NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 We gave up cable 5 years ago and haven't missed it. For those of you on the edge of giving it up, here's an article on your life without it... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/technology/personaltech/10basics.html?partner=yahoofinance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crl Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 That sounds a lot like our tv! :lol: My DH has hooked up a computer to our tv and we can store all our DVDs on it so that DH doesn't have to get up and pop in a DVD! We can also tape any shows on the basic tv stations we do get. (No massive cable package for us) And you can exit the main viewing software to watch anything you want on the internet. It gets really confusing for my parents when they come so they use the old DVD player only. But most of DH's friends are interested in doing a similar set-up, too bad their wives aren't as cool as me. ;) Thanks for the article. My DH is going to love reading it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenL Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 We just sat and researched all the options for getting rid of cable yesterday. After our guests leave on Jan. 2, we are done with it. I am SO excited! The only glitch we see is DH being able to watch sporting events... he's hesitant because of that, but we'll figure that out. I'm thinking there's something out there that will let him do this??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 That sounds a lot like our tv! :lol:My DH has hooked up a computer to our tv and we can store all our DVDs on it so that DH doesn't have to get up and pop in a DVD! We can also tape any shows on the basic tv stations we do get. (No massive cable package for us) And you can exit the main viewing software to watch anything you want on the internet. It gets really confusing for my parents when they come so they use the old DVD player only. But most of DH's friends are interested in doing a similar set-up, too bad their wives aren't as cool as me. ;) Thanks for the article. My DH is going to love reading it! A friend of ours has a media center/Xbox set up. Streams movies to his Xbox via Netflix and and Windows Media Center (his DVD and CD collections are on a PC with a huge harddrive accessible via windows media center). He also has some remote wireless access and watches movies from his collection on his laptop when he's away from home or plugs it in to the s-video and watches them on any tv. It's all pretty amazing. I see cable-tv as a dinosaur in the not to distant future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strawberry Queen Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 We download things that we want to watch. We've always had peasant vision and it works for us. I figure that if something has been aired then it's free for downloads. The only thing that I don't like is that our computer area is not as comfy as the couch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tutor Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 My dh watches football online. (Well, we have satellite internet which doesn't stream well, so "watching" is a bit of a stretch for what he does, but you get the idea.) Many TV stations and networks broadcast their programs, including sports, online. Also, there is a station online that shows football games minus all the timeouts and commercial breaks and such... it's all action only. The game takes about 20 minutes to watch. I'll have to ask my dh what site that's on. There must be something like it for other sports as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emilylou Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 What happened to just giving up cable and not watching TV at all? :lol: Seriously it all seems confusing to the electronic nerd like me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicksMama-Zack's Mama Too Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 What happened to just giving up cable and not watching TV at all? :lol: Seriously it all seems confusing to the electronic nerd like me... :lol::lol::lol: You're so funny....;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lotsofpumpkins Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 My dh watches the college football games on espn360.com. For a while there they charged for it, but it's free now, at least through our ISP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crl Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 What happened to just giving up cable and not watching TV at all? :lol: Seriously it all seems confusing to the electronic nerd like me... I think we could do this most days, but I'm not sure my DH would be willing to go tv free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wendi Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 We have never had cable. When digital TV premiered, we were so excited because our local PBS now has FOUR channels with different programming! (We call digital TV "poor man's cable".) We do use Netflix, and I've been wanting to get a Roku device. Wendi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricia Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 Oh you so won't miss it. We gave it up over 15 years ago. Now I'm about 2 months away from destroying the rest of it. The tv. Even though we don't have outside tv they still find time to pour into it. It's about to die though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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