Thats good info Cam. I already have Netflix and Amazon Prime. To be honest, most of my Niners games have played on regular networks this season, and I can live a Sunday or two if I dont see them play. Hell, that just gives me a reason to go to B-Dubs and have chicken and beer. I checked into Hulu Plus and thats only 7.99 a month. The Filipino Channel is only 13.00 a month. Add everything together and its about 50.00 a month. Not too bad really. And I saw on Hulu that all the shows we watch are there with current episodes, so that works. And it looks like they have an extensive array of Anime (my wifes addiction). So now we just have to discuss it and see if its something that we want to do. But from first blush it looks like a real money saver for us. I already have a laptop that sits around here doing nothing and already own the Chromecast dongle for the kitchen tv, and I have a PS3 for the living room tv, so the hardware investment is already done. And you cant count cable i nternet since I have to have that anyway. A good deal overall I think.
Bruce On Nov 17, 2013, at 11:44 AM, Cameron Childress <camer...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 10:14 PM, Bruce Sorge wrote: > >> So right now I pay about $200.00 a month for DirectTV > > > We cut the cord maybe 6-9 months ago and haven't ever even considered going > back to cable. We have a digital antenna for broadcast stations, plus Hulu, > NetFlix, and Amazon Prime (via AppleTV and/or AirPlay). We also buy seasons > of shows like Walking Dead and American Horror Story on our Apple TV and > get them the following day. > > Each of the pay services (Hulu / Netflix, etc) will have holes in seasons > and shows so you really end up needed to get more than one to fill in the > gaps but if you are saving $200/mo that goes a REALLY LONG WAY when you are > paying a-la-carte. > > Also - if you know anyone who has Hulu or Netflix or even Cable, you may be > able to fill in some gaps for free if they are willing to let you log into > their accounts on your devices. This is how many people I know get things > like HBOGO, which you still cannot get without having cable. > > Some shows are really only available on the web too. CBS, for example, has > The Good Wife, which my wife enjoys watching. We pull it up on a laptop and > stream it to the AppleTV via AirPlay. She was frustrated by jumping through > all the hoops at first but now it's like second nature to her. > > In my opinion cutting the cord is a huge money saver. You will end up > having to hunt a little bit more to get all the content you want without > cable, but almost everything is available out there somewhere. Plus you get > to give the middle finger to the cable companies. > > -Cameron > > ... > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:368691 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
