PTI: Dumping Cable

So we did it, we finally did it. This weekend, we packed the boxes up, cords, remotes and everything and dropped them off without flinching. We just walked right up to customer service at our former cable provider and with such conviction told them we were done. No more cable for us.

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To be completely honest, I was actually a tad dissapointed in the whole experience. I expected them to beg. I expected at least some sales manager to come over and try to persuade us to stay. To offer us some amazing last minute promotion that we wouldn't be able to walk away from. We had trained and prepared for it all- the answer was going to be NO.  It didn't quite go down like that. The calm gentleman just quietly took the boxes, checked the serial codes, entered something into the computer and told us we were good and done.

It's a strange world out there for a tv addict without cable.  But we 're not going into this without help. First things first- I was so ignorant about life without cable, I half expected to have a crappy staticky signal. Instead what we got was over 20 channels, most of them in HD, just as perfect as ever. Most of the basics were there, yeah I'm losing HGTV, FOODnetwork, AMC, HISTORY, SYFY and some of the other channels I checked out every now and then. But what we gained is even better- THE ROKU.

Only been a few days and I love this already. We're saving almost  $100 in cable bill, and I can watch exactly what I want, when I want. It comes with a bunch of free channels, you can add some private ones, or pay for some. We're getting Netflix and Hulu which have massive tv and movie libraries, Hulu has current episodes of current shows.  Together they run us only $16/month.

Really feel like I'd been bamboozled for so long- for not making the switch.  My only worry is that I might actually have more to watch than ever, and that's not such a good thing.