 rosenquiPremium
join:2004-05-28
Kanata, ON | reply to bparanoid5
Re: Rogers Killing Cable TV said by bparanoid5:I went with OTA in May 2011 and couldn't be happier. For giggles I decided to pull out all of my Rogers Cable bills going back to 2002 (i'm a bit of a pack rat) I did the same thing for a blog article but with Bell Satellite. It was quite enlightening to look back at the fee increases.
2000 - The Works - $51.95
2001 - The Works - $52.95
2002 - Ultimate 9 - $64.99 (included $1 for US networks)
2003 - Super 9 - $52.99 (we switched from Ultimate to Super in Dec 2002)
2004 - Super 9 - $54.98 (the $2.99 "System Charge" is introduced)
2005 - Super 9 - $57.98
2006 - Digital Standard + 5 themes + HD - $57.00
2007 - Digital Standard + 5 themes + HD - $61.00
2008 - Digital Standard + 5 themes + HD - $64.00 ($3 "Digital Service Fee" is introduced)
2009 - Digital Standard + 5 themes + HD - $68.00
2010 - Digital Standard + 5 themes + HD - $70.00
2011 - Digital Standard + 5 themes + HD - $74.00
2012 - Digital Standard + 3 themes + HD - $70.00 (we dropped some programming)
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Adventures in Canadian cord cutting - »canadiancordcutting.blogspot.ca/ |
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| Great Blog..looks like you took a page right out of my story.
The only differences are:
-Internet - Teksavvy
-No Hulu Plus
- +Roku box (tons of private channels)
Internet = $39.95
Netflix = $8.00
Roku = $0.00
OTA = $0.00
Voip.MS = $??spare change ?? |
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rosenquiPremium
join:2004-05-28
Kanata, ON | If I was starting from scratch I'd probably get a few Roku boxes since they're cheap and so simple to use and setup, but I already had a PS3 and that's what we used when Netflix first came to Canada a few years ago. I don't think Roku was even selling in Canada at the time.
We have 3 main viewing rooms - the home theatre (basement), living room, and master bedroom. I bought a second PS3 when the slim units went on sale, then I won a 3rd one at a fundraising raffle, so I had one for each room by the time we ditched satellite.
The living room and bedroom each have the 4GB XBox slim acting as a Windows Media Center extender for watching OTA TV. I got one on sale from Dell for $130 and bought the other off Kijiji. If Microsoft wasn't acting so greedy by requiring XBox Live Gold membership to use video apps I'd probably just use the XBox for Netflix/Hulu/etc. in those rooms and not have a PS3 there.
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Adventures in Canadian cord cutting - »canadiancordcutting.blogspot.ca/ |
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yabos
join:2003-02-16
London, ON | reply to elitefx
Cancelled my Robbers TV. It was $57/m for BASIC cable + HD set top which I barely watched. |
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