Comments on: Lower Cable Bill, More Services: How I Did It

By: Baby Steps Towards Self Sustainability

Baby Steps Towards Self Sustainability — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:24:05 +0000

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By: Dallas Dollars

Dallas Dollars — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:27:05 +0000

If i’m not mistaken Dish has free over the air codes that you can input in the box to have all channels.

Don’t quote me, but I’ve heard that around the office.
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By: Dallas Dollars

Dallas Dollars — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:25:18 +0000

I’m gonna try those suggestions! I was so frustrated with my service provider that I was considering disconnecting the cable and just hook my tv up to my cpu and watch the shows on hulu. Hopefully I can make your tips work for me!!

By: Wojciech Kulicki

Wojciech Kulicki — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:04:30 +0000

Where we live (SW Florida), dish service is notoriously bad during the summer because of daily thunderstorms (usually right when you get home and want to watch TV). Supposedly, they are now “99% reliable” but I have yet to hear about it from friends.

I really wish there was more local competition between cable companies, but unfortunately Comcast is it for now.

By: TDubb

TDubb — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:56:49 +0000

I live in Los Angeles, California and pay $72 for a cable high-speed internet and standard cable tv package from Time Warner Cable. It has been at that rate for over 3 years now for us. $72 is better than $95 if you ask me. And Time Warner throws in the HD channels for free. We have 1 DVR. We can’t get dish because of where we live, but having said that I don’t know why anybody wouldn’t first go for Dish or DirecTV before looking at rip-off cable.

By: Sindy

Sindy — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:59:03 +0000

Wow – good suggestions. We’ll have to try it. I left my job with the state of CA – decreased pay. We have been paying 198.00/mo and its hard to swallow! I’m glad I found this. Thanks!

By: TexasT

TexasT — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:59:25 +0000

We were using the DVR and HD service from Time Warner, but we weren’t watching but a handful of shows. With my son watching Netflix streaming to the laptop, I didn’t see the need to even have cable. It was a “nice to have”.
So today, we use an HD antenna and get all the local stations (in HD), and anything we miss, we can watch it on any number of online websites: Hulu, NBC, Fox, etc.
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Sat, 06 Feb 2010 03:02:45 +0000

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By: Wojciech Kulicki

Wojciech Kulicki — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:20:15 +0000

I think Cable TV may experience a slow and painful death, as we consume more and more of our videos online. But there is still a good segment of the population (at least for now) who wants to watch their shows on the big screen and is willing to pay for it.

I’m curious to see how that evolves…

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:17:46 +0000

I used to have Time-Warner Cable. They advertise “free HD”, but 3 months after the conversion, they changed it so you could only have free HD if you paid for the cable box. I had never had to have a cable box before, so this would have effectively doubled my bill. I dropped them and started using an antenna, and I’m completely happy having one fewer bill!
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