So I got the three in one cable deal a year or two back and I ended up paying about 100 dollars a month initially. Then when the reductions and rebates wore off that ballooned to about $150. So I got rid of most of my cable channels (I pay nine bucks a month for local channels, plus BET and the Golf channel, pretty much two of the most useless channels ever.) I kept my Internet service and my phone. It was actually cheaper to keep some cable channels as opposed to getting rid of it completely, although it looks like I may have been given some incorrect info from my helpful Comcast service provider.( An aside: I was originally told that if I got rid of all my remaining cable channels I would be paying about 110 a month for my two remaining services where if I kept some channels it would be 55 dollars a month for all three services. So I chose option two naively enough. I later found out that my bill would be closer to 80 bucks a month. Like I said: helpful, if you define "helpful" as a lack of accuracy or candor. Looking into Vonage as I type this...)
I have to admit I don't miss cable at all. The reason I don't miss cable at all is that I can pretty much watch all the television I want online. Here are some of the services I found and this is by no means a complete list.
Choose and Watch
Not the usual cable fare but over several hundred channels. Plus free porn. You shouldn't watch it because it repeats too often.
Not the usual cable fare but over several hundred channels. Plus free porn. You shouldn't watch it because it repeats too often.
Hulu
New attempt by Fox and NBC to put most of their television content online. There are shows here that I haven't seen in years and are especially cool to watch at night. Watching the Night Gallery right now.
New attempt by Fox and NBC to put most of their television content online. There are shows here that I haven't seen in years and are especially cool to watch at night. Watching the Night Gallery right now.
Surf the Channel
Doesn't seem entirely legal. Should I be able to watch Jumper or American Gangster online... I'm just not sure.
Doesn't seem entirely legal. Should I be able to watch Jumper or American Gangster online... I'm just not sure.
Smashing Telly
A place to find online documentaries.
A place to find online documentaries.
Better Humans TV
A great place to find bleeding edge science documentaries.
A great place to find bleeding edge science documentaries.
List of Online TV Stations from Zeropaid
Again, not totally legal I'm sure but it's hard to regulate those Asian Youtube stations.
Again, not totally legal I'm sure but it's hard to regulate those Asian Youtube stations.
The Acid Jazz Channel
The best music channel that I've ever made. I play mostly music at my music channel. Crazy huh?
The best music channel that I've ever made. I play mostly music at my music channel. Crazy huh?
And that's not even a complete list. I even found Farscape, one of my favorite science fiction shows. This week, two of the shows that I would have missed, Smallville and South Park (which puts all their shows online anyway.) I found online. Notice I haven't even had to use Bit Torrent yet. To be frank, you can get just about any show you want, including entire seasons from the Pirate Bay and other torrent sites. The legality of this seems to be in question. If you decide to break the law and use torrent to download shows, you might want to keep that to yourself and not mention that on your Facebook or Myspace page.
