My husband and I cancelled our cable a couple years ago, because we thought it was getting expensive, and when our son was born, neither of us had much time for TV watching. We were happy with just Netflix and Hulu for a while, but recently my husband has been talking about adding cable again. He wants to be able to watch the news and sports regularly. Has anyone cut cable and then gone back to it?
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Nope, we have an antenna for local channels and also subscribe to Sling TV. We don't miss cable at all and we love sports.
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We did a few years ago because we needed to reduce expenses and satellite (directv) had to go. We ended up getting it back again when our finances got better.
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We sort of did. We cut cable and just had Netflix and Hulu for a couple years. Then Comcast sold us on a cable package because it would actually be cheaper than just our internet service was. But we still don't have a DVR, which makes cable utterly useless to me. I never just sit down and flip through channels or make it a purpose to sit down at the exact time a show starts. Plus we mostly just have the broadcast channels and a few really random cable ones that I'm not interested.
During football season DH used the broadcast tv a couple times, but I've never really been interested in it.
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We did briefly because we had this expensive high speed Internet for DH's work and Comcast said they would essentially give it to us with cable and phone for the same price. We did that for like 6 months I think before we moved and went with U-verse for just internet.
Normally, we have Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video, which is more than enough TV for us.
Our sports solution was to pay for NHL TV every year, which ends up being like $20 a month, since DH is a hockey fan. We also pay for a monthly $5 online service that gets around the in-market blackout restrictions on local games we want to see live. For big games, CBS Sports or whoever the provider is usually streams the game live online, so we just hook up our laptop to our TV via an HDMI cord and watch it that way. Also, MLB TV has in the last few years offered a Father's Day special where you can get the rest of the baseball season for like $50, so it gets you the end of the regular season and all of the post-season and its a great value.
Our issue isn't that we can't get cable for a competitive price, its that you usually want EXPANDED cable and the DVR and a premium channel or two, and once we added that up with the Internet and everything, it was like $180 a month! With our AppleTV and our smaller subscriptions, its under $50 a month, we can watch the shows at our leisure, and DH can easily business expense his Internet since its a stand-alone charge.
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