Comments on: Goodbye Cable

By: Larry

Larry — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:30:08 +0000

Here are some good tips on sleep apnea symptoms which you mentioned in another post.

By: Dave Fowler

Dave Fowler — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:13:37 +0000

Blogger Dad, my cable comes with the the phone and the internet. If I got rid of cable I’d have to get new phone and new internet. The two as stand-alones is more expensive than all three together. Cooool or what?

But then I never get to watch the damn thing anyway.

By: Why Buy Made In USA?

Why Buy Made In USA? — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:27:35 +0000

Hello Blogger Dad,

I found you through writer dad. I also applaud you for dropping cable. You may miss it, but your life really will be better without it. I can’t imagine living with TV anymore as I do so many enjoyable things, but still run out of time. What would I be missing if I spent more than an hour a day watching TV. I don’t want to know.

By: Blogger Dad

Blogger Dad — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:11:50 +0000

Ryan- Sorry, I missed your post during the approval process. Thanks for commenting. While I love movies, overall, I prefer TV, especially when its an awesome show such as The Wire, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Lost, Curb Your Enthusiasm, BSG, and a host of other shows. Sadly, I could go on for hours.

By: Blogger Dad

Blogger Dad — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:43:13 +0000

Ernest – I will be ALL over that! Now I just need to find a place to watch The Shield when it comes back next week. Hulu only has minute long clips of The Shield.

By: Ernest Phillips

Ernest Phillips — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:47:40 +0000

Take a look at http://www.hulu.com. You can get a LOT of TV that way, all online, streaming, for free!

By: Blogger Dad

Blogger Dad — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:26:06 +0000

Writer Dad – Two years? Oh man, I don’t know how you did it!

Sal – Lord help you if Disney and the Food Channel launch a new Disney Food Channel! You’ll never break free. I won’t miss movies so much as the DVR. I don’t know of any NBA, NFL or MLB sports games live on the web without paying, but I’ll probably be able to keep up on my regular shows via the web.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:41:35 +0000

Good decision. My wife and I only had cable for a very short while. I don’t much like TV … but movies … oh movies … We both like them a lot. That is our downfall.

By: Sal

Sal — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:05:35 +0000

I think we would get rid of cable all together if it weren’t for the Food Network. It is kind of outlandish that we pay $40 a month for a channel that has nothing but food on it. Well, I say that but we also let our daughter watch certain, hand picked shows on the Disney Channel.

Needless to say, we cut the fat, so to speak for about a year and a half, and have just re-added it to our diet. It isn’t all that bad. You still have the internet so you can follow the games and such. You will be fine, just do what we did and invest in a blockbuster or netflix account for like $4 a month, you get tons of movies (if you return them in a timely manner) and you won’t even miss the tube!

By: Writer Dad

Writer Dad — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:11:23 +0000

Blogger Dad,

You’ll go through withdrawal, but you’ll better in the long run. If I still had cable, there’d be no Writer Dad (well, at least he’d have a different face). We canceled our cable two years ago, this November. We came to a point where we too had to consider it fat. Turns out, it was; like a double bacon cheeseburger that makes you feel logy. TV time eventually became writing time. I’m better for it, I’m sure.