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- DirtyVicar, on 05/18/2009, -5/+307Sounds like a great way to find out whether your ISP has bandwidth caps.
- Andrewticus, on 05/18/2009, -1/+184Sports broadcasting isn't quite there as far as the internet goes...not yet anyway...
- mark5hs, on 05/18/2009, -10/+167Streaming better than DVD quality?
lulz, if you say so dude - strafefire, on 05/18/2009, -1/+101FTA:"When I decided to cancel my cable TV subscription, I assumed I would end up with an inferior TV experience, but save money. What I discovered, however, is that the overall experience is actually better. Much better. Online TV is easier, more flexible, more time-efficient and more "discoverable" than cable TV. And did I mention it's free?"
And this is why the cable companies want to have bandwidth caps. It's not because their network are being clogged up by heavy users torrenting *****, it is because they want to prevent site such as Hulu, from subtracting from their main business. - wayenough119, on 05/18/2009, -9/+100except it's not in hd.....
- eleete, on 05/17/2009, -27/+112I don't have cable or satellite either, I prefer online media. I also don't purchase RIAA or MPAA supported DVDs/CDs. I prefer independent content producers, especially those that support the public domain.
- gm33, on 05/18/2009, -6/+87Great idea, but just not that doable.
No real live sports alternative. The closest thing is some leagues provide yearly subscription to online video, however your home team is blacked out, which is pointless if you are trying to get rid of cable and your home team is not on network TV.
He mentions less anxiety and watch episodes when you want, however many times networks pull down content after a set amount of time. I've tried to go and watch an entire year of a show only to find that CBS, in my case, has starter pulling down some episodes.
Commercials? I watch more commercials watching from nbc.com and cbs.com than I do now. I pretty much DVR everything, I can't remember a single commerical that I watched. However, there's really no way to skip these online ones. Even worse are the HuLu ones that break full screen, so if you have your computer hooked up to your TV you have to reactive full screen.
I've had a computer-DVR set up before, with TV antenna running SageTV using OTA single for free. Now I have cable service with their DVR, and it's just so much simpler without any real computer glitches. - dbuck, on 05/18/2009, -1/+78I killed cable dead 6 months ago, and I will never, ever go back. Between PlayOn, Hulu, and Netflix I have saved myself a gajillion dollars and countless years of my life worth of commercials.
- P373Y, on 05/18/2009, -5/+51boxee ftw
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -7/+49The whole ALL television sucks mantra is nonsense, the Discovery and History network of channels (and sometimes news / sports channels) alone are worth the price of admission. Shows like BSG, Lost, Star Trek etc. would never survive as on demand free experiences or in DVD box sets.
It's really simple, just don't watch crap. - SenorCardgage74, on 05/18/2009, -1/+42I used to spend $130 a month for a cable internet combo package.
I now pay $40 a month of broadband and another $9 for a rapidshare premium account.
One of the best decisions I ever made.
Comcast can eat raccoon dick. - djledd, on 05/18/2009, -2/+43http://www.ted.nu/
tis a life saver my very own pirate tivo plus i get everything 3 hours earlier than i usually would :D go west coast - scuba7183, on 05/18/2009, -0/+41yeah but ***** 'em anyway
- blankmedia, on 05/18/2009, -13/+48***** THE FCC
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -1/+35Was your TV stolen by looters?
- ArthurSucks, on 05/18/2009, -0/+31tvrss + bittorrent = awesome!
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -19/+50Well i'm glad you like your Euro polka-trance music but i'll stick to the mainstream even if it is DRM loaded.
- Konformitee, on 05/18/2009, -1/+30I tended to stop watching Discovery and History lately. They've become too dumbed-down for my taste concentrated on ***** like Axe Men or Ice Road Truckers instead of serious historical or scientific documentaries. Axe Men and Ice Road Truckers should've been on USA, TNT, or TBS, not History. Don't even get me started on Sci-Fi and the god damn wrestling.
- OverDriven, on 05/18/2009, -1/+28I'm thinking about dropping my cable, but I'm under no delusion that all or even most shows can easily be found online via google. Granted, there are tons of shows available via their network's sites or sites like hulu, but there are MANY that are not. For those other ones, you have to resort to illegal torrents. That's all fine and well if that's your thing, but you do have to do something illegal to get those shows.
- bdbr, on 05/18/2009, -0/+26Take a look a music reviews, or music review aggregation sites like metacritic. The top-rated albums (based on quality, not sales) aren't the "mainstream" crap anymore. Independent labels are doing some great stuff.
- eleete, on 05/18/2009, -1/+26@solid12345 Perhaps they enjoy an adequate income slightly above average. Where is it written that if you produce a song, movie, book or program that ye shall be rich ? Trent Reznor made his album available for free, $0.00, yet it became the best seller on amazon and he yielded $1.6 million in the first week of release.
interestingly, here are his words.
"One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it, and then you own it?"
I would argue that is a touch above 'selling out'. That is being sold, as in slavery. - sgyoung, on 05/18/2009, -3/+27Why don't you complain to your king or whatever!
- Burn, on 05/18/2009, -14/+37Even though, for the most part, mainstream music sucks?
- Wreckage, on 05/18/2009, -1/+20Watching Hulu on my HTPC hooked up to my HDTV is pretty damn cool I must say. It is better than cable.
- peruvianidol, on 05/18/2009, -0/+19Sounds way cheaper than cable!
