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I got a roku wireless box to get tv streamed to my fifty inch plasma from my computer wirelessly.
I pay only 8 dollars a month for this for the netflix service. I cancelled my cable a bought an outdoor antenna, to pickup local channels for free but i live in a basement apartment, so it doesn't work very well plus it's too big to have inside. i decided to keep it for the future to when i move to an aparment with a balcony.
in the meantime i got LIMITED cable for 15 bucks a month that has just the local channels plus 3 others. it's the cheapest package you can get, i just wanted to get the local networks so that i can watch local news etc.
so i pay a total of 23 dollars a month for cable, instead of the 120.00 a month i WAS paying when i had the FULL CABLE package.
when i move this will go down to 8 dollars a month because the antenna i bought will pick up basically the same channels that limited cable offers for free.
Great job! For folks who don't feel they have to keep up on all the latest network shows, and just simply want to see some video entertainment, cutting the cord to cable TV will save a lot of money! Having the internet allows this change to a lot of households. Additionally, you can look into Hulu Plus, which has many recent network TV series and movies, which I believe runs about $10/mo.
Wrong forum but I did similar and saved a lot using Internet phone and tv via roku. I had the older one so could watch YouTube and Netflix on the big screen and had a special so only paid 30 a month plus the Netflix amount.
About the time that TV went digital, we refused to buy a flat-screen, canceled our cable, and no longer watch it. What about the news, you ask? We realized that the so-called "news" on TV was heavily biased and/or lacking good coverage of items of interest for us. So now we get our news online, where we can choose the source and search for corroborating coverage, when in doubt. I do admit that I miss baseball and football, but DW and I agree that sitting in front of a screen (even a computer screen...) was just taking up too much of our time. We don't have a lot of time to waste. I have found radio to be a good substitute, as I can listen to the games while I work on something else. Until they find a way to charge you to listen to AM/FM radio (possible, maybe even likely), I will be happy with my radios. I find TV boring now when I see it at a neighbor's house in passing. It's full of advertising (so is radio, but nothing to see).
Glad we're not throwing away money on that stuff any more!
Yea I rather read a farmers almanac or experience with all this off-grid stuff I bough than watch tv. Even as tempting as is it to watch that Courtney on the Bachelor or the Apprentice. I'm even ashamed for watching the last republican debate, what a crock of huey and waste of time. 3 dingdongs agreeing with eachother while acting enemies and pretending not to love obama.
I'm even ashamed for watching the last republican debate, what a crock of huey and waste of time. 3 dingdongs agreeing with eachother while acting enemies and pretending not to love obama.
I hear ya on those GOP "dingdongs"! I haven't watched any of the debates, but from what I read of them, they are making laughing stocks of themselves! If they don't get it in gear, the O-man will have it sewed up for 4 more years!
Sounds like this is a post for frugel living really. As long as you are satisfied its good really.I actually get cable HDw/DVR ;nationwide telephone and internet for about the same price as you were paying for just full cable.I also stream Netflix for 7.99
I hear ya on those GOP "dingdongs"! I haven't watched any of the debates, but from what I read of them, they are making laughing stocks of themselves! If they don't get it in gear, the O-man will have it sewed up for 4 more years!
Yup. As much as I think King O is killing our nation and trampling the Constitution, I have concluded that none of the front runners for the opposition are going to change the deadly course of this nation. All but one (who is in last place) is simply King O Light. This nation is hell bent on ending personal liberty and destroying the individual. I don't understand it. But that's the way it is. However, I figure that if I can insulate myself from it as much as possible (coupled with the fact that I have no more than 20 or 30 years of life remaining) I can hopefully milk the soon-to-be-extinct rights granted me by soon-to-be-extinct Constitution and spend my remaining years living my own (and the last remaining years of our nation's) life... unless the hardcore tyranny or civil unrest starts before then.
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I haven't watched any of the debates, but from what I read of them, they are making laughing stocks of themselves! 
If they don't get it in gear, the O-man will have it sewed up for 4 more years! 
