https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Fri, 01 May 2026 21:50:21 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2088987 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:43:37 +0000 Mrs. Sunshine 2088987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@LuLu Mom: I was just thinking the same thing! We pay an outrageous amount because DH won't go without sports </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2088980 Fri, 27 Feb 2015 17:40:08 +0000 blackbird 2088980@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>DH called Att and threatened to leave and lo and behold, they dropped our cable $60/month and dropped out cell phones $50 a month!! So we're satisfied for a good 12 months </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2083003 Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:58:57 +0000 blackbird 2083003@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Dh and I asked some friends last night and they are paying $120/month for a BETTER PACKAGE than us. So DH wants to call and see if they'll give us a new user deal, if not, switch to a neighboring competitor (Charter) and use their new user deal for a year....then look at internet type services. </p> <p>So we'll see! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081574 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:21:23 +0000 catlady 2081574@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just did this. We cut Comcast cable but we upgraded our wireless package and got ourselves a better modem and router so that our streaming is very good (previously, it was really slow). Now we use:<br /> - Hulu plus (we use this on an Apple TV that was gifted)<br /> - Amazon prime (fire stick)<br /> - Digital antenna (works great for watching sports games)<br /> - Misc. other free channels on Apple TV (like PBS Kids)</p> <p>I am considering Sling TV once LO is a little older so she can watch Disney Jr. but for now we are ok. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081543 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:08:01 +0000 LuLu Mom 2081543@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Hmmm, this Sling is the first time I'm hearing of it and I'm very intrigued. The only reason I can't get DH to cut the cord is sports, but if he can have ESPN and we get a digital antenna for local events, I bet I can convince him to save 60+ dollars a month! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081528 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 12:00:23 +0000 blackbird 2081528@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@jetsa: Ok good. A friend of mine at work said you can purchase a season pass to stream baseball, which would work. </p> <p>It sounds like maybe a combo of Hulu+Amazon Prime+streaming sports might be the ticket for us? So we can watch what we want when we have time </p> <p>@loveisstrange: I'll keep that in mind, thanks! AT&amp;T is on my shit list right now. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081500 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:41:11 +0000 My Only Sunshine 2081500@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: on Sling TV it just comes through exactly like you're watching cable. Except weirdly, some of the stations' commercials don't come through and they just show a "we'll be right back" screen during commercial breaks. I don't think you can DVR anything but we've only had it a couple weeks and I haven't played around with it that much. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081482 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:26:56 +0000 hotchildinthecity 2081482@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: it's just another cable company...maybe they're only in the nyc area? </p> <p>We have to have sports as well so dropping cable completely would be a tough sell for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081480 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:25:02 +0000 looch 2081480@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>haha, we're not sports people either....there's no time! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081479 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:22:05 +0000 jetsa 2081479@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: mlb.com offers the baseball games online for a monthly fee </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081468 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:14:31 +0000 loveisstrange 2081468@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: Haha, we're not sports people so that's not really an issue for us. I do know that our neighbors in England used to watch the games streaming online and they'd hook their laptop to their TV. Im not sure what website they used or what, but they did it. But yeah, Charter is the far superior ISP. AT&amp;T is much more expensive for slower service. Charter has increased our speed for free twice in the last year. From 30 to 60, and then from 60 to 100. Granted, we normally get closer to 60 but we do get near 100 sometimes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081467 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:13:49 +0000 lawbee11 2081467@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We just have basic cable, Hulu, Netflix, and Amazon Prime streaming (we also have Amazon Fire). So we don't have a DVR and DH can only watch sports live. I'm sure he'd rather have access to more sports, but the cost savings is worth it for us. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081456 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:04:27 +0000 avivoca 2081456@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: The only sport we watch is UFC, and you have to pay for the big fights anyway. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081442 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:54:01 +0000 blackbird 2081442@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@loveisstrange: oooo we were wondering specifically about charter. MIL has it and doesn't pay near what we do. </p> <p>I don't know that we can totally drop cable--do you guys still watch sports otherwise? There's no way we can go without Cardinals baseball and Rams football in our house ;) </p> <p>@hotchildinthecity: No idea what that is!</p> <p>@avivoca: They're definitely getting a call from me at lunch. How does the price go up when the package went down by $40/month?! WTF?! