Car payment or ???

[BC]

TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY TWO FRICKEN DOLLARS!  Is it a car payment or cable tv?

Oh no- its just our Comcast cable bill...Comcast can suck it.  Our cost has steadily increased over the last 5 years...9 million channels of which I watch about 15 with any regularity.  We have a bundled package phone, TV, internet.  Trying to figure out my options to drop Comcast, which I know a few of you have done.  Sports are my main gig, so between ESPN and ESPN2, FOX, NBC, ABC, and CBS I am good to go for college and pro ball.  WatchESPN requires some service through some provider to have access to all the ESPN network, otherwise with something like Verizon broadband you only get ESPN3.  Im working to ascertain what programming is available on ESPN3 and if that would satisfy my needs.  I can use an over-the-air antenna to get the local affiliates (ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX), which we have done in the past when wind storms have knocked out cable for days.  We already have netflix and watch it thru the Wii.

Hardware?  What should I build for a tower to do my TV content with?

[BC]

Any experience with Roku or the Logitech Revue?  What about Play-on with a Roku??? 

[Pete]

I bitched when my tv+internet hit $125, I just keep playing the switch game.  Switch to directv+dsl, promo runs out, switch to Comcast, over and over.  Usually you can call Comcast and try to cancel because it costs too much, and they will significantly discount your service, sometimes even just put you back on the new customer promo.

my DSL is acting up again, so I'm going to ditch it for Comcast, right now it's 69.99 for 12 months of digital cable + internet, then for months 13-24 it's 79.99, normal price after that (which I cancel or they reduce the price way down again.)

That being said, I'm going to build an HD antenna for the tv in my room.  I bookmarked this page awhile back as something to try:

http://uhfhdtvantenna.blogspot.com/

[BC]

Well Im going to make an antenna tonight and try that out.  TV Fool and Antennaweb both have online analyzers for antenna needs.  Forum chatter suggests Antennaweb is conservative claiming a need for more antenna than what is actually needed.  Only kicker is that our FOX station broadcasts in VHF so if we do drop need a VHF/UHF antenna.

Bought a Roku just because...instead of streaming Netflix thru the Wii, we'll use the Roku instead.

Now to engage Comcast....even just internet is going to be $60/mo probably...

[Pete]

Now to engage Comcast....even just internet is going to be $60/mo probably...

places really rob you if you are only getting one service though them.  It really sucks.

[BC]

Comcast would drop us to $165/mo with a greatly reduced channel package- essentially the HD content I can get OTA, and a bunch of other shit- namely 105 channels of bullshit programming I dont watch as it is.  The Hallmark channel- yeah thats real high on my list...20mbs package is going to run around $75/mo (and I have a hunch is actually 16mbs but they call it 20mbs).  Although I think I have a 802.11B wireless router...man that thing has to be somewhere around 7-8 years old...maybe its time for a new N router.

Im going to make that UHF antenna and just check out the signal we can get with it as compared to what we did 5 years ago and also confirm that FOX is VHF...