- pivovy, on 05/18/2009, -0/+16Legitimate users are the only ones who suffer from DRM.
- brucealmighty, on 05/18/2009, -0/+16Depending on your location you can also often pick up HDTV signals broadcast over the air with just an antennas (not unlike the old rabbit ears) which cost as little as $5. The signal is the same as you'd get on your digital HD cable station....tho not all stations beside the networks also broadcast over the air. I believe you need an ATSC (?) tuner but a lot of newer sets have them built in.
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -6/+22Well Hulu does stream "HD" videos, which really isnt HD at all, but noticeably better than DVD.
- inactive, on 05/17/2009, -0/+16My family has been doing this for months.with search sites like ovguide.com we can watch pretty much anything we want when we want.Mostly commercial free.Some Patience is required.Sometimes you have slow load times,or you may have to wait a day to watch your favorite show.but for us it works well,we pay only one monthly bill (cable broad band)and we spend less time watching.
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -0/+16$$$ -- you can't get much cheaper than staying in watching the tube, or a DVD, or messing on the internet. I used to live in an active city, and ended up spending 50 or 100 bucks a night on "entertainment" whenever I'd go out. Screw that!
- Subduction, on 05/18/2009, -3/+18Uhmm, as long as we're being pedantic, a contraction is not, "technically," two words.
Technically, and literally, and conventionally, a contraction is one word made from two.
As in: "Don't." One word. - Memnochxx, on 05/18/2009, -4/+19FCC has nothing to do with cable.
- Yankees368, on 05/18/2009, -0/+15You can absolutly watch House the day it comes out, even in possibly the clearest HD available. Just hook up an antenna to an HDTV, and youl probably get NBC CBS ABC FOX CW MYTV for free, OTA.
- staticfire, on 05/18/2009, -0/+15Discovery and History network channels are nothing like they use to be, they have been dumbed down so much that its ridiculous.
- elamer, on 05/18/2009, -1/+16I know it's not free, but for baseball I use mlb.tv. The ability to enter your fantasy team and have it warn you that one of your players is coming to bat so you can switch to that game is worth the price alone
- Cyberdactyl, on 05/18/2009, -0/+15I've been procrastinating. . .
The article is just the catalyst for me to make the move. I started with Time Warner cable HD-TV/broadband in Raleigh NC in 2001 @ 89.95/month. Nothing special, no HBO, no pay movie channels.
It has ballooned to $132.
It's time... - inactive, on 05/18/2009, -1/+15It's not so much that all TV sucks, it's that most of it sucks, making the $50+/mo cable/satellite bill a ripoff for many of us.
- imzesuit, on 05/18/2009, -0/+12Actually, the signal is superior, since over-the-air stations are not subject to obscene levels of video compression, unlike cable and satellite high-definition feeds.
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -2/+14Rodney King thing? You mean like in the early 90s? Why did that prompt you to get rid of your TV? O_o
- eleete, on 05/18/2009, -1/+13I saw the last one at a friends house. If IP is so valuable, can I get a refund on my 2 hours ?
- Dohko_Xar, on 05/18/2009, -0/+11mmmm raccoon
- bigkahunah, on 05/18/2009, -1/+12well aren't you a self-righteous internet snob
- TheClassic, on 05/18/2009, -1/+12Nice, that's a cool feature
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -0/+11You still need a good internet connection, so it's not exactly "free".
Unfortunately, in America a cable internet connection still costs upwards of $30 monthly. - diggydougie, on 05/18/2009, -4/+14Things about this keep me paying for the box.
The quality is NOT HD. My cable box is.
You can't skip the commercials with the computer versions like you can with the PVR.
The delivery with cable (even with all the drawbacks) is automatic. I don't have to hunt for shows, they're just there on the handy program guide. And with the PVR I can also record multiple episodes for later viewing.
Also in the article he mentions that he spends less time watching shows. While that may be a good thing for your mental health it is hardly an endorsement of the service. I catch a lot of shows and movies by pure chance just because it happens to be on when I sit down. You can't just flip the channels with the computer. You have to wait for screens to load and the buffering. - grat2001, on 05/18/2009, -2/+12If I could watch NBA (ESPN & TNT) games then I would be sold!
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -15/+25You know bands like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, AC-DC, they were all mainstream. The problem is music today sucks period, has nothing to do with increased corporate hegemony. It cost just as much if not more money to produce an album then and now, nothing has changed about the business of it.
- Stiverton, on 05/18/2009, -1/+11Online TV is still ***** in Canada. Getting better, but still *****.
- coldwind777, on 05/18/2009, -2/+12Yeah, uh...most people don't just watch sports to watch sports. People aren't looking for random sports to watch, they're looking for specific games involving their teams, making your suggestion utterly pointless. I like the Tigers. They play 162 regular season games each year. Of those, about 5 are broadcast OTA.
Also, the overwhelming majority of the sports that are televised are televised on cable, and not OTA. Of the four major spectator sports, football is covered completely OTA, the rest are only partially covered and only on the weekends.
Let me put it this way: most people don't say "I would like to watch an hour-long drama" and then turn on the TV and hope one is on. They are looking for a specific show that they want to watch, not some random one that happens to be on. The same thing goes for sports.
In summation, you failed. - pak314, on 05/18/2009, -0/+9I suggest switching to basic local cable. This costs me $14 a month compared to next level up which is $45. I basically get the first 30 channels in the lineup and then I supplement it with a $10 Netflix account for my movies. Saves me $275 a year.
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