Journal Captain Splendid's Journal: Giving up Cable TV 7
Interesting article over on pajiba.com on how to get your TV fix more cheaply, and in a legal fashion, to boot.
Mostly redundant for the Slashdot crowd, but still worth a read. Would be interested in your opinions.
Mostly redundant for the Slashdot crowd, but still worth a read. Would be interested in your opinions.
Way ahead of you (Score:2)
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Cell phone, cable just for the Internet (they called earlier this week to try to get me to buy their Internet Phone Service), and rabbit ears - great HD signal in 1080i from CBS and NBC, plus all the sub-channels.
I'll probably pick up another set of bunny-ears to pick up a few more channels at some point, but there's not much on TV worth watching anyway. Certainly nothing worth over $1,000 a year. (Think of how many DVDs, shoes, or chocolate you can buy for the same amount of money).
I'm just surprise
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OTA (Score:1)
OTA broadcasts, free for a one time decent antenna purchase, totally legal. I deal with it with a bad antenna and a perverter box. Lemme see, free antenna, $25 with a coupon converter, used old CRT I paid 50 bucks for, $60 for some DVD machine. So I got 135 dollars into my total TV "bill". This is for the past decade now (DVD is newer), total bill outside the electricity to run the stuff. $13.50 a year averaged out. We live in the medium sticks and can sometimes get up to 18 channels (depends on the weathe
Haven't had cable in a while (Score:2)
Just couldn't cost justify it.
I have bunny ears in place but due to where I live I can't pick up NBC, which is a bit of a bummer with hockey on now and the Olympics coming up. As Luke727 mentioned, sports is the one big problem with not having cable.
I've checked what it would cost to watch the NHL on-line. It's $120 for the season or $25 a month if you don't want to pay it all up front. That's just too much.
Between Hulu and Netflix that covers the majority of our television watchi
Cheap Cable (Score:2)