We’ve been discussing cancelling our cable for weeks now. It’s probably nothing.
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You still have cable? Get rid of it for a couple of months to see if you miss it. Bet you won’t
doesn’t this include subsidized media companies like CBCpravda .
you don’t get more for a billion four .
I haven’t cancelled mine, but I wouldn’t get it again if I moved and there was any decent number of over the air channels.
NO ONE has Cable anymore!
Got rid of the cable, and used part of the saving for higher internet speeds.
The cable model will erode, and higher internet speeds will eventually take over.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
We ditched satellite in favour of Netflix a couple years back. Don’t miss it. Ditched the land line for a VOIP phone last summer. Can’t be arsed to subscribe to a newspaper since all they do is attack my beliefs. I did toss $20 in the Rebel tip jar earlier this year.
I haven’t had cable since 2002 and I don’t miss it. I have uncapped bandwidth and I’d have the $55/month Internet package regardless, so I don’t worry about it. Netflix is eight bucks, Hulu Plus is seven, and the I’m-in-the-US-no-really service that lets me get to Hulu Plus is five. A Chromecast that will play all those is forty bucks. A PS3 that can do that and also comes with a Blu-Ray player and the ability to play video games is about $125 used.
If there’s a cable or satellite provider that can give me that quantity of content on demand for twenty bucks a month and a forty buck setup fee, I’d love to know about it.
Cancelled cable a few months ago and don’t miss it. A friend who works at Shaw says that subscriptions are shrinking in favour of internet growth.
The Fed has really painted itself into a corner with its Keynesian zero-interest rate policy and quantitative easing. Yellen and co. claimed that monetary stimulus would create an economic recovery from the 2008 crash, such that by now we should be able to resume a more normal interest rate pattern. Trouble is, the economy is not recovering, and mere talk of rising interest rates is causing stocks to crater. The only thing that ZIRP has achieved is to addict what’s left of the economy to absurdly low interest rates, which cannot be sustained indefinitely. Withdrawl from this policy is going to make the economy look like a junkie trying to get off of heroin, cocaine and crystal meth simultaneously.
I’ve wanted to ditch Shaw for about a year or two now but the wife won’t give up the bundled land line until the kids are older. Fair enough.
What I find interesting is how slow the cable companies are to adapt. No price reductions to gain customer loyalty, gimmicky Netflix-crushers like Showmi, $7 HD movies On-Demand and still no per-per-channel options.
I’m sure it’ll be like when I left Telus. They’ll be offering me all kinds of incentives only after I actually cancel.
Our household has been TV free for one year now … love it.
No cable. No TV. No newspapers.
Why? The ‘entertainment’ is vapid and soul-destroying. The lies (by omission and commission) are nothing more than propaganda. The editorials are so in-the-tank I can’t stomach them.
Case in point, when is the last time you witnessed any investigative journalism that deeply probed government debt and borrowing? From whom does government borrow? Where does the interest go? Why are banks not screaming that government borrowing and indebtedness are putting the global economy at risk of a grande default and collapse? Through whose hands will carbon taxes flow? How much will stick to them versus flow-through?
Let the statistical wizards correlate declining revenue with declining advertising “impressions”.
You should check into it. I felt the same but got sick enough of my satellite bill to cancel it. I got a Roku box which has a ton of free content (and Netflix for 8$/mo a must have with a 17 yr old daughter) and a good antenna. I get about 25 channels…over half in HD. All the local sports and news I need. If there is a show I ‘must’ watch, I pull it off a torrent usually a couple days after it’s released.
All in, 250$ for hardware and 8$/mo for netflix…I was paying 120/mo for Shaw Direct.
No cable. No TV. No newspapers.
Why? The ‘entertainment’ is vapid and soul-destroying. The lies (by omission and commission) are nothing more than propaganda. The editorials are so in-the-tank I can’t stomach them.
Case in point, when is the last time you witnessed any investigative journalism that deeply probed government debt and borrowing? From whom does government borrow? Where does the interest go? Why are banks not screaming that government borrowing and indebtedness are putting the global economy at risk of a grande default and collapse? Through whose hands will carbon taxes flow? How much will stick to them versus flow-through?
