i recently moved and havent changed over my service yet.

my next door neighbor is a good friend of mine and im just splitting her internet bill and connecting to her router.

basically its been a week, and i havent missed having cable.


anyone else live without it and not care?

im thinking about just taking them their boxes and saying to turn that shit off.


or i'll continue to pay them like i do with the redbox videos sitting on the coffee table. wait theyre only a dollar right?





[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 7:51 PM. Reason : okay i edited the first time cause i thought i used the wrong "their" so i changed it to "they're" ]

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 7:51 PM. Reason : no i have re-read this and realized i was right the first time. im shitfaced off 7 coronas...which ]

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 7:51 PM. Reason : is pathetic. id make a thread about it, but i cant. ]

5/6/2009 7:39:38 PM

if you are busy enough, you really don't miss it.

5/6/2009 7:40:47 PM

i didn't have a TV at all for the couple of months I lived in NC before going to Iraq. Then I didn't have a TV in Iraq for 6 months, although I'd watch the news on the TV in the ready room once or twice per week. Not that big of a deal...I'm not really a TV person.

5/6/2009 7:41:39 PM

Quote :

"or i'll continue to pay them like i do with the redbox videos sitting on the coffee table. wait theyre only a dollar right?"

hahaha

5/6/2009 7:43:39 PM

I wouldn't miss TV at all, but I would struggle without internet

5/6/2009 7:43:48 PM

thats what im thinking. i have an hd antenna box already cause dish network wanted me to pay 200 bucks for a new hd box +20 bucks a month extra. i said fuck that and waited out my contract with an antenna attached to a shovel. its actually better hd than time warner provides cause its not compressed.

i watch the simpsons, and the office. both free99.

everything else is on hulu or streamed online. id rather watch the news via my laptop on the deck than on the couch.


see thats all it took- two posts to convince me.

thanks

5/6/2009 7:44:38 PM

i mean if you have a favorite show, you can always watch it on the internet. rent movies. read the news in the paper/online/magazines.

the only kicker is maybe sports, but i guess you could just go to a bar or a friends house. but like on saturdays during the nba playoffs when you want to watch like 7 games in a row naked so you can fantasize about lebron james---well, you might miss it then!

5/6/2009 7:45:48 PM

just pick up one of those digital converter boxes and you got the locals covered

everything else you can watch online

5/6/2009 7:46:10 PM

Yeah, my TV is pretty much just a movie player now. I got a converter box like a week ago but basically I haven't watched any TV in the last 6 months. I've been a lot more productive.

5/6/2009 7:47:37 PM

i don't have cable and the only time i miss it is when i want to watch sports at the house and my streams shit the bed. no way i could go without internet though. it's not bad at all without cable though.

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 7:48 PM. Reason : haven't had it for about 7 months]

5/6/2009 7:48:20 PM

i haven´t had tv for 5+ years


i haven´t missed a thing

5/6/2009 7:48:54 PM

I had a customer that bought a computer just to hook up to his TV. He hasn't had cable for months. He just downloads/streams everything on the CPU, and they are all in HD

5/6/2009 7:49:36 PM

^^^what he said.

been about 7 months. doubt ill ever get it again..

5/6/2009 7:50:57 PM

I moved into my new apartment on April 1st. We have roadrunner internet but no cable. We do fine without it. Monday shows like House and 24 are usually uploaded to torrent websites and we download them on Tuesday and watch them then. Family Guy usually takes a while longer but we still watch the new ones just a few days later. Hulu has enough on it to feed our TV addiction. It feels good. Another perk is that cable service comes with fees and taxes while internet doesn't. Our cable service was listed as $49.99 and we get a bill for $49.99 each month with 0 fees and taxes.

5/6/2009 7:53:55 PM

i feel like im cutting edge again. kind of like when i was the only person i knew with just a cell phone and not a landline.


then my parents dropped theirs and i didt feel cool


so i got a MAGICJACK

shits awesome.

billy mays is my voicemail message

5/6/2009 7:54:13 PM

you can get Clearwire for $29.99/mo.

