syscom3
Pacific Historian
Has anyone cut off their cable? I did a month ago. Here's my take on it. I had Time-Warner for broadcast and broadband internet.
1) I was generally satisfied with the service. The outages for both internet and broadcast were infrequent and nothing to get me upset over.
2) My cable bill kept creeping up month after month. I don't blame TW for all of that as the broadcasters were jacking up their prices. But what really pissed me off and finally got me to cancel the broadcast service was their jacking up the prices even more to cover the costs of the sports networks they created to show teams I don't watch.
3) The content of the few shows I did watch were nothing but commercials and rehash. A 60 minute show was actually 35 minutes of content. And the History channel, Discovery channel and the Learning channel were anything but!
4) I was paying $10 a month to rent THEIR cable box. To heck with that.
5) And their stupid "tiered" service packages meant I had to subscribe to 60 channels just to watch 2 or 3 channels I was interested in and still not getting the other two I wanted.
So I kept my broadband and no one in my family has missed the broadcast portion.
1) I was generally satisfied with the service. The outages for both internet and broadcast were infrequent and nothing to get me upset over.
2) My cable bill kept creeping up month after month. I don't blame TW for all of that as the broadcasters were jacking up their prices. But what really pissed me off and finally got me to cancel the broadcast service was their jacking up the prices even more to cover the costs of the sports networks they created to show teams I don't watch.
3) The content of the few shows I did watch were nothing but commercials and rehash. A 60 minute show was actually 35 minutes of content. And the History channel, Discovery channel and the Learning channel were anything but!
4) I was paying $10 a month to rent THEIR cable box. To heck with that.
5) And their stupid "tiered" service packages meant I had to subscribe to 60 channels just to watch 2 or 3 channels I was interested in and still not getting the other two I wanted.
So I kept my broadband and no one in my family has missed the broadcast portion.
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