How I ditched cable TV and get 1000's of quality channels to watch
Cable TV is expensive. Satellite TV is even more expensive! I live in Vancouver, Canada, and when I signed up for Cable TV at my new apartment: I was only paying $19.95/mo for the Basic Cable package (58 channels of mostly crap). 20 bucks is pretty decent though, but after the third month of service: the price went up to $34.95 (+ tax and rentals!)--I should have read the fine print... So I payed over $40+ (more like $65) every month (for years!) just to get the 3, or 4, channels that I would occasionally watch...
I often asked myself, and Google: how to use internet for TV instead of cable? How to ditch cable for internet tv? Can I get cable TV from cable internet? How to get rid of cable TV and still watch TV?
I was obviously getting frustrated, and obviously running out of ways to ask the same question: should I get rid of cable TV (and satellite TV) and just and use internet TV, and will this be cheaper and better?!
I wanted all the best channels: Comedy Central, CNN, Fox, TLC, Food Network, Movie Channels, HBO, Sports, TSN, etc. I did eventually get them ALL and more!
I saw adds for many online TV software products that promise thousands of free channels on my computer for less than one month of my current cable bill, products like: Satellite Direct, Digital TV on PC, TV Freeloader, Satelite TV Stream, Satellite Stream Direct TV, and even Digital TV for PC 2 ... all these names are just the same words interchanged! Well, except for the word "freeloader" and the number two, but it's still confusing! How should I know which one to pick?! Oh well, I gave up again.
About 6 months ago (when my cable bill went up, and the service was particularly "glitchy" and unwatchable) I decided to flip the cash and just buy ALL the programs that looked good and compare them--and then I would know what the REAL deal is about internet TV, and if I could switch off my cable and satallite bill...
If you can't wait for the next post then check out the videos on the following websites: Satellite Direct, and Digital TV on PC to get an idea of what internet TV can be...
