Well then, show me the channels you get, the added cost of the highest speed internet needed, & the savings.
Another Cord Cutting Thread
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Why would you want to watch live when you can avoid the commercials time with minimal delay to the late stages. Better things to do.
Seems they Disney Corp has ESPN and ABC and the licencing rights to programming.
https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/sling-tv-dvr-test-100-hours-storage-1201927575/
https://www.techhive.com/article/32...ces/youtube-tvs-incredible-shrinking-dvr.html
- Sling TV charges $5-per-month extra for DVR service, which doesn’t work with ESPN or Disney channels.
I have HULU TV, I'll have to check if I can.
With Disney coming out with their own streaming service, I wonder how much they plan to screw us.
NFL, NCAA football & basketball, MLB, NBA, NHL, ESPN networks including the SEC & Longhorn Networks, all Fox Sports networks, PAC 12 Network, B1G Network, NBC Sports Network, NBC Regional Sports, Fox, NBC, CBS, ABC, AMC, Cooking Channel, Food Network, DIY, HBO, Showtime, Starz, Cinemax...and pretty much anything available on Hulu, Amazon or Netflix or anything else that has ever been televised or is currently being televised. I can pull up the first episode of Bonanza, Peter Gunn or Mission Impossible, or the latest season of Ozark. I have a $50 HD antenna for local news.
When I cut the cord in April of 2015, I was paying $184 a month to Charter Specturm for internet and cable. Right now I am paying $65 for high speed internet. At the end of this month, that's 41 months of no cable and $4,879 in savings. Purchased equipment is around $400. I had Sling for a few months at $25 a month until I realized I wasn't using it all that much. Let's say it was a year. That's another $300. Total savings are still a little over $4K and climbing by $119 a month.
Odd things I've noticed from being a cord-cutter the past few months:
- Absolutely no idea when any show comes on. It's just in my list and I watch it when it's available.
- The ability to binge-watch nearly everything creates frustration when you have to watch shows from week to week. You're probably better off waiting until the season is over.
- This also complicates show-watching as many shows are meant to have that week between shows to contemplate things
- No work talk about the latest episode of something as no one ever watches things at the same time. No, "hey how about that Office episode last night!" and rattling off 1-liners.
This is actually really weird. I’m not a cord cutter just watch Netflix but agree 100%. You an really only recommend shows now. “Watch this it’s really good”. “Oh your watching Ozark you like it? Ya I love it what episode are you on?” And then the conversation is over because you’re on completely different episodes.
I like binge watching but hate it as well. Me and my wife were complaining a couple months ago how we were out of good shows to watch together. Well 3 of our favorite shows started back up so we got excited to be able to watch stuff....and now we’re done with them and out of shows to watch anymore.
There’s something to be said about having a “night” to watch a certain show for months that makes it a more memorable and longer lasting watching experience. By the time the shows come back on it’ll have been a year since we watched them and we’ll have to watch the last episode to even remember what’s happening and I find it impossible to remember some of the secondary characters names.
FOr me the greatest revelation about cord cutting was the amount of time wasted by sitting down and channel surfing. It's not that fun and it's not worth 150$ a month. All that time wasted could/should be used for something either more productive or more enjoyable.
And the annoyance of getting nickle dimed, you can gfy with forcing me to rent a device just so I can access your service I am paying for and then various things have to be taxed extra for whatever various reasons like you are doing me some grand favour.
ANd then the annoyance of commercials... so I have to pay you all this and 30 % of the time you are going to try to fill my head with what I should be buying, eating and drinking and where to vacation and what diseases I might have and how best to treat them... GFY
Chord cutting has been a thing the past few years or whatever, but you could do all this to a significant degree since like 2005. it's only now becoming more convenient, better easier experience which nearly everybody should do.
And the annoyance of getting nickle dimed, you can gfy with forcing me to rent a device just so I can access your service I am paying for and then various things have to be taxed extra for whatever various reasons like you are doing me some grand favour.
ANd then the annoyance of commercials... so I have to pay you all this and 30 % of the time you are going to try to fill my head with what I should be buying, eating and drinking and where to vacation and what diseases I might have and how best to treat them... GFY
Chord cutting has been a thing the past few years or whatever, but you could do all this to a significant degree since like 2005. it's only now becoming more convenient, better easier experience which nearly everybody should do.
Another weird thing: Being excited about a new show (Jack Ryan for example), watching it in 3 days and then having to wait literally another entire year for the next season. At least with a "traditional" tv series, you typically only wait from May-September.
[QUOTE="SomeDudeCRO, post: 7156619, member: 2974" Chord cutting has been a thing the past few years or whatever, but you could do all this to a significant degree since like 2005.[/QUOTE]
Is that some terminology that has to do with playing a guitar or something? [winking]
Is that some terminology that has to do with playing a guitar or something? [winking]
Been away from cable over a month... Netflix/Amazon/Hulu.
I get a little buffering on football? Odd? maybe because wife was on other TV?
Bet that's what it was.... Anyway... I'm getting all the TV I care to watch... I surf less/watch less News TV/watch less TV.... I'm doing fine.
But yes think streaming services will screw us and them in the long run because less TV isn't a big deal....
I get a little buffering on football? Odd? maybe because wife was on other TV?
Bet that's what it was.... Anyway... I'm getting all the TV I care to watch... I surf less/watch less News TV/watch less TV.... I'm doing fine.
But yes think streaming services will screw us and them in the long run because less TV isn't a big deal....
For whatever reason, I also get a little bit of stuttering while watching UK sports on ESPN channels. It mostly only happens coming back from commercials. I have plenty fast enough internet so I am guessing it has something to do with a bunch of people in the area trying to watch the same game. it doesn't seem to do it with any other channel on SlingTV and hardly does it for any non UK game on ESPN.
Stuttering or buffering does have to do with increased demand on your streaming provider's servers. You can workaround that by going directly through an ESPN app or website using your Slingtv credentials if that's something you want to to avoid.