Streaming question -> Feasibility of ditching cable TV
Half-considering ditching U-Verse TV in order to save money (really like U-Verse otherwise). If I just got Internet service (which definitely is a must-have....:D ), I could cut my bill by over 50%.
Could get Roku boxes and appears that we could get most, if not all, the shows we watch via Hulu Plus, Amazon, Netflix......just a combo of two of those should hit all we need and we already got Netflix. I really don't watch that much live TV and some shows are really just timefillers that I wouldn't bother watching or paying for individually if they weren't included in current cable package. I've only briefly looked, but it looks like the shows that my wife and I watch together are covered by the above streaming sources as well as the shows she watches. Buying/renting the shows we watch or just having a monthly Hulu Plus account would be FAR cheaper than paying for regular cable TV every month.
However, the sticking point so far is Michigan football..........for the games on ESPN/ABC, I can get those via ESPN3 over Xbox Live, but the problem is the games that are aired on Big10 Network (BTN)..........they don't have streaming online unless you have a cable provider via their btn2go.com service. Blah.
Haven't found a good solution yet on a football site I visit from people that have done the same, other than just go to a bar or find a friend with cable that could give me their login for the BTN2GO online streaming extension.
Anyone that has gone streaming only at home that has advice?
Thanks in advance.
