I showed them, by jimminy! I recently bought an antenna to pick up the over-the-air digital signals. I was paying over eighty dollars a month for a lineup of channels (Syfy, History, Discovery, Spike, and many others) that I used to like, but almost never watch now. After I got the antenna hooked up, I experimented for two weeks with not using the cable service at all, and found out that most of what I watch these days I could still watch anyway. So I had Comcast cut my service down to basic, only because there are still a couple of local channels I can't pick up. That costs about thirty dollars a month, which is within my budget.
Last September I bought a computer that would stream video smoothly, so I've been able to pick up things I do want to watch from various websites. I do have to be careful, though, not to subscribe to so many online services that it eats up all my savings.
After more than a month, I still rarely switch over to the cable service, but I'll keep it as a backup for a while. If nothing changes by next spring, I'll very likely cut the cable entirely.
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Currently watching: Roman Catacomb Mystery (2014), on the local PBS station
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"Oh, well," said Zanoni, "to pour pure water in the muddy well does but disturb the mud!"
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memayse1701
8 years ago
Silo,
I switched to a $10 antenna too...screw them. I used to like TV Land but they would have 3 minutes of chopped up show...then 7 minutes of commercials...forget it.
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