SoberChef Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Spectrum is Ditching Traditional Cable TV & Is Going Streaming Only For New TV Customers | Cord Cutters News CORDCUTTERSNEWS.COM The death of cable TV as you know it seems to be here. Earlier this month, Spectrum and Comcast announced a new streaming player that will let you watch your TV subscription from Spectrum streaming online alongside other services like Netflix. Now Spectrum has announced that new customers will only get the streaming-only option. With […] Now let's just hope that the stuff being shown will actually be genuine HD & not their BS now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoberChef Posted October 18, 2023 Author Share Posted October 18, 2023 Spectrum launches new device option to replace cable box; Xumo TV FINANCE.YAHOO.COM Oct. 14—Spectrum Cable customers have the option to ditch the cable box entirely and sign up for a Xumo streaming device, a move that Charter Spectrum executives said they hope will bring more unity to the streaming and traditional TV landscape. Launched earlier this month, the Xumo device is a slim black box that connects to a TV via HDMI port and to the internet via WiFi or an Ethernet ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 You'll have to pry my cable box from my cold, dead hands! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 11 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: You'll have to pry my cable box from my cold, dead hands! I posted this thing in a reply to you in some other thread and you never replied so this will have to be your answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 1 minute ago, Keyser_Soze said: I posted this thing in a reply to you in some other thread and you never replied so this will have to be your answer. My bad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 I've had "streaming TV" from my cable provider (Rogers) for a long time. The video quality is not noticeably different from the heavily compressed HD on regular "digital" cable boxes. TBH, the only reason I have it is that they give me a $65 monthly credit that makes the Internet+TV bundle cheaper than internet alone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 39 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: You'll have to pry my cable box from my cold, dead hands! ok boomer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 The only reason I had Spectrum for so long was because it worked with TiVo. I only recently cut-the-cord and switched over to an all streaming world and honestly, I kind of miss cable... but it was getting to be too hard to justify the expense. We just were not getting good value from that money. The only real reason I had cable at all was to watch local sports, but now that (for the first time) I can stream 85% of the games for $20 a month thru Bally Sports, I felt it was time to rip off the band-aid... but honestly the service kinda sucks. If watching a hockey game taped off TiVo was a 10... watching streaming on Bally Sports is like a 3. But hey, it costs like $70 less per month. I would never touch one of these streaming boxes. They will never get me back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ort Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Anyway, for like the last 2 years, I would receive letters in the mail telling me that they were dropping support for cable cards and my TiVo would eventually stop working. I probably got the same letter 30 times, and that is not an exaggeration. Toward the end, I was getting a letter from them about every other week. Cable Cards were such a nightmare. A dead technology that never took off that cable companies were required by law to support. Techs wouldn't even have cable cards in their trucks. Most technicians had never even seen one, or if they had, it was something they had to deal with like once. I used to have to tell them what to do... I would have print outs and explainers and guides and be like, DO THIS. Luckily the online TiVo community (used to be) a thriving and useful place. Not so much these days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 31 minutes ago, Jason said: ok boomer 17 minutes ago, ort said: TiVo Speaking of boomers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littleronin Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 Antenna TV for life. Wait another storm is coming through this upcoming week. Motherfuc... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 22 minutes ago, Littleronin said: Antenna TV for life. I tried to do this but I live in a dank pit that gets no reception so the antenna picks up nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Littleronin Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 7 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said: I tried to do this but I live in a dank pit that gets no reception so the antenna picks up nothing. Our problem is that the transmitters were built on the south end of the mountains and even the slightest rain/snow/wind storm knock them out for a few weeks. Which is pretty much fixed just in time for the next rain/snow/wind storm to roll in and start the process over again. This past winter the entire facility was completely covered in snow until late July and we just go channels back in August for Hilary to be a bitch and we haven't had anything since. When it works... it works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 I held on to cable for a long time because of my TiVo, but then I got put on a YouTube TV family plan so I didn't need it anymore. The Tivo was a great deal at the time. It allowed me to put the Tivo mini boxes in different rooms to get cable without having to pay for extra boxes. It allowed me to stream my cable to my devices (though the app sucked and it didn't work that well outside of the house). It was also one box to watch cable and streaming services. Now, all those benefits are basically native to streaming, so there isn't much point. Besides, if I have to pick between the evil of ISPs and the evil of Google, it's Google every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted October 18, 2023 Share Posted October 18, 2023 I've been saying "fuck all this nonsense" to corpos for years now. You want downloaded super high quality TV, anime and movie goodness? Want to stream any sports game in HD, for free, with ease? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 Meanwhile, over at Netflix: Here comes another Netflix price hike - The Verge WWW.THEVERGE.COM Get ready to pay more for Netflix’s priciest plan. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 19, 2023 Share Posted October 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Jason said: Meanwhile, over at Netflix: Gotta make up the cost of suddenly not having discs and people paying to rent them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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