:agree: I agree 100% - I don't know why we waited as long as we did..... maybe the last rate increase drove us to it. We cut the cord 3 months ago and didn't look back. We went "cold turkey". After the fiber optics was hooked up to the house and we had faster wifi from Century link I took all the cable equip. back and got a receipt. Downloaded DTVNow to try and still have it. Also have Netflix and Prime. :icon_wink: This is all from a guy who can't set the clock on the microwave!:1rotfl: If I can do it anyone can.

Bingo!

More than ready! Should have done it years ago. Another example of this type of thinking..... the last 2 years I have paid for a landline that was not plugged into the wall because of the nuisance calls and sales calls. I plugged it in if I wanted to use it and don't remember doing that. We each have a cell phone. When we went to fiber optic and "streaming" had the phone removed too. Results - faster internet, better wifi, and lower bill. Don't miss the phone! Don't miss cable!:coolsmiley:

We have no regrets and are happy without cable. I do agree it may not satisfy all, especially those who don't understand the basics.

I found this site of help with that.

The Beginners Guide to Cord Cutting

There are others out there too.

When checking Webcam from beginners guide, result 0 channels from our area, soooo does that mean I have no options? I'm more interested in this then "the ole boy" because I'm the one dealing with Com-cuss", so any help would be appreciated. I still think that somewhere in this cord cutting interest there is a business for those of us NOT techy!

CWGUY, can you try all these new Streaming Services while the DirecTv equipment is still hooked up. Your post has inspired me to give it a shot. I know just enough about all this technical garbage to get me into trouble. :1rotfl: I think I like the YouTube TV the best from what my kids have told me. The oldest boy who is almost 40 years old pays $240 a month for his Comcast Bundle. It was very hard to be still when he told me that. Instead of attacking him I told him we paid $40 for internet and $77 for Directv.

I will miss Direct but since they are tied in with AT&T it doesn't work for me anymore because of the constant billing mistakes and follow up phone calls. I just want to use a service at a reasonable price and pay my bill and not be friends with the customer service department.

What do you mean by "0 channels from our area"? If you are referring to the local ABC, NBC, CBS, and FOX affiliates out of Orlando then they are all available via an antenna or streaming service such as HuluTV to YouTubeTV.

:ho: AMAC Foundation

I hope you find the links below interesting.

How are many of you coming with your cutting the cord experience?


Cord Cutters News - All the news cord cutters need about cord cutting! Covering, Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Netflix, Hulu, & More!


The Beginners Guide to Cord Cutting (Updated: September 2018) - Cord Cutters News

Cut the cord
 

Thank you so much

Yes you can. Streaming and DirecTv are completely separate.

That's exactly what we did when we switched to DirectvNow. We kept Directv for about two weeks while we compared it to DirectvNow. Then we returned our DirectTv boxes and haven't looked back

We had already been using Amazon Prime and Netflix along with Directv for years before switching to DirectvNow.

I agree with you 100%. I've got ROKU hooked up and ready to go and cannot work it, and I am no dummy when it comes to computers etc., but this cable cutting is a pain in my head. I sit here with three remotes and have no idea what to do and when I finally do something I end up with a snow storm on the TV. I need someone to come and show me how while I write it all down and then I'd be fine! No help from the otherhalf, he won't even answer the cell phone!!!

Madelaine Amee: You didn't mention which Roku device you have, but if it's the streaming stick, the video below walks you through the set up. Since you mentioned "snow", recheck to be sure you set your TV to the same input that you used for your stick (see video).

How to set up the Roku Streaming Stick (model 3600) - YouTube

Gook luck, June

THREE REMOTES!!??
We cut cable about 3 months ago. We have YouTube-TV which includes the golf channel and some others that we wanted. We bought a Roku streaming stick (just sticks into the TV) for each TV. AND....best of all....the ROKU is small and is THE ONLY remote we need to use for anything other than if we play a DVD. Be sure to get the Roku stick with the volume button on the right side....otherwise you WILL need to use another remote.
We have Xfinity for our internet which also gives us all of the music channels and Showtime automatically. We are very happy with our combo. We now pay less than $100/mo and have many more choices. Between YouTube TV, Amazon Prime, Xfinity and the Roku Channel we have more than we could ever want. We have never had a problem with the picture being pixelated even though we have the lowest internet speed....and we are usually on our phones while watching too. The picture is crystal clear on all TVs. And You Tube gives you UNLIMITED cloud DVR recordings and they keep them for 9 months!

