[quote=rent4now][quote=Diego Mamani][quote=Hatfield]apparently if you have cable internet, they don’t have a way to turn off the analog cable TV channels. So we’re still get 60 or 70 channels for free.[/quote]
Don’t you need some kind of box or decoder in order to get those freebie channels to your TV?[/quote]
I just called cox and they said if you only have the internet plan that your basic cable will not work. I pay $15/month for your basic 4-11 channels. Looking for alternatives like rabbit ears but those look so “ghetto”.
:([/quote]
Hmm, I’m not sure what to say other than “well of course they would tell you that.” If I was in their shoes, I would tell people that too.
Here’s what I know: When I finally got around to canceling cable, I had the cable box on, and within a minute of making the phone call, Cox had sent the box some sort of packet to disable it. I returned the cable box and have not paid for cable TV in over two months. I posted this on FB and someone mentioned that if you have cable internet, they don’t have a way to filter out all the analog channels. So for grins I plugged the coax cable coming out of the wall into the back of the TV, and whaddya know? I used the auto-program function on the TV to go find all the TV channels it could, and it found around 80 or so. I am guessing these are all or most of the basic cable channels.
I had no real objection to putting up an antenna. My issue was that this old TV can’t receive digital broadcasts, and we never bothered to get a digital broadcast adapter box when they were practically giving them away. Now they’ve gotten oddly hard to find. They’re like $100 on Amazon or eBay, but for $400 you can get a whole new LCD TV with a digital tuner built-in.
But I didn’t do any of those things. The whole point of this exercise was to stop spending money on television.
