Getting away from satellite tv?

[robtattoo]

Direct TV is fantastic, best $11.99 a month I ever spent for cable by far!!!!

Double You Tee Eff???
How in hell do you get direct that cheap?! I'm paying, on average, $200/month for Direct satellite?!

 

[Trial153]

My wife set it after we dumped cable.
Just have internet, sling, Amazon prime, Netflix and bunch of other apps on the TVs. she says its cheaper. Ok Baby, if you say so.

 

[Billinsd]

Double You Tee Eff???
How in hell do you get direct that cheap?! I'm paying, on average, $200/month for Direct satellite?!

Doh, I don't got Direct Tv. I pay that for Netflix.

 

[nodakian]

I find TV to be a waste of time and dislike almost everything except the Simpsons, which I never bother to watch anymore. My wife and I have basic cable because we don’t get over-the-air TV, she likes the evening news, and we watch a couple shows Sunday evenings—our date night—that’s it. If i didn’t have a family, I’d go back to having no TV and doing more reloading, hunting, and woodworking.

 

[5MilesBack]

I'm paying, on average, $200/month for Direct satellite?!

Do you have every Pay Movie channel they offer? I had the Choice Xtra package which had over 220 channels and it barely just crossed the century mark this last year.....like $103/mo. But IMO that's still WAY too much for TV.

What gets me is having to pay for the service.......and still having nothing but ads on every stinking channel. That was the whole point of cable TV.......getting away from the ads, but you had to pay for that. Now we pay and STILL have the ads. I will flip channels incessantly to avoid commercials, so this internet thing isn't any better watching a circle go around to load every single channel I hit. And the problem with options like Sling is that it's already $35/month for what we have but would be another $10-15 to add in the ESPN's. Anything above $35 is still way too much for TV.

 

[Hoot]

we have amazon prime, youtube, Netflix, hulu (plus HBO), and an internet subscription, local channels on a digital HD antenna. I figure we save about 80-90 bucks a month over what we had on satellite...

Then again, even with satellite we had prime Netflix and hulu....

 

[WoolyBugger]

Netflix and local channels, got a bar around the corner with sunday ticket and most college games I can go to if I want.

 

[Azone]

Got tired of paying over a 100 dollars a month to watch 4 to 6 channels. Most of the hunting shows were complete B.S. to watch anyway and until Jerry Jones gets beamed up by the mother ship and stops trying to coach the Cowboys I'm also done with the NFL. A lot more free time and no more looking for the remote when I get home, a toddler can hide those things in the most interesting places. Occasionally watch Longmire or Meateater on Netflix or the occasional DVD but my T.V. has pretty low hours on it now.

 

[Squirrels]

Got tired of paying over a 100 dollars a month to watch 4 to 6 channels. Most of the hunting shows were complete B.S. to watch anyway and until Jerry Jones gets beamed up by the mother ship and stops trying to coach the Cowboys I'm also done with the NFL. A lot more free time and no more looking for the remote when I get home, a toddler can hide those things in the most interesting places. Occasionally watch Longmire or Meateater on Netflix or the occasional DVD but my T.V. has pretty low hours on it now.

I do like me some Longmire....yet another great show that is over. We canceled out DirecTv in August and prepaid for 4 months of DirecTv NOW which got us a free AppleTV 4K. I've already cancelled the DirecTv NOW so we are going to try and do without that as well once the 4 months prepaid runs out. We are Prime members and have always had Netflix. If the wife can go without DirecTv NOW I may try to pick up an additional service like Hulu or the likes but note sure on options after Netflix and Amazon Prime. Got any ideas??

 

[Azone]

Netflix and Amazon Prime are my usual one, two punch for t.v. If nothing there grabs my attention it seems I can always find something on Youtube to laugh at for a few minutes. Wish I could be of more help but I have gone back to reading more lately than watching shows or programs. Books dont have annoying commercials to deal with, which is quite nice IMO. I do miss watching college football the most though. When the football withdraws get too bad I just invite myself over to sisters house down the road and take over t.v. for a couple hours.

 

[silverbullet555]

We ditched it all 10 years ago. Roku streaming on the TVs. Netflix and amazon prime along with an antenna suffices.

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[ScottinPA]

Did the Sling, Netflix, Amazon, and an antenna thing for a year or so. Internet service is too bad and only got 2-3 channels reliably on antenna so went back to DirecTV. It sucks but ...

 

[Shrek]

I ditched TV in 2003? I think it was. Don’t miss it a bit. I’ve got a phone to watch a video now and then and catch a show once in awhile when at a friends house or out at a bar. The little bit I see just reminds me why I got rid of the TV.

 

[cnelk]

How much does Sling + Hulu + Amazon Prime all add up to each month?

 

[ChrisS]

My wife set it after we dumped cable.
Just have internet, sling, Amazon prime, Netflix and bunch of other apps on the TVs. she says its cheaper. Ok Baby, if you say so.

Same. I have the ESPN package, but only for college basketball season and then I cancel it and save the $80.

Live sports streaming can be slow at times, I'm on fiberoptic, but I'll still be 10-15 seconds behind cable (based on texts I receive from fellow fans) and the picture can drop a bit now and then. No big deal.

One person mentioned Sling and it’s pretty legit too. They also get both sportsman’s and outdoor channel which is what convinced me to sign up. We also have the Netflix and i steal amazon tv from my moms account. I don’t think you can go wrong with any of the digital offerings out there

Is Meateater available on demand? I tired out the sportsmans package once a year ago or so and it wasn't there, so I cancelled.

 

[silverbullet555]

Same. I have the ESPN package, but only for college basketball season and then I cancel it and save the $80.

Live sports streaming can be slow at times, I'm on fiberoptic, but I'll still be 10-15 seconds behind cable (based on texts I receive from fellow fans) and the picture can drop a bit now and then. No big deal.

Is Meateater available on demand? I tired out the sportsmans package once a year ago or so and it wasn't there, so I cancelled.

Meateater is on netflix. On the sportsman channel maybe you get it sooner.

I consider sling on occasion, but I watch so little TV.

It can definitely save money, but you still have to get internet. That'll cost you 50-60 per month in my area. I got booted from one ISP because my family is too lazy to put the DVD in of cars 3 and just streams it all the time for the 3 year old. We went over their 300mb limit 3 months in a row. New service cost the same with a 1TB limit. Netflix is $11 per month. I don't count prime because we have it anyway.

So all in, I spend 65 per month for our tv and internet. That amounts to at least a 65 per month savings over an internet and tv packages after service, taxes and fees. I miss it every once in a while.

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[Hoot]

meateater is now a netflix original.

netflix is $14/month, hulu is $17/month(with HBO) and amazon prime is 119/year (a little more than $9/month)

My internet is $80/month so $120/month is what we pay, and we were paying $200+/month for satellite and internet alone, while still having the netflix/prime/hulu subscriptions...

 

[handwerk]

We've not had TV for 26 years, don't miss it at all, our 3 kids never complained either....you'll be ok.