My wife and I cut the cord two years ago because we were paying too much for lousy cable service - it got to a point where we had to call the cable company a half hour before we had guests over to make sure we had a signal (our provider had an odd habit of disconnecting our TV service if we went a day or so without watching it; I guess more than a hundred dollars a month wasn't enough for them to just leave it online...)
After a while, we thought we would give Sling a shot, but we recently cancelled it because we don't really use it. Sling works a lot like cable and satellite used to, where you pull up live broadcasts of TV channels. But, it occurred to me that we don't channel surf anymore: we've become accustomed to finding titles we like and watching them when we want to.
They may have tried to adapt to streaming delivery, but I don't they have adapted to the change in our viewing habits...
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So it's kind of like a happy hour special where you pay full price, but you only get a full pint if the brewer paid the bar extra
Can't really say I've seen much of that - is it only "ubiquitous" in Washington D.C.?
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My wife and I cut the cord two years ago because we were paying too much for lousy cable service - it got to a point where we had to call the cable company a half hour before we had guests over to make sure we had a signal (our provider had an odd habit of disconnecting our TV service if we went a day or so without watching it; I guess more than a hundred dollars a month wasn't enough for them to just leave it online...)
After a while, we thought we would give Sling a shot, but we recently cancelled it because we don't really use it. Sling works a lot like cable and satellite used to, where you pull up live broadcasts of TV channels. But, it occurred to me that we don't channel surf anymore: we've become accustomed to finding titles we like and watching them when we want to.
They may have tried to adapt to streaming delivery, but I don't they have adapted to the change in our viewing habits...
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