Do you have cable, satellite, or antenna television?

Yvonne Smith

Yvonne Smith

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We had cable for a while, then switched to satellite when Sam’s Club had a special offer, but after the first year, the price went way up, so we cancelled it.
For the last 4-5 years we have just had antenna television. We got one from Amazon and Bobby put it up on the roof, and the wind and weather finally just wore it out. Now, he got a tiny one that sits next to the television and Bobby said it gets 30+ channels.

We seldom even turn on the TV unless there is bad weather and we need to watch the local channels in case of a tornado or other bad storm. Mostly, we watch things on our iPads, so we each watch what we are interested in.
I prefer to read than watch movies, for the most part; so usually I read n the evenings, but I do like to watch YouTube videos just to learn new things.
 
I had cable TV for a long time. But over 15 years ago I cut that off. I can still get some broadcast TV via indoor antenna, but when I explored a house antenna I found that tree height and density around me will never make it practical. So I rely mainly on streaming with rare viewing of the stronger broadcast stations. Satellite TV is impractical because of the same trees.
 
We have a roof antenna, a small indoor antenna, and DSL. Cable hasn't been available here until the last couple years and nobody I know is hooked up to it. Antenna reception is and on again/off again thing, so we watch stuff available on Amazon Prime or other free services in the evening and over-the-air stuff during the day.
 
I also have a pretty good library of things on DVD and Blu-ray, as well as things saved and stored on a local media server.

The physical media range from movies to TV show series sets. Most are favorites worth watching many times, almost all were found on sale online or deep discounts at drugstores and "one-stop shopping" stores like Meijer. Some came from Amazon or other online shopping.
 
We had a dish by DISH for a while because of an introductory promotion. It was VERY difficult to cancel. Thank goodness daughter kept all communications. I Ripped it off the roof when we re-shingled.
After that We have had cable for years. They keep changing the price. It lowered substantially if we bundled so we tried their phone service. The price slowly went up again. Last week we noticed the modem connection was loose. We handn't gotten a voicemail for quite sometime. And then the computers would blink out--sometimes for a while. Hubby looked like he had lost his best friend. Managed to jiggle it back to connect again a few times. I still have a tracfone. So I went to the Spectrum/cable store and they gave me a new modem. I could just bring back the old one after being disconnected and then reconnected with the new one on line.
I asked how could I communicate to the tech team to do all of this on line if we are disconnected?
She gave me a phone number but I never told her I had a tracfone.
Makes me kind of lose faith in technology.
I have a good emergency solar/crank radio. I also have an antenna but the rotor is rusted, limiting me to a very few stations.
 
I had DISH when I first moved in, then briefly adopted the Dog From Hell that ripped the cable from the back of the dish. Rather than pay to fix it, I realized that I was watching the same few channels over and over. So I put an antenna on the roof and get channels from 3 different markets. A few are "seasonal," but there's enough overlap that it works... and it's free.
 
We just stream television, and we don't subscribe to any of the television networks. Generally, what I watch is from YouTube, Netflix, Amazon Prime, and a bunch of smaller free or inexpensive channels.
 
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