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Who else doesn't have a TV service?

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lMlHuxley

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About 8 months ago I decided to just get rid of tv and I haven't missed it since. I will still play games on my computer and with some of my friends on console (go 4 controller halo action or 4 player mario kart!!) but thats about as far as it goes.

It is weird hearing people talk about movies and tv shows that I have no idea about. Whenever I am at a friends house and the tv is on every commercial is new to me which is kinda cool. There are a few shows I miss like the chapelle show but I have season 1 dvd for that 😀.

Overall it is worth saving the 30 bucks a month and not wasting my time laying on the couch watching crappy shows. Everyone should at least try it sometime
 
I have an antenna hooked to the tv just to see the CBS Evening News every once in a while, and Gilmore Girls every Tuesday 🙂
 
I'd cancel all cable service and be happy with just my DVD player, TV and rabbit ears if my girlfriend would let me get away with it.
 
My fiance and I turned off our digital cable and had our cable internet throttled back to the lowest setting...saving for wedding/honeymoon and that was the first to go. 🙂


Can honestly say I don't miss cable TV at all. We have plenty of DVDs and friends with DVDs.
 
No antenna or signal at all. TV is permanently set to the xbox.

I never miss it except for some late night viewing when I don't wanna put in a dvd or watch a half hour episode of anime streamed from my computer. Oh, that and when the GF bugs me about her not having anything to do and to get cable already.
 
well..ummm I dont think you get the point..just because you watch tv on the computer and not on the television doesn't mean you dont watch tv lol
 
Originally posted by: lMlHuxley
well..ummm I dont think you get the point..just because you watch tv on the computer and not on the television doesn't mean you dont watch tv lol
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Well if they would release CSI earlier I would not have to watch it...plus during football season I have an IV leading to the tuner card.
 
I just downgraded my cable service (I was paying $41.50/mo. for about 75 channels that I rarely watched), and now I'm paying $12.50 a month for broadcast networks, ESPN, TNT, TBS, and C-Span. And I usually just watch network TV anyway.
 
Not since November.

No point in paying $55 a month to watch commercials anyway.

HDTV sounds nice though. I watch a lot of DVDs. But when I want to watch something I am stuck watching the Rabbit Ear stations.
 
You can pretty much download anything off the usenet if you miss it.

Daily Show and That 70's show for me.
 
Originally posted by: jumpr
I just downgraded my cable service (I was paying $41.50/mo. for about 75 channels that I rarely watched), and now I'm paying $12.50 a month for broadcast networks, ESPN, TNT, TBS, and C-Span. And I usually just watch network TV anyway.
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Cheapest I can get with ESPN is 44 a month...hence I pay them nothing.
 
haven't had cable TV for about 2 months now. i don't miss it a bit, download shows i really want to see, watch local networks for simpsons at 5:30

wife misses it pretty bad though
 
Dropped satellite back in January to save some $$$ even though it was only $24/month.
Have an antenna set up that gets NBC, ABC, CBS & Fox pretty well, but I very rarely watch it anymore. Don't miss it either.
 
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