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Originally Posted by OtinG
My Spectrum bill before I cancelled it was $157/mo for internet and cable. I had wheeled and dealed last year to get that reduced rate. I basically had the Silver package but without the premium channels, but I had digi Tier 1, and only one cable box/DVR. They gave me a $30 discount for 12 months, and since that was about to expire my monthly bill would have increased to $187. Ouch!!! I tried to wheel and deal again, but they wouldn't budge much and the best they would give me was $177/mo. I started out with Spectrum about 3-1/2 years ago and had the internet phone package to reduce the rate until I finally dropped it last year. It sucked so bad you couldn't use it anyway and they were starting to charge me for it. My internet without cable TV is now $70.99/mo plus taxes and fees which comes to about $75/mo total for 200 Mbps (the slowest speed they offer now). I got Hulu with Live TV for $39.99/mo, added the Enterainment package for $7.99/mo and the no commercials option for $3.99/mo, for a total of about $56/mo. That comes to about $131/mo for TV and internet combined, but that also includes the Hulu streaming and on Demand service which was costing me about $8.50/mo, so I'll save $177 + $8.50 - $131 = $54.50/mo and have about the same services and channels as I had before. I also have Amazon Prime Video, but to be honest, Amazon charges extra for almost every TV show or movie I want to watch. I also have the Britbox option at $7.99/mo plus tax. So I have plenty of things to watch.
BTW, I'll probably drop Hulu's no commercials option as it is not worth the $$$. They have so many gotchas built into it that very few streams actually are commercial free. Live TV of course is exempted so plenty of commercials. Any on demand streams provided directly by networks via Hulu are also exempted. Only the on demand streams of old TV shows and movies provided via Hulu itself are commercial free, and even then they can still have a few. So far I have found one show that was commercial free in the dozens I have watched.
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Originally Posted by OtinG
Spectrum does offer the option to stream their cable service via an app on the Roku and Apple TV 4K boxes, but you have to be a current customer and they provide no option to record anything, so no cloud DVR. You will save a bit by getting rid of their DVR box(es), but without recording you are very limited on catching a lot of programming. Spectrum was charging me $7.50/mo to rent the cable box DVR, plus another DVR usage fee of $12.00/mo. Add tax and that is $20/mo just to be able to record programming. Ouch!
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I had been a Time Warner customer for years and was grandfathered in to Spectrum. I never once tried to get a better deal, just kept staying with them and absorbing the increases. My original goal was to add digital phone and get their introductory offer of $100/mo for a year, but they told me I couldn't do that; the best they could do was lower my TV/Internet by about $25/mo. When I made the final decision to cancel a week or so later, they offered me a $90/mo for a year for TV/Internet, but I was so annoyed with them that I dropped TV entirely even though it was a deal I would have taken if they'd offered in in the first place.
I didn't have a DVR, and I had just a single cable box. Right now I haven't opted for any cloud DVR.
I may end up trying Verizon Fios, as they've recently resumed work on it in my building, so presumably it will be available sometime soon.