We hear the same exhortation everywhere: cut the cable! Save money! Ditch your cable company and live free! But if you had cable TV during the great DTV switch back in 2009, you probably didn't think to send away for any government-subsidized converter boxes. If you've recently dropped your cable subscription out of rage or frugality, what are your options? Karen wants to know, and hopes that Consumerist readers have some ideas.
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I'm dropping Comcast because their billing department sucks. They have messed up my bill for 3 months and when they finally took the bogus charge off they left the late fee for not paying the bogus charge. Idiots I say idiots.
ReplyDeleteFreedom of choice use it while we still have it ! Obama might take over the Cable company and force everyone to pay for it .
ReplyDeleteget a library card there's nothing but intelligence insulting garbage on TV
ReplyDeleteWalMart still has converter boxes. Dish 500 is the best deal out there.
ReplyDeleteDish is a good deal until it rains or you need something fixed .
ReplyDeleteComcast is the only option we have at our apartment complex, and I sure do hate em, and so true about their billing, I don't even try to dissect it for I get too pissed.
ReplyDeletetedh, what then do you go to if you're dropping comcast? Direct TV or Dish, then you get online and read all the negative remarks about both of those, then what?
ReplyDeletetedh is a cry baby if your cable is the worst of your worry's your doing better than most !
ReplyDeleteI dropped Directv and put up an outdoor antenna to pick up free over-the-air digital television. For movies, I signed up for Netflix. Haven't missed the satellite one bit.
ReplyDeleteYou can't use analog any longer. The Feds took over those airwaves to run their mind control frequency from the cell phone towers.
ReplyDeleteSorry for your loss.
I have Comcast, but bought the digital boxes anyway just in case. Then I was strolling through WalMart the other day and thought I saw a display of them there. The coupon is discontinued, but they still sell the boxes. There's always Ebay, too!
ReplyDeleteI have not had cable in eight years. I refuse to pay for it with all the garbage on television. The above commenter is correct when they say get a library card. I have a digital flat screen and a antenna for the local channels. I get movies from the library or rent from redbox for 1.02. Cable is a ripoff unless someone is homebound and handicapped and can't do anything else except watch television. What a waste of brain the television is.
ReplyDeleteIf it were not for Fox news I would get rid of the dish.
ReplyDeletePeople need to turn off the TV and re learn how to think for themselves .
ReplyDeletePeople get over yourselves.Some of us actually enjoy getting more than 3 channels...
ReplyDeleteI WISH I could just use an antenna but where I live the trees are in the way so I pay thru the nose for DTV