We actually got rid of cable a few years ago and have never looked back. ![]() The only downside is a couple of shows we love (Burn Notice comes to mind) won’t let you watch online unless you sign in with you cable provider info…so we have to wait for a few things. I would say we watch a little less TV now and it has made us more deliberate with our choices. It isn’t that simple – I have to be more mindful of what I watch now. The only thing I miss is the mindless flipping through on a Sunday afternoon and finding a good movie you haven’t seen in ages (that happened twice a year?) and the sitting down for 20 minutes while I ate lunch and just flipping on HGTV or a morning talk show. The kids miss Disney and complain about that once in awhile but they can always find something to watch. ![]() We have Netflix streaming, Hulu+, and Amazon Prime for a total of less than $30 a month. I’m probably the one who misses it most but even I stopped complaining once we got Amazon Prime (I missed my cooking competition shows and House Hunters – Amazon has those). This just goes to show that everything you need to know you can learn from John Prine. Have you ditched cable and lived to tell about it? I want to hear your success stories – and what you did with all the money you saved! So now I’m trying to figure out alternatives – we already have a Roku, Netflix and Amazon Prime, but what else do we need? Hulu+? Apple TV? Is there such a thing as an antenna for local channels any more? I don’t know how much I thought it cost, but I sure didn’t think it was that much! So now I’m totally on the “It’s rotting their brains!!!” bandwagon because, come on, that is a lot of freaking money. I personally couldn’t have cared less if we have cable or not – that is, until I looked at our bank statement and saw how much we pay for it. Paul Drake actually had been a real life action hero: a skin-diving underwater demolition expert in WWII.Īs noted, there are less than 1/5th of the PM episodes on the (incompetent and annoying) CBS website, but there are four full seasons of the quite different Ironside series (also starring Burr as a completely different character type) on the much more competent Hulu.Last week, Andy and a couple of his friends had a conversation about how ridiculous it is that we spend so much money on cable TV and how it is just rotting our kids’ brains. Interestingly, his only slightly more glamorous looking series costar, William Hopper, who played P.I. ![]() And his mostly unheard but oft-seen character in Rear Window in '54 was just a couple years before the series started in '57. I've seen him in a lot of old movies - but I don't think I ever saw him play anything other than a bad guy. Speaking of Perry Mason, Raymond Burr must have been a bit of a stretch in the original casting of the TV series. That said, I could identify with Boone in a way I never could with Franz. Well, you know, after I wrote that I started thinking about guys like Edward James Olmos - or even Dennis Franz. Yep, Boone, Jack Palance, Evyline West.whoops, that wasn't TV! And their interface is infuriatingly obtuse. WARNING: CBS.com runs their commercials as high as 3 times as loud (RMS average - a whopping 4x peak) as the program material. ![]() A real heartbreaker - for a while they had a couple seasons of Have Gun Will Travel but one day it was just gone. (There are also 40 B&W Perry Mason 1 hour shows on CBS.com - but CBS.com is an incredibly incompetent website. I told them I got tired of hearing about how everyone else was only paying $30 for 'net from them and they said, Oh, well, do you mind committing for 18 monts ? There's a moving out of service zone release clause, so WTH not? Brings the whole thing down to $35 with the tax stack.)īetween Hulu and Youtube and my own collection, I've had almost zero withdrawal (about the only nightly shows I'd been watching were Law & Order and Criminal Intent - and they had really drifted south in recent years). (I had to sweet talk them into looking for a 'deal' for me to get the connection cost down from ~$50 to ~$30. It seemed time to give up cable TV, though I kept the net connection. had a great picture, though resolution lagged, of course). My CRT TV died just as the digital switchover was happening (damn Luddite TV. YouTube is, indeed, one of the greatest cultural innovations of the century. I like watching DVDs and, the greatest channel ever, youtube.
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