Comments on: Life Without Cable TV

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:51:45 +0000

I just wrote a post on my blog about this topic……cable is indeed becoming an arrogant dinasour….I watch HULU and subscribe to the “Fan Pages” (100 different TV shows) on Plaxo…..

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By: Duchess

Duchess — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 22:35:36 +0000

No cable here. We down load shows when we find something we like. We have friends who buy the DVDs of all kinds of shows. We borrow those. Elizabeth. I am totaly the same way when we stay in hotels. I think I’d pay for tv if I could just get the stations I want and nothing else, Discovery is the big one.

By: marci

marci — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:47:35 +0000

No cable, no antennae, since 1990 or so. No TV watching.

I do use the old TV for watching library movies tho on occassion.

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By: Squawkfox

Squawkfox — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:24:39 +0000

@fathersez is correct. The site hulu.com is only available to those with IP addresses in the USA. No hulu for this Canadian girl.

I too don’t have cable.
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By: fathersez

fathersez — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:52:57 +0000

We cancelled our cable since early this year and so far so good. Sometimes I do miss not having the cable, but the shows are endlessly repeated.

And hulu.com seems to be only for you lucky (or unlucky…hehe) US people.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:24:56 +0000

I don’t own a television, either. Or have internet at home. I had a TV for many years and watched it a lot. Amazing Race, Nanny 911, Big Loser, Wife Swap, etc., one anesthetically segueing into another. I tapered off very gradually and one day I unplugged it to clean under it and didn’t bother to plug it back in. Pretty soon, it became a gargantuan dust collector and space eater, so I sold it. Now, at home I have a laptop, so the shows I watch on it are beloved ones I buy off iTunes or Netflix movies. I love staying in hotels because the minute I walk in the room, I turn on the TV and click through all the channels. It’s so exciting. Then after a couple of hours, I get bored and cut it off. Then I cut it back on later to suck in all that stimulation while I have the chance, then get bored again…

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By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:06:47 +0000

Nope! Not alone. We don’t even have a TV, let alone cable. People sometimes look at us like we just dropped out of the sky wearing tin foil hats when they hear that we don’t have a television and they feel so bad for us, like not owning a TV is a horrible disease. But it’s fine! We like it.
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By: Kate@Living the Frugal Life

Kate@Living the Frugal Life — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:15:08 +0000

Sounds like there are lots of us without cable. I don’t have a TV either. What I do have is a dvd player and a digital projector. I bought it during my far less frugal days. I knew I wanted to watch dvds, but we were in such a tiny cottage that there was no room for a TV to watch them on. (We haven’t watched TV itself for about 15 years.) I don’t know if a digital projector could ever be justified as a frugal option, but I can say two things about having one of these instead of a TV: you will never be tempted to pay for cable, since you’ll have no way of watching it, and since the projector can only be used when it’s dark out, you won’t find yourself frittering away daylight hours because you have one.

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