5/6/2009 7:55:16 PM

haven't had cable for 13 months

5/6/2009 7:56:10 PM

a lot of people do this - we just call them poor

5/6/2009 7:59:21 PM

i prefer to be called frugal, thank you very much

5/6/2009 7:59:54 PM

Almost two years without cable now.

I pick up only NBC and PBS in the bedroom, all the local channels in the living room.

I don't miss it at all. I can download any show I want and watch 99% of any sporting event on a free stream or MLB.tv.

Money in the bank.

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 8:09 PM. Reason : ]

5/6/2009 8:08:50 PM

shawty what you think

5/6/2009 8:14:41 PM

bout that

5/6/2009 8:15:18 PM

I know all about math

5/6/2009 8:15:49 PM

Quote :

"i haven´t had tv for 5+ years i haven´t missed a thing"

5/6/2009 8:22:22 PM

a fujimoto was responsible for my captial creations pizza being all soggy the other day...


captain crunch would have been embarrassed

5/6/2009 8:22:40 PM

dammit. I was hoping my Clearwire reference would have riled you up.

5/6/2009 8:25:17 PM

clearwire is dead to me

5/6/2009 8:27:17 PM

I work for them now

so I get to see first hand how they fuck people

5/6/2009 8:28:31 PM

i lived without cable and (my own) internet for a good 6 months before... lots of booze, netflix, and burned DVD's later, I eventually broke down and got cable.

5/6/2009 8:30:58 PM

and then a wife.

5/6/2009 8:31:26 PM

i went off cable 2 years ago, and it's great. We get the basic broadcast channels, which accounts for 80% of our watching anyway. Then most cable I used to watch i get on hulu, like The Daily Show and Colbert.
I do torrent some premium channel shows, but I never subscribed to those channels anyway, so I torrented them even when I did have cable.

We do zero channel surfing, and only watch commercials on hulu.com. You waste so much less time when you don't have 100 channels to flick through only to find you're still not interested in anything

5/6/2009 8:35:25 PM

see thats the key. i lost the "wife"

gone is the dvr filled with mtv reality shows, two ers a day, a bunch of stupid shit, and the random show i would record.

i also hang out on the deck from the time i get home from work until bedtime

by gone i mean on my floor in a box


working for clearwire? you must feel like i did when i rented cars selling insurance and upgrades to poor people who couldnt afford and did need it.

"yeah lemme get that durango with the subwoofer. 300 bucks authorization on a credit card?" "whatttt?"

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 8:43 PM. Reason : .]

5/6/2009 8:36:44 PM

2 months without a job and no unemployment

i took the first thing that came along

it's OK, but I am making less than half of what I am used to making. I have some things in the works though, so it is a pretty good bandaid for the time being.

and yeah, it's pretty frustrating running credit on people for a $29/mo. service when I know they are going to fail and yell at me

[Edited on May 6, 2009 at 8:46 PM. Reason : a]

5/6/2009 8:45:24 PM

haven't had cable for over a year, don't miss it a bit. anything you REALLY want to see you can usually find online anyway. then again i was never a TV fanatic

5/6/2009 8:53:45 PM

the only thing i watched on tv was dailyshow, colbert, southpark, and the news...you can see all the sunday morning news shows online for free, and ds/cr/sp online for free too

i enjoy reading the news more than watching the news anyways

5/6/2009 8:57:00 PM

I'm going to do this when I move in 6 weeks. The only cable show I watch is Intervention, which I can live without. I can catch broadcasts as they come on, in crystal clear HD no less. Anything I miss usually ends up on the network's website anyway.