Let the statistical wizards correlate declining revenue with declining advertising “impressions”.
Rarely watch TV, but I am still under the impression that we have to have some kind of service in order to get high speed internet. Where do I find a high speed internet service in Alberta that is not provided by the cable company or telephone company, and will still allow me to use my VOIP phone?
I use and highly recommend teksavvy dot com. They also provide VOIP phone service and you need have neither existing cable nor phone. I don’t; there’s a small additional charge for that because they can’t piggyback on the existing lines, but it’s
I have never had cable and apparently never will. Never had a cell phone and don’t miss that either.
Been sans cable for 13+ years. The money I’ve saved. Oofah.
Here in BC, I get my landline phone and internet from Primus Canada – for about $50 per month. Long distance is Five Cents a minute anywhere in Canada and the USA. I found out about them through Costco.
I had Telus for years; but all they did was keep raising the rates – my VERY, VERY slow internet and phone cost between $90 and $100 a month, and it kept going UP for the same crappy service, and long distance was 14 Cents a minute.
I cancelled the cable system when the CRTC short changed the Canadian public by refusing the SUN network common carrier capability. I had Netflix for about three months till I realized how little content there was compared to what is available on the market through free multimedia sources. I’m glad to hear the death knell tolling throughout the MSM, but especially so for the CBC, who’s demise cannot happen fast enough.
No cable, since I left Cowgirly in ’98. Last time I watched anything over-the-air on TV was 9/11. Parted out the old TV a few months ago; you never know when some tubes and transformers might come in handy.
I cancelled cable in February and was enjoying the Netflix binges. Then one day in June a personable young fellow phoned and convinced me to take it back. I have been renewing my obsession with HGTV but it was really to get the episodes of “The Last Ship” and “Defiance”. I’ll be cancelling again in September, once those summer series end.
I’ve been Kardashian-free for a couple years now, and I sure don’t miss it.
Cancelled cable. Had to figure out what to do with my thumb. No more flicking up and down the channels looking for something, anything, worth watching. Couldn’t figure out how to get CFL/TSN via Internet for Rider games. Bought the smallest cable package available. $55.00 a month so I could get TSN. I’ll cancel again when football season over.
You still have cable? Get rid of it for a couple of months to see if you miss it. Bet you won’t
doesn’t this include subsidized media companies like CBCpravda .
you don’t get more for a billion four .
I haven’t cancelled mine, but I wouldn’t get it again if I moved and there was any decent number of over the air channels.
NO ONE has Cable anymore!
Got rid of the cable, and used part of the saving for higher internet speeds.
The cable model will erode, and higher internet speeds will eventually take over.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
We ditched satellite in favour of Netflix a couple years back. Don’t miss it. Ditched the land line for a VOIP phone last summer. Can’t be arsed to subscribe to a newspaper since all they do is attack my beliefs. I did toss $20 in the Rebel tip jar earlier this year.
I haven’t had cable since 2002 and I don’t miss it. I have uncapped bandwidth and I’d have the $55/month Internet package regardless, so I don’t worry about it. Netflix is eight bucks, Hulu Plus is seven, and the I’m-in-the-US-no-really service that lets me get to Hulu Plus is five. A Chromecast that will play all those is forty bucks. A PS3 that can do that and also comes with a Blu-Ray player and the ability to play video games is about $125 used.
If there’s a cable or satellite provider that can give me that quantity of content on demand for twenty bucks a month and a forty buck setup fee, I’d love to know about it.
Cancelled cable a few months ago and don’t miss it. A friend who works at Shaw says that subscriptions are shrinking in favour of internet growth.
The Fed has really painted itself into a corner with its Keynesian zero-interest rate policy and quantitative easing. Yellen and co. claimed that monetary stimulus would create an economic recovery from the 2008 crash, such that by now we should be able to resume a more normal interest rate pattern. Trouble is, the economy is not recovering, and mere talk of rising interest rates is causing stocks to crater. The only thing that ZIRP has achieved is to addict what’s left of the economy to absurdly low interest rates, which cannot be sustained indefinitely. Withdrawl from this policy is going to make the economy look like a junkie trying to get off of heroin, cocaine and crystal meth simultaneously.
I’ve wanted to ditch Shaw for about a year or two now but the wife won’t give up the bundled land line until the kids are older. Fair enough.
What I find interesting is how slow the cable companies are to adapt. No price reductions to gain customer loyalty, gimmicky Netflix-crushers like Showmi, $7 HD movies On-Demand and still no per-per-channel options.
I’m sure it’ll be like when I left Telus. They’ll be offering me all kinds of incentives only after I actually cancel.
Our household has been TV free for one year now … love it.
No cable. No TV. No newspapers.
Why? The ‘entertainment’ is vapid and soul-destroying. The lies (by omission and commission) are nothing more than propaganda. The editorials are so in-the-tank I can’t stomach them.
Case in point, when is the last time you witnessed any investigative journalism that deeply probed government debt and borrowing? From whom does government borrow? Where does the interest go? Why are banks not screaming that government borrowing and indebtedness are putting the global economy at risk of a grande default and collapse? Through whose hands will carbon taxes flow? How much will stick to them versus flow-through?
Let the statistical wizards correlate declining revenue with declining advertising “impressions”.
You should check into it. I felt the same but got sick enough of my satellite bill to cancel it. I got a Roku box which has a ton of free content (and Netflix for 8$/mo a must have with a 17 yr old daughter) and a good antenna. I get about 25 channels…over half in HD. All the local sports and news I need. If there is a show I ‘must’ watch, I pull it off a torrent usually a couple days after it’s released.
All in, 250$ for hardware and 8$/mo for netflix…I was paying 120/mo for Shaw Direct.
No cable. No TV. No newspapers.
Why? The ‘entertainment’ is vapid and soul-destroying. The lies (by omission and commission) are nothing more than propaganda. The editorials are so in-the-tank I can’t stomach them.
Case in point, when is the last time you witnessed any investigative journalism that deeply probed government debt and borrowing? From whom does government borrow? Where does the interest go? Why are banks not screaming that government borrowing and indebtedness are putting the global economy at risk of a grande default and collapse? Through whose hands will carbon taxes flow? How much will stick to them versus flow-through?
Let the statistical wizards correlate declining revenue with declining advertising “impressions”.
Rarely watch TV, but I am still under the impression that we have to have some kind of service in order to get high speed internet. Where do I find a high speed internet service in Alberta that is not provided by the cable company or telephone company, and will still allow me to use my VOIP phone?
I use and highly recommend teksavvy dot com. They also provide VOIP phone service and you need have neither existing cable nor phone. I don’t; there’s a small additional charge for that because they can’t piggyback on the existing lines, but it’s
I have never had cable and apparently never will. Never had a cell phone and don’t miss that either.
Been sans cable for 13+ years. The money I’ve saved. Oofah.
Here in BC, I get my landline phone and internet from Primus Canada – for about $50 per month. Long distance is Five Cents a minute anywhere in Canada and the USA. I found out about them through Costco.
I had Telus for years; but all they did was keep raising the rates – my VERY, VERY slow internet and phone cost between $90 and $100 a month, and it kept going UP for the same crappy service, and long distance was 14 Cents a minute.
I cancelled the cable system when the CRTC short changed the Canadian public by refusing the SUN network common carrier capability. I had Netflix for about three months till I realized how little content there was compared to what is available on the market through free multimedia sources. I’m glad to hear the death knell tolling throughout the MSM, but especially so for the CBC, who’s demise cannot happen fast enough.
No cable, since I left Cowgirly in ’98. Last time I watched anything over-the-air on TV was 9/11. Parted out the old TV a few months ago; you never know when some tubes and transformers might come in handy.
I cancelled cable in February and was enjoying the Netflix binges. Then one day in June a personable young fellow phoned and convinced me to take it back. I have been renewing my obsession with HGTV but it was really to get the episodes of “The Last Ship” and “Defiance”. I’ll be cancelling again in September, once those summer series end.
I’ve been Kardashian-free for a couple years now, and I sure don’t miss it.
Cancelled cable. Had to figure out what to do with my thumb. No more flicking up and down the channels looking for something, anything, worth watching. Couldn’t figure out how to get CFL/TSN via Internet for Rider games. Bought the smallest cable package available. $55.00 a month so I could get TSN. I’ll cancel again when football season over.