I decided to go with COX lowest price.  I can get most of that through HD antennae. If I were bilingual I guess I could what an English movie in Spanish but some voice overs don't work for Die Hard, or any Eastwood or John Wayne western.
 
 Netflix and Prime together still cost less than bottom dollar cable.  I hope the cable becomes ala cart. I hear it's that way in Canada.
 
 

If we weren't blocked by trees, I'd get Direct TV.  I had it at my friend's place and there was no comparison in terms of content and price.
 
Of course, right now I don't have any TV (since June) and I haven't missed it.  My friend has a bunch of shows loaded up on a Plex server for me to watch and I haven't even felt like watching those!

craigb
If we weren't blocked by trees, I'd get Direct TV.  I had it at my friend's place and there was no comparison in terms of content and price.
 
Of course, right now I don't have any TV (since June) and I haven't missed it.  My friend has a bunch of shows loaded up on a Plex server for me to watch and I haven't even felt like watching those!

 
 I've hardly watch either.  I have a lot of shows on DVD. Plus I have a MacProVideo and groove3 account.  Hey DAW TV what a concept.  It's not hard to spend hours on youtube,  MLB and NHL also have where you can watch online that cost less than some cable payments.  Most of what is on the major networks doesn't seem very interesting either.

I ditched cable about 2 years ago
It's the only way I can visit the deals forum and get a lick in on a deal every once in a while.
 
 
Kenny

I'm also about to give up on cable TV (although the internet/cable TV package has the best price). I've decided to go with the Amazon Fire TV stick.....$39.99 and it's a done deal. No monthly cable bills....
 
If you have Amazon Prime, it gives you a lot more content.
 
 https://www.amazon.com/All-New-Fire-TV-Stick-With-Alexa-Voice-Remote-Streaming-Media-Player/dp/B00ZV9RDKK

kitekrazy1
 I decided to go with COX lowest price.  I can get most of that through HD antennae. If I were bilingual I guess I could what an English movie in Spanish but some voice overs don't work for Die Hard, or any Eastwood or John Wayne western.
 
 Netflix and Prime together still cost less than bottom dollar cable.  I hope the cable becomes ala cart. I hear it's that way in Canada.
 

It's not quite "ala cart" up here, but better than it was. You can pick and choose a lot better than in the past.  However, it's still insanely expensive.
 
2 years ago, i cancelled my cable and bought a $50 HD antenna.  One of the smartest entertainment-related choices i've made.  I get my morning news on the antenna, along with a couple of TV shows.  The rest is Netflix.

Hi,
 
Having worked for a cable company for 12 plus years, I am not fully qualified to talk, but I will stand behind the cable company, before I will stand behind the folks that are causing the issues, and they are the likes of ES__, Di____ and many other "conglomerates" that force you to take two or three other channels of theirs in order for them to satisfy their "commercial" contracts.
 
In other words, you can not get just ES__, the main channel ... you have to get the others with it, otherwise ES__ their firms will not be able to justify the expense and the commercial backlash, for not showing the commercials on 4 channels, instead of one, and the advertisement said you get the second set and third set of commercials for free! You got sucker punched!
 
The other issue I have is how some of these conglomerates are using some of the religious shows as a PSA, and that should be stopped, and not considered a PSA ... that is a preference and has nothing to do with a "public service".
 
The advent of pay as you go, and a la carte is interesting for some folks ... who get what we want, so to speak, but in the end, we don't find out anything else is going on ... as if we needed to these days, with the internet! 
 
A LA CARTE will come alive, when all of these companies start selling their streaming on their own, and at that point, a cable company could be in trouble ... because you won't pay twice for the same thing. However, you still need the feed, unless ... here comes the major part of it all ... the FCC allows wireless to be served in way out there USA ... where 30% of American homes can not get cable due to the wiring requirements (over 75-100K per block!), and most Dishes are not pheasable as there is no one to set them up and fix them. On that day, TV will finally change, but I bet this will still be 25 to 30 years down the line and by that time, COM____ will probably have been busted up like that one phone company was!
 
Streaming is the next "cable" ... TV itself will die off since TV and Internet will become the same thing, and that is a problem for cable companies, some of which are still using different technologies for both aspects, and they are not putting these together, which is one of the issues with streaming for many cable providers ... they simply don't have the bandwidth to carry it, and too much of it, will slow the network down without the bandwidth.
 
Something like that ... this model is not accurate and includes some opinions.
 

If I could overcome my "need" to watch the NFL, NCAA & MLB (with occasional NHL) I would cut off cable and entertain myself with youtube and other things.
 
Tough talk from someone on the hook huh. 
 

As soon as GOT is over, I will cut the cord.
 
My wife will not let me before that.
 
JR

Hi,
 
In some ways, the cable company is not really the issue ... they are the ones spending nearly 100K PER CITY BLOCK ... or more ... to wire things, and somewhere down the line you have to pay for that, and a lot of cable companies have issues on that area.
 
Ex: Cox and Charter used to have the same number of customers (before the TW and Cablevision thing), but Charter had something like 3x the mileage in wiring that Cox did not have. So you can see how the profit margin changes ... and Comcast, has an even smaller margin for mileage since they only do big cities ... which could be called, just a cash ___!
 
The solution is in the "source" of the problem ... in some ways, cable was 40 years ago, the great helper in bringing to people, a lot of the rest of the world ... specially in places like America ... all of a sudden, VietNam was not that far away, and neither was Europe. But at what cost? It is not a wireless service!