[Janie123]

Originally Posted by cordenny

We are tired of paying over $200 a month for Comcast TV, and Internet. Every year our bill goes up about $50.
We have heard of some people switching to T Mobile with a Firestick. Would appreciate any advice you could give to us. We have 4 TVs (I have my elderly Mother living with us). I need to have something that wouldn't be too confusing for her to use.
Thank you so much!

I dropped Dish network when we lived in Colorado and the house in TV was a rental and switched to Roku sticks in both places and added switched service to YouTube TV (easy interface with Roku and we get multiple apps like Amazon, Angel Studios, YouTube and YouTubeTV, Disney+ etc). We also like watching British shows on BritBox and Acorn. My costs savings were over $1000 a year. I only pay for Internet with CenturyLink and YouTubeTV and a small monthly fee for BritBox. I just switched my 80+ yo neighbor to the same. She had a few issues in the first few weeks but now, it’s great. She is dropping Comcast and saving over $100 a month as well. She loves YouTube as she is a retired pastor and watches various church streams where she is asked to guest preach.

The biggest change is no numbers on channels. But we just setup DVR recordings (unlimited hours with YouTubeTV) and all our favorite shows are recorded as no one really watches all 100+ channels. It has great filters so to watch football this weekend, just click sports->football and all games that are being shown pop up for easy access.

Also YouTubeTV has the exact same interface for all your devices so remote watching is also a breeze.

One other upside with sticks and streaming, all the Comcast crap (boxes and cables) disappear at all the TVs,

[daveczo]

Originally Posted by vintageogauge

We have Comcast and thought of changing but you won't find anything equal to Comcast so if you can afford it, keep it. Some day if it get's too out of hand we'll likely switch to something but for now I really like having it.

Interesting, we had Comcast and Spectrum, both way overpiced. Switched to Firestick and YouTube TV. Hundreds of more channels and saving $90 a month. Cutting the cord is best thing we have done.

[Marine1974]

I dropped Comcast , put an antenna on my tv . Signed up for Verizon 5g internet
$25 a month . No cables coming in the house . I have a wireless scanner , printer and fax machine all wireless. I get 70 channels mostly old movies and cbs, nbc , ABC , WGN , PBS etc no cable channels no CNN I don’t miss . I have a national weather channel.

[EatthMama]

I have Spectrum and dislike the TV programming. I live south of 44. Anyone know if we have the fiber capability down here? I am not sure I would be interested in having an antenna, but the fiber option or fire stick has me intrigued.

[msmozee]

YouTube with fire stick
Up to six tv’s
But my daughter did mine I think that there is tv who does it
Guess you have to ask around

[Shish]

I'm a snowbird and had Spectrum in The Villages and in Ohio. Both were costing over $240 each - same story. I renegotiated my internet only with Spectrum for a year at $49+tax/month. For TV I chose to buy Amazon FireSticks for all TV's, even the non-Smart TV's. They now work as a smart TV and are very fast. Even the Smart TV's now work better with FireSticks. The Tv's must have an HDMI port.
As for TV, I chose YouTube TV over Hulu, which are similar in order to have the regular channels.
Once I had that setup, I went to other apps like Netflix, Max & Paramount+ and signed up on their websites and paid directly there.
One very nice thing about the setup is that the same setup works in the Florida home and the Ohio home. I just have to pay for internet in both locations, not YouTube TV and not the apps. There's no other costs to the Firesticks after purchase, just YouTubeTV $69.70/month and then any apps you choose.
Also, the Firesticks will automatically update and you can load about every app onto it. You can setup a profile to your liking and once my wife and I became familiar with them, we love it.

[OhioBuckeye]

Oh man, I really don’t want to touch this. When we moved from TV we were using Comcast cable & internet service & your right it wasn’t cheap, $185. a month & still increasing and that was 4 yrs. ago & where we live now it’s supposedly FREE, compliments of our HOA $23. a month but since our prices don’t have anything to do with TV, so sorry I don’t have a solution. The first yr. we lived in TV we used a Antenna but I had to put it in the attic because TV said no antenna’s on outside of house but that was BS because I saw antenna’s hanging on outside of houses, by the way we got 50 channels with an antenna that’s what would be my solution for you until you figure something else out!

[MikeVillages]

I have Quantum Fiber, 200 mpbs UP & down, $30/month total. I'm it the northern part of TV but I understand it is available in other parts of TV. I have an outdoor antenna & get over 70 english stations. Search for "antenna" to see mine and other posts about outdoor antennas. I also stream some of the free services on the internet.

[tophcfa]

Originally Posted by rsmurano

Some confusion here. 1st, getting a Roku or fire stick doesn’t get you any tv channel subscription, they get you access to multiple subscriptions. If you use Apple products in your house like the iPhone and iPad and Mac, get the Apple TV 4K box for each tv, it provides access to all tv subscribers plus it will provide much more.

Can you please elaborate on the above statement. What is the “much more” that Apple TV 4K provides? I need to purchase 5 devices and the Apple device costs $150 while a Roku express costs $25. That’s $150 total for Roku versus $750 for Apple.

[Hans53]

Has anyone used senior cable which recently advertised in the paper

[spinner1001]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Can you please elaborate on the above statement. What is the “much more” that Apple TV 4K provides? I need to purchase 5 devices and the Apple device costs $150 while a Roku express costs $25. That’s $150 total for Roku versus $750 for Apple.

We are into the Apple ecosystem with iPhones, iPad, Apple services, etc. and I choose to get an Apple TV 4K box for each of our three televisions rather than something else like Amazon firestick or Roku box. Apple TV 4K boxes are indeed more costly than firesticks, Roku boxes, etc. but my wife was already comfortable with the Apple interface on her iPad. The interface of ann Apple TV 4K box is similar to an iPad interface. Paying a bit more up front for Apple TV 4K boxes was worth it for me as I don’t need to be her personal help desk as often.

Also, my Apple TV 4K boxes fit nicely into the Apple ecosystem with services such as Apple Music and Photos, and other Apple devices such as easily casting from my iPad.

Apple TV 4K boxes have access to the major TV content providers such as YouTube TV and Amazon Prime. Similar to an iPad, download the third-party app from Apple’s App Store onto each Apple TV 4K box.

[gator17]

We had Xfinity for everything, except cell phone, and combined bills were over $500 a month! We kept Xfinity internet, dropped Xfinity cable, dropped Verizon cell phone after twenty years and joined it with Xfinity internet. Bought Firesticks for each TV and joined YouTube TV. Monthly bill for everything (internet, cell phone, home security thru Xfinity; YouTube TV including adding several streaming services) is now $165.

[HJBeck]

Originally Posted by cordenny

We are tired of paying over $200 a month for Comcast TV, and Internet. Every year our bill goes up about $50.
We have heard of some people switching to T Mobile with a Firestick. Would appreciate any advice you could give to us. We have 4 TVs (I have my elderly Mother living with us). I need to have something that wouldn't be too confusing for her to use.
Thank you so much!

I had similar problem. My wife and I bought a “Chrome” stick (Google) and signed up for You Tube TV. You still need Internet (at least 50 MB/sec) to stream the content. You Tube TV costs ~$70/month. Still costs us~$120/month. We get all the channels we want plus apps for Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc. You do need one Chrome stick for each TV.

[Pinball wizard]

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[Lancer]

Originally Posted by Arctic Fox

Depending where you live, you may have little choice for internet. However, you can get a reasonable connection speed with Comcast for $30 per month (although you have to ask for the "special" price).

Until your “special” price expires and doubles.