Both kids have cable, but they are big sports fans so don’t mind paying for it. S2 also splits his cable bill with 2 housemates and his landlord so the bill isn’t outrageous.
OTOH, my nephew doesn’t and uses Netlfix and Hulu. DH and I eliminated cable 6 months ago, and have more to watch now with an antenna, Sling and Amazon Prime than we ever did when we had cable.
Another vote for Slingbox. We have one so D2 in CA can watch whatever our options are and we have a pretty fun line-up of channel options. I suspect they mostly use it to watch sports, though.
D uses a Roku, my netflix account, and can log into my cable account to access some on demand stuff at her apartment.
Mine can’t access my Fios on-demand.
S has never had a TV or cable. They pay for internet.
“That’s a great idea! I just looked and it’s $99 a year. So, does it stream live Sports, when you say “game”? Excuse my ignorance, but can you stream on the TV and not just the PC?”
You can stream Netflix or Amazon Prime movies to any relatively new smart TV (2-3 year old) or PC.
You can buy a device (Roku?) to stream to an old TV. I don’t think Amazon Prime have life sports.
Both my working kids don’t use cable TV. I use basic cable TV to watch news and broadcast football.
No cable for my adult kids. They have Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime.
I don’t have tv or cable. I use Netflix and Amazon Prime on my computer (or often on my phone 
). I was able to stream certain things like the debates and individual Olympic sporting events, but most major sporting events can’t be streamed. While I do miss the tv for big events like election results, major sporting events, the Oscars, and the like, most of the time I don’t miss it at all.
My D on her own has wifi included in her rent and views shows through her computer with Hulu or her dad’s Netflix. She’s not a big TV watcher though. Son streams a lot and I guess there’s some limited HBO option online only for certain shows or movies? He’s a big fan of that. We have a dish with the most limited package.It allows you to watch from other devices and as soon as the D in college figures out how to get that to work, she’ll use it. Otherwise, she and her roommate use the cable the school provides or they use Hulu or our Netflix connecting a laptop to roommate’s TV.
I didn’t have cable when I lived in an apartment but now that I have a house, we do have cable. One of the big reasons is that we like watching sports and I like having the news on in the background for white noise.
If we just liked series and movies, I’d stick with the netflix, etc but none of us are really into TV shows.
I believe my kids more stay watch nearly everything online and not via cable. No idea if either had cable–both have lived away from me from 2006/2009. When cable is included in rent, they have access but otherwise I don’t think they care much.
Our D’s and their husbands’ must be the exception. Both have cable and internet at their homes.
My S has a minimal cable subscription in his apartment mostly to watch sporting events. He does stream a lot on Netflix, Amazon Prime as well.
Neither kid has cable or a TV for that matter. They come to my house to watch baseball, Jeopardy and Adam Ruins Everything.
Neither of my kids has ever had cable since they left home. They are 30 and 27. They share high speed internet costs with housemates. One has Hulu and Netflix, the other doesn’t have anything (but seems suspiciously able to watch anything if he wants to). For a long time, neither had a TV, either, but I think my son’s fiancee brought one with her when they moved in together. They don’t really care much about sports, and they don’t play video games.
We haven’t had cable in 25 years. We use our Roku a lot, with Netflix and Amazon Prime. Our indoor antennas work OK. Since the switch to digital TV, we have both better picture quality on broadcast TV but more frequent problems, ranging from the screen going blank for a few seconds to sometimes not being able to get a particular channel – of course, it’s the one you want to watch – for an entire evening on a particular TV (but it’s there on another TV).
In many areas your internet is cheaper if you bundle with TV. My oldest and her roommate had basic Tv included with internet. She considered dropping the TV when he moved out since she wasn’t watching it but Cox offered her a special for less money than she would have paid for the internet alone.
My S is a big sports person and recently got Direct TV because he wanted the NFL games. He splits internet with his fiancé. He would not want to live without TV. Without some sort of cable or dish tv in our area you only get 1 channel. They spend a lot on having these options.
Younger D pays for internet but doesn’t have TV. They use our Netflix account and her BF has Amazon Prime to stream.
For anyone interested in an Apple TV for streaming, the new DirecTV Now service has a deal where you can prepay for 3 months ($105) and get a free Apple TV. Considering the ATV is $150 by itself, that is a good deal. The service just started yesterday and obviously has some growing pains: not very many locals and NBC channels are mobile devices only right now, on demand isn’t fully populated. But the picture quality is the best I’ve seen for streaming. It’s a Sling/PS Vue competitor. No Roku support yet, but that is supposed to come in Q1 2017 and is probably good thing while they get the kinks out of the system.
Our college son mostly finds everything he wants with some questionable streaming.
From what I’ve seen, sports = cable. Most people who don’t care about sports seem to easily cut the cord and just use Netflix, Amazon Prime, and/or Hulu.
If you do care about sports it gets a lot more complicated. Then you have to use an antenna, sling TV, sling box or something like that. It’s even worse if you want to watch sports with DVR capabilities, ESPN makes that really hard with streaming services.
My son just out of college has access to Netflix, Amazon Prime, and an antenna for sports. He also subscribes to the MLB channel for baseball. Sports are important to him, but he doesn’t want to pay for cable.
DH is going to subscribe to certain sports things for,the things he wants to watch. WAYYYYYYY cheaper than having the deluxe cable package that he needed to get these channels on cable. He can do this by the month.
Like @NorthMinnesota , both my kids out on their own pay for cable/internet and share Netflix. They don’t like the price, but like the convenience and variety for sports, etc.