Tell me all about cutting the cable cord!

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Anonymous wrote:ABC live is the streaming version of ABC

Then how would a person watch it via antenna??

You'd get the local abc channel over the air for free, like all of us used to do in the old days. It still works.

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I have DirecTV Now streaming service and I get some deal because I also have ATT mobile. It works for me, I get local stations and it travels so wherever I am I can pull it up and watch.

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Forgot, I think my DirecTV Now is $22/mth. I didn't have to do anything different with my ISP to have/use it and can watch on my phone, ipad, laptop and using a firestick on TV

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We cut cable about a month ago...

We have DirectTv Now + HBO/Showtime/Starz = $61 (will probably drop Starz after Outlander and save $8.) This gets us live tv and 20 hrs of cloud based DVR + the movie channels.

Hulu without commercials - $12 (we watch a majority of our shows on this since we can watch without recording/fast forwarding through commercials.)

Nexflix - $8

(we had Hulu/Netflix before we cut the cable so it doesn't really factor into our spending.)

Home internet - $40 (we cut the landline)

Old bill - $250 (internet/phone/cable) + $20 for Netflix/Hulu = $270

New - $101 + $20 for Netflix/Hulu - $121

We have everything we used to watch! I was so nervous to do it, but it has been really simple and no one has mentioned not being to watch anything they used to watch or having difficulty navigating the systems.

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This might be a dumb question, but is the DirecTV interface like netflix; you have to open the app and then choose a program to watch. Or is it more like I'm already used to with cable, open the app and then just scroll through channels that automatically play.

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It is an app - like Netflix. It defaults to the last channel you were watching when you open it. It takes one extra set - but it opens pretty quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:FWIW, I like to have ABC live -- not the next day, not the next week. I want to watch my ABC shows live (or the same day). The only streaming service in the DMV that has ABC live (as far as I found) was DirectTV Now. I had it for a month. I liked having it on a tv that couldn't get a cable port. I didn't keep it up. The one thing that was super annoying was the way that you get to the channels. You can't just push "7" + enter (or whatever the channel number is, like you do with cable). You had to go to the listing screen and then scroll down to the channel that you wanted, and click on that and have it load up. Then when you want to change to channel 4, you can't punch in "4" -- nope... you have to go back to the directory and scroll down to the correct entry and enter that and have it load up, etc.

That was kind of annoying. It was o.k. b/c cable wasn't an option for this location for the tv. But, I wouldn't want to do that all the time for every tv.

I watch ABC live using my Mohu HD indoor antenna with the regular TV remote (i.e., no scrolling). Hulu Live should also give ABC live.

I'm tbe PP. You can't get ABC live in the DC metro area. There are only a few metro areas where it is available. I did buy an antenna first....the reception is very broken and pretty difficult to watch even a weathercast. No way to watch a show with that much audio interference.

I live in the DC Metro area and have an antenna and have zero problems.

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Anonymous wrote:We cut cable about a month ago...

We have DirectTv Now + HBO/Showtime/Starz = $61 (will probably drop Starz after Outlander and save $8.) This gets us live tv and 20 hrs of cloud based DVR + the movie channels.

Hulu without commercials - $12 (we watch a majority of our shows on this since we can watch without recording/fast forwarding through commercials.)

Nexflix - $8

(we had Hulu/Netflix before we cut the cable so it doesn't really factor into our spending.)

Home internet - $40 (we cut the landline)

Old bill - $250 (internet/phone/cable) + $20 for Netflix/Hulu = $270

New - $101 + $20 for Netflix/Hulu - $121

We have everything we used to watch! I was so nervous to do it, but it has been really simple and no one has mentioned not being to watch anything they used to watch or having difficulty navigating the systems.

Is your internet a teaser rate? We have Verizon for $39.99 for a year but I think it goes close to $100 after that.

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Antenna TV is surprisingly good in the DC area. Spring for a good outdoor antenna and you won't need cable.

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Anonymous wrote:Check the price of the Internet alone you’d need to support all of that streaming. Between standalone decent Internet and all of the streaming services I couldn’t see how it would save much, if any money to cut cable which I have as part of a bundle and assume you do too.

This. It is cheaper for us to have all 3 services than internet alone. I'm not sure there's anywhere in the DMV that has affordable, reliable internet-only providers.

We have Verizon Fios and went from close to $300/month to $75/month for internet alone. I have no idea what the speed is, but we have no issues streaming shows while the PS4 is streaming downstairs and other devices are going.

We got a digital antenna (which only works so-so) for the local stuff.

I don't miss much on cable except being able to switch on some of the news channels to catch up.

We did this with Cox and went from over $300/month for all 3 bundled, to $130/month phone and internet.

We have amazon prime, plus PSVue for the network, news and HGTV type channels, and the PBS app for me.

Even with paying for Vue, we are saving over $100/month.

We have 4 TVs, one that usually has kids gaming online, another teen online computer gaming plus smart phones/tablets, and rarely do we have even a lag. At any given time there are 3 to 4 different devices online.

My husband is able to get tons of live sporting events through Vue: NFL, a bunch of MLB including the playoffs/world series, some Olympics, NHL playoffs, etc.

The only 3 channels we want but cannot get live are the Weather channel (have to use website), CMT (DCC Making the Team) and ABC live (don't really miss it).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We cut cable about a month ago...

We have DirectTv Now + HBO/Showtime/Starz = $61 (will probably drop Starz after Outlander and save $8.) This gets us live tv and 20 hrs of cloud based DVR + the movie channels.

Hulu without commercials - $12 (we watch a majority of our shows on this since we can watch without recording/fast forwarding through commercials.)

Nexflix - $8

(we had Hulu/Netflix before we cut the cable so it doesn't really factor into our spending.)

Home internet - $40 (we cut the landline)

Old bill - $250 (internet/phone/cable) + $20 for Netflix/Hulu = $270

New - $101 + $20 for Netflix/Hulu - $121

We have everything we used to watch! I was so nervous to do it, but it has been really simple and no one has mentioned not being to watch anything they used to watch or having difficulty navigating the systems.

Is your internet a teaser rate? We have Verizon for $39.99 for a year but I think it goes close to $100 after that.

PP here - I signed a new 2 year agreement, but the rate shouldn't increase. we have 50/50 mbs which works fine. They tried to upsell me to 100/100, but it is unusual that we have more than 2-3 devices (PS4, streaming tv, youtube on a phone) going simultaneously. We bought a Orbi for our house a few months ago (before the cable cutting) due to dead space in our house, and it really boosted our Wifi.