Good by cable TV.

[numl0ck]

We ditched cable TV (still have Internet) a couple years ago as a way to save $100/month towards our wedding. Set up Apple TV + XBMC + RAID storage device and uTorrent, haven't looked back since ( and yes, we're both in IT and pretty geeky ).

I agree with the above statements saying that Cable needs to get with the program. It's overpriced, the packages don't make any sense and the amount of programming-to-commercial-ratio is wayyyy too skewed. If it weren’t for Government subsidies, it would have been gone long long ago.

 

[rainsux]

> We have a land line bundled into internet

Consider VoIP. I'm paying ~$6.30/month ... gets me three [3] lines & 5,000 minutes from
VOIPO.com (2 POTS, 1 softphone).

>> internet ... which keeps rising

Yup. But if I point my 25dB WiFi dish at either of the nearby schools, or neighbors ...
but that would be wrong.

I'm pretty close to shuttering my current arrangement w/Comcrap and going
with OTA (free), Netflix ($8/mth), VOIPO (~$6/mth) and the occasional 1st-run
movie on Amazon (~$6 ea).

The softphone option w/VOIPO.com has let me ditch cellular entirely. Granted, it does NOT
offer cellphone coverage, but WiFi there is enough free WiFi avail to meet my needs. No more
$$$ to Big Red.