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Originally Posted by ApK
My personal recommendation is stay away. You cut the cord, don't go back.
(unless just for Internet)
If there is a video entertainment gap you need to fill I 'm sure we can fill it. (I really want a crack at getting your Magnavox working as you hoped it would.....)
ApK
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I haven't even hooked up my Magnavox DVR to record--I just got around to getting the coax cable I need for it. The main OTA program I record is an afternoon soap, but Hulu has it next day if I miss it, so at this point, I'm only using the Magnavox to play back already recorded movies. I haven't tried again to do anything with the Roku 1 and the composite cables--I've replaced it with a Premiere Plus--but may fool around with it again at some point.
I am happy enough without cable TV, but I'm thinking of Fios mostly for Internet and phone (I still have a landline that I pay way too much for). If the package with TV was a better value, I might go for it temporarily.
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Originally Posted by OtinG
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.
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I had occasional problems with Time Warner, but was mostly content with them. The service deteriorated some when Spectrum took over. With TWC, I never had an outage of TV and Internet at the same time, but with Spectrum, both would sometimes go out. Customer service also deteriorated.
I have everything I want with Sling TV--I added a news package and another package (entertainment? lifestyle? whatever it was, it gave me one or two other channels I was accustomed to watching). Baseball is the only sport I care about, so once the season starts I'll have to reexamine what I'm getting and not getting.