Do you still have Xfinity cable tv? Internet?
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Anonymous
| I read people are fleeing Xfinity super fast. Anyone still have Xfinity with their enormous price increases every Jan? If you cancelled who did you go with? I've tried to cancel service but its impossible since so many people are cancelling right now even the "we will call you" button to cancel doesn't work on their website right now! |
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Anonymous
| We do, but are considering other options when we move in a few months. |
Anonymous
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We have FIOS. Everyone we know who has a fiber-to-the-house (FTTH) option either has moved or is moving soon away from Cox, Comcast, and other cable TV operators.
Colleague in Alexandria is waiting for Ting to install fiber on his street, then plans to move to FTTH. |
Anonymous
| I really like sling tv it's so much cheaper and better than Comcast. It also comes with a free dvr so I'm going to cancel (rip) by beloved TiVo. Just hard to say goodbye to it. |
Anonymous
| cancelling it this mont because prices went up dramatically and service went down. |
Anonymous
| I've spend 3 hours on the phone trying to cancel comcast this past week. It's STILL not cancelled. They're playing games. I started recording it it's so absurd. |
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My parents were at $155 a month for basic cable and one cable box. I had already switched them over to two Roku boxes with Sling, Hulu, the Criterion Channel and Curiosity Stream, plus some free apps like Tagesschau and DW TV. I gently moved them into a remote control unlike cable and my father took to it right away. My mother wanted to stay with the cable box, but at $155 a month, it way getting ridiculous.
The last straw came when Spectrum increase prices again and I called them and said "we're paying $165 for basic cable"? The lady suggested we cut some of the channels out of basic to bring the cost back to $155. I got angry and canceled the service right there. My mother did get used to the Roku remote and does quite well with it now. |
Anonymous
Glad to hear it worked out. How much is the new services with sling and hulu? Comcast sent me a $218 bill for slow cable (30 mpbs) and basic cable no cable box but a old DTA. |
Anonymous
How much are they at now? |
Anonymous
It's about $1050/year and shared between two households: Sling, Hulu, Criterion, CuriosityStream. |
Anonymous
BTW, the thing I like is you can turn streams on and off now and you aren't beholden to the cable company. Consumers need leverage. The days of outrageous monthly fees per box, extra charges from Hi Def, and the monthly fee (which was a scam) for the "regional sports fee" are gone. Can you believe the RSN fee they levied by force, even if you hated sports and wanted nothing to do with it? |
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Not to beat this to death, but it was like $15 every month that you were required to pay. It was like a tax.
"Impact of cord-cutting, streaming In the 21st century, the rise of cord-cutting has led to decreasing cable and satellite television subscriber numbers in the U.S., which in turn has reduced the revenue that RSNs receive from television provider subscriber fees and advertising.[13] These have resulted in an increasing erosion to the RSN market, and attempts to launch over-the-top (OTT) services at RSNs. These services require broadcasters to obtain in-market streaming rights to teams,[14][15] and have a high cost due to RSNs usually being subsidized by subscribers that are not interested in sports.[13][16] Major League Soccer, which previously broadcast most of its matches regionally on RSNs, switched to a centralized media rights model in the 2023 season; all match telecasts are now produced in-house and carried internationally on the MLS Season Pass subscription service under a ten-year digital rights agreement with Apple Inc.[17][18] In March 2023, Bally Sports parent company Diamond Sports Group filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection,[19] while Warner Bros. Discovery Sports (WBD) announced its intent to exit the regional sports market by divesting its AT&T SportsNet channels.[20][21] Major League Baseball had established a local media department prior to the 2023 season (leveraging resources from MLB Network), in preparation for the possibility that league-produced telecasts would have to supplant RSNs incapable of broadcasting their teams' games.[22] This situation became reality in May 2023, when the rights to the San Diego Padres reverted to the team after Diamond missed a payment: beginning May 31, 2023, MLB Local Media took over the production of Padres regional games, distributing them via an in-market add-on to MLB.tv, and making agreements with multiple television providers to carry the games on local access channels (such as Cox Cable's YurView California, which had been the previous rightsholder of the Padres before they moved to Fox/Bally Sports San Diego). The broadcasts maintain team-contracted staff such as commentators.[23][24][25] In July 2023, MLB Local Media similarly took over the rights to the Arizona Diamondbacks after Diamond was granted a motion to decline its contract with the team.[26] In 2023, amid the dismantling of AT&T SportsNet and the Diamond Sports bankruptcy, multiple NBA and NHL teams pivoted away from the pay television RSN model and returned to primarily carrying their games on free-to-air television—along with paid OTT services—ahead of their 2023–24 seasons, including the Phoenix Suns[27][28] and Utah Jazz of the NBA (with the latter signing with KJZZ-TV, which had formerly aired Jazz games while under the ownership of then-owner Larry H. Miller),[29][30] and the Arizona Coyotes and Vegas Golden Knights of the NHL (which both signed with E. W. Scripps Company's newly-formed Scripps Sports division).[31][32][33][34] " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_sports_network |
Anonymous
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I just cancelled a $200+ a month comcast bill!!!
WOOOO HOOOOO!!!! Never shall I ever get comcast again! Ever. |