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081437 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:52:33 +0000 ShootingStar 2081437@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We cut the cable cord close to a year ago. We have Hulu and Netflix, and an antennae. Hulu gives us almost every one of our tv shows, and the antennae allows DH to watch sports every so often. We've always been too busy for him to sit around watching ESPN much. </p> <p>The only shows we don't get and miss are from CBS, like Big Bang Theory. They have an app that you can pay like $5/month for, but DH really hates paying for broadcast tv shows. I guess we could watch it with the antennae, but we're never on the ball enough for that. The other shows we can't get on Hulu, we end up paying for. So in the past year we've paid for Downton Abbey and Walking Dead. We save so much on not having cable that I don't mind spending the money on those shows. Plus, then you don't have any commercials.</p> <p>We use an apple tv, so all of our Hulu, Netflix and paid for (through iTunes) shows go through that. Easy peasy. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081403 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:22:31 +0000 Pancakes 2081403@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have any other cable options in our area besides Comcast (boo!), so this is what we do. We watch Netflix and Amazon Prime through our blu-ray player. We also have a Mohu Leaf (digital antenna) that gets us the major networks, PBS, and some other random channels that we never watch. We only had internet but then Comcast changed something so now it ends up being less expensive for us to have basic cable + internet. We just have a cable box for 1 TV, and we can watch some local sports games that way. For other sports, we use the WatchESPN app, and hook DH's laptop to the TV. We can't watch every single game this way, but we can still see most of what we want to watch. I'll have to check out SlingTV! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081396 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:18:36 +0000 avivoca 2081396@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For our cable, I called them and told them I wanted to downgrade to the most basic package because I had Amazon Prime and could watch most of my cable shows there. So the woman dropped my price $50 and let me keep my 2nd tier channels. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081394 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:15:57 +0000 hotchildinthecity 2081394@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Do you have RCN? We switched to them and we're saving a fortune. </p> <p>We keep Netflix although we watch it a lot less now that we have the dvr. For less than $10 a month, I'll just let it slide ;) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081391 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:14:18 +0000 looch 2081391@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We also finally changed our provider/got rid of cable because the intro rates that we had more than doubled. We don't have cable any more, just Netflix...it works for us because we literally don't watch TV outside of old episodes of Handy Manny and The Blacklist. Oh, and I might start watching old eps of Mad Men, lol. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081389 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:13:35 +0000 loveisstrange 2081389@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Charter's internet service in our area is WAY better than AT&amp;T. We pay $39.99/m for 100mb internet service.</p> <p>We only have Netflix, so I cant comment on cable. We've been happy with our Charter service though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081383 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:08:28 +0000 blackbird 2081383@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@creativemomma15: I was *just* reading up on Sling TV! I don't understand it right now and will have to do some more research. I feel like we could easily keep a package under $100 (easily!) if we just add the big channels we watch. </p> <p> @My Only Sunshine: Nice! We already have Amazon prime and i have a fire tv stick. And i wanted to get Netflix for my maternity leave but i can't justify it with this stupid cable bill! So do you have the option to watch at your leisure?</p> <p>Most of our shows are ABC/NBC/TNT...so i feel like we are being very wasteful with our tv! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081375 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:05:28 +0000 My Only Sunshine 2081375@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@blackbird: We dropped our cable. We got a Roku. We have Netflix and Amazon prime for TV binge watching (some movies, but they're not great). </p> <p>We also just got Sling TV, which is awesome! It's $20 per month and you get ESPN, Disney, Food Network, HGTV, and some other channels. We watch it through the Roku. <a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/sling-tv-everything-you-need-to-know/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnet.com/news/sling-tv-everything-you-need-to-know/</a></p> <p>ETA: We use a digital antenna for local channels. It's surprisingly good. We get 12 channels! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081373 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:04:34 +0000 creativemomma15 2081373@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We don't have cable right now, but Dish is offering something called Sling TV... My understanding is that it's live TV but you stream it through your internet through some sort of device (roku, PS3, etc) I think their basic package has 20 channels including ESPN, TNT, Food Network, and more... My DH is interested in it for sports and what not. We have an antenna otherwise for the basic network channels. You can add on other packages for an additional $5 to get more channels. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/cutting-the-cable-bill#post-2081369 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:00:22 +0000 blackbird 2081369@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have U-verse and they are royally pissing me off. I downgraded our package and they subsequently jacked a bunch of prices up so now we actually have the highest bill we've ever had. </p> <p>So we're pricing other options. </p> <p>We have high speed internet and a mid level cable package. It's two notches above basic, but certainly not the fanciest one. Sports is important for DH--baseball and football. And we use a DVR because, well, we never watch things live. </p> <p>What options are we not considering besides other local companies? I know there's internet tv, but I don't know much about it, and we would like to have some live options (see: sports) </p>