I still can't get my mom off the cable box but I will not miss throwing that crap out someday.
Exactly. The cable company will likely make you jump through a few hoops to cancel, but I recall it was pretty easy to return my box to a UPS store.Check her bill or terms of service. If we throw it out and don't return the set top box we're on the hook for a couple hundred bucks. Kind of make me wish I has an equipment rental business on the side.
Or we can stick with the channels we get with the antenna which is probably the easiest.
This is what we did with all 4 TV's about 6 months ago. I'm getting used to it. We had no choice though, as our cable provider gave notice that everyone would be required to do this by the end of '23. If we did it 6 months ago, we not only got a price break on the monthly bill, our provider gave us $50 towards the Roku sticks. my guess is they didn't want to face a million issues at once at the end of the year.Hey, Cynthia... Buy a Roku Ultra 4K box (about $100), and you connect it to your TV with HDMI. The Roku box and it's remote are terrific. And the Roku remote will control your TV and volume as well.
This is what we did with all 4 TV's about 6 months ago. I'm getting used to it. We had no choice though, as our cable provider gave notice that everyone would be required to do this by the end of '23. If we did it 6 months ago, we not only got a price break on the monthly bill, our provider gave us $50 towards the Roku sticks. my guess is they didn't want to face a million issues at once at the end of the year.
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A long time ago the cable franchise was a monopoly awarded by the local government and regulated by the local government. Fast forward and I can certainly imagine a cable company wanting to withdraw or scale back in a local market and permission to do so being contingent on helping customers find alternatives. "Buy a Roku stick" solves the problem.They told you that you had to buy a Roku?
Most people buy Rokus so they can ditch cable.
No GAD, they gave us a choice between a few of them. Don't ask me what the others were, Mrs. West takes care of those things. But they were going "streaming" (I guess that's what you call it) on Jan. 1 of '24.They told you that you had to buy a Roku?
Most people buy Rokus so they can ditch cable.
No GAD, they gave us a choice between a few of them. Don't ask me what the others were, Mrs. West takes care of those things. But they were going "streaming" (I guess that's what you call it) on Jan. 1 of '24.
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I guess it's something like that GAD. The one thing I can assure you is that I am the least tech savvy guy on this forum, but that sounds about right. Seriously. my wife knows far more than I do about our provider.........she pays them, and she fights it out with them. They also provide phone and internet as well as cable TV via fiber. The only other thing I can tell you is that my software engineer son was blown away 12 or 14 years ago to discover we had fiber out here in the middle of nowhere, but that was for good reason. At the time, ETEX was a relatively new provider, so when doing new installs to country neighborhoods, they laid fiber optic. My son lived in Austin at the time, and couldn't believe we had it out here. Other than that, he's commented about how "fast" it is. We're 5 miles from the nearest town of 5000 people.Oh wow so they want to only provide Internet and get you to stream content over that. Interesting.