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.
Maybe I'm cheap, or maybe your electricity is cheap, but the PS4 (according to a quick google search) uses 90-150 watts. That is a lot of wasted energy just to select something to watch.
Okay let's use the high end of that-150 watts. To make it even more extreme, let's say you left the PS4 on 24 hours a day.
Electricity is priced in kW-hours. There are 8,760 hours in a year.
150 watts*8760 hrs/1000(to get from watts to kilowatts)=1314 kW per year
I pay .13 a kW-hr in metro detroit, so that comes out to $170 a year. $14 a month
The thing is though, you are only going to have the thing on for a few hours at a time, and it is never going to draw 150 watts. The cost is minimal. It's a few dollars a month to run it.
Ok, it is settled. I'm cheap.
Seems like a bit of oversharing, no?
Anyone just save 15% on their car insurance that they want to share with the board?
once I escape the hellish nightmare of living with inlaws, that is.
Was having some rough connectivity problems(fluctuating between 6-12mbps download speed), and my costs were going up to $180 from $120 for internet and cable.
Purchased my own Modem and Router, now paying $98 per month(30mbps). Also picked up Red Zone and HBO.
I wouldn't mind going internet only, I just worry that I will not have access to what I want going that route.....
You can NOT rely on the interet to give you even close to live and HD coverage an entire game. It's not worth the gamble. Ill cut corners elsewhere with other bills.
Can you still get HBO through the Vue subscription? Have to have Game of Thrones.
I haven't posted in about four years, can't believe this is what brings me out of the woodwork.
Right now, it looks like Showtime is a la carte.
Don't know how to get HBO.
Check out HBO NOW. You don't need a cable subscription to get it.
Ah, gotcha. Considering Vue is relatively new, that doesn't surprise me. I'd imagine you could still save some money going from Xfinity, for example, to an a la carte arrangement, but probably not enough to be worth it.
I'm only paying $125/month for Xfinity Blast + Digital Preferred. Digital Preferred is pretty darn good, with most the FS channels, HBO, Showtime, BTN, NatGeo, etc included. It seems like a pretty good value.
No, but you no longer need any kind of cable subscription to get HBO. Check out HBO Now: https://www.hbonow.com. You can get it as long as you have an Amazon Fire TV, an Android device, an iOS device, or a Roku.
You could just sign up for HBO Now.
It depends on where you live, but in Michigan, the package that includes ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNEWS, BTN, FS1, FS2, and Fox Sports Detroit (which should cover you for most Michigan football and basketball games) is $34.99/month.
Check the link out broseph, there are three options, check your area.
https://www.playstation.com/en-us/network/vue/#5
You're doing it all wrong.
Get you at Netflix subscritpion. $15 / month
Get you a computer with a HDMI output (you prolly already got you one cuz you're already on here). You plug an hdmi cable from yer computer to yer HDTV HDMi input.
You want shows? You go to Netflix OR you bit torrent them sumbitches.
You want sports games? Look you up a live stream on reddit and plug in that computer to yer tv like I was talk'm bout earlier.
I just saved yer ass about $90 / month I reckon.
Shit works I don't mind tellin ya.
Yea I'll be sure to ride my ass down to Ted Turners house and drop off the cash I owe him.
*wanking motion*
Welcome to the free information age. You can keep paying for your cable. By all means do.
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Oh hai, I've spent five minutes on reddit too!
By all means act like making the content you consume doesn't cost anything. It's the childish arguments I'm used to seeing by people who would be super-unhappy if whatever thing they did was taken by people without paying for it.
And for the record, I'm fine paying for my cable and internet. If the cost suddenly became an issue for me, I'd drop channels or down a tier of speed. The bits you receive are (arguably) free; what they represent sure isn't. But hey, don't want to keep you away from your pirated cam copy of Deadpool. Hey, make sure to get your parents' HBO subscription login before GoT returns!
MGoBlog has spoiled you in your search for free information....
why don't you work for free then since we're in the free information age
Elitist...
First off - I graduated from the University of Michigan. You're damn right I'm elitest.
Secondly - A sports blog would be the last place I'd expect people to be judgmental about people using their money on a means to watch sports. This is like if one of those grilling websites had a thread where a bunch of people talked about ditching their Big Green Egg for a $99 gas grill from Home Depot. Yeah, that saves you money, but if grilling is your passion, it seems like an odd way to cut costs.
My cable is like $50 or so more than what this guy is paying by "cutting the cord." I feel like even the most cash strapped sports fans could fine other ways of cutting $50 a month out of their budget.
If your tv is anything over 27 inches it needs to be at least 1080p or have high pixel density or it is going to look like crap.
Lets say you have a 4K tv. You better have a GPU that can handle that kind of resolution. It will run, but not smoothly. You would have to bump down the setting on the tv just to get it to run smoothly.
Get a Netflix subscription?
love cable. The boxes are so shiny, the interface makes me feel like I have so many options and it is tailored specifically for my preferences. I long ago cut the cord with any desire to cut the cord and I am now a proud cable advocate. More cable. Give me ALL the channels and yours too.
I'm pretty sure you might be the first person in the history of humanity who has uttered the phrase "I love cable" and actually meant it.
I can think of a lot of other things I can and do save money on. I am going home tonight, I have the Warriors game and Better Call Saul DVRd to watch, I am going to have a family movie night with my son with whatever awesome movie is on Starz, Show or HBO. I will DVR whatever HBOs Saturday premiere move is, watch all of the playoff stuff live, hastle free. My internet is fast and always works. Give me my cable. I don't care that I spend a little bit more than I should.
I pay about $125 per month for cable (rented box and dvr, rented modem) and internet. I get a lot of channels and HBO. It's actually a pretty good value entertainment wise until they jack up the bill once per year and I have to call and threaten to switch.
Eventually I'll get around to buying my own modem to save a few more $ per month. And I should get rid of the box in the bedroom since we only ever use that TV as a sound masking device.
And Netflix is only like $8 per month on top of all that. Well worth it just for their original programming. I'll sigh up for Amazon Prime again when The Man in the High Castle comes back.
agree word for word with everything you just said, down to very obscure details. Are you sure you are not, well, me?
If TIMMAY is actually WD, who is also Benn and Discuss Man, it's entirely possible that we're the same person.
Maybe you are each others significant, err, others...
for TV/Internet/Landline. (Wifey won't let it go.)
TV includes all the ESPNs, BTN, Fox Sports, and a number of channels that show old movies, such as TCM, Movies!, This, etc. HBO is thrown in for free, but I rarely watch it.
I just switched to Cox from Verizon from Cox for nothing more than a Verizon $50 termination fee. I'll switch back in a heartbeat in 12 months if Cox gives any pushback about a continuation of a discounted price.
The cable industry treats it's loyal customers as 2nd class citizens compared to new customers. They have sown the wind, and now shall reap the whirlwind. But at least they keep the Cable Guy employed.
"And I should get rid of the box in the bedroom since we only ever use that TV as a sound masking device"
Sound masking? Do tell....what noises in the bedroom are you looking to cancel out? ;)
Wife is out of town for a few days...
/it's going to sting a little though
will there be tears? asking for a friend...
And I wasn't exactly honest in my response.
It's going to sting A LOT.
hai! can a i buy you a drink, or 6?
Is that a nice humble brag I detect in the sound masking device? haha. Nice work.
That's funny, I can do all of that AND I save a bunch of money by not paying a cable bill. You should just watch my TV and pay me your cable bill every month. Everybody wins!
TV sucks. Nobody wants to watch your TV.