getting rid of cable/sat

tra_la_la

We are going to have to git rid of satellite due to costs. I am looking into purchasing from itunes or netflix. We watch a lot of tv, too much infact. DH is worried netflix won't have current seasons and think itunes would get expensive fast. Hulu+ seems like a waste to us.

Are there other options or does one of these work better than the other in your opinion.

LittleMissGreenEyes

We got rid of sattellite this summer and have an antenna for the local network channels (2, 4, 7, 9 & 31) and have a Roku box with Netflix and Hulu+. We're all set with all of the TV we could ever watch now and save a lot of money.

swinsto3

LittleMissGreenEyes:

We got rid of sattellite this summer and have an antenna for the local network channels (2, 4, 7, 9 & 31) and have a Roku box with Netflix and Hulu+. We're all set with all of the TV we could ever watch now and save a lot of money.

Once football is over, this is exactly what we'll be doing. Netflix doesn't have current seasons, but Hulu+ does. We can also hook the laptop up to the TV and watch things that stream live on the individual channels websites too. We aren't paying for Hulu+ right now, but might down the road - for right now, Netflix has a ton of kid's stuff and we're good with the free channels.

EngagedinVegas

BEST THING WE EVER DID!

Hulu plus is worth it! I watch current seasons on there, Glee, Dancing with the Stars, Once Upon a Time.

You may have to wait until a season is over to watch it on Netflix as well, which is fine with us. We used to use the Wii for Netflix, but we got a blu ray player with internet and we can watch all kinds of good stuff. It is so much cheaper to abandon cable and satellite. It also opens you up to playing, reading and doing all kinds of other things with the kid! 

azuremama

Netflix does not have current seasons, but some shows come out fairly quickly.  We just wait and watch stuff on netflix, usually (although we still have cable because DH watches so much sports).  There's tons of other things you can watch for a few months until the new season comes out on netflix.  If you're not getting dvds, though, you should make sure what you want to watch is on streaming.  Not such a big deal with tv, but a lot of the movies I want are not streaming yet.

Sunflower22

Is there any way to watch sports with any of that? I would love to give up satellite, but if we can't get baseball games (on Root sports) there's no way I could do it. We could get the MLB package for our AppleTV thru MLB.tv, but we can't get local games that way, only out of market games. 

stella_blu

Dh streams sports on frontrowsports.com. There are weird commercials but it's live footage of whatever he wants to watch usually and it's free. We have Hulu+ and a bluray player that has Internet and I love it. We also have antenna. 

spongejen

Can someone explain what a Roku box is please? I keep seeing people talk about them, and I have googled, but I am just not 100% clear what it is.  To me it seems like an xbox or wii in that you can watch netflix or hulu on it, but I'm confused why anyone would buy it simply for that (as opposed to the xbox or wii), so I assume I'm wrong.

cricket930

Netflix does not have current seasons. 

The cheapest way to watch current seasons is to get an antenna to get the local channels.

The only problem with this is that if you have shows that are on at the same time you have to chose which show you are going to stay current with.  We've found that it cuts down on the amount of tv that we watch because we only watch one show each night as opposed to using the DVR and following many shows.

sixtwelve

check out amazon as well.  we buy all our content (movies and current tv) from there and dowload to our tivo.  you can use roku too.

d.f

It's been about 1.5 years since we got rid of satellite. I was a big tv watcher but we killed it over the summer and by the time the new seasons started I wasn't that into it.  First, we started with just Netflix.  Then this fall ended the DVD part of netflix and added Hulu+ so we could easily watch the current seasons.    I picked a couple of shows I wanted to keep up on and watched them on line.  I didn't miss it at all.  Now because of DH's employer we get free HBO Go and I'm slipping back into tv addiction.

There are an amazing number of kids shows especially PBS on Netflix streaming they also seem to always have at least one Disney/Pixar movie in rotation.  Currently it's Tangled.

goldenjes

We don't have cable, and haven't for a while now.  I had been watching everything on the laptop, but got a Roku for Christmas and I love it.

We have Netflix, Hulu+ and we watch a lot of random movies on the (free) Crackle network.  I can watch almost anything new and have found a lot of old TV shows too.

ac*m*mg

If you want a DVR option, I use eyeTV hooked up to my computer. It records onto there and automatically converts it and drops it into my iTunes so that I can watch it using my AppleTV.

chasingamyandmatt

This may be a stupid question, but how do you hang on to your internet service after getting rid of cable?  What internet do you use and how much does it run?  I want to get rid of cable!!