I would highly recommend this move away from cable. Best of all....ONE tiny remote does it all!!
Good luck!

Antenna
 

Could tell me more about the antenna you have?

Go to SUPPOSE.TV
You pick and choose which services you want and the chart will show you your options and for what price.

Best Buy has a free In Home Assessment (IHA) person that will come to your house to help you.

You need high speed internet even if you cut the cord, and we would like to keep land line phone service.

Has anybody found a good monthly rate on high speed internet with voice service that is NOT a teaser 1 year rate that you have to argue about every year at renewal time? I don't care if it's cable with Comcast or DSL with Century Link.

Thanks for any suggestions.

Phone service with an ISP is a bad deal. Look into the various voice-over-ip services available. For example, Ooma is less than $5.00 per month.

Do your own research.

Thank you, I would pay someone to come and teach me what I need to know and I am surprised some enterprising techie from the Computer Club is not doing this, or maybe there is someone, I will call the club this coming week. This would also be a great way for a high school-er to make some pocket money ....... I knew nothing about my cell phone until my granddaughter taught me!

Very much appreciate your post.

Most of the solutions that Best Buy suggests are easy to use. My wife liked Sling TV the best, it was easy and worked like cable did.

5G (fifth generation) is coming to our area and it is the future of TV and Cell service. Most cell services will be offering home internet service at a much faster speed than is available now. When this is available here the cable companies will be out of business quickly. I hope we get 5 G soon. I can't find anything stating when it will come to the Orlando area.

5 G is now available from Verizon in Houston, Indianapolis, Sacramento and Los Angeles.

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5G Ultra Wideband Wireless Home Network | Verizon Wireless

FirstOn5G.com is open for business! | About Verizon

Out of business quickly? No they won't. The market will continue to evolve.

You will need new phones to use 5g.

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We just dropped direct tv and now have PlayStation vue. 59..99 plus tax a month.

It is a miracle. I went to Sam's and picked up the Roku Streaming Stick +. It took about 10 minutes to hook it up and then I signed into YouTube TV. Total about a half hour. Thanks to everyone who posted here otherwise I wouldn't have even considered doing it. I only did one TV so more work to come but the thing about the Roku I got is that you can talk into it for what you want.

It is going to be a process to set up all the channels and once I do that then the rest of the TV'S should pick up the channels I put in my library, I hope? If I sign into the same account it sounds logical, now I'm a Geekster! Thanks Again.

Congrats and job well done. We started using Roku boxes 7 years ago and never looked back and I am sure you won't either. They make a good product and you have many choices for streaming services. We also use YouTubeTV.

NO!

Needing Help
 

Your right about the business aspect. I have been encouraged by several friends and neighbors to offer my services. Truth is I don't want a "job." Send me a personal message and I'll see if I can't help you a little.

Here is an added update. Getting connected to streaming was simple. Youtube TV is wonderful. The amount of data that Comcast allows is limited every month. We have gone over already as of 10/24. They do offer an unlimited plan for $50 EXTRA per month. This is on top of your regular monthly charge. It may be in the paperwork but never verbally mentioned when we signed up. Life has taught me about Comcast yet I keep going back to the well looking for a different outcome. Shame on me, shame on them. Have to look for a fair unlimited solution.

We stream also and use CenturyLink for internet access. We typically average about 20 gigabytes per day and have not had any issues with this amount of data. If CenturyLink has a data cap we haven't reached it yet. Our all time high was close to 1 terabyte in a month.

I had to schedule a call with Comcast to speak about technical issues which I already figured out via the internet searches and TOTV information. It took three days for the call.

