Cord Cutters: How much do you save?

What kids tend to do is repeat watch, the TV channels just repeat the same thing many times. So what you can do is download something and then recode it to a smaller MP4 and put on a NAS which then is streamed locally. It reduces kids Internet bandwidth a lot.

I also know it involves you being a geek.

Even here in Munich we mostly use the old copper cables for telefon and internet connections. Only some small parts of the city have glass fibre connections.

It’s really a shame that our lousy government is using public money for many tasks which are really not useful for the Germans :angry:
I have to stop, not to start a political discussion!

Save tons of money. Use Internet as cable because I am a savage :sunglasses::sunglasses:

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Aren’t you a teacher? Use that school .edu email address and get Prime for $49.99 a year. I use my old .edu and it has worked going on 3 years now

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I now pay:

  • $35 for YouTube TV
  • $10 for Netflix
  • I also have Amazon Prime, but I subscribed to that even when I had cable, so I did not include that in my cost.[/quote]

We started YouTube TV 11 months ago (on day 1 in the Los Angeles market). Just added Netflix last month. Been Amazon Prime member since forever ago. Zero regrets.

What I love most about YouTube TV:
I can control almost everything through Google Home. “Hey Google, play The Voice on Living Room” and it will turn on my TV, and play the latest unwatched episode of NBC’s The Voice through Chromecast. My 3 year old crappy Vizio TV will power on when the signal comes through Chromecast. I can also FF/REW/Pause/Play through voice commands.

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True, a poll could have worked. However, I was interested in each person’s story and cost breakdowns of cutting the cord.

Pretty sure the disney app will be out soon enough here. Have heard rumors of netflix pricing, while I also heard a rumor they will try and pull away from traditional tv in favor of pushing their app hard.

Is this little Kim? :wink:

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Air Antenna + Plex + Amazon Prime is all you need - 100$ a month savings

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Yikes! That’s a great idea! I am a teacher!

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I don’t know much about the US and it’s stresming services but saw this post and thought it was 1 hell of a deal

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That is a great deal!

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Yes, it is. We claimed the deal when it was $140 if I am recalling correctly, and it was for the OG Apple TV 4 (not 4K). I think we can claim one more, but haven’t decided to as of now… at least not yet.

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Says 4K on the advert :slight_smile:

Thanks for sharing now I have to consider cutting the cable!

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Yeah, I’m talking about a strikingly similar offer they did back in late 2016.

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Do it play station Vue is a great option and available on the Amazon fire stick.

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Offer has been extended through June 8 for anyone interested. :slight_smile:

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I get Comcast internet is expensive, and the customer support is horrible, but nothing will be as bad as Frontier.

I wish cutting the cord was an option, but the fastest DSL in our area is 1.344mbps down and 0.192mbps up. All I need is decent YouTube, but with how much Frontier is down that isn’t even an option. I even was forced to get a weather radio because half the time I couldn’t check weather.com or whatnot because the DSL was down, and LTE is near non-existent here.