channel and we just refuse to pay that much just to watch hockey. It does not fit our financial priorities. We also sometimes hook up our computer to the TV to watch some movies that are only online (but free to watch). </p>
<p>Mostly you have to decide what you watch and what it is worth it to you (price-wise). </p>
<p>We dumped cable years ago and use an antenna to get basic network TV and get DVDs from the library to watch — all FREE! 
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<p>I prefer streaming, cause then it is completely dependent on what & when I want to watch, instead of " what is on now".</p>
<p>Ive also found somethings on youtube that I haven’t found anywhere else, not even at rental shops, because they are not on DVD, hard to imagine but true.</p>
<p>They have so many commercials on cable now, that I would be * really irritated* to think I was paying extra for that.
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<p>We have aereo, which gives us over-the-air broadcasts through wi-fi, $8/month. Love it so far. Hope it survives the trip through the Supreme Court that’s on the schedule.</p>
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<p>I am hoping the Supreme Court lets aereo continue but I really do not understand why people want the service. Why pay $8 per month if you can just buy an indoor TV antenna and get the channels that way for free?</p>
<p>Ah well – when you live behind a mountain, an indoor (or outdoor) tv antenna does not work. Sadly.</p>
<p>It also has some automatic DVR service that is quite lovely. It has worked great so far.</p>
<p>I would love to get rid of cable too but just like others, I need football and basketball. A la carte for sports would work if they offered it.</p>
<p>If the sports you want are on broadcast channels, Aereo works great.</p>