I discontinued cable TV a year ago. You cannot believe the amount of tension that has disappeared from my life and I have the extra time to do better things.
I dropped Cable because 1) it is far to expensive. 2) they had no package that would allow me to buy only what I wanted to have. For example PBS, sports and the local news and weather – including football. 3) the news media has gone insane … both the right and the left are crazy. 3) All the popular show on the TV are designed to appeal to the very lowest IQ.

I feel just great not having TV. And I have an extra $100 A MONTH to play with.
P.S. Ive been reading a book a week.

My family, friends and I sit at the dinner table … and TALK.

This is just great. I don’t ever want to have a TV again.
I’m starting to feel like a human being once again as opposed to a robot.

Canadian, i have cut the cable as of the end of this month, in Canada i was paying $80 per month for analog cable, they messed up some of the channels which is what made me cancel, however that has been fixed, i just don’t want to pay that much anymore, if it was 1/2 i would still be a customer.

We jettisoned our cable over five years ago when we realized that we were paying about a $100 per month (Started at about $55 and increased to that much in a few months) for a service we seldom used, beyond watching the local news (did not need cable for that) and the occasional movie or documentary. The best thing about having cable was that we could get a few PBS channels (then we found we could do that using a good antenna). We own three TVs but have not watched TV in over three years. My kids use them to play the Wii or as a computer screen for their video games. We have a Netflix account and are thinking of adding HuluPlus to fill in the gaps in Netflix, so to speak. I just wish that Netflix had a multiple or simultaneous watch option, or that they would stream more of their programs and ditch the DVDs. For that I would pay a few more dollars a month. Either way, it is cheaper than cable, we can choose what we watch and when we watch, and we can take it with us.

Comes down to costs for many and why pay for something when you can get something the same or very similar for free?

I dropped cable a number of years ago and am so glad to not have that hefty bill anymore. SO much money saved!!! Very happy with online options, although not impressed with Hulu+. Netflix works for me. Where I live, there is only one cable choice, (Cox), and they are just awful. Which is why I severed my service on all fronts, then to discover the internet options. Entirely due to pure frustration with their whole game and having to pay so much to be so unsatisfied. Who needs it? No land line, love my (Sprint service) smart phone…if cable dies, I won’t be there crying.

We cut cable TV in September, but kept cable Internet. We bought a $125 HD antenna and now have a *much* better picture. We already had Netflix but cut it back to a cheaper plan, added Hulu Plus and Roku and were already Amazon Prime members. We weren’t sure how we’d like not having the convenience of cable, but now we like this setup a lot better since we choose what and when to watch, and it’s about 1/4 what we were paying for cable TV alone.

Cancelled our satellite service a couple of years ago and just cancelled our land-line phones, opting for a VOIP line saving hundreds each year. Satellite service was up to over $85 per month for less than 10 hours per week of programming. In the current economy, that is something we can do without. NetFlix is interesting but lacking and over-the-air broadcasts are too commercial and overtly sensational. Best news source is the DrudgeReport.

Well for starters I will cut the cable becuase it’s useless for the most part. By the time I get to the information I want I have to go through dozens of commercials.
Internet streams are getting to be the same way.
When Internet becomes too commercialized I will cut that too.

How timely! I just ordered our Roku box yesterday as our cable bill recently jumped from $117 a month to $172 a month!!!

Go with BT fibre, if you can get it. Othwewise, fastest unlimited DSL your line can handle. Deals abound, and there is plenty available now on Freeview. With what you save, you can even upgrade to one of the new HD Freeview boxes!!

We cut our cable down to basic channels a year ago, saving $70 per month, including getting rid of our DVR. We use a mini-PC connected to the Internet to watch all TV shows (Clicker.com is a great, free “virtual DVR”)and movies (we use Amazon pay per view because they have the largest movie database). And sports is actually better on the Internet (more camera angles and more information).

People should strongly complain to any backwards companies that are not making their content available on the Internet. After all, if the model of “free” content with advertising doesn’t work for them, then they can charge for it.

We don’t get over-the-air channels, even though we live just north of San Diego, maybe because our condo doesn’t allow an antenna on the roof. I don’t understand why the government didn’t require the local stations to broadcast over the new public medium, the Internet, rather than old-fashioned over-the-air.

The cable companies could survive if they started broadcasting channels over the Internet (“channels”, not just shows) and had the option of subscribing to individual cnannels as well as “make your owwn” bundles. The cable company’s strength is long-standing arrangements for most content, that Netflix and even Google can’t seem to negotiate. But they are gradually losing this power as they are not adapting to the Internet and al-a-carte pricing.

Finally, people, please stop buying DVD’s! It’s backwards and non-environmental.

The internet is the future, the cable and satellite companies had better adapt quickly.