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Just curious how many bee's have stopped ordering cable, since there's so many other options out there with streaming, downloads and free digital signals.
We don't order cable and instead have hooked our tv up to our cpu and stream television shows.
If you don't subscribe to cable, what do you do to keep up with shows?
We have the old school box where we get the network stations for free as well as a few other random ones. you don't have to pay to get NBC, CBS, PBS etc. Its free.
We have an xbox that we never set up. We could stream netflix, but havent gotten around to it. We just dont watch that much TV. Its only in our bedroom. I find we listen to a lot of radio and talk a lot more (and get more done) when a TV is not in the main area of the houce
I have cable but my brother does not. He got tired of paying over $100 a month to watch the same things that he can find online.
I personally need cable for my hockey addiction.
nope! we watch all tv online (not all of it is totally legal, but there's plenty of online streaming). we also have netflix through our wii.
We do Internet and Netflix through our Xbox, but that's about it. Cable's just not worth the cost.
We switched to Apple TVs a couple years ago, and I much prefer it. Even though some shows don't come out as soon, two Apple TVs on Ebay cost as much as two months of cable. We've saved about $1500 by not subscribing to cable!
I have the good old rabbit ears options. Its great, I get about 10 stations including local and most in HD and its free. For everything else I use netflix streaming or just stream off websites. Most major channels now put up there shows online to watch. Its just to expensive and I don't need an excuse to sit in front of the TV any more than I do
We haven't had cable for awhile now. We get digital channels for free and have netflix on our Wii that's hooked up to the TV so we spend $17/month for "tv & movies" on that. It's better than the $100 cable bill we had before!
We only got a TV a month ago, which we use to watch movies on occasion. We share the cheapest Netflix account they offer, and watch a movie maybe once a week. Sometimes I watch tv shows online, but not in several months. We're just not really TV people.
Keep up with shows? I can't remember the last time I watched a TV show. I'm apparently stuck in my commute too much and then I need a happy hour to recover. lol
Ummm there's no option for stealing cable. Not that we do that or anything... LOL!
Yes, I consider it a pretty important expense. Not that I am a huge TV addict, but I am a sports addict. If we lived somewhere we could get a satellite, I would even pay for that so I can watch my out of market teams.
We have cable, on demand, all that fun stuff. I love it. When I grew up we didn't have cable and I always felt like I was missing out. Before FI and I got our house we would buy all of our favorite TV shows on DVD so we didn't miss any eps. Now we can just record them :)
No cable [digital or otherwise]. No satellite. No On Demand. No netFlix. No antenna.
We don't watch tv at all. Haven't for over 3+ years.
Yeah, go ahead, call us hippies.
We cut our cable months ago. Best decision we ever made. We get 20 free channels through our apartment community, which I only watch for TLC. Other than that, we are Netflix people!
My husband is a computer nerd, so he has rigged a network through our PS3 from his computer that allows us to stream movies and TV. It's awesome. I hope we never pay another cable bill!
We have full cable, HBO, 2 DVRs, On Demand, all that jazz. We’re addicted to several shows you can’t stream, and at this point we don’t have the patience to wait until they come out on DVD. I figure we don’t have a lot of crazy vices, so we might as well enjoy our cable. I do wish it was cheaper though, for sure!!!! (we also have netflix)
Both DH and I are HUGE sports fans so having cable (or for us satellite) is basically a must! Honestly, I don't see it as that big of an expense and we'd have to be pretty hard off before we'd consider dropping it.
Comcast was trying to charge us $145 a month for a basic package, so I said screw em! We have a hdmi cable that goes between the mactops and our tv, plus Netflix for instant watch.
I picked "other" because I work for a major cable company and we get a substantial discount. 
We switched to basic cable and cut a lot of money off our bill (not sure the exact amount). We have channels 2-22 but most of them are not watchable (public access, OTB, etc.) Now I mostly follow shows on the channels we do have, like TBS, ABC, NBC, FOX. We also stream movies and TV on netflix. The things I miss most about cable are my DVR, keeping up with shows that it seems like everyone I know watches and talks about all the time, and Turner Classic Movies.
Fiance' and I stopped our cable services when we decided to go back to school. It's been a couple of years since we've graduated and we haven't resumed service and don't miss it. Instead we pay for mid-range internet service and watch television online. For ESPN, my fiance uses his phone to keep up with scores.
We got rid of our cable months ago and I've never regretted the decision for a second. We are rarely home when our favorite shows air (and never had dvr), so we pretty much downloaded all of them anyway. We've got a digital receiver for local channels, and watch all of our downloads (and Netflix!) on our tv through the PS3.
