Good TV Can Come in Small Packages?

Things are really tight these days. I still get paid the same but it seems like everything else is going up. We have cut back a little bit here and there. The fans are on more and the a/c is turned up to a higher degree. We started eating out less and eating more food that is prepared at home. In the tech/geek department there have been no new video game purchases lately and we went down to streaming only on Netflix just to save a couple of bucks on getting a disc in the mail.

The next big decision we have to make is what to do about the way we watch TV and who brings us the channels that we watch so much. We thought about just totally going with something like Hulu from the Xbox, a Roku Box, or AppleTV. Sometimes though we like to tune in to channels that you can’t normally watch on those devices. We currently are spending waaaayyyy too much for DIRECTV as our bill is a little over $80! That is just like the basic 200 channels and no movie or sports packages. When shopping around and comparing dish packages I found out that I can cut that price in half and get even more than I was getting before.

We have been wronged in the past by our current satellite provider and hope that Crystal will give me the “OK” to rip them a new one and move on over to something like Infinity Dish where I could get a whole lot more for a whole lot less. Hopefully a decade down the road the situation will be totally different with a whole new way of getting the media we love. Remember…not too long ago a ton of people still had “rabbit ears”.

Let me know what is working for you and your household!

June 1, 2011 | Filed Under General 

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5 Responses to “Good TV Can Come in Small Packages?”

    1
      TechyDad on June 2nd, 2011 11:14 am

      We have a Roku box and love it. You get Hulu (the plus version), Amazon VOD, Netflix, Pandora and more. They’re constantly adding more programming. We’re not quite at the “cut cable and go Roku-only” point just yet, but I’ll agree that cable TV prices are too high. Cable is perpetually “on the bubble” for us. If our financial situation heads south a bit, it’ll likely be the first thing to be cut.

    2
      Nick on June 2nd, 2011 11:45 am

      Unfortunately I just can’t babysit my cable anymore. I had to just swear off TV, which sucks a little. I also couldn’t decide which Tv to buy. So we’ve cobbled together netflix, dvds and so forth. Ideally I’d like to watch a little more TV but it isn’t worth the ever-increasing prices and/or haggling you have to do.

    3
      Daddy Ryan on June 2nd, 2011 4:51 pm

      Thanks for the input TechyDad. The Roku looks more and more appealing the more I hear.

    4
      Daddy Ryan on June 2nd, 2011 4:57 pm

      Nick I think we may be cutting ties with our TV watching soon. Hopefully one day the price will go down with everyone trying something else.

    5
      Michelle on June 14th, 2011 10:26 pm

      We have been debating the need for cable for several months now. We do Netflix, occasionally watch Hulu and cut back to *just* 80 channels….and we’re still paying a little over $80 a month for TV. This is just crazy to me! I’m thinking we may to look in to the Roku…don’t know that I’ve heard of it before.

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