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Semi TV related question. Anyone cut the cord to cable/satellite service? The ONLY thing stopping me is I want HBO/HBO Go (my kids use my subscription also).

I've cut back service, but it's still pretty pricey (for what I get) and am giving Hulu+ a try, (already have Netflix and Amazon Prime) as well as just watching shows directly on the websites. Right now I can plug my computer into my TV for web based TV shows that can't go directly through Hulu etc. Later this month (when Windows 8.1 comes out) I should be able to use the push to TV netgear box and do this wirelessly.

Anyway if it works out and I don't know why it won't I'll probably go all the way and just buy the HBO shows I like, like Game of Throne, Boardwalk Empire etc. Could buy a lot of stuff with the savings from satellite cancellation.

Not a big sports fan and our local news sucks so I'm not losing anything there.

Anywho anyone else done this and if so how did it go? None of my kids plan to ever buy cable service.
 
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Forster said:
Semi TV related question. Anyone cut the cord to cable/satellite service? The ONLY thing stopping me is I want HBO/HBO Go (my kids use my subscription also).

I've cut back service, but it's still pretty pricey (for what I get) and am giving Hulu+ a try, (already have Netflix and Amazon Prime) as well as just watching shows directly on the websites. Right now I can plug my computer into my TV for web based TV shows that can't go directly through Hulu etc. Later this month (when Windows 8.1 comes out) I should be able to use the push to TV netgear box and do this wirelessly.

Anyway if it works out and I don't know why it won't I'll probably go all the way and just buy the HBO shows I like, like Game of Throne, Boardwalk Empire etc. Could buy a lot of stuff with the savings from satellite cancellation.

Not a big sports fan and our local news sucks so I'm not losing anything there.

Anywho anyone else done this and if so how did it go? None of my kids plan to ever buy cable service.
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I used to live in an area where you couldn't get any channels over the air, and cable and satellite was very expensive, so I did without it for years. I just mainly did what you're doing. Watched shows online and rented dvds. Right now I'm renting a room and the owner pays for cable. But, when I move into my own place, I won't be wasting money on cable/satellite. I'll go back to watching online.
 
Brooklyn Nine Nine is so far so great. Luv the cast, especially Terry Crews.

New Girl is still funny this season, Winston's weird ways make me giggle.

Does anyone here watch The Chew? They do mostly non veg dishes, but I still like and watch it. Mario Batali annoys me, he is a total snob.

Orange is the New Black totally hooked me. So good!

And now it's the countdown to Downton....
 
We watched the last ever episode of The IT Crowd last Friday. It wasn't as funny as I remember them, but it was nice nonetheless.
 
Forster said:
Semi TV related question. Anyone cut the cord to cable/satellite service? The ONLY thing stopping me is I want HBO/HBO Go (my kids use my subscription also).

I've cut back service, but it's still pretty pricey (for what I get) and am giving Hulu+ a try, (already have Netflix and Amazon Prime) as well as just watching shows directly on the websites. Right now I can plug my computer into my TV for web based TV shows that can't go directly through Hulu etc. Later this month (when Windows 8.1 comes out) I should be able to use the push to TV netgear box and do this wirelessly.

Anyway if it works out and I don't know why it won't I'll probably go all the way and just buy the HBO shows I like, like Game of Throne, Boardwalk Empire etc. Could buy a lot of stuff with the savings from satellite cancellation.

Not a big sports fan and our local news sucks so I'm not losing anything there.

Anywho anyone else done this and if so how did it go? None of my kids plan to ever buy cable service.
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We got rid of cable about a year and a half ago. (We also don't watch sports.)
We had the least expensive cable option (no premium channels), and were already paying for Netflix. When I called to cancel cable, I also bumped up our internet to the higher tier of service. Overall, we have ended up saving right about $50/month. We previously had an outdated Blu-Ray player which we could stream Netflix through, but recently upgraded to a Roku box.

I recently got Amazon Prime for the faster shipping, and used Prime to watch Downton Abbey when it became an Amazon exclusive. Otherwise, I haven't watched anything on there.

We get decent (not perfect) reception over the air with an inexpensive antenna. Husband wants to get a more expensive digital antenna, but we're not in a hurry. Reception is good enough to get the big networks, so we occasionally watch a network show, and Husband likes to watch the local news in the morning before work.

The big benefit after cost savings, for me anyway, is that tv is now a very purposeful activity. I never just plop myself in front of the tv and channel surf anymore. When I'm watching something, it's because there is something I want to watch. There was an adjustment period, but now I'm really happy with it. It just makes more sense to me to spend $40-50 or however much on a season of one show I want to watch, than to spend hundreds of dollars on a cable subscription for the same show and bunch of junk I don't really want to see.
 
LuvOurMother said:
Does anyone here watch The Chew? They do mostly non veg dishes, but I still like and watch it. Mario Batali annoys me, he is a total snob.
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I tried to watch it a few times just for Carla. She is the only one who I can tolerate on that show and there are even times when I find her a bit annoying as well. One of the most irritating group of hosts ever.
 
