(03-16-2023, 08:11 AM)The Real Marty Wrote: My wife is endlessly irritated by the endless price increases from Xfinity.  She goes down to the local Xfinity story every 6 months or so, threatens to move to satellite TV, and somehow, some way, they come up with a new "special plan" which rolls back their price increases.  In all honesty, there's absolutely no way we are ever going to go to satellite TV.  But, I have been examining my viewing habits, and mostly what I watch is either streaming some TV show or movie from a streaming service, or Youtube.   I'm not watching any network TV except for sports, and right now we're in the annual sports desert.  

So here are my questions: 

Have any of you cut the cord, and is there anything you miss as a result?  

How do you get sports if you don't have network TV?

Can you record things if you don't have cable or satellite?

Digital antenna. But we only watch football on it. If we want to watch something specific like the Tour de France we sign up for Peacock for the month. Peacock has a lot of sports actually. NASCAR, IMSA, currently airing speed skating and different winter sports. They have golf, water sports, rugby, soccer, cycling, etc., all during their respective seasons. And the Olympics, of course.

For the road cycling season this year we signed up for GCN+ which streams almost every road cycling race outside of the handful NBC/Peacock has the rights to. If there are specific sports you want to see you may have to sign up for a specific service for the length of that season. 

We cut the cord in 2013 and rarely regret it. We have Prime, Netflix, Hulu+Disney, and Discovery+. Those cover pretty much everything we have an interest in. On occasion we throw in HBO Max or Paramount for a month to catch up on a series we enjoy. 

It's all on demand so we watch when we want to, or when we can. Hubby works nights and a 2 on, 2 off, 3 on, 2 off, 2 on, 3 off rotation so we don't watch much at the same time. On demand is mandatory for us.

Also, we do all of this through Roku. One box. Easy.

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