| 100% rate decrease My cable rate is going down 100% in a couple weeks. That's because I'll be canceling Cablevision's overpriced cable service. |
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| i agree with you there I got rid of cox and went to dish for about 40 a month the best move i have made. |
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Romney2012Defeat Obama 2012-Chg we can believe inPremium
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said by Bobcat:My cable rate is going down 100% in a couple weeks. That's because I'll be canceling Cablevision's overpriced cable service. And replacing it with what?
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| said by Romney2012:said by Bobcat:My cable rate is going down 100% in a couple weeks. That's because I'll be canceling Cablevision's overpriced cable service. And replacing it with what? In my case I replaced cable TV with spending more time with friends & family, reading, and enjoying some hobbies.
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care to share what alternative you will be using? OTR? hulu? tivo+netflix streaming? roku? newsgroups? |
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San Francisco, CA | It is funny that the assumption is that it *must* be replaced. |
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00000 | Fair enough. However, the odds are it will be replaced with something. There are very few people that have the will power to go without tv. I suppose he can just surf the net or start gaming to pass the time. |
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said by Romney2012:said by Bobcat:My cable rate is going down 100% in a couple weeks. That's because I'll be canceling Cablevision's overpriced cable service. And replacing it with what? The "OFF" button. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
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If mine goes up, I'll replace with HD OTA.
Last year, I paid $90/month (~$100 after fees) for cable/voice/internet.
This year, I'm paying $100/month ($110 after fees) for the same thing.
Sad part is that programming quality has gone down, yet rates keep going up. |
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Camden, TN | reply to morbo
said by morbo:Fair enough. However, the odds are it will be replaced with something. There are very few people that have the will power to go without tv. I suppose he can just surf the net or start gaming to pass the time. OTA and Hulu( or Hulu type sites ) can make up most of what you get on cable. |
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Chandler, AZ | reply to en102
said by en102:If mine goes up, I'll replace with HD OTA. Last year, I paid $90/month (~$100 after fees) for cable/voice/internet. This year, I'm paying $100/month ($110 after fees) for the same thing. Sad part is that programming quality has gone down, yet rates keep going up. i got tired of this as well. used to have a cox triple play - was costing me $150/month with premier internet, one hd/dvr, and basic digital phone. after about a year, i got tired of paying for the crap i wasn't watching or using. i cut out phone and cable, leaving the premier internet. i switched to ota hd for locals. i subscribed to netflix and purchased a roku box. what i can't watch between those two is watched online, either through podcasts or through the website itself (daily show, etc). as the icing on the cake, i went with an indie voip provider for landline.
my bill went from $150/month + tax to around $80 (if you include my estimate at $10/month for my voip). my overall satisfaction is much higher and i read a lot more and spend more quality time with the family too. its a win.
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Nothing. I'm from the generation that never paid for TV, got sucked into it and with over the air HDTV no longer pay for it. Got tired of paying $50 plus per month for crap programming and 10 minutes of commercials every 30 minutes |
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said by BF69:said by morbo:Fair enough. However, the odds are it will be replaced with something. There are very few people that have the will power to go without tv. I suppose he can just surf the net or start gaming to pass the time. OTA and Hulu( or Hulu type sites ) can make up most of what you get on cable. Until Hulu is no longer free (which has been indicated can happen.) |
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said by Bobcat:said by Romney2012:said by Bobcat:My cable rate is going down 100% in a couple weeks. That's because I'll be canceling Cablevision's overpriced cable service. And replacing it with what? The "OFF" button. That's probably not STRICTLY the case if at least part of the family is tech savvy.. there's SOMEBODY downloading content probably for FREE over the internet.. that's one HUGE factor in stalling deployment of DOCSIS 3.0 in Verizon FIOS areas. At some point, the [CABLE-TV] industry will have see that they are on a collision course with the so-called FREE PIRACY MAYHEM of content ditribution over the internet VERSUS semi annual price increases for Cable-TV content channels. At this point, the idea of A-LA-CARTE idea might have to be nuanced further.. instead of paying for CHANNELS.. you may just want to download/stream blocks of content for a small fee to stay on the "LEGAL" side of things this way you can place a "VALUE" on the content itself.. and good luck selling it with commercials/informercials. Cable-TV as it is sold today is dying a slow death, with more and more consumers saying the heck with it.. and the tipping point will come--maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow.. but your children (as a whole) are HOOKED on FREE to dirt cheap cost, and that.. cable-tv isn't with all it's set-top box rentals and price gouging feature sets & widgets/interactivity. |
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