At the moment FI has cable with a million channels, dvr, pretty much everything. For Christmas I bought him an HD antenna so we can cancel cable once we get married to save some money. We will be able to get all broadcast stations which is pretty much all I watch anyway. We also have netflix streaming using our PS3.
we've been sharing our cable w/ our neighbors, so thus splitting the cost. they're moving out next month and we're probably going to drop the whole thing though i NEVER would have thought i'd say that as i love the tv. i watch many shows online now though.
OMG yes... We have cable, we would die without cable. FI and I are addicted to TV and our almost 200 a month bill proves this.
I've actually never had cable (or any paid programming) except when I lived in a dorm room for a year. After I moved out, my parents finally were able to buy cable. They live in a really rural area!
My husband and I watch t.v. online via Hulu, Fancast, Netflix, etc etc. It works for us :)
Our cable company loved to disconnect us by mistake, then try to charge us for a reconnect. We got tired of it, and realized that the "I'll do (blank) after this show goes off" way of doing things menat nothing ever got done (a new show always ceom on that was "just" intersting enough to stay parked on the couch).
We haven't had cable of any kind since 2003, and only in the last year have we gotten into streaming, which is more reasonably priced compared to cable, and we have a pretty extensive DVD/VHS library. It's kinda good, because the TV show or moive will end in about 1-2 hours, and you have to decide if you're going to stay watching TV by picking something else/putting a new disc/tape in the machine, or get off your butt and do the dishes :)
Ugh we pay $150 a month for our cable and internet and our service is the absolute worse! But we don't plan on getting rid of it. My SO is a huge sports fan and I would never ask him to get drop the service
I chose other. For the 14 months of engagement, Hubs & I cancelled our DirecTV & it was rather liberating. Like @FutureKMM, we are both HUGE sports fans, but Hubs & I found a way around cable/satellite to get in our very necessary sports following: we subscribed to MLBTV.com...which REALLY helped when we were honeymooning in Europe because we never missed a game (you can even "DVR" games so it's set to your schedule); we're ND fans, so every home game & nearly every away game is on networks, & we found a GREAT bar in LA that shows every SF 49er game. As for regular shows, Hulu.com is FANTASTIC & most shows air their episodes online, too.
However, we're "Other" because cable/satellite has become the new required "utility." Our apartment complex adds it to the rent - you can't rent here WITHOUT getting cable/satellite. If we had our druthers, we'd rent for less & make do as we did during our engagement. That said, it's NICE having ESPN back again.
No cable but I do watch a few cable shows online or on Netflix. My husband watches sports on ESPN3 through Xbox Live. If the cable co had an a la carte package, I would probably buy a few channels. I've never been a huge TV watcher and my husband missed it at first but now that we have Netflix and more streaming sites are popping up, he doesnt really care.
I refuse to pay for TV that I can watch for free online!!
hahaha. This is exactly why we still have cable. If it weren't for sports I would have canceled our cable a while ago.
Yeah, I know we can usually watch it online afterward, but it's gotta be live.
Minus the sports we can pretty much catch everything else online somehow, legally. 
For the non sports fans, legal options include but not limited, Netflix (I think online streaming is like $8?), Playon ($34 for a lifetime membership?), Hulu, Project Free TV.
Hey, we all have our splurges. :)
@Gerbera: We have Netflix instant streaming through the Wii and I have to say, I'm not impressed. Maybe it's just me, but most of the movies available I've either never heard of or are really old. And a lot of the shows, except for The Office, are the same way.
When I moved out of my parents house I didn't want to pay for cable... so I had a borrowed TV hooked up to nothing but a DVD player for about 6 months. Then the person needed it back... so I didn't have a TV at all for awhile. I watch all my shows on Hulu on my computer (which I like better since I usually don't want to stay up and watch them when they actually come on). A family at church was getting rid of their TV and gave it to my fiance (who already had a TV and gave it to me). So I have a free 42in flat screen now haha I got an antenna for Christmas, but I really don't use it that much. If I'm dying for some TLC or MTV or something I plan my workouts around it and watch them at the gym.
Yea, a lot of the Instant on Netflix is quite old. But it has gotten so much better in the past year. Occasionally they will also have much newer movies (usually via Starz) for a limited period then they take it off.
We have the 2 DVD at a time plan so Instant Streaming we use mainly for old Sitcom Marathons! :)
We can't afford cable on our budget, plus I feel that it's better to have a set amount of time that we watch TV without going overboard. We watch maybe three shows a week together, and then we either put in DVDs or just work on our computers. Mr. Library grew up with cable, so when we go to his parents' house he complain about not being able to get channels, but when we're at home he doesn't care. I have never had cable at home, so I don't really care. I do miss being able to watch "Top Chef" though at his parents' house.
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