The problem is Data overage. The solution is to put the Roku back to the home page then turn the TV off otherwise it is streaming all day and night. Also lowering the MBPS'S in the Roku from 12 MBPS to 3.5 MBPS and changing the definition on the "convenience" televisions to 720 DPI from 1080 DPI should lower the total usage next month.

Never once during the entire conversation did they offer any of this information. They offered for a limited time Unlimited Data for $25 a month marked down from $50 a month. I said that sounded very fair and was getting ready to do it but then asked is this on top of the regular bill and the answer was yes. Deceptive, Non-Communicative, Garbage. But a necessary evil if you want to stream. I'm not giving up, we really like the Variety of shows on YouTube Tv. :blahblahblah:

We are at 1400 Jiggawatts of usage as of October 29th. We don't watch that much TV. You get 2 months of being over for free. The limit is 1024 MBPS. Then $10 for every 50 MBPS after. Pretty expensive.

We received the same "surprise" message from Comcast as you did, Nucky. We're already at 90% of our monthly cap. Huh...cap? Nobody mentioned that limitation. I did go a little wild adding shows to the cloud DVR (in the interim I found I still preferred to read a good book) but had already stopped that before The Message arrived. We also left the Roku set on the channel rather than returning to home base so we're changing that M.O.

Streaming is still preferable to Comcast, however. We're happy with YouTubeTV and find some decent movies on Tubi (an advantage of not being movies buffs, since so many of the old ones are still new to us!).

Is this "Data Cap" something new with Comcast? We've been streaming with a Roku device since 2015 and have never encountered that with Comcast.

If you're looking for a nice all-in-one solution (DVR for over-the-air combined with a long list of streaming apps including Alexa integration) you might want to have a look at the TiVo Bolt OTA. It uses your antenna to get the network content to fill your DVR drive. (Other folks here have recommended some better grade antennas to put in your attic which sounds good to me). For other rooms you can get a TiVo mini which sources from your master TiVo over the home LAN wiring. The apps have all the usual suspects (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon video, etc...) and you can even do voice searches with the remote. The only downside for some folks is the 6.99/Month fee for the TiVo service (69/yr) which provides the channel and program listing data.

I use a TiVo Bolt with CableCard on Comcast cable and I don't need anything else, I can watch Netflix, Amazon and the huge collection of recorded stuff on the 2TB hard disk. The search function goes across all the services so it will locate a program/movie wherever it is found and show you where to watch it or schedule it to record for subsequent watching. Their season pass program recording does a great job of getting all your episodes even when they move the time slot. You can schedule recordings on the web or mobile apps. The DVR has plenty of patented features you won't find on the cheesy offerings from your cable or sat provider.

Disclosure: I don't work for Tivo but I have several coworker friends working there in San Jose, but I've been a delighted TiVo user since the early 00's.

I'm answering my own question re: Comcast data. When I researched our account while paying the Comcast bill just now I discovered that there is a data cap of 1,024 gigabytes per month. Our normal usage is about 160. Our streaming activity is about 3 hours in the evening; if we're watching something in the daytime, it's usually Over the Air with the antenna.

I don't understand the part about having to return Roku to the Home Page before turning off the TV set. We usually leave it on the Netflix channel before turning it off. Maybe it's something about the later Roku devices.

Are you sure the comcast limit is 1024 MBPS. That's pretty low. A Terabyte is one million megabytes. 1024 megabytes equals a terabyte. I have centurylink and their monthly cap is one terabyte. That is equivalent to streaming a program in HD on one device for 24 hrs/day for 30 days. I suspect anyone hitting a data limit streaming TV is probably turning off the TV without going back home on the streaming device. Although the TV is off in essence the device keeps running and downloading.

Megabytes, Terabytes, MBPS? I'll admit I may be a bit off base with the terminology but they mentioned no limit when I bought back into Comcast and the way I had the Roku set and we never turned off the computers or brought the Roku to the home position made us go over the 1024 limit. All Tv'S were at 1080 not 720. I just want to figure this out before I go over again.
I'm trying. We do not watch that much TV. We get a Terabyte with Comcast.

Streaming is great and I just want to stay off the phone with them. I learning and feel confident we'll be ok. :coolsmiley: