Have you cut the cable?

[MacEntyre]

When my son was little, I didn't like him watching 2+ hours of TV, so I ditched cable and did not install an antennae. That was about 20 years ago...

We have a small HDTV and UHF antennae, but it only gets turned on two or three times a year, when wifey wants to watch a Thanksgiving or Christmas parade, and when my son comes home during basketball playoffs. We have a Blu-Ray with Netflix, and we watch a movie maybe once every two months.

It's great being free of TV. I highly recommend it!

Now, if I could only get rid of my cell phone...

[Intercooler]

I saw today Netflix will be raising the streaming price. Soon the others will follow!

[The_Shadow]

Heck, the local phone company AT&T (formerly South Central Bell) has been throttling the internet service to its customers who are using NetFlix and other services.  They are trying to push their own U-verse TV.  This service is not fully installed in my area yet.  They can barely deliver DSL to my location.  Still working on old rotten copper lines, when it rains the noise increases because of the wet lines and drops the send / receive bandwidth.  I'm like 29,000 feet from the nearest digital node.  These bastards had better straighten up or I'll be down sizing or switching my services to another carrier.

[rw]

Heck, the local phone company AT&T (formerly South Central Bell) has been throttling the internet service to its customers who are using NetFlix and other services.  They are trying to push their own U-verse TV.  This service is not fully installed in my area yet.  They can barely deliver DSL to my location.  Still working on old rotten copper lines, when it rains the noise increases because of the wet lines and drops the send / receive bandwidth.  I'm like 29,000 feet from the nearest digital node.  These bastards had better straighten up or I'll be down sizing or switching my services to another carrier.

Att is probably the worst provider there is, way too many engineers. The nearest digital node is less than 300 feet from my front door, yet they cannot find that node to install for us. The engineer insists we be hooked up to a node 1.5 miles away. A technician came out and we had the engineer on speaker phone. Engineer blew a gasket when we started laughing at him about the node. Months went by and we never got it worked out, last we heard was "bob" form india or someplace calling to ask how things went with our appointment.
We ended up staying with the lesser of two evils, comcast.