Three More Weeks

Its been three weeks since my last post.

I have survived the limits of what I care about in the football season without cable or OTA TV.

I have not yet gone to get an antenna for OTA as I am not convinced it will matter given my location. It is still a plan I have but so far the $50 or so have remained in my pocket.

It has been so long since we have cut cable that I have to think about it to realize we do not have it. We are now about a week past the one month mark and as sad as this may sound I believe we're watching just as much TV as we were before. Only now we're watching commercial free and entire series runs in a matter of days. As mentioned in previous postings, for us its the British TV that we've been watching a lot of.

So as the weeks march on, we're thrilled to have given up our cable addiction. We still haven't conquered the TV addiction though as we've only substituted one source for another. The real benefits come from the $60 cost now vs $180 then, give or take.

The next Oh I miss cable moment will come in approximately two more months when the Formula 1 season starts up. But I still do not see cable as valuable enough to pay for an entire month for approximately 5 hours a month of programming. Even the start of the baseball season does not worry me as I have been forced before to listen to games instead of watch when George moved the Yanks to MSG from channel 11 and we lived in an area we could not get cable.

What this mostly means is that the changes in behavior I was hoping for have not come. But we have proven that we can live without cable completely and we do not have to pay large amounts of money for a service we used only because it was easy.

Break the bonds, Cut the Cable Cord.

New Year, No Cable TV

So we came through the new year celebrations without cable. I was streaming the feed from Times Square at www.timessquarenyc.org in one window while at the same time playing World of Warcraft in another. I was surprised at how well the online video feed held up with only a small crash about 1153pm that came back in just a few minutes and in time to see the ball come down.

The only other "I am missing something" moment came on Sunday with the last week of football. I wish I could have seen the Jets game, but it is what it is and I followed it until half time on my phone with box score updates.

So now we're more than 2 weeks into this and it is becoming a bit of a habit. We have shows we want to watch from Netflix. We have suffered from some of our listings going offline. We have found new things to watch instead. And best of all, I've found things I never knew existed as in Hotel Babylon which I'm enjoying so far although only just finishing season 2.

Add all this to the fact that Cablevision has removed the Food Network and we would have been hurting in our normal watching pattern anyway as Food used to be a large part of our viewing habits.

So the 2 week update is I am thrilled I have done this and wish I had done it before.