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pros/cons of dropping cable TV service
GameOver:
I'm considering dropping my FIOS TV service in favor of a combination of over the air HD, Netflix and Hulu Plus. Last night I hooked up $10 rabbit ears to 1 TV & got ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox & PBS in HD.
Has anyone done this experiment? What are the pros/cons? I'm not a sports fan so no issues there. One concern is streaming a movie to my TV while playing an MMORPG...any bandwith considerations? Also dont believe two people could watch 2 different TV's and both use Netflix or Hulu at the same time?
Any feedback is appreciated!
jrose78:
I have comcast and only pay for internet and the basic abc,nbc,cbs, fox (can't get over antenna. I am to far away) . The way comcast works this is if you don't get the basic channels then you are not bundling and internet will cost more.
So I have:
Basic, Basic cable
Internet
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Hulu Plus on PS3
Netflix Ps3
Amazon VOD Prime PS3
cable is like $62.00 with taxes and stuff
Hulu PLus like $8 or $9
Amazon Prime $6.59 or so a month
Netflix $8 or $9
and that's it... Downside is that you use a lot of bandwidth and comcast allows 250 gigs a months . I have been as high as 180 or 200gigs. A Netflix high def movie is a lot and vudu hdx is even more. Prob like 8 gigs a movie or something around that. Hope this helps
Since you have fios I am not ever sure if you have a cap on your data? .If you stream a movie it will use at most 8 mbps and your connection is prob like 12-20 mbps so you should be fine.
P.S. Checked a netflix blog and it said "Currently, our top HD streams are about 4800 kilobits per second" so even less than I thought
CheffoJeffo:
--- Quote from: GameOver on April 11, 2012, 01:27:14 pm ---Also dont believe two people could watch 2 different TV's and both use Netflix or Hulu at the same time?
--- End quote ---
We often run Netflix on 2 or 3 different devices at Casa Cheffo without problem.
Mysterioii:
I am really close to dropping it, I love my TV in general but there is so much crap on now, it just pains me to pay what I'm paying. I don't care much for sports at this point in my life, and I get my news from the web. The few shows I tend to watch are on Hulu the next week. BUT... the one thing that's kept me from dropping it is that my little girl loves PBS Sprout, and apparently that's a cable/satellite-only service (there is Sprout Online, but that just has little excerpts from the shows). Yeah there is regular PBS over the air but many of the kids shows aren't the same. I'd feel like a real dick dropping cable and getting rid of the one channel she loves, and most of the shows are educational so I think they're relatively good for her (well, as good as TV can be...)
Trip:
The real downside to a lot of streaming services as providers figure out people are switching they have really begun to restrict what you can watch on devices like PS3 and Xbox, you almost need a comp connected to your TV to get everything good. Hulu really restricts a lot of what I can watch on my Xbox and ipad vs my imac.
It's BS.
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