Cutting the cord

Well, we finally gone and done it.

Removed the adapters from the bedroom and rec room, removed the parent box from the living room. 

The party is over and all we're keeping is the IP and the phone (for now)

G'bye cable, g'bye Verizon, g'bye Fios.

Hello sanity.

When television changed to digital (which I knew was coming from articles in Monitoring Times) I bought two conversion boxes planning for the cable-less home. Never happened. We, along with most humans we know, had become accustomed to cable and the clarity of  the video and the fact that we could all find our niche channels. I have talked about this many times ad nauseum to the point that even I never believed it would happen. I and Bakelady had read the articles, heard "how simple" it would be, how much we would save, etc etc - still nothing. But after seeing our last bill a horrible scream was heard through-out Thena-land - and it was me AND the Bakelady. 

Down-side: no more niche channels (TCM, TNT, TBS, Food Network...et al)

Up-side:

Savings on cost of box

Savings on cost of two adapters

Savings on monthly cost of cable plus taxes plus franchise fees

Investment: $24.98 x 2 ($49.96 incl tax, less than 1/3 my cable bill) plus the use of my son's WII in the living room for wireless video and library rentals of dvds (hell, Bumper and I live there anyway)

And as a bcdx/swl I am totally at awe with the programming I was unable to receive on the cable box. You would NEVER believe what blinders one is wearing when only viewing what cable "allows" one to view. Bounce, ME-tv, M!ovies and the THIS network are standard sub-digital channels but I for one have already become a fan of Escape and GetTv

And the almost $1800 in savings will make us feel better also plus the fact that Bumper was in agreement helps (altho being born into the cable age he is having second thoughts about losing Cartoon Network and TeenNick but he is adjusting - he was never part of the age of having only a few networks plus the independent UHF channels)

Maybe later we might invest in a Rocku, maybe not...I will let the honeymoon period of our first step sink in before we make any other decisions.

http://get.tv/
(great replacement for TCM as is Boston PBS channel 44)

http://www.escapetv.com/tv-schedule/
(some great 80s/90s movies plus specialty programming)

http://moviestvnetwork.com/schedule/
(another great replacement for TCM)

http://metvnetwork.com/
(while I miss Dragnet and Adam-12 and can do without CHIPs, great                                                    station)