What Satellite & Cable Companies are doing as a Result of Cord Cutting

drssg · Mar 19, 2019

CMV said:
Oh...sorry for passing along bad info. I saw it there under free section so just assumed....

A lot of free (advertiser supported) internet options have gone away in recent years. I used to watch ABC, FOX, NBC, Hulu, and Southpark Studios for free. Southpark still puts up recent episodes and selected old ones.

dnw64 · Mar 19, 2019

prof fate said:
don'yt know about this year, but 2 or 3 years ago the satellite went out in the middle of the superbowl and i found it on my latop, plugged that into the tv and finished watching the game.

That would have worked, if I had found it.

Then again, I didn't spend more than 15-20 minutes or so...

I don't like it, but will continue to pay the price for (mostly) reliable, very easy to use and wide programming choices. It's kinda like bank interest rates, insurance and medical care - the price is exorbitant, but better than the alternative.

goeduck · Mar 20, 2019

CMV said:
You can add fox news channel as a free channel on roku. Haven't done it, but saw it was there under "top free" section

I tried that with Fox but Roku ended up asking me who my provider was. When I answered Xfinity (Comcast) it started linking me up to Xfinity TV or so it seemed. I backed out since I will be cancelling the Xfinity TV feed soon.

CMV · Mar 20, 2019

goeduck said:
I tried that with Fox but Roku ended up asking me who my provider was. When I answered Xfinity (Comcast) it started linking me up to Xfinity TV or so it seemed. I backed out since I will be cancelling the Xfinity TV feed soon.

I played with it last night since I was a little confused. I was sure I saw that in the top free app section (or something sounding similar to that) so wanted to double check and see. So, yes it was there, and to someone like me who doesn't quite understand everything he's seeing yet, it was easy to make the assumption "I can add this for free". And I did - kind of. The channel added to Roku. Then I got the same "who is your provider?" you got. But just went back from there and found I could watch a lot there. Not the live stream of what was on Fox News right now, but all kinds of 3-10 min clips did play. I clicked one & it played one, then another, then a short commercial. Hit back and clicked on a different one. That played for about an hour with a brief commercial break here & there, but seemed to just keep running through those smaller segments automatically.

So couldn't just watch Fox News like regular broadcast station with cable, but was able to get some stuff there. Didn't like it well enough to go back though. What I didn't find was just a regular news broadcast. It was more stuff like Carlson & Hannity editorializing.

thekkfan · Mar 20, 2019

CMV said:
So couldn't just watch Fox News like regular broadcast station with cable, but was able to get some stuff there. Didn't like it well enough to go back though. What I didn't find was just a regular news broadcast. It was more stuff like Carlson & Hannity editorializing.

I can watch live on that app. But, I did have to verify that I am subscriber through another source- in my case Hulu. This is where I had alot of issues with Directv Now.

NorTracNY · Mar 20, 2019

I'm slowly in the process of getting rid of Spectrum. When Time Warner was bought out by Spectrum, they raised my rate, and switched me to a promo rate. It's a two teir step and I just went up from $70 to $95 for just internet & tv. I learned that next year it will be over $140! I will not pay that. So I am slowly learning. We are already Prime with a Firestick. I learned about Roku and have that coming. It sounds like that will completely replace my firestick. (Actually just move that to an extra TV we have.) I was told that if I want to drop TV, I must have Animal Planet, Comedy Central, and HGTV. Going through the options, I learned that Animal Plant is not on most. Luckily for me I found it and the others on Philo for $16/month. I play sports and don't watch them, so Philo looks perfect for me. Anyone use Philo? I will also look to get an OTA.

It's just the internet that has me. Spectrum cost over $90/month for just 100Mb/s internet! I am considering spending the $300 to test out Ubifi for a month. If it works, it sounds like I can buy an AT&T data only card for ~$20/month.

goeduck · Mar 20, 2019

I am not willing to pay the ~$50 monthly Hulu, DirectTV, etc just to get Fox News. I might have to do without until they go direct to ROKU. Or watch them on my iPad.

dnw64 · Mar 20, 2019

Information, if you want it, comes at a price.

We pay around $75/mo for internet. It IS FiOS, at roughly 1 gig. Then we pay (I think it's currently) about $125 for TV. Plus we have cell phones (through our company, but still, it COSTS somewhere around $100 for two lines). That's $300. And ridiculous. More than I used to earn in a month when I was a young'un. But that's the facts o' life. I could go off the grid and rely on smoke signals, but at this point of my life I choose to leave the wound open and keep bleeding.

Larry Caldwell · Mar 20, 2019

I'm pretty peeved at Dish since they parted company with HBO. It was the only premium channel I subscribed to. Satellite is my only option, since there is no OTA TV here and my DSL internet is too slow to stream video. No cell service either, and our land line tends to go down during weather events. I keep a Skype subscription so I might be able to make phone calls if the DSL is up and the voice line is down. Nobody is ever going to string miles of cable out here for half a dozen subscribers.

goeduck · Mar 20, 2019

dnw64 said:
Information, if you want it, comes at a price.

We pay around $75/mo for internet. It IS FiOS, at roughly 1 gig. Then we pay (I think it's currently) about $125 for TV. Plus we have cell phones (through our company, but still, it COSTS somewhere around $100 for two lines). That's $300. And ridiculous. More than I used to earn in a month when I was a young'un. But that's the facts o' life. I could go off the grid and rely on smoke signals, but at this point of my life I choose to leave the wound open and keep bleeding.

Nothing wrong with a $75 a month 1 gig connection :thumbsup:

I had a hard time paying for the TV lineup and watching a couple of channels. I am looking at going from $231 a month to around $100 and getting a lot more that I am interested in