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Originally Posted by japes
It's easy if you've never had cable to be a "chord cutter" but curious if any of you became a chord cutter. We are debating cutting our DirecTV for monetary reasons and even though I was the one to suggest it I'm the one that is nervous about it. Growing up we didn't have much so when we weren't playing outside we watched TV...we didn't have games or much in the toy department. Now even though I don't watch much TV I do like the comfort of knowing that it's there when I want. Sports will be my biggest issue, mostly baseball, hockey, and college football. I am building a DVR for over the air broadcast which will cover Flash, Arrow and SHIELD which is 75% of what we watch anyways. We have a pretty decent Library system which is how we are watching Smallville now. I also have quite a movie collection which I have stored on a central server and streamed to my TV with a Raspberry Pi3 running OSMC (Kodi) I know there are shady plugins for Kodi but I'm trying to avoid those.
Basically is there anyone that switched that regretted it later?
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We had Dish Network a few years ago, but after looking at how few channels we actually watched, the $50+ per month just didn't make sense. We have Netflix and Amazon Prime and can get a few over-the-air broadcast channels. The worst part of dropping it was not having reliable local channel reception, but the Internet has enough to cover our needs for local news and weather (especially considering Dish went out in bad weather when we needed it most).