I pay $160 a month. I need my sports and HBO. Wanting those two is what gets me. But it's nice to have all the extra channels. I don't watch most of them, but part of why $15 isnt enough to convince me to cut the cable is because it's nice to have those extra channels when you have guests over. Or just laying in bed and channel surfing. Also, it's nice because TV works when the internet is down (which is rare, but has happened enough for me to make note of it).
The sports is always the unique thing, and the last thing the providers have a near monopoly on. But everything else, including HBO, can be obtained piecemeal now.
Bumping this thread since.... time has come where my 2 year contract has expired and need to rethink things here as soon as my price jumped 30 bucks to 190 as I go month to month now. Verizon is offering to keep everything the same but add on more sports channels for $30 bucks cheaper to make it $130 a month. Personally, I like my set up and a price cut works for me. My brother thinks PSVue has a good deal as it gets all the sports channels. I think it comes out around the same price so not sure it's worth it personally, but does anyone have experience with PSVue?
I have PS Vue and am pleased. It's the closest thing that I've seen to having cable. Some cord cutters go to extreme lengths to obtain access to channels, but for $45 a month (their cheapest plan is $40), I get a package of channels that works for me. They also have a sports add-on for season-pass type stuff like NFL Redzone. They also provide 5 streams per household/account and individual profiles for multiple users to set up favorites.
They have a 28 day cloud DVR. Record up to 300 shows/movies, and it will record EVERY airing and store it for 28 days. Some shows change to On Demand airings a day later, which forces you to watch commercials. I've only experienced that once, maybe.
Vue does have the most app-supported logins compared to other streaming television providers, so you could enter in your credentials and watch programs or sports through individual channel networks (WatchESPN, CBS Sports Go, etc.) as well.
Vue does not have contracts with A&E/History or Viacom (MTV, CMT, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, Spike), so you'd have to find another way to access those channels if you want them. They also don't have a channel up/down button, so you can't just change channels or type in the number of the channel you want. You have to exit to the guide and then select a different channel or show.
You may want to go to their website and punch in your zip code to see which city's package you'd receive. Not all packages have your local affiliate networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox), but if you live in a major city's viewing area, you probably will have them all (I'm 50 miles from Chicago, but am still within their viewing area for local networks).
That being said, if you are happy with the price and content you currently receive, then don't change. I got sick of dealing with Comcast and their promotional pricing. Customer Service never reduced my price and I'd have to beat them up just to get some promotion for 2 years. So I went with Vue - cancelling TV gave me better negotiating power for their internet price. My TV/internet bill was $186 on a Comcast promotion and jumped to $214 per month after my contract or promotion ended. They would have lowered it back to $186, but I was done with having to fight them and pay additional fees for extra tuners. PS Vue is $45 and I negotiated my internet down to $45, so I'm paying $90 per month for TV and internet. I cut my monthly cost in half, but I did have to give up some TV channels that I liked to make it happen.
I also own my cable model and router, and bought 3 Roku sticks, so I'm not renting any equipment from Comcast.
Topic: I'm Cutting The Cord (Read 19506 times)
