Comments on: I gave up cable over a year ago, and I haven’t looked back

By: Hannah M.

Hannah M. — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 19:45:55 +0000

I always chuckle when I read these kinds of anti-cable posts. Not because it’s not a valid argument, but rather the opposite — does anyone ever make a passionate case FOR cable?

I’m 25 and have never lived with cable TV, so maybe I don’t actually know what I’m missing. Growing up, my mom discouraged TV-watching, and frankly we just never had the money for cable. Then, when I was living on my own, I started watching everything online, and I’ve never really had any problems with that method. To this day, the only thing I ever kind/sorta/maybe feel like I miss out on is awards shows. But I probably wouldn’t watch those if given the chance. And I can watch all the notable clips on YouTube the next day.
Between Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, iTunes, YouTube, Crackle, and the content networks make available to stream on their websites, I honestly don’t see a reason for cable. Unless people are so lazy they don’t even want to click a mouse…

By: Keith McDuffee

Keith McDuffee — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 01:42:38 +0000

We cut the cable a couple of months ago to save (a lot) of money/month. We now subscribe to Aereo, which is here in Boston, for anything live we want … AND it has DVR! It’s fucking great. Anything else we can watch later either via the network itself or purchase on iTunes, etc., and STILL we save money. We worked it out that even if we bought every show we watch for $1.99 each episode, we’d save money.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:37:42 +0000

I’ve been trying to cancel our cable subscription for almost two years, but I live with roommates and I’ve never been able to convince them to do it. It’s not a huge deal since the cost is split among us but I would still like to try it out at some point.

Does your ISP have a monthly data cap and do you ever run into any issues with that? I know that we would blow through the cap of our current internet package if all of us started streaming things so that is another reason I’ve been hesitant.

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 20:04:08 +0000

We gave it up earlier this year when we realized we never turned the TV on unless there was a “weather emergency” because, even with over 700 channels THERE WAS NEVER ANYTHING GOOD. We have Netflix and Amazon Prime and don’t need much else. There are fewer commercials and I love binge watching on rainy days.