Do you still have Xfinity cable tv? Internet?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

How much are they at now?

It's about $1050/year and shared between two households: Sling, Hulu, Criterion, CuriosityStream.

I didn't know you can share sling or hulu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

File complaint with FCC.

[Anonymous]

We had fios and disconnected cable last year. It was easy, nobody was watching cable anyway (kids are more into YouTube and TikTok) and also we watch Netflix / Hulu. So when our contract ended, we switched to just internet. It still wasn’t the major reduction in cost we thought it would be.

[Anonymous]

Our Comcast in MA just went up to $306/month. No special channels like HBO on that. It's on Cape Cod where there is no other reasonable option for internet that supports WFH so they have monopoly pricing power. But we are going to drop the cable TV portion and probably get youtube TV. Hopefully we can get it under $125 for internet only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

$15? Mine had $45 attached to it for these fees.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our Comcast in MA just went up to $306/month. No special channels like HBO on that. It's on Cape Cod where there is no other reasonable option for internet that supports WFH so they have monopoly pricing power. But we are going to drop the cable TV portion and probably get youtube TV. Hopefully we can get it under $125 for internet only.

F comcast. They used to have that same monopoly in the City of Alexandria. Not anymore. Cancel the TV, get a roku and use sling blue. This will all be about $50 a month (after the roku which is about $25-$30 one time fee for the roku).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We had fios and disconnected cable last year. It was easy, nobody was watching cable anyway (kids are more into YouTube and TikTok) and also we watch Netflix / Hulu. So when our contract ended, we switched to just internet. It still wasn’t the major reduction in cost we thought it would be.

How much is the fios?

[Anonymous]

Switched to YoutubeTV, but stuck with xfinity for internet. YoutubeTV is much cheaper, but even if the price was the same, I'd prefer YoutubeTV because of the better picture quality.

[Anonymous]

For those with limited budgets, you can almost go for free if you want. Not quite, but almost.

Pluto,, DW TV, Youtube, Tubi, the Roku Channel, PBS, Vudu, Crackle, Kanopy, and Freevee

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those with limited budgets, you can almost go for free if you want. Not quite, but almost.

Pluto,, DW TV, Youtube, Tubi, the Roku Channel, PBS, Vudu, Crackle, Kanopy, and Freevee

Canopy isn't "plug and play" so to speak you got to have a valid library card from a participating library.