especially the small ones (24 inch) and I use them to play my dvds--and might go with Netflix or Roku in the future. I love working out to music videos so I have one in the basement with my treadmill and other equipment.

But, like you, I watch more on my laptop... Of course if Comcast-Time Warner and the others have their way, they will limit access or jack up DSL prices so much that will no longer be possible....

TV series on DVD and movies and doing that we actually saved on money BUT this year we manage to get cable for $50 dollars a month for the year and we have 200 channels. but my wife will easily tell cable to screw off if we can get that price.

we got one of those converter boxes after the change, then the new tv had the digital converter in it and we were able to get enough tv to be entertained. we then got a free box from comcast that gives us more than enough channels and between that, netflix and the internet, we're fine.

I rarely miss having satellite, other than that I hate watching on laptop. If I had the means to get a digital TV and a Roku box (or some other equivalent), I could stream through the TV set.

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I couldn't afford the satellite any more and cancelled it about 3 years ago. But I had been so spoiled by TiVo that I've not watched regular TV since, except World Series if the Cardinals are in it.

I have Netflix streaming and lots of DVDs from a great library system. I don't miss TV at all.

The shows you listed are on broadcast stations. Try this map and see what is available. http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/engineering/dtvmaps/

New TVs have digital tuners and will pick up the channels, which broadcast in 1080i HD! I have 12 HD channels for $0.

I've had the satellite service for 11 years and I have the "America's Everything" package (all of the several versions of HBO, Showtime, The Movie Channel, Starz, Encore, Max, and several others). The quality of the movies they show is worse and worse and the selection ever more limited. They keep coming up with new stations like Pixl and the several versions of Epix that require you to pay more if you want a better variety of movies and not the same old chestnuts they keep showing over and over. Meanwhile, the cost of my present package with Dish keeps going up every few months. I really don't think it's worth it anymore. I love the old films on TCM. But you can find great old movies on youtube. I also love watching my favorite sport of boxing on HBO and Showtime so I keep it. Otherwise, I've been reading a lot of online literature lately, especially Victorian era horror authors (Algernon Blackwood, Sheridan LeFanu, Bram Stoker, M.R. James, Henry James, Maurice Level, and others) and I'm a big Conan Doyle fan. I'm perhaps too lazy to cancel my Dish Network but I know from the times my receiver has been broken where I've had to wait for the receipt of a new one that I haven't missed the commercials or seeing the same old chestnuts the movie channels now run over and over.

that I can't stream much of any thing unless I become a night owl and stream during the free time, between 12 and 5 a.m.


And from what I've read, those data caps aren't gonna be lifted any time soon.

Can't even get DSL out here, but two miles down the road it's Comcast baby!


My Verizon service switches from 3G to 1x in the same distance, so streaming on my phone is buffering Hell.

Watching is probably only about 5% tops of our viewing. Catch a local weather situation, or something on pbs. We do netflix for entertainment.
The quantity,quality, hyperness and sound volume makes watching a regular program impossible.
Actually makes me nervous and stressed after just a half hour or so.

and I stream from, Netflix, Hulu, AcornTV (programming from the UK, Ireland, Canada, and Australia), and MHz Worldview (European dramas every night at 8PM central, sometimes with the possibility of catch-up showings), as well as having a large DVD collection, mostly imported, which I watch on my region-free player.

I watch what I want when I want. The only downside is that Internet alone costs as much as Internet plus local channels. However, to get local channels in HD, I'd have to pay more, so I put up with the Internet price and just laugh scornfully at the "special offers" from Comcast.

than anything I can receive on cable. I especially enjoy being able to watch foreign TV on AcornTV or MHz Worldview, or even Hulu.