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In reply to the discussion: Cord cutting accelerates with millions more expected to leave pay TV for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon [View all]LisaM
(27,863 posts)70. Because it's the principle of the thing...
I also live in an apartment where DirectTV is not an option, but even if that weren't the case, their not automatically providing local TV no matter what would be a deal breaker for me.
Antennas don't work everywhere either, we spend some time in a cabin on an island and I did buy an antenna so I could watch a game, and it got zero signals from anywhere except two shopping channels - in Chinese - from Canada. Taking TV off publicly-owned airwaves was something I vehemently disagreed with, but apparently my voice counts for nothing. I called the antenna company and they told me I was SOL, there were no receivable digital signals that I could pick up.
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Cord cutting accelerates with millions more expected to leave pay TV for Netflix, Hulu, Amazon [View all]
underpants
Jul 2018
OP
Our eighty year old parents sometimes talk about television like that... "Did you watch...?"
hunter
Jul 2018
#33
On the other hand television and radio as sources of entertainment has been
cstanleytech
Jul 2018
#55
cable providers who also provide internet will start throttling and jacking up prices
msongs
Jul 2018
#2
They can go right ahead and cut the cord. With federal net neutrality in the dust bin I'm sure
Afromania
Jul 2018
#60
I would gladly pay a couple of bucks for a dedicated NBC news app that had live
JCMach1
Jul 2018
#47
We are trying to do the same thing how do you use Roku as a cable converter ?thanks in advance
uponit7771
Jul 2018
#29
AT&T sends me like 10 Direct TV emails a fucking week. Haven't had cable
Guy Whitey Corngood
Jul 2018
#25
The streaming services like Netflix and HULU are in conflict with the Hollywood Unions
disenfranchised
Jul 2018
#69
but you can time your subscription... I keep Amazon all the time... Alternate Netfix and Hulu
JCMach1
Jul 2018
#81