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Originally Posted by Catlady
I had been a Time Warner customer for years and was grandfathered in to Spectrum.
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Time Warner Cable is hands down the worst cable TV service I ever had. They were the only game in Austin when I lived their for 14 years. I was in an apartment and they didn't allow satellite dishes. I got Spectrum when I bought my house in my current town of residence because they were the only game here. They were actually pretty good until a couple of years later when they bought out Time Warner Cable and essentially replaced what we had with TWC. It sucked worse than Time Warner Cable had in Austin. TWC has always had lower resolution video and often dropped services due to poor maintenance of their system.
For some people it is easy to cut the cord, but for me it was a chore to find the best service with all the channels I wanted at the best price. Sling's à la carte garbage is as pricey as cable TV because they set it up, just like cable, to make you have to add a large number of à la carte entrées to get every channel you want. That is cost prohibitive. Other streaming services won't offer one or more group of channels from a large network of channels so you cannot even get A&E, the Discovery channels, or one of the similar multi-channel groups you want. I ran into that issue with Playstation Vue and others. DirecTV Now had all my channels, but their price was higher and I hate dealing with AT&T--that never ends well in my experience. So in my case, I had to do a lot of research and a lot of free trial testing before I made my decision. And next week or next month or next year everything could get totally turned upside down if Hulu drops a must have channel, which happens a lot in the streaming contract game. Hulu and Spectrum have both dropped CW and their related channels over a contract dispute, but fortunately I rarely watch CW or WGN, so I didn't care.