Going all internet for TV...

[massahwahl]

This has become an interesting question for me recently. Next month we will be ditching Directv and going the netflix/hulu+ route. In the long run Directv offers nothing special that I cant watch online for 90% cheaper. Netflix has been awesome for watching new movies that go to streaming roughly 4 to 8 months after they are released and thus far there have been very few movies that I wanted to see that didnt make it to streaming, so I paid a dollar to rent it from the redbox.

It cracks me up though that the very last video rental store in our town is using the 'rent it a month before netflix or redbox here!' motto on their signage. Who cares? Why would anyone want to pay $3 to rent a movie for 2 nights when you could wait a month, while in the meantime watching 7 or 8 other movies from netflix, to get that same new release for $6 more and keep it for the entire month? Grand total for what we will be paying after next month breaks down like this:

Netflix (DVD only)- $8/month
Hulu+- $6/month
Xbox Live subscription- $4/month (pay a year at a time)

Grand total- $18/month

Currently were paying $90/month for directv and between me and my fiancee we watch MAYBE 6 channels that we pay for. It seems like a no brainer, but im interested in who else has gone this route and how they like it. I have a pc connected to both tvs in our house for sporting events and streaming so we wont be missing anything that we currently watch.

 

[Troncoso]

I've done this in one of my apartments. Netflix has so much to keep you entertained. My girlfriend doesn't like missing new episodes of TV shows, but she just streams them the next day. To be honest though, I'm not big on TV so this is the perfect solution for me.
I was going to do the same thing at my school apartment but when I got internet there I found that plugging the TV to the cable Jack gives me like 60 free channels. Though we still use Netflix. You may want to try that just to see if you still get some channels.

 

[crescere]

I am not too big into movies. I like news and financial stuff like Oreilly, Kudlow, Srossel. Is any of that available?

 

[massahwahl]

I've done this in one of my apartments. Netflix has so much to keep you entertained. My girlfriend doesn't like missing new episodes of TV shows, but she just streams them the next day. To be honest though, I'm not big on TV so this is the perfect solution for me.
I was going to do the same thing at my school apartment but when I got internet there I found that plugging the TV to the cable Jack gives me like 60 free channels. Though we still use Netflix. You may want to try that just to see if you still get some channels.

Our OTA channel pickings are slim, but I never thought about adding the ones we will get into the mix, that it actually makes it even better because we will be able to watch CBS, Fox, ABC and NBC live.