Has Anyone Here "Cut the Cord"?

I am thinking of dropping cable. The only thing I watch on cable is football and news. I can get ESPN and several other sports networks from Sling TV for $25.00 a month and I can cancel when football season is over.

We are Netflix junkies. We don't care if a show is one day old or one hundred years old if it is good it is good. I loved binging on The Rockford Files and not having to deal with commercials. I don't mind waiting a year to catch up on Sons Of Anarchy.

I hooked up an indoor antennae and I was surprised to see I received 50 channels and most of then are Hi Def.

I can buy a DVR from channel master for my over the air broadcast. That brings me to another topic. I can't imagine trying to watch commercial TV without a DVR. It seems like I you get six minutes of show and 5 minutes of commercials.

Anyway my cable bill is set to go up $35.00 when my contract is up and that coupled with the taxes, fees and an additional $20.00 a month for a DVR and DVR service I think it is time to "Cut The Cord".

Has anyone else tried this and what were your results.

I haven't cut the cord, but the last two years I've jumped at the end of my 12 month contract. Comcast was raising my price from $135 to $175, so I switched to a better ATT Uverse package for $115. I offered Comcast the opportunity close the pricing gap, but they wouldn't get even close. Once I'd switched, Comcast then offered to match the price. I told them to call me in 12 months.

There are still rumors about Apple TV allowing for an ala-carte selection of channels....some people whisper about it being available in the FALL. That is 100% rumor. But That would be fantastic as I only have about 7 channels I regularly watch with Netflix.

First, if you threaten to cancel, there's a good chance they will continue your favorable rate. And actually, threatening to discontinue just about any subscription is often a good way to get a better offer.

I cut the cord and don't miss it in the least. My little, inexpensive, indoor digital antennas results in great picture quality, and at least where I live, there are a surprising number of channels that come in HD clear. I have both Chromecast and a Fire stick installed on my TV, and Amazon Prime has lots of stuff to stream for free. Also Amazon now has a deal for Prime members, where if you are willing to forgo two-day shipping on merchandise, they will give you a one dollar credit. As a result, it looks like my Prime membership will net out to cost about zero.

For a lot of TV series, I just wait for the full year's DVD to be released...and check it out from my public library. I'll watch a 13-episode season over a two or three week period, which is kind of fun. And I don't miss cable news in the least, because I'd rather read my news. Besides, there isn't 24 hours worth of news every day, so it's mostly a waste of time.

Here is an extensive article about cutting the cord. It's written by the guy who founded SB Nation, a group of sports blogs that get over half a billion visitors a year, so it's especially good if you are into sports.

YES. I cut the cord two years ago and never looked back.

I have many similarities to what you describe, so I say go for it. The only bad news for me, I'm embarrassed to say, is that I spend no less time in front of the TV.

Thanks to everyone for the input. It is amazing how many clear HD channels you can pick up with a cheap indoor antennae. amazon Prime is a great deal and "The Americans" is a great show you get for free off of Prime. I am interested in what Apple TV will pan out to be.

Here in Florida, Verizon is getting out of the internet business and the TV business. I think they see the writing on the wall. What concerns me as streaming gets to be more popular than cable when are the greedy bastards going to raise out broadband rates through the roof.

That is a good article on cord cutting. As he pretty much spelled out it is a lot easier to do away with cable now than it was a couple of years ago.

He also said the DVR+ is $400.00 with built in storage. For those of us that already have a drive the cost can be as low as $240.00

I believe the glory days of cable are over.

I went with Hulu plus for about a 1.5 years. I have a new friend who is into sports etc and so I splurged and purchased a package for 50 a month for Direct TV, this includes a DVR. I am watching much more TV lately, this to me is not a good thing.

I truly didn't miss cutting the cord and thought it was funny the looks I got when I mentioned it. If I could have gotten a HD antenna that worked in my area I would have. I also think the glory days of cable and dish are over.

And its a big reason why every consumer should support and applaud internet neutrality. Comcast would love nothing more than to kill access to its streaming competitors.

I had cable TV until 1996. My local cable provider refused to carry a PPV program (ESPNPPV) that I wanted to buy. ESPN ran an experimental three race series of live, start to finish, coverage of Sunday eliminations of NHRA national event drag racing on their own PPV feed. I went to the local cable TV office and begged them to allow me to buy the first race. "Never heard of it, and no one else has asked about it" was their response, so the answer was no. Before the second race was scheduled for ESPNPPV, I was back at the cable TV office begging them to carry it so I could buy it. The response was the same. They had heard of SpeedVision and were thinking of adding it to their regular channel line up. So what? They still refused to make the PPV broadcast that I wanted to buy available on their system. DirecTV was carrying the ESPNPPV NHRA drag racing prog rams, so I bought a dish, receiver and installation kit, and installed it myself in time to buy and receive the remaining 2 PPV programs that I wanted to see. The cable box went back to cablevision, and I told them I'd never deal with them again. The ESPNPPV live coverage of NHRA national events was a ratings failure and those three races were the only races covered with that format. Duh! When cable systems refused to let people buy the programming, it was certain to be a ratings failure!

I stayed with DirecTV through early 2008. I had their sports programming package. They kept raising the prices to a point where I finally said "no more!". I've been using rabbit ears for TV reception ever since then.

It was shortly after then that I also cut the cord for hard wired telephone service. I had a cell phone and didn't need a redundant home system to talk to people. By then, I had also converted my internet service to an aircard - basically another cell phone type of connection that plugs into my laptop and works anywhere there is Verizon cell service available.

The only "cord" that is attached to, and working at my home, provides electricity and nothing else.