Cord cutter

Recently dropped both cable TV and my land line. Couldn’t be happier. My only regret is I didn’t do it sooner. My wife and I share streaming services with our sons. More selection to watch and on my time schedule. I am probably late to the party. I am interested in other’s experiences with cord cutting.

Glad to hear! I haven’t had cable since I graduated college. I could never justify the insane price for a service that felt like it was a just a billboard in my living room.

I haven’t had a wired phone since the 90s, and we dropped cable TV about 2 years ago for an OTA antenna, Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu. (though I’m probably going to drop Hulu, as we rarely use it)

The only three things I miss are the interactive channel guide, the SciFi channel, and DVR service.

Dropped $200/month DirectTV 5 years ago. Got “Please come back!” offers monthly for the first year. They still send junk mail 4 times a year. It must be pretty lucrative, because they’re awfully persistent.

I moved into a new house in July, and put the TV in the unfinished basement. I’ve watched about 6 hours since then. GF watches Hulu and Netflix on her phone and tablet. Hulu, Amazon Prime, and Netflix run about $40 a month, well worth it.

I can’t decide if Amazon TV/Music is the product I buy and Prime shopping is the bonus, or if Prime shopping is the product I buy and TV/Music is the free bonus. Either way, it works for me!

We haven’t had cable or satellite TV since 2008.

Our digital terrestrial TV antenna stopped working about 5 years ago and I didn’t see any reason to fix it. At the time we were already mostly using streaming services.

We do have a land line telephone. We have FTTC broadband that includes land line rental. Our cell phones don’t work very well inside the house. I also prefer the backup of having a land line for emergency calls.

Unfortunately we are the Elders in our family so we still foot the bill for cable/Netflix/Amazon—this allows the camp/kids/etc to log in to our accounts and stream for free

years ago I got a digital antenna for under $30. so I get the networks and PBS in HD for free which is great if I want to watch an event or something like super bowl or the debates. plus a shared (in the family) Hulu and Netflix. Altogether very easy and inexpensive. High speed internet is separate, but I would have to do that for work anyway, and I let the landline go a long while back.

one note on the digital antenna. I’m in Manhattan and get great picture, but I’ve heard stories from friends that it doesn’t work well everywhere. I would suggest getting one and if it doesn’t work just return it.

Our line was ‘fibre enabled’ by BT, but it was slower than normal broadband so ditched it all together and now run a 4G router with external aerial on ‘3’ network with unlimited data. Speed is fine, 30mbs up & down.

No telephone cable to the house, haven’t used a landline phone since 2012!

This is my situation as well, my spouse is afraid to cut the cord. I would rather place the $200 monthly towards my retirement.

I cut the cord at the camp about 6 yrs ago —- installed one of those omni directional antennas in the attic but still have cable internet —- with a Roku/Stick etc I stream whatever games /shows/etc off our main cable account at home — our 3 kids do the same off our account —- I updated my Netflix to 4K and that enabled more users—I think it’s 2 TVs and 4-6 other devices —every once in a while I have to send a text out ( log off Dear Old Dad would like to use his account)

We dropped cable a few years back. At the time, we subscribed to DirectTV Now (the streaming offering), then dropped it for Sling. A few months back I ended up dropping all paid TV offerings and just used OTA or free services. For my OTA, I’m using a DB8E antenna in the attic hooked up to a HDHomeRun Connect Duo - I really like the channel guide it provides and how it makes the signal available on every device in my house (phones, Roku, Apple TV, Fire TV stick, etc).

Around Christmas time I may subscribe to a skinny service such as Frndly for a month or two to get Hallmarks for the wife, but I’ll cancel afterwards.

It just seems like a large outlay of money for something that I should only be doing a little bit here and there, and the entire time I’m doing it, I’m being constantly advertised at. So… I pay a bunch of money for a little entertainment and a lot of advertisement? I’ve never really understood this concept.

I’ve never really paid for Cable TV (I think I had $5/month analog catv for a while when Comcast was my internet provider, but never used it). I put an antenna in the attic in about 2009, and once digital OTA became a thing I built a MythTV box so we could watch PBS, skip commercials on the other OTA channels, and watch on our schedule.

Now my ISP is wireless, my old land-line phone number is still attached to a VOIP line, and we watch recordings, NetFlix and Prime. The only working wires into my house are power.

Wireless Internet isn’t as good as the cable was, but it’s good enough (usually) for less money.

Dropped DirecTV about a year ago and use YouTube TV and just recently added Philo for the mother-in-law. It has three Hallmark channels, the American Heros channel for me. Philo is $20 a month for 58 channels

Wireless internet is satellite internet? To all that have installed antennas, how far from the broadcast and in what terrain? I live in hilly country and the signal strength is weak, according to DTV Reception Maps | Federal Communications Commission. I used to get analogue OK but have no experience with digital since I have had cable for the last 27 years.

Yeah, Philo has a decent lineup for the price. But for just the Hallmarks (and a few other channels), Frndly starts out at $6. Limited lineup, but if it happens to have what you’re looking for, you can’t beat the price.

Eww, gross, no. It’s Vivint’s proprietary network. I’m pretty sure the kit on my roof is just a p2p WiFi connection to my neighbor who is their hub home (his family gets free Internet service). I get about 50Mb/s down, 20-50Mb/s up.

Back when I was researching, I liked antennaweb better than the fcc’s site. I’m yellow on antennaweb for the major stations at 37 miles. But I get great reception. There’s one hill/mountatin between me and the major transmitters across the floor of Utah and Salt Lake valleys.

Due to frequent power outages and fairly frequent wild fires, we kept the landline and a princess phone that does not require electrical wall outlet. The local telephone office has batteries and a generator, so when everything else goes down we can call neighbors or 911. Also get updates by phone from power company. Not an option out here; it is a necessity. The only time we are cut off is when the telephone poles and cables burn, but that has not happened in a few years.
We do not have any television and do not miss it. Obviously, we have internet and we have good cell coverage. The internet goes down when power is out and sometimes cell does.
We also have radios. It is all part of life in the mountains and I would not give it up to live in a city. Life is good.
And we have flashlights!!!

We ditched cable and landline over 10 years ago and do not miss any of it. OTA gives me 38 digital chanels :smiley:
and that is more than enough for us.

Here is another place to find out what is available in your area using an OTA antenna: http://www.tvfool.com/

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Antennaweb gave me 0 stations. Bummer.

TV fool not much better.