I have been without cable for two years. The only shows I regularly watch on TV were morning news programs and one or two travel shows. The rest is not worth the money cable is asking. I felt being force fed with limited and mostly bland TV programming. Seriously, just how many shows out there are of LOST caliber-?
Good shows I could wait to see either by streaming or after their DVD release. I recently discovered Blu-Ray and it’s the BOMB. So whether it’s TV or a movie and I could get it in Blu-Ray, I’m good. I’ve been with Netflix since they started. The tons of movies I saw for their monthly fee were just priceless. And they have lots of docus too which are hard to find.
I never paid Netflix more than $20 bucks a month in the past 5 years, until now when I switched to $24 to have access to their Blu-Ray discs. It’s easy to switch plans on Netflix depending on your present frequency of use. That flexibility works for me.
I also needed Hulu to supplement Netflix. Hulu’s cheap monthly fee is unbelievable. $8.00 for thousands of TV shows! As long as you don’t mind waiting. To me, what’s the urgency anyway-? And they have Criterion movies too. Great, just great.
With Netflix and Hulu combined, I feel like having my own expansive film and TV library.
But as for the overall cost, between having just cable and the system I have as an alternative, I’m not sure there’s a big difference. Let’s see, Hulu ( $8 ) + Netflix ( $24 ) + Clear, my IP ( $45 ) = $77.00 Yeah, it’s the same. So I guess the only difference is I’m going buffet style eating from prison food eating.