5/6/2009 8:57:45 PM

When I moved to Raleigh this past August my roommate did not have cable. We still don't, and the only shows I've missed are the HBO/Showtime series (Entourage, Californication, etc.) as well as sports that aren't on the locals (gotta watch my KY Wildcats). This is the first time in my life that I've lived without cable & its not a big deal. But as stated before, hulu is great, as well as the other stations' sites. Give it a try & save some money.

5/6/2009 9:05:11 PM

i can speak the most to this. 4 years no TV. then I went back on it for 3 years. I moved recently (6 months ago) cancelled cable, got rid of the TV. i pay $50 bucks for internet a month ... i use my iMac to watch podcast on iTunes of global news programs and music. if I'm really really bored ... i'll watch hulu.


i have more energy and I noticed I'm more outgoing. KILL YOUR TV ... that's my advice.

5/6/2009 9:35:18 PM

I lived without it for several months. Only thing I missed was the news, the news websites suck here especially during bad weather. We got basic a few weeks ago and I think we've only watched it twice. You begin to notice just how shitty tv is when you go without for a little bit.

Besides we had internet for shows we really liked (Survivor for me, Apprentice for him).

5/6/2009 10:49:11 PM

Considering doing this; moving in a month and I'm not looking forward to spending $100+ every month on cable. Catch is that, to be happy without it, I'd probably need to build an HTPC to be able to watch downloaded shows on the main TV (don't own a laptop and my desktop PC will be confined to the office and has a shittastic 10 year old monitor anyway). Cost up front or cost down the road...hmmm.

5/7/2009 1:42:19 PM

= lots of paper porn

5/7/2009 1:47:32 PM

i haven't paid for cable since freshman year of college when i split the bill with my first roommate

since then, i've stolen cable at all three apartment complexes i lived in

now that i have a house, i can't steal it without climbing up the pole (though i've debated trying to bribe the cable guy), but it's been a year now and i really don't miss it...i just download/stream any non-network shows i want to watch

i like to have noise while i'm working at home, though, and i miss being able to turn on natgeo or discovery or history or animal planet or something and play it in the background

*shrug*

5/7/2009 2:15:07 PM

Hulu/Megavideo/other streaming internet video make having cable pretty much completely unnecessary.

5/7/2009 2:16:52 PM

I never channel surf and really only watch sports and maybe 5 or 6 shows

I could live without it easily, but I've grown up with it and see no reason to change now

The cost isn't prohibiting, and I would hate to have to stream or go to a bar everytime a game was on

5/7/2009 2:19:26 PM

I've been living without cable since I graduated in 04 and am doing fine. When I visit my dad, I watch his cable, but find that with all those options, there is rarely anything on worth watching. I think it is a great money saver not having cable.

5/7/2009 2:20:03 PM

Quote :

"Considering doing this; moving in a month and I'm not looking forward to spending $100+ every month on cable. Catch is that, to be happy without it, I'd probably need to build an HTPC to be able to watch downloaded shows on the main TV (don't own a laptop and my desktop PC will be confined to the office and has a shittastic 10 year old monitor anyway). Cost up front or cost down the road...hmmm."

Two words: Popcorn Hour

5/7/2009 2:33:28 PM

i lived in the dorms for two years and wolf village (aka dorms) for two, so this is the first time i'm having to pay for things like cable, and i've decided that i don't watch it enough to make it worth it.

HOWEVER, i am having to get roadrunner instead of using the building's wireless b/c if i'm not going to have cable i am going to download my shows. also, i'll probably get cable for football/basketball season, we'll see.

5/7/2009 2:47:35 PM

cable is only good for some dvr-ing shows, and filler entertainment and sports

honestly i could live with 12 channels and i'd be ok.

5/7/2009 2:48:41 PM

dropped my dvr box and modem off an hour ago, just hooked my flashy looking antenna.


its a done deal...until basketball season.

[Edited on May 7, 2009 at 3:17 PM. Reason : im becoming retarded]

5/7/2009 3:16:36 PM

I think I would only miss LOST and Daisy of Love...

5/7/2009 3:26:57 PM