We joined the modern age and canceled our TV Dish. Dish had gotten so expensive that it was no longer of value. We bought a new LG tv this past winter and it has 1000 channels on it for free, many of the same ones Dish charges for. We also bought an over the air antenna that brings in 56 channels including our local channels. I was reading Dish is losing 12% of their customers annually and Direct TV is right behind them. I believe though DirectTv bought Djsh. 157 dollars a month doesn't sound like a lot until you realize that's almost 2 grand a year for only a few channels you actually watch and it was a real kick in the pants to find out you can get those few channels you watch for free.
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McKenzie Penworks
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If you're relatively close to bigger cities the HD Antenna is tough to be for the regular channels for sure. Unfortunately these days streaming is getting to the point where everyone wants their own separate streaming channel so it might already be cheaper to have Cable/DirectTV than to get all the various streaming services. The whole appeal to them was lack of commercials, etc and now they all have commercials.
Woodchipper
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1,000 channels? I only look at maybe 24 at the most. I don't watch local channels on TV but get news from one station online. So my cable system is a waste of money. If there isn't anything worth watching, I have over 500 books.
Yes 1000" channels, it's crazy. When we originally got DISH, smart tvs weren't really an affordable option yet, so we got DISH, it started out at about 60 a month and was a little cheaper than the cable tv we had. They are pricing themselves into oblivion.
Yeah I'm nit falling into the subscription trap. Most of the time our tv is background noise. I think we'll be happy without DISH.
Ya, when we bought our house here in E.Tx. about 2 1/2 yrs ago, we bought a samsung tv. Has tons of channels on it. We're in the country, so no wifi. But we have phone hotspots. The wife had amazon prime, which saves her a ton of shipping costs for her quilting, and netflix. I have Peacock with my verizon and I pay for paramount +. Our antenna picks up 24 channels from Shreveport, La. No need for cable or dishes. They finally brought fiber optics to our rural area about 7 months ago so now we do have wifi. So I guess for about $35, we get all we need. Besides $50 for our wifi which I definitely would have subscribed to anyway.
GaryMGg
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A Roku device is a one-time purchase—about $35–and has lots of apps with no charge. Many of those have commercials but so does OTA TV.
moke
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Direct TV is loosing a ton of "dish" customers every month but they are actually growing because of their streaming service.....which I have and am a fan of. $100 per month with the sports package, about 150.00 cheaper than cable...
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Smokey S
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We cut the cable somewhere close to 15 years ago. We have Roku, Netflix and Appletv. We put an over the air antenna up 20'. Happy we did, just saying!………Smokey
