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Re: The C3G Cave - Hangout
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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?
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).
Local reception should not be an issue for us since we are only a couple of miles from the towers. I don't even have an antenna and my TV scan gets about 15 channels. I'd say it's probably more the DVR and Sports angle that would be an issue.

We are pretty lucky with our DirecTV. Even in Florida we'd have reception except during tropical storm like weather. The best part was that even with storms we'd have it as soon as the weather broke whereas with Comcast it would be days for them to fix the lines.
Would I want it to be everything I love...sure...but that's just not realistic so I'm going to focus on finding things that will make me unhappy and work on fixing those.
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