About the only "cable" (using word cable for any form of non streaming live TV here) TV I watch is 1 channel I get at home OTA and at work we usually put the news on. I had cable at home through my FTTH package and while I did watch it, I felt I could live without it, and getting rid of it was a way to save a bit of money per month. Got rid of the land line at the same time and went with only internet and went with the lowest package. 15/20 is fast enough for my needs honestly. Was on 50/30 before that. With those changes I managed to get the bill under $100. Was paying around $160 for the bundle before. Not a bad deal if you're like a family and the services goes well used, but for just me I can live without it.
I get gigabit fiber now and they throw in free nationwide land line (they have to to keep their access to AT&T poles for their fiber cables) for ~$65/mo including taxes. Any streaming I'd do is extra, of course, but my Youtube free is now aces and never a hiccup (when they were providing me <5mbps DSL, before they got the fiber to my neighborhood) my YT was rather iffy/glitchy/undependable. I have Prime since the beginning of this year but I've yet to stream any video off it. I check out DVDs and BRs for free from my library, and those have the extras!
Tonight's the first night in months (really about a year) where I didn't at least intend to watch evening news. This is going to require withdrawal symptoms. A year+ of evening news is
an addiction!
Last time I had an actual cable TV package was roughly 2012.
Last time here was around 1993, we had 1/2 dozen guys in the house sharing it.
I've been rooftop antennas for years and years. My newish 43" 4K TCL Roku TVs do a kind of half assed timeshifting. I get better timeshifting using a card in a desktop, and I've started using it not infrequently recently. I'll likely watch the Olympics using that system (with projector). It's great except the app is buggy. The screen will go black probably averaging every 3 hours and you have to get up and mess with the computer for a minute or so. Occasionally the computer will straight up lock up and I'll have to reset the machine, miss a few minutes of content and find where I was in the broadcast to resume. That happens probably around every 3-4 hours on average, it's AFAIK completely unpredictable. My particular computer might be involved in some of this but not all of it. It's probably the bugs in their software that led to the company going belly up (MIT MyHD cards). Macro Image Technology: