On 10/12/2018 9:37 AM, True North wrote:

Cable sucks and is expensive. Young people don't want it. My s9ns just stream what they want on their computers.
Just recently a competitive competitor to our provider offered us a deal we couldn't refuse so we changed. The pod providers retention dept called and admitted they could't compete. Then when taking the old equipment back to the store...the old guys pulled out the hard sell...offering to beat our new provider by $15.00 per month. I was a bit ****ed so we said forget it...we've changed for two years unless we're unhappy with the new service. I feel sorry for anyone who doesn't at least try to negotiate with the pirates.


Problem where we live is that Comcast is the only game in town for
Internet service and you need it to stream anything.

The cable TV portion of our monthly bill is very inexpensive for
"enhanced" basic service. The largest part of the bill is for Internet
service. I am not a big movie watcher, so I don't need a bunch of movie
channels. The cable service we have gives us all the Red Sox and
Patriots games plus things like the History Channel, Discovery Channel,
cable news like MSNBC, Fox, CNN, all the local network channels and
about 100 other channels that I never watch.

Mrs.E. likes movies but she just streams them via Netflix, Amazon, etc.
or orders them "On Demand" occasionally.