Poll: Do you have cable?

[Deleted]

DH would die without ESPN, we definitely have cable.

[happycamper]

I cringe every month when I open our satellite bill, but sports are too damned important in our house for us to get rid of satellite. Oh well, it's our form of entertainment.

[thedash]

Yes we have a medium package for two TVs. But we justify it because we very rarely (basically never) go out to movies, bars, fancy restaurants, etc. Grilling some food and watching Travel Channel is a common evening in our house.

[juris11]

Yes-I watch a LOT of tv. We also have Netflix streaming on H's Playstation, but we cut the dvd part when they started charging more.

[dreamsofdesign]

We do have cable. Right now we have the package that includes all channels except the specialty ones (so we have hundreds of channels), but normally we only have the most basic package. We switched for 6 months because to go from the most basic package to one of the biggest packages cost only a couple of dollars more per month. When this promo runs out, we'll go back to basic cable.

[megs0]

We pay $73 for both cable and internet. We also have Hulu Plus and are debating about adding HBO so that we can access HBO Go and watch Girls.

[whitepicketfence]

May 11, 2012 2:22:34 GMT -5 thinklikeajellyfish said:

We just cancelled last week. Finances have been a little tight lately, and I realized that most of what I watched was on hulu+ and netflix. So far so good.

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[partiallysunny]

No, I have satellite

[bettybunker08]

We gave up cable about 3 years ago. Best decision we ever made. We have a digital receiver and get all the network stations, plus quite a few random stations - I'd say we probably get 20 channels.

Most of them are crap, but we can usually find something to watch during the week on networks and on PBS (we get 4 different PBS stations) on weekends.

[definitelyO]

we have cable and I think DH would leave me if I suggested cutting cable. (okay not really - but....).
we have cable, HD package, DVR, and a few other things I think.... it's expensive.

[everam01]

We have DirecTV.

Honestly, if there was some way we could watch college football on the TV without having cable or satellite, I would do it in a heartbeat. I can live without Toddlers & Tiaras.

[mollybrown]

May 10, 2012 19:36:37 GMT -5 rex said:

We've tried living without cable (for 2 whole days) and couldn't do it.

Ditto, except that I didn't even last 24 hours. I think we're getting robbed by Comcast, but I've learned to live with it.

[purplecow0206]

We have basic cable, but that's it. We've had it at that level for probably a year now and while I'd love to have Food Network and HGTV, that's about all I really miss. Even though I just started a new job, I don't see us getting it again any time soon.

[far2529]

We suspend our DirectTV each year the day after the super bowl until the first college football game of the season. So we have cable 6 monts of the year and are without 6 months of the year. My husband would die without the BTN during college football season.

[Deleted]

I have cable AND HBO. But I wish I could figure out how to have just on-demand. I don't ever watch shows when they're on and I like options.

[fashionx]

I've never had cable my whole life. My parents didn't believe in the extra cost (though they could afford it I'm sure if they wanted). So I grew up with 5 channels on TV. And a small TV at that too. I didn't think much of it, except I would watch TV or movies at friends' houses.

And now, living in the Chicago area there's a bunch of local free channels, and H and I don't watch a lot of TV, or we watch network TV shows mostly. So we never added cable. We now watch a lot of stuff online, and we have both Hulu and Netflix for stuff that isn't free. We've never had a problem getting the shows we want so we're happy doing without.

[katrana]

No cable here. We do have Boxee though (connects to the internet and pulls down shows from their websites or hulu or wherever they are hosted). The only thing I miss is HGTV and it isn't worth the money for me to watch that.

[moopoint]

I have a roku box and subscribe to netflix and hulu. no cable.

[keweenawlove]

We just switched to DirectTV. DH really wanted it so we could get the NHL network. At least he doesn't like to splurge on much.

[sawyerthedestroyer]

If we didn't love GoT on HBO so much I'd happily cut it. I rarely watch television and usually if the tv is on I'm streaming something on Netflix for the kid.

[Deleted]

I could easily live without it. DH, however, insists on watching sports in HD.

[chessie]

Cable is one thing I would never mess with! DH loves his sports too much.

[njohnson1972]

Yes, plus we pay for HD, DVR, premium channels, and Spanish channels. Our bill is huge. But we tend to stay in on the weekends on watch movies. I figure it is cheaper than the 2 of us going to the theater more frequently.