RabbitLuvr said:
We got rid of cable about a year and a half ago. (We also don't watch sports.)
We had the least expensive cable option (no premium channels), and were already paying for Netflix. When I called to cancel cable, I also bumped up our internet to the higher tier of service. Overall, we have ended up saving right about $50/month. We previously had an outdated Blu-Ray player which we could stream Netflix through, but recently upgraded to a Roku box.

I recently got Amazon Prime for the faster shipping, and used Prime to watch Downton Abbey when it became an Amazon exclusive. Otherwise, I haven't watched anything on there.

We get decent (not perfect) reception over the air with an inexpensive antenna. Husband wants to get a more expensive digital antenna, but we're not in a hurry. Reception is good enough to get the big networks, so we occasionally watch a network show, and Husband likes to watch the local news in the morning before work.

The big benefit after cost savings, for me anyway, is that tv is now a very purposeful activity. I never just plop myself in front of the tv and channel surf anymore. When I'm watching something, it's because there is something I want to watch. There was an adjustment period, but now I'm really happy with it. It just makes more sense to me to spend $40-50 or however much on a season of one show I want to watch, than to spend hundreds of dollars on a cable subscription for the same show and bunch of junk I don't really want to see.
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I believe this is a continuing trend, but the telecom companies are very stubborn and won't change their business model. If they had a la carte programming, whereby you buy only what you want to see, they might lose fewer customers.

Maybe it's my generation, my age, but I don't mind channel surfing and paying for some channels I probably don't watch, or watch often, because I like the idea of channel surfing and stumbling onto stuff I didn't know about previously and being able to watch them. I like to watch reruns of shows I grew up watching or that aired in the 1950's, and without cable or certain cable channels, I can't do that. I also don't necessarily want to buy episodes or even whole seasons of, say, I Love Lucy just to watch the two or three episodes I like from that series.
 
LuvOurMother said:
Brooklyn Nine Nine is so far so great. Luv the cast, especially Terry Crews.

New Girl is still funny this season, Winston's weird ways make me giggle.

Does anyone here watch The Chew? They do mostly non veg dishes, but I still like and watch it. Mario Batali annoys me, he is a total snob.

Orange is the New Black totally hooked me. So good!

And now it's the countdown to Downton....
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I love New Girl. but I always seem to miss it.

I hate The Chew. The men on there are so arrogant, and always seem to be putting the women down, and making fun of everything they make. Heaven forbid they cook anything healthy or veg*n, that automatically leads to being laughed at and belittled by the guys. Batali is definitely the worst and biggest jackass, but the others join in as well.
 
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So I watched the pilot of Super Fun Night on ABC on Wednesday. My reaction: I liked it! I don't really care that much about the characters or anything much else about the show, but I like Rebel Wilson, she's cute. :) I'm going to continue watching.
 
Amy SF said:
I believe this is a continuing trend, but the telecom companies are very stubborn and won't change their business model. If they had a la carte programming, whereby you buy only what you want to see, they might lose fewer customers.

Maybe it's my generation, my age, but I don't mind channel surfing and paying for some channels I probably don't watch, or watch often, because I like the idea of channel surfing and stumbling onto stuff I didn't know about previously and being able to watch them. I like to watch reruns of shows I grew up watching or that aired in the 1950's, and without cable or certain cable channels, I can't do that. I also don't necessarily want to buy episodes or even whole seasons of, say, I Love Lucy just to watch the two or three episodes I like from that series.
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That's cool. For me personally, if I sit in front of the tv and channel surf, I feel like my time has been wasted. Time I could have been doing something else; there are so many things I feel like I want to do but don't have time for. My cable+internet bill was over $100/month and now it's about $50. Running across an occasional interesting show isn't worth $50/month to me.

Maybe it's also partly a function of where I live and my age. My public library has a LOT of dvds, both movies and tv shows, available for free checkout. (For example, I just checked and they have every season of I Love Lucy available.) And there are so many different ways to watch stuff now, paying for cable just isn't something I want to do.

Again, that's for me personally. If channel surfing is something you enjoy doing, it's all good. :)
 
Calliegirl said:
I hate The Chew. The men on there are so arrogant, and always seem to be putting the women down, and making fun of everything they make. Heaven forbid they cook anything healthy or veg*n, that automatically leads to being laughed at and belittled by the guys. Batali is definitely the worst and biggest jackass, but the others join in as well.
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^This!! It's sad because Carla kicked *** on Top Chef by cooking up some well praised veg*n dishes, but her veg*n meals are always criticized now by Michael and Mario. Michael being the worst imo. He's constantly belittling vegetarians and putting down veganism.

Carla was also a different person on Top Chef. She was extremely bubbly, positive, upbeat, and a very strong woman. The Chew seems to have stole her soul.
 
Amy SF said:
I believe this is a continuing trend, but the telecom companies are very stubborn and won't change their business model. If they had a la carte programming, whereby you buy only what you want to see, they might lose fewer customers.

