OT: just discontinued my ATT uverse service

[Coronita]

Well my contract is up, and my renewal price for the same 200 channels (which I rarely watch) will be $142/month + internet (It’s about $100/month for TV). Uh, that would be a hell no. Loved the service, but the price is ridiculous.

Anyway, switching to dish. $190 channels for like $58/month locked in for 2 years. Hopefully, by then Google fiber will be available in SD.

[spdrun]

What’s wrong with over-the-air TV, NetFlix, and a few of your favorite bootleg sites? That’s under $10/month.

What do you need on sat that can’t be streamed or watched with a good, old-fashioned HDTV antenna? (Recommend the Mohu Leaf series.)

I’ve never paid for TV service (other than for a tenant) in my life.

[moneymaker]

Google Fiber will be offering 3 different levels of service with the lowest one being internet only with speeds of 5M down and 1M up I believe. Similar to the slowest speeds cable offers which is still fast enough to stream HD. The price will be $300 for installation then free for 7 years after that. Can’t beat that right now, question is how long before available. I think all the telecommunications companies are going for contracts right now in order to slow competition and guard customer share.

[Coronita]

I just dropped my ATT uverse internet service too. Switching to time warner.
Same price, just pissed at ATT.

[Coronita]

The choices we have for internet really suck. It’s either ATT uverse, ATT dsl, time warner, or dish satellite (which is slow as hell). Oh, there’s the wireless options too but those are capped.

[spdrun]

Time Warner without TV/phone is under $40/mo for a decent connection.

[no_such_reality]

I’m thinking of dropping DirecTV and Time Warner for internet and going with ATT Uverse (DirecTV) for the bundle and reseting the price. I’d rather just bundle directly with Time Warner, but since I have their internet now, may not be able to. And I would really rather just keep both, but have them reset to intro pricing. I’ve got a lot of long phone calls to make.

[FlyerInHi]

Spd, you’re one of those feared cord nevers.

I agree that antenna for network tv and streaming is good enough. Just hookup a computer to the TV for certain thinks.

[spdrun]

Fun fact: you actually get better quality OTA with an antenna, than for the same channel on cable. Why? Cable companies compress the channels more causing quality loss.

Yepp. I’m literally a “cord never” since I have never had cable TV, not even when growing up. OK, technically I do, but that’s because I’m paying for a tenant’s subscription (with PPV disabled).

[moneymaker]

I think this topic has the potential to run forever, to get the intro pricing you generally have to have not been a customer for 30 days, in many areas I have heard DSL is not available, they, ATT, force you into Uverse instead. With digital only right around the corner many will lose those extra TV’s unless they are willing to pay for an additional box. Most people have or will drop the landline. Cox is doing bundling with their HomeLife security product. I guess it’s as complicated or as simple as you want it to be. Just remember everything is negotiable!

[spdrun]

U-verse actually is fast DSL over copper (VDSL).

Homelife? Lol. I’d rather dry hump a rabid orangutan than give a cable company access to the inside of my home via cameras.

People are really gullible. Wonder how long before they start using the cameras and image recognition software to target ads at the sheep.

[FlyerInHi]

Some people think that antenna is old fashioned, ugly and for poor people.

One of my friends parents insisted they needed cable although they didn’t watch. Eventually he climbed up the roof installed an antenna and tied in to existing cable. They were thrilled because in jersey they could get New York and Philadelphia channels.

I’m sure lots of people are paying unnecessarily for cable.

[abell]

The only downside to cutting cable is lack of live sports. We have cut cable before and my husband missed live sports, so we have cable again. As for using an antenna to get channels, where you live determines what channels you can get (where I live in North County with a rooftop antenna, I’d only get 2 channels).

[spdrun]

Sports on teevee are effing boring. Either go to a game or get outside, join a community league, and PLAY sports.

[Coronita]

It’s Sunday.

Time Warner showed up at 8am today and finished the internet install. Pretty event-less. So I’m back up with internet pretty quickly.

Dish Network showed up at 8:15am and is working on the dish install, which will take more time.

Ironic that Time Warner charged $15 for internet “installation”, and it didn’t seem that difficult.

Meanwhile, dish network is going to be spending considerable more time, and it’s free installation. Go figure.

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