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re: Cutting the cord
Posted on 4/30/14 at 9:45 pm to Layabout
Posted on 4/30/14 at 9:45 pm to Layabout
I thought about going to bars and watching sports but I can easily rack up a $50-75 bill at the bar. That would include drinks for myself and wife plus food or if I go with a buddy it could be higher because we'd be drinking more than my wife and I. If i'm spending $50 per NFL game that's $800/year and if I watch 1/2 the NCAA games that's another $400 which puts me at $1200 just at the bar. That's only a few hundred shy of my yearly cable bill and that's just on sports.
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Posted on 4/30/14 at 9:47 pm to CHiPs25
that's why I never did it. My bar tabs would win. Posted on 5/1/14 at 7:23 am to CHiPs25
Based on what you've posted, it sounds like the sports part is going to kill this idea.
I tried it for a year and it wasn't terrible, but I prefer paid service. The main problem we had was with data caps from our ISP. I have 4 kids and we tore through the cap every month. Eats into whatever you manage to save.
The other problem is that you have to change the way you watch TV. This could actually be a good thing but it didn't work out that way for me. I'm a casual TV watcher, so I like to turn the TV on, flip through the guide for a minute or two, find something interesting and passively watch.
I found it very difficult to do this with streaming services. I used my queue for things that I really wanted to watch so there was never anything that I just wanted to view passively (especially when I was so on edge about the data caps).
Good luck. Hope it works out because it is nice not having that extra bill.
I tried it for a year and it wasn't terrible, but I prefer paid service. The main problem we had was with data caps from our ISP. I have 4 kids and we tore through the cap every month. Eats into whatever you manage to save.
The other problem is that you have to change the way you watch TV. This could actually be a good thing but it didn't work out that way for me. I'm a casual TV watcher, so I like to turn the TV on, flip through the guide for a minute or two, find something interesting and passively watch.
I found it very difficult to do this with streaming services. I used my queue for things that I really wanted to watch so there was never anything that I just wanted to view passively (especially when I was so on edge about the data caps).
Good luck. Hope it works out because it is nice not having that extra bill.
This post was edited on 5/1/14 at 8:40 am
Posted on 5/1/14 at 8:35 am to CHiPs25
Double post
This post was edited on 5/1/14 at 8:36 am
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