OT - Cord has been cut

I hope the next 34.48276 years of your life are fruitful and rewarding, and I am sorry that you will miss our 35th straight national title.

I have Wow internet ($30/month right now, goes up in the future), an antenna and Netflix. I don't watch much TV in the first place and between the internet and antenna ( and admittedly girlfriends parents cable login) I don't miss anything I want to see.

Were were "cut" for about 8 months last year but I needed faster internet to watch football while someone else was on another TV.  Their commit date was much quicker for TV+internet so that's what I got.  When my contract is up TV goes.

I played with free trial Vue on my fireTV and was pleasantly surprised at the picture quality.  It also worked fine on my firestick via wifi but I have 2 access points both running openwrt so maybe that helped.

So I wanted to cut the cord but I live in an area of the country in a "trial program" by my cable company.   I have a home internet data cap.   The basic internet package has a limit of 300GB per month per household.   If you go over, every 50GB is an additional $10. 

Cutting the cord would get very expensive very quickly.  HD Netflix can be 5-9 GB per hour.

Congrats? It makes sense to cut for lots of people, but I'm going to guess that in a couple of months/year there will be an increase in cost/tiered quality of network service to drive the prices up a bit. And yes, Net Neutrality will come into play, but cable companies are massive (and have been buying up content creators) recently because they don't like to lose money.

is where it's at. 100 internet and a very sizable HD TV bundle all for $68 after taxes.

I just found an overdue Blockbuster Video.

Anyway...

I am very curious to see how the trends in communication/connectivity (WAN/LAN, wireless, fiber), cloud storage, entertainment, gaming, and hardware all play out.  Each of these areas has specialty providers and healthy competition.  But over time, thinning margins, operational costs, and capital constraints should force consoidation across the board.  Larger firms will try to integrate more and more of these services into bundles (the dreaded Comcast, Verizon, Google, Apple, etc).  At some point the government/FCC will need to have a vision of how they see this working to incent competition and yet keep firms healthy. 

Great to see people cutting the cord and joining the revolution which will push technology trends and innovation to move faster.  Hopefully it doesn't end up in the hands of a few.

 

I figured someone moved out of their parent's house when I read the title.

I just can't wait for Vue to be on Roku! It works better on my iPhone than the Amazon Firestick

Can you also post when you take your morning dump? Just so we're totally up to speed on you.

Congrats! I also cut cable a few months back.

However, you were negged for saying "Dead Wings"

I cut direct TV off this month. Went from $45 in year one, $55 year 2, $115 year 3. My hd DVR I paid a huge fee for up front and a monthly fee for after (a total of around $600) turns out I was renting it, its content is not exportable, and it's only usable with a constantly refreshed signal from direct TV itself, so keeping it is pointless. There's a class action lawsuit going on because of it, and other numerous charges they hide from customers.

Perhaps I'm in the minority on this, but I just don't have it in me to ever consider cord cutting as a sports fan.  Your savings amounts to less than $3/day.  That price is more than fair to me to not have to worry about shoddy internet connection, streaming delays, and the lack of HD quality when I come home for the day.

75/75 internet, Digital Voice Unlimited, Preferred HD

and I got all premium channels, HBO, Showtime, Starz, Epix, Cinemax. The funny thing is that I found myself chromcast from iPad to TV much more often than watching live.

Have all sports channels that I care about, including AXS. No SEC network, no problem. Bein sports is also free now (used to be $10 per month), so I can watch all big international soccer.

no complains.

I have no cable at all, period. And we never have had it, short of a short period in an apartment complex when cable was part of the deal. I am 56 years old . . . cable has been around long enough that we had it in my fraternity when I was at UofM. That means that I have saved something like $100,000 over my natural life by not having cable. There are times I've wanted it, but a couple local bars have been more than sufficient to catch the games I really want to see. I don't mind people having cable, but I've got other things I'd rather do with what little money I have.

100 MB interrnet intro price for one year in my area is $42 b ut there are three competing providers,  going to jump on it for one year then take the next offer next year, play them at their own game.

Shinedown??

...at least feign "cutting the cord" with their provider every couple of years.  That's the game: walk into your cable or dish provider with boxes in hand, and announce you're done with it.  Immediately the clerk will commence schmoozing you with a much better deal to keep your business.  At that point, you need to make a decision to take it or go with your already-researched Plan B.  

Cool story bro. I have yet to cut the cord. Still attached to to my mom.

I've cut many cords in my day. Most of them were in the spines of my enemies.

Kodi and 5 bucks for the DexterTv addon for the win.

How dare you say dead wings

Or you could go to the bar one less one a month and drink beer at home and save the same, keep your cable, not have several different systems and subscriptions to juggle, enjoy consistent reliability, great internet speed (I get 175mbps), cloud DVR, Xfinity's X1 platform is amazing. I've never understood working that hard to watch TV. I'm glad it works for people who are willing to do everything through their computer and Internet connection, I've never found it desirable. And I can give my remote control voice commands now. No desire to cut any cords.