OT - Cord has been cut
Just cut the cord today. (No, nothing surgical)
BEFORE: Time Warner with "Preferred TV", Ultimate 100 Internet, Home WiFi, Sports Pass, DVR.
Was 187.91 a month - a small car payment.
NOW: Time Warner Ultimate 100 Internet, Home WiFi, PS Vue Core Slim
Now 103.65 a month.
That's a $84 savings a month, my friends: $1044 a year, $36,000 savings over the rest of my natural expected life span. (knock, knock)
Played with PS Vue for a few weeks,works great, faster navigation by far. Live ABC, NBC, CBS TV supposed to be coming in a few months but you get everything the next day "on demand" for free now. (Recommend direct RJ45 cable to internet modem, don't use wireless).
It has ESPN, BTN and NBC Sports channels. I was able to watch 2008 Bowl Game last night and the Dead Wings loss against Tampa.
Now waiting for Google Fiber.
Yeah, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNNEWS
What about ESPN Classic? Gotta have my classic CFB bro.
But nothing beats the ESPN Body Issue...
...for creepiness!
I don't want to do. Especially not to my pecs. Appreciate how comfortable they are with themselves, though.
April 15th, 2016 at 11:50 PM ^
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you just shortened it a little. glad you are saving some money.
signed,
an mgoblogger who cut the cord...
Wait, does that mean you just listen to the audio of games? That would be...painful for me.
April 15th, 2016 at 10:09 PM ^
10 yrs ago, with one exception - i bought a satellite box and since i own it, i can go month-to-month on satellite (we live so far out in the boonies that there is no cable out here). thus, for 3 months a year we have satellite so that we can watch college football, michigan football to be more exact. no TV the other 8 1/2 - 9 months of the year.
Give me a nice long cord with more and more options and I will gladly pay for it.
but this might be the only time I've heard anyone have a YOLO (!!!), seize-the-day attitude about sitting and watching MOAR TV. I'm imagining people enjoying the outdoors and then turning to each other, "Hey guys, life is too short for this, we should probably be watching more TV." Everyone nods and blankly goes insdie to stare at the box.
yes they do.
plus fox sports networks, btn, nbcsn, and more
I have Sling. It uses the ESPN3 feeds, so they are usually delayed by about a minute and not very good quality due to high traffic and ESPN having no incentive to spend money on infrastructure.
I actually use it for Walking Dead too and I'm about to cancel my subscription with Sling until the fall.
I was thinking about doing the same thing, though I haven't noticed much of a quality problem with the games I did use it for this past season. But now that I see the channel line-up, maybe I'll get Vue instead.
It has 95% of the channels I used to watch on cable without the extra crap channels. The only channels that are not with sling are BTN, USA network, and Discovery. I'm happy to sacrifice those channels for the cost savings. Sling fits my needs for Espn1 and 2, AMC, TBS, TNT, HGTV, and the History channel.
April 16th, 2016 at 12:11 PM ^
the way you told us that twice, simultaneously.
I did not have good experience with sling. Desynched audio/video, poor quality, it worked okay when I went through ESPN3, but I was pretty disappointed overall. To top it off, when i tried to cancel they instead subscribed me to everything and they wouldn't refund me when I found out about it - I need to do better job of recordkeeping that stuff.
Well, the phrase stemmed from cutting cable (as in cable television), but cord cutting has dual meaning which is why its used.
I've only owned one of those, and I loved it (I won't tell you which, but it's not the BMW).
and so did my (very honest) mechanic. Every repair was much, much more expensive than I expected, especially the brake shoes which had to be replaced every 15K miles (fast car, but I'm a slow driver).
So now its Honda/Acura or Toyota/Lexus for me. My mechanic wonders where I've been!!!
Every 15,000 miles? Damn, has downshifting not made its way to Oregon yet?
Yes, they are happy. But that's because they have a de facto monopoly in most localities.
Yeah, true. However, wouldn't you say that, in most cases, when people "cut the cord" they end up paying the cable provider less per month?
Laugh all you want but paying them less is paying them less and over time shareholders aren't exactly enthused about lower profits and slower growth.
from Verizon to Cox.
Internet/TV/and yes, a landline. (Wifey won't let it go.)
Payment went from $180/mo to $135/mo for 12 months on a two year contract. After 12 months, the termination fee will be $120 on the contract.
The cable industry is one of the few industries with customer disloyalty incentive programs. Can you imagine some other business operating the same way? Hey, there's Joe, our best customer, he's been with us for 10 years. Charge him $45 more than that new guy walking in the door.
www.reddit.com/r/cordcutters Will have a lot of info for you as well.
I thought maybe you finally got out of your mothers basement!
I'm looking to do this soon... from what I can tell, the best deal in Ann Arbor is for Xfinity's high speed plan with a year of HBO Go + local channels and then PS Vue's basic option + Netflix/Hulu
That should come to ~$100.
I thought the thread was about the birth of a child.
Nice. What are you using to access PS Vue? PS4, Fire TV, or something else?
For the price, PS Vue is great. The downsides are that the picture quality isn't as good as cable and the interface is a little clunky. It also stutters sometimes and seems like a work in progress. But for the money I'm saving over Comca$t, I'll take those drawbacks. It's also cool that the DVR is a cloud DVR with unlimited storage.