Cable, Dish, Direct?

[Ridge]

Paying $60/mo for Comcast here between Highlands Ranch and Parker.

[Madeinhb]

I will be paying strictly for Internet, then have Netflix, Hulu plus, Amazon prime and then using a slingbox attached to a receiver at my in laws house. If you can get it, look into Verizon fios they are starting to do a la carte pricing. I have Ooma for home phone.

[theGinsue]

I have DirecTV with the near basic "Total Choice" programming package. I don't have any of the extra fee channels like HBO, etc. nor do I het any of the fee-based sports channels. "Total Choice" has 160 channels which is far more than I ever watch. I have 4 "standard" (non-HD) receivers which means a lot of the fancy stuff like being able to digitally record shows isn't available to me. Do I wish I had that capability? Yes, but I'm cheap and wasn't willing to pay the extra amount required to get those services (cost-to-benefit just wasn't there from my perspective). I can still order movies from their "DirecTV Cinema" if I want, but I very rarely do (~once/yr). Total cost is about $78/mo...but again, that's for 4 receivers too. Not thrilled with DirecTV Customer Svc, but they're still better than Comcast in my experience. After 9 years with the previous ones, just got my receivers replaced about 6 months ago & it was a bit of a fight to keep from getting charged for that. They came & installed them & re-aligned my dish plus installed a new LNB on the dish. Thanks to spending a couple of hours on the phone to arrange it, I got it all done with $0 cost and credits to my account.

For internet I'm still using Centurylink DSL. It works fine for everything I use it for & I've had fewer outages than my Comcast neighbors & pay less than they do.

YMMV

[kwando]

Television - Free everything because of who I work for. Saves me $200-300 month average (everything... PPV... Fights... Netflix... Etc)
Internet - comcast $50/month
Phone - no landline but I have 7 lines (me, wife, parents, inlaws, and my grandma) for $235 with AT&T

I'm in the television industry and I agree it's crazy how expensive service is. If I did not get it for free, I would likely just have off air antenna for locals and Netflix.

[hurley842002]

Another digital antenna/Netflix/Hulu user. Not sure why I paid all that money for so long on a service provider. I watch what I want when I want, and haven't ever said "I sure wish I had satellite service again". I've thought about adding Amazon prime, but not sure it will give me anything more than I have right now, other than shipping.

[20X11]

Another digital antenna/Netflix/Hulu user. Not sure why I paid all that money for so long on a service provider. I watch what I want when I want, and haven't ever said "I sure wish I had satellite service again". I've thought about adding Amazon prime, but not sure it will give me anything more than I have right now, other than shipping.

After 30 years of bouncing between Comcast and Satellite tv every 5 -6 years, I am going this route next^^^^^^. Century Link/Qwest/US West for internet/home phone for the past 25 years has always worked great, but I'm about ready to dump the land line phone as well.

[Zundfolge]

If you can get one of the faster plans from CenturyLink (at least 7Mbps) go with that, then buy a Roku boxefor each of your TVs and subscribe to Netflix (and/or if you really still want something similar to cable TV spend the $20 a month for SlingTV).

[Stevensje]

How is your security system managed? Ours Is over a land line, I know you can use cell service but supposedly not as reliable.

[Ronin13]

I will be paying strictly for Internet, then have Netflix, Hulu plus, Amazon prime and then using a slingbox attached to a receiver at my in laws house. If you can get it, look into Verizon fios they are starting to do a la carte pricing. I have Ooma for home phone.

I wanted to do this, but having been a previous Dish customer when I lived at home I liked the service and option, so now we have that, mostly for HBO (Game of Thrones), and Avalanche (since it's the only sport I really watch). Getting a game streaming on the internet onto my TV is a PITA.

I currently have Dish for TV (with the basic 150 package), and Comcast for internet. I think my monthly bill is around $110, which isn't bad considering we've got the upgraded internet and I threaten to leave when they try to bump my rates up (Comcast, not Dish).

[Bailey Guns]

We've had Dish (and whatever it was in the early 90s) since it started pretty much. Swapped out for DTV for a 2 yr period in the 90s...mistake. Been back with Dish since. I think overall they're slightly cheaper than DTV...but not sure. I rarely watch TV, I never watch network TV. Usually just FX or one of the other non-network channels. I have a package that's 1 step up from the basic service and no premium channels and it costs about $77 per month. I wouldn't have it at all if it was just me because I can get all the entertainment and shows I want via Netflix and Amazon Prime...but the wife insists on it.

We have a landline bundled with Centurylink 12Mbps DSL service. Both cost about $75 per month. I've tried to get rid of the landline but then, without the bundle, my internet service goes to $79 per month. That's why we still have a landline.

I have no complaints about CL's DSL. I can stream all I want and the service is reliable. Last year I had an issue with rain causing DSL outages. CL promptly came out, isolated a break in the line and ran/trenched 988 feet of new cable from the box at the highway to the house...no charge. No problems since.