Comparison shopping your TV service.

[Gregg Lengling]

Even though I work for AT&T I'm still waiting for Uverse to be avail at my home so I'm still with TWC...I've got the Digipic 4000, 7mbs RR and unlimited phone and pay about $135 plus taxes a  month...still getting the discount I had from a few years ago...an accomodation discount...so not changing a thing.

[bschlafer]

I get 27 over-the-air all digital channels, many with beautiful uncompressed HD signals, all for the bargain basement price of $0.00/month.  

I receive my OTA signals from a homebuilt antenna (cost $5 in parts) connected to my 42" LG plasma.  Never any dropouts from snow or rain.  Solid 80-90% signal strength from Milwaukee channels here in Sussex.

Cancelled TWC 20 months ago and haven't looked back.  Don't regret it a bit.  I've saved several thousand dollars, which certainly went towards more important things.  

What I can't get from cable I've generally been able to stream from the Internet.  Roadrunner runs $40/month and serves me well.  About 25% of my "TV" watching is on my trusty laptop.

Frankly, cable and sat TV services just seems like a poor bargain.  They nickel and dime you for everything.  If I could pick the dozen or so cable channels I really care about, I might pay $30/month for that.  But there doesn't seem to be any interest from any of the sat or cable companies to provide that service.  So it's free OTA TV for me.

*Bill

[CrashCamomilli]

Yeah, after 8 years, my wife and I decided to finally dump TWC, we have kept our RR turbo service though.

We have been finding that most of the shows we watch can be had OTA, and many of the cable shows we watch can be streamed through our media pc.  

To be honest, the cost dosen't really bother me, but at the clip that rates have been rising, and the limited number of channels i actually watch, TWC just dosen't seem like a good value anymore.  Cable's line up, just seems so bloated, and I have a growing respect for companies that are able to make a profit off of a flat rate structure without addon's that pass on or distort the true cost of a product.

The ability to stream alternative programming directly to my TV at a reasonable bitrate, from the media providers, seems like the tv on-demand promise nearly fufiled.  

I think it will be interesting in the longterm as more people find they can get their cable-tv through road-runner, and the providers attempt to enforce bandwidth caps.

[TPK]

We have been finding that most of the shows we watch can be had OTA, and many of the cable shows we watch can be streamed through our media pc.  

Would you mind sharing some examples of which cable shows specifically you are streaming, and from what source(s) you are using to stream from???

[Bebop]

Probably from torrents.

I can stream anything from my Mac to the PS3