(01-06-2015 01:59 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  I can see this cord cutting thing being OK for a single person or a couple that's on the go a lot. Other than that I think in the end when you are paying for all the little things...this channel, that channel, or group of channels and your internet it's not really saving much.

$9 netflix
$20 or more for the upgrade internet because if you wasn't streaming all of that content you could get by with a lot less
$20 espn package

I'm sure there's a cost for the system you're using...one time? monthly?

And I have one question for cord cutters....are you truly cord cutters? not as long as you have that internet feed running into your home.

You can get directv or dish with 10,000 or so on demand movies and 5 to 10 sports channels and 75 other channels for the $50 you are paying for the higher internet, netflix, espn package. I honestly don't get it but that's OK because I'm willing to spend the extra $50 or so a month just for convenience of being able to hit a button, do a 1 minute search, see every game listed for the next 2 weeks and hit record for the ones that interest me. It saves me time and to be honest at this stage the few hours a month I save is worth more than the money and knowing with a click of a button that what I want to watch is there...

I don't have to go searching the internet for a backdoor feed that might work, might not and will be no where as clear as the picture I get from my cable box. One other advantage ,,,,

after basketball season is over and you start getting that itch for football and it's still 5 months away you hit that DVR saved button and watch 10 of the 12 games, 13 for some of us, from last season.

I think if saving money is your goal it's a lot easier to do that by changing everyday habits that can cost way more money over a month than your TV viewing cost. Those one time cost that we all do 50 times a month...

Stop to get gas on the way home... you buy a $2 coke or a $1.5 bottle of water, or a $1.40 2oz bag of chips, or a $1.29 candy bar
Go to the game...you pay double and triple what the same drink and food would have cost you before or after the game


I have a neighbor that drives a big old truck that gets 10 to 12 mpg and his wife drives a small car that gets her 25-30 mpg. Everytime the gas price goes up all he does is complain ...oil companies are making us go broke, can't afford to drive to work, and on and on. But if he goes to the store, or the 2.5 miles to KFC to get a bucket of chicken he jumps in that big gas eating truck instead of his wife's car. Not only that every morning it's cold you can see the exhaust coming from his truck for 10 or 15 minutes...

If he drove that small car to pick up that chicken and the 10 minute wait in the drive thru he would most likely saved more on that one trip and 1 morning warm up than a .50 increase in the price of the gas he used for the whole week.

Change the little everyday cost that we don't notice and you will save a heck of a lot more money than the monthly bill we all hate to pay and complain about. My wife and I tried this for a month last year and the savings were $128 for the month just instinct buys and a few other things we really didn't need or we could wait till we got home for them where the cost was lower. In the end it only lasted for a month because we went right back to our habits of buying that candy bar or jumping in the car for that 2 block drive to the store instead of walking.

Don't mean to preach just pointing out if cutting cost is the goal then it should be that way across the board and the savings adds up a lot more than you get from cutting the cord. But we are all different animals...with different needs

I am not increasing my internet because I was already streaming. So I will pay $38 for more TV than I can watch. #Winning

(01-06-2015 09:08 AM)ASUMountaineer Wrote:  

(01-05-2015 05:03 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-05-2015 04:49 PM)NCeagle Wrote:  

(01-05-2015 04:42 PM)WKUYG Wrote:  

(01-05-2015 04:26 PM)NCeagle Wrote:  $20 for 4 channels I will actually watch, or $80 for 120 channels I won't watch.... hmmm.....

And me and my fiancé have both been on our TV's, her streaming, and me playing Call of Duty online, and don't have any issues, and we don't even have the upgraded bandwidth. We don't have cable, and pay $8 a month for Netflix, and an antenna picks up the main channels.

Still cheaper than cable, and I honestly don't miss having 500 channels of **** I will never watch.

If you were paying $80 for 120 channels then you didn't check around...

Directv and Dish will usually have a entry level package with espn for under $30 the first year along with 70+ other channels and $40 or so the 2nd year.

Both of my boys are now living at home (had one and one just got his WKU degree) and with boy playing PS4 it's hard for me to stream a ball game and that's after a upgrade from TW turbo to their 2nd to highest internet.

I never have any problem hitting the remote on my $60 Directv package and finding 10 or so basketball games each night and most football games. Then hit record and watch as many as I want live or clicking between live and games being recorded

still more expensive for channels I won't watch.

So the only football you watch is what you get on espn? And I guess you're not a basketball fan but if you were you would be OK with what espn shows you?

I personally hardly ever watch TV but if you got a family like most of us then it's no contest. And from the way I read it you get 1 channel at a time. So you better hope your girlfriend doesn't want to watch something while that game is on....

you might find yourself sleeping on the couch...that is if you're man enough to tell her you control the TV :)

Wow, so you're telling me that what works for some people doesn't work for you? That's lunacy!

Seriously, why are people defending pay-for-TV and cord cutting like it's their momma? WTF?

We chose to cut the cord, and it works great for us. Paying for TV works for you. Word.

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