Do you have Cable?

Started by Bonaventure, December 26, 2012, 10:12:54 PM

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Bonaventure

The "cable" I have doesn't even give me ESPN or a sports channel. I also don't receive the channels in the 40s, like TBS, TNT, and so on. I really pay for Internet and have "cable" tacked on.
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Ancilla Domini

I have cable internet and phone. I didn't want TV, but for some reason, it sort of works. The only channels I can pick up are Telemundo and Univision, but that's fine with me!  :)

kayla_veronica

It is so not worth the money. I think it would be if you could go al-a-carte style with your channels. Netflix has most TV shows, though you have to wait a while after they are on TV to watch them.
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Hormisdas

No cable.  No satellite.  No television.
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.

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Heinrich

I can't afford it. I have too many bills. Plus, most of the stuff on tv is garbage(we know this). I do like to purchase series from Amazon Prime. I do miss being able to watch football. I do not miss the 24 hour news cycle. I know of people who are obsessed with the 24news channels, especially Fox News. Nein, danke.
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MilesChristi

Quote from: Heinrich on December 30, 2012, 08:23:38 AM
I can't afford it. I have too many bills. Plus, most of the stuff on tv is garbage(we know this). I do like to purchase series from Amazon Prime. I do miss being able to watch football. I do not miss the 24 hour news cycle. I know of people who are obsessed with the 24news channels, especially Fox News. Nein, danke.

Isnt most football on broadcast tv?
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    It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
    It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;
    And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil
Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.

And for all this, nature is never spent;
    There lives the dearest freshness deep down things;
And though the last lights off the black West went
    Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs —
Because the Holy Ghost over the bent
    World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.

Heinrich

Yeah, but I don't have 'TV' either. We have a TV that is used as a monitor, but there is no antenna to watch broadcast.
Schaff Recht mir Gott und führe meine Sache gegen ein unheiliges Volk . . .   .                          
Lex Orandi, lex credendi, lex vivendi.
"Die Welt sucht nach Ehre, Ansehen, Reichtum, Vergnügen; die Heiligen aber suchen Demütigung, Verachtung, Armut, Abtötung und Buße." --Ausschnitt von der Geschichte des Lebens St. Bennos.

LouisIX

The wife and I got rid of cable several months back.  It was originally a financial decision, but I think it's been spiritually beneficial as well. 

And we really rarely miss it.  In the age of Netflix and Hulu, you can continue to watch the shows that you like without all of the garbage.  Plus it's much, much cheaper.
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Kaesekopf

Quote from: LouisIX on December 30, 2012, 02:39:52 PM
The wife and I got rid of cable several months back.  It was originally a financial decision, but I think it's been spiritually beneficial as well. 

And we really rarely miss it.  In the age of Netflix and Hulu, you can continue to watch the shows that you like without all of the garbage.  Plus it's much, much cheaper.

This is the exact argument I made with my parents a year ago.  I told them about Netflix's instant streaming and it's cheap cost (they had Netflix until they split the subscribing packages) and compared it to the $60 cable package.  They kinda got suckered into the cable because it was bundled into the Internet, but I was like "it's still $60 cheaper... which is what $720 a year?  Not small change.  Plus you never use it!"

So they dropped it and just watch broadcast and Netflix.  Which is good enough for them.
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stmykearchangel

We got rid of cable about a year and a half a ago and don't miss it to much, maybe, football. If we want entertained we watch movies via Netflix or amazon video via my Xbox.
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LouisIX

Quote from: stmykearchangel on December 30, 2012, 08:22:12 PM
We got rid of cable about a year and a half a ago and don't miss it to much, maybe, football. If we want entertained we watch movies via Netflix or amazon video via my Xbox.

We purchased the NFL Sunday Ticket for our computer and mobile devices.  It's expensive but still less expensive bundled with Hulu Plus and Netflix than cable.
IF I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Southern Ascetic

Why would anyone want to pay for government propaganda and mind control?

Genevieve

We got rid of cable about 2 years ago and don't miss it at all. We have a Roku attached to our TV but don't use it very often. My DH is a big baseball fan and he buys an annual subscription that allows him to watch all the non-blacked out games on his computer or our Roku. Luckily for DH he's a fan of a non-local team so his team is rarely blacked out. I'm not sure this would work well for him if he liked the local team though.

Even without cable, I still think we let DD watch too much TV. We have a handful of DVDs for her and it's sometimes too easy to turn on a DVD so I start dinner. In fact, I'm cooking dinner right now and DD is watching a Thomas DVD. But at least with DVDs, DD isn't inundated with commercials for garbage food and trashy Chinese toys.


inprincipio

We got rid of cable years ago and all the televisions except the one that has the DVD and VHS.  It is a complete waste of time and money and the quiet and peace in the house are priceless!

Bernadette

I live with my aunt and uncle (in the uncle's converted workshop), and they have digital. I don't have a box out here, but I still get the history channel, discovery channel, and A&E, which are the only channels that I watch. Everything else I watch online, either on the network websites (PBS ;)) or Netflix and Youtube. I wish that we could cut out the cable (for the sake of the bill, if for nothing else), but somehow I don't see it happening. Though we have gradually phased out all of the movie channels in favor of Netflix streaming. :)
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