[SailCT]

I would like to find out the range of what people in CT are paying Comcast for the following:

TV package with ESPN but no movie channels like HBO, internet & phone & no contract?

I was paying $195.00 per month with everything; all available channels with HBO, Showtime, etc etc so many channels; and phone & internet with no contract.

Looking to scale back but keep ESPN, CNN no movie channels

[clutchrider]

You forgot to mention how many boxes, HD, DVR, etc.

We pay $189 for the TP. That is with 2 boxes (one DVR), HD services, their mid range internet, and phone. They extended my contract for a year so I have them for another 8 months or so. I plan on doing a full sweep when the contract is over. We already have Netflix, Disney Movies, HBO Now, Amazon Prime Video, and share these services amongst my parents and brother.

The goal next year is to pickup an HD antenna, setup a jailbroken Amazon fire stick, use Kodee with my current services and ditch the landline phone. So all I will be shopping for is internet service. For the $9/10 a month for these other video services I get what I need, commercial free content streamed everywhere. I don't watch TV, we watch recorded shows or movies, or whatever and it will be cheaper overall than the current service. I'm looking to be about $100 saved or more per month by the end.

Like I said we don't watch a lot of live TV or sports so with an HD antenna I'd get most of that when needed. It's funny my kids never knew what it was like to not have things "on demand" to stream immediately, you wanted a movie then you went to the store to rent it. If you wanted to watch a particular show you had to wait until it aired. It's just amazing how much that has changed since I was a kid.

[jp03]

Originally Posted by SailCT

I would like to find out the range of what people in CT are paying Comcast for the following:

TV package with ESPN but no movie channels like HBO, internet & phone & no contract?

I was paying $195.00 per month with everything; all available channels with HBO, Showtime, etc etc so many channels; and phone & internet with no contract.

Looking to scale back but keep ESPN, CNN no movie channels

Sling TV 25 bucks ..you get about 50 stations. No ESPN though...NOT A BAD THING.... lol

[hvexpatinct]

I think ESPN is available through Sling.

We don't have cable TV, but I hear that the going rate for "basic" packages is in the $130-$150 range. We pay significantly less than that for phone/internet only

[BPt111]

Originally Posted by SailCT

I would like to find out the range of what people in CT are paying Comcast for the following:

TV package with ESPN but no movie channels like HBO, internet & phone & no contract?

I was paying $195.00 per month with everything; all available channels with HBO, Showtime, etc etc so many channels; and phone & internet with no contract.

Looking to scale back but keep ESPN, CNN no movie channels

I have Optimum and pay $147 per month with Mid range TV, Phone, blazing fast Internet. You watch HBO and Showtime ?

[JGBigGreen]

I was paying $179 for Comcast phone/internet/cable with a good but not great channel package. Recently got rid of the landline (only got it for the intro pricing when we first signed up) and cable. Internet is still way too expensive at $89 but I kept that and signed up for Sling at $25 per month. Get all the channels I want with better sports selection overall than Xfinity.

[SailCT]

Originally Posted by clutchrider

You forgot to mention how many boxes, HD, DVR, etc.

We pay $189 for the TP. That is with 2 boxes (one DVR), HD services, their mid range internet, and phone. They extended my contract for a year so I have them for another 8 months or so. I plan on doing a full sweep when the contract is over. We already have Netflix, Disney Movies, HBO Now, Amazon Prime Video, and share these services amongst my parents and brother.

The goal next year is to pickup an HD antenna, setup a jailbroken Amazon fire stick, use Kodee with my current services and ditch the landline phone. So all I will be shopping for is internet service. For the $9/10 a month for these other video services I get what I need, commercial free content streamed everywhere. I don't watch TV, we watch recorded shows or movies, or whatever and it will be cheaper overall than the current service. I'm looking to be about $100 saved or more per month by the end.

Like I said we don't watch a lot of live TV or sports so with an HD antenna I'd get most of that when needed. It's funny my kids never knew what it was like to not have things "on demand" to stream immediately, you wanted a movie then you went to the store to rent it. If you wanted to watch a particular show you had to wait until it aired. It's just amazing how much that has changed since I was a kid.

Yes I have had Amazon Prime since it started and Netflix for a couple years. YES I did have every single cable channel including all the premium channels because that has been a packaging strategy and it worked well for awhile. I had all that with the fast internet and the phone for like $192.00 per month no contract. Since I am in the ad business it's all tax deductible anyway.

Recently cut it back to just "basic cable" which are pretty much what is really just broadcast that you can pick up with the HD antenna, with their overpriced internet connection for about $100 per month. I really wanted to see the Yankee playoff game and yes I added a FREE trial of Sling TV for FREE but it is a great deal compared to Comcast! They were caught by the Gov't for padding their bills tooke 18 months in coiurt and they were fined like $2.5 million, If they pad 40,0000,000 customer's bill $5 a month that is $200 million in new pure profit, makes it worth it to them to do it. It's part of their culture to try and over charge people. Pretty much everyone who examines their bill carefully over time will find blatant over charging and padding.
The other thing they did was they closed most of their stores so it's harder to return the equipment and the longer you have it the more they charge you.

[Mike 75]

$181/month with Optimum, all the channels, phone and 200Mbs internet. We have a Tivo, so no boxes, just one cablecard.

[Raider111]

Originally Posted by SailCT

I would like to find out the range of what people in CT are paying Comcast for the following:

TV package with ESPN but no movie channels like HBO, internet & phone & no contract?

I was paying $195.00 per month with everything; all available channels with HBO, Showtime, etc etc so many channels; and phone & internet with no contract.

Looking to scale back but keep ESPN, CNN no movie channels

Amazing people still pay 150-200/month to watch TV and talk on a landline phone.

Cut the cord and Google "DirectvNow"
$35/month with over 60 channels including locals, ESPN,CNN, YES, playoffs, football games, everything you need. Way more choices than Sling
The App works great with an Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV

[ArmLizzie]

We pay around $150-175 for landline, high-speed cable, TV with like 400 channels plus HBO. We only watch maybe a dozen of those channels but he wants ESPN and Golf and HBO. I want landline because it works even when the power goes out and our cell phone batteries are dead. Same reason I have a hand-crank flashlight in addition to the usual battery-powered ones. If it were up to me we'd just have old fashioned network TV and rent movies when we don't want to see one on the networks. It's not up to me though. He wants to stick with Comcast, so that's what we have. Since he's the one who does almost 90% of the TV-watching in the house, I don't make a fuss about the expense. Comes out of his paycheck