Another part of cutting the cable is to use local broadcasting. Most
stations in addition to their regular content have subchannels, 1 to 4,
with additional shows and/or movies.
Most recent tv sets have the digital tuner built in that is required to
recieve local over the air broadcasts. The tuner does a scan to recieve
the available stations during setup and their subchannels and keeps it in
memory. One just tunes up and down with the remote. With the regular and
subchannels we get about 30 choices.
One gets an antenna for 15$ or less on amazon. They are about a foot
square and a thin flat plastic with an attached cable that plugs directly
into the tv. Because it is so small and thin it can be placed anywhere
for best reception. Ours lies flat on the top of the wall unit that holds
the tv.
On Mon, 27 Jun 2016, Donna Goodin wrote:
Hey Scott,
I felt exactly like you do. My husband had been wanting to cut the chord for a
long time, and I was the one dragging my feet. But now that we've done it, I
don't miss it much at all. There are some shows I miss like Diners and Dives
and Restaurant Impossible, but that's about it. And we've discovered new shows
that we like that we probably would never have discovered if we'd just been
able to put the Food Network on and let it run all night. :)
It is different, though. If you want to watch TV, you can't just pick up the remote and
surf around. Now, we decide what we want to watch and then access it. You can surf on
Netflix, and probably other sources like Hulu as well, but you surf through lists of
shows, not channels. It's funny, my husband will occasionally still ask, "What's on
TV tonight?" and I have to remind him, it's whatever we decide to put on. :)
Neither my husband nor I ever got our news from television, so that wasn't an issue for
us.
Our cost savings is probably around $80 per month, and we had a basic cable
package. Our internet is still cable, and they offer the best service in our
area, so it's likely to stay that way for a while. I know other people who
save less, because they took the same money they were spending on cable, and
just put it into subscriptions, Hulu, etc. Whichever way you go, I have to say
that not only is it nice to be saving that money, it's also just nice not to be
paying for all that really bad TV--in my opinion, most of what your cable gets
you is a load of ****.
So, I'm glad we did it. My suggestion would be to keep track of what shows you
get from cable that you actually value. Then figure out whether those same
shows are available through another mechanism--don't rule out purchasing them
if you really like them. I'm a huge Big Bang Theory fan for example. That
isn't available on Netflix, so I just purchased my favorite seasons on iTunes.
My guess is that you won't have too much that you get from your cable company
that you couldn't get more cheaply elsewhere.
Good luck, and let us know if you do decide to cut the chord.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jun 26, 2016, at 10:16 PM, Scott Granados <[email protected]> wrote:
Donna, I?ve been thinking of doing the same thing but can?t quite get my head
around not having channels to turn to. I?m still a product of the old
television way of doing things. How about news or other live broadcasting? Do
you miss it? Do you still get it in other ways?
How about the cost savings, are they as significant as people claim?
Do you miss the older style of TV access or are things going well. Maybe if
nobody objects you could talk a little more about your cord cutting experience?
Are you still receiving Internet over the cable or are you all wireless or
some other access method?
On 6/26/16, 8:11 PM, "Donna Goodin" <[email protected] on behalf of
[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Brandon,
My husband and I ditched our cable last fall. We now watch either Netflix, or
content that we own. Netflix works great, both with our Apple TV and on my
iPhone.
Cheers,
Donna
On Jun 26, 2016, at 5:20 PM, Brandon A. Olivares <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hey everyone,
I am thinking of canceling cable, because we just don?t use it much.
We just got Hulu, and that is working awesome.
What I want to know is, does Netflix work well, either on the computer or on
the iPhone?
Thanks,
Brandon
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