goodbye cable?

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    My wife and I had a bunch of conversations about getting rid of cable over the past couple weeks. I've been doing a lot of reading, research, etc. about all the alternatives, thinking about what shows we really watch, and figuring out how we'd do it.

    We're going to go the month of January only watching what we could get over an HD antenna (which really comes down to nightly local news or evening talk shows, along with Netflix, Apple TV, and Hulu.

    Concerns:

    - Keeping track of multiple things I regularly watch that will be on different platforms or apps now. The convenience of a single menu for cable TV goes away.
    - Wrapping my head around not using a DVR to record shows, and instead having to go look for them in different apps.
    - No centralized menu of live programming / unsure of what live programming exists. For me that might be limited to nightly local news and CNN.
    - Unsure if certain things are available immediately after they air, how long they last, etc.
    - Don't want to get into situations where TV series are only available months after they conclude when they are released online or on disc.

    If I can figure that stuff out, we've decided that a big positive for us is less mindless TV browsing and rematching stuff we've seen so many times (sorry Seinfeld!) and average movies that we tend to watch multiple times a year when they're on (looking at you, Miss Doubtfire, and Stuck On You, and Overboard...). We could instead watch more things we have't seen, get through certain series faster, or, just not watch TV at all and instead listen to records, read, stuff like that.

    Has anyone here had the same concerns with switching? Anyone have some feedback on successfully transitioning and just streaming everything?

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    • Take the $ you will save from cable and get a PC with Windows 7. It has Media Center and it will address most of your concerns. Pirate Bay will solve the rest.lemmy_k
    • Isn't the new apple tv supposed to address these annoying issues? (searching across apps, etc)SteveJobs
    • go without tv for a month and find other things to do. if you still miss it then go back and try the online stuff.dorf
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