Maybe it's my generation, my age, but I don't mind channel surfing and paying for some channels I probably don't watch, or watch often, because I like the idea of channel surfing and stumbling onto stuff I didn't know about previously and being able to watch them. I like to watch reruns of shows I grew up watching or that aired in the 1950's, and without cable or certain cable channels, I can't do that. I also don't necessarily want to buy episodes or even whole seasons of, say, I Love Lucy just to watch the two or three episodes I like from that series.
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Lot of them are available online. Don't know if it's a generational thing or no, but I hate, hate channel surfing.

http://www.hulu.com/grid/i-love-lucy?video_type=episode

http://www.hulu.com/grid/the-andy-griffith-show?video_type=episode

http://www.hulu.com/grid/kojak?video_type=episode

http://www.hulu.com/grid/dragnet?video_type=episode
 
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^This!! It's sad because Carla kicked *** on Top Chef by cooking up some well praised veg*n dishes, but her veg*n meals are always criticized now by Michael and Mario. Michael being the worst imo. He's constantly belittling vegetarians and putting down veganism.
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Michael Symon has a vegan son and says he eats meatless at home once a week. I think the show is a good example of the attitudes towards plant based cuisine in the culinary world. The vegetarian contestant on Masterchef last season is also a good example of this.

Btw Mondays chew show was all vegetarian ( and IMO the recipes were not good...)
 
For fans of Sleepy Hollow, after only three episodes have aired, Fox has decided to order a second season of their new hit drama. From thefutoncritic.com:

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[10/03/13 - 10:23 AM]
FOX Awakens Season Two of Hit Drama Series "Sleepy Hollow"
"It's a conceptual blast unlike anything else on television and it all holds together with inventive writing and a fantastic cast," said Kevin Reilly.
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HOT FROM FOX...

FOX AWAKENS SEASON TWO OF HIT DRAMA SERIES "SLEEPY HOLLOW"

Premiere Episode Surpasses 22 Million Viewers Across Platforms

Next All-New Episode Airs Monday, October 7, on FOX

FOX will delve into a second season of the hit action/adventure series SLEEPY HOLLOW, it was announced today by Kevin Reilly, Chairman of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company.

"The show has proven to be a risk well worth taking - it's a conceptual blast unlike anything else on television and it all holds together with inventive writing and a fantastic cast," said Reilly. "I can't wait for fans to experience what else is in store for this fall and even more of this wild ride into Season Two."

The series premiere of SLEEPY HOLLOW earned a 5.0/13 rating among Adults 18-49 and drew 13.6 million viewers after three additional days of time-shifted viewing, making it FOX's most successful fall drama premiere since the debut of "24" in November 2001. In fact, with its encore, post-three-day playback on DVR and VOD, and its streaming on www.Fox.com and www.Hulu.com, the series premiere of SLEEPY HOLLOW has already drawn an audience of more than 22 million. In Week Three, SLEEPY HOLLOW showed increasing retention, delivering a 3.0/8 rating and holding 97% of the prior week's Adults 18-49 delivery.

In the next all-new episode of SLEEPY HOLLOW, "The Lesser Key of Solomon," airing Monday, Oct. 7 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX, Lt. Abbie Mills (Nicole Beharie) and Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) search for Abbie's estranged sister, Jenny (guest star Lyndie Greenwood), who has escaped from a Sleepy Hollow psychiatric hospital. In a game-changing episode, which includes flashbacks to the real Boston Tea Party, Abbie and Ichabod discover more about the evil they are facing.

SLEEPY HOLLOW is a thrilling mystery-adventure drama series spanning two and a half centuries, in which a resurrected Ichabod Crane (Tom Mison) pairs up with a present-day police lieutenant (Nicole Beharie) to save the enigmatic town of Sleepy Hollow - and the world - from unprecedented evil.

From K/O Paper Products in association with 20th Century Fox Television, SLEEPY HOLLOW is co-created by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Phillip Iscove and Len Wiseman ("Hawaii Five-0," "Underworld" and "Total Recall"). The series is executive-produced by Kurtzman, Orci, Wiseman, Mark Goffman, Ken Olin and Heather Kadin. Iscove serves as supervising producer. Wiseman directed the pilot. "Like" SLEEPY HOLLOW on Facebook at www.Facebook.com/SleepyHollowFOX. Follow the series on Twitter @SleepyHollowFOX and join the discussion at #sleepyhollow.
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LuvOurMother said:
Michael Symon has a vegan son and says he eats meatless at home once a week. I think the show is a good example of the attitudes towards plant based cuisine in the culinary world. The vegetarian contestant on Masterchef last season is also a good example of this.

Btw Mondays chew show was all vegetarian ( and IMO the recipes were not good...)
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Is his wife vegetarian too?

That's disappointing about the vegetarian recipes. Shitty vegetarian and vegan recipes on tv make veg*nism look bad. :(

Walking Dead returns in less then 2 weeks!! Cannot wait!!
 
I just watched Tuesday's episode of Brooklyn Nine-Nine on Video on Demand. That show just keeps getting better and better. :D
 
Dexter. I just watched the series finale.:fp: It was a terrible and unsatisfying ending to a really brilliant show.
 

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