Streaming movies and shows...it's something we talked about a lot in 2012. And with more content coming online every day, it is likely 2013 will continue to see even more of us cut the cable. If you're sick of cable, and are pining after an internet connected solution to watching your favorite shows, check out this rundown of articles from 2012 where we talk about getting your TV and movie fix online.
• Weighing the Pros & Cons of Cutting Cable
• When You've Cut the Cable (But Still Love TV): Roku 2 XS Tech
• Five Fun Animated Entertainments to Stream on Netflix Tonight
• 6 Devices That Can Help You Trim Your Monthly Bills
• Sleep, What's That? The Five Most Addictive Shows on Netflix
• Google Nexus Q: The Social Media Streaming Device
• What We're Sacrificing for Streaming Video Access
• Find Your Favorite Flicks on Any Service
• Deck the Apple TV in Warm Wood With the Lazerwood Cover
• Replacing Cable TV With Wireless Smartphone Apps
Welcome to Apartment Therapy's Best of 2012 roundup! From December 19 through January 1 we are rounding up our favorite (and your favorite) posts from the past year.
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The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
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We got rid of cable about 6 months ago. We kept a basic service to get the local channels, and stream netflix and hulu on a Roku. Taking the cost of those three servcies into account we saved over $120/month. Crazy! We haven't looked back! We do have to be much more thoughtful about our TV viewing. You can spend hours on mindless channel cruising - a very good thing!
We turned our cable off about a year ago and went to Netflix mainly. There was talk of getting it back for football this past fall, but instead we would just take a case of beer over to a friend's house to watch games we were interested in. Everyone wins.
We also like hockey, but that seems like it's going to be a non-starter this year anyway.
I cancelled my DirecTV account a few months ago. I don't miss it too much. I tried Hulu+ once Apple added it to their AppleTV Devices, however, there are too many commercials for a pay-streaming service. I wouldn't recommend Hulu at all because of the commercials. I'd pay more for commercial-free content. I have had a Netflix account (streaming and DVDs) and use that a lot. I buy a few things from iTunes from time to time and also rent from there as well. Amazon's streaming content is good (and free if you have an Amazon Prime account). I don't care about sports nor the local tv channels. I can get all of the news and weather I need from the internet.
I dumped my dish for a Boxee Box a year ago and would never go back!
I've been considering it too. Who cares if there are 500 channels when it is basically all the same and there still is nothing worth watching.
I agree - we get 700 channels and there's never anything on I want to watch. However, our internet-cable-phone are bundled, so the cost of the internet and phone would go up if we cancelled the cable. I'm not ready to give up our phone because we live in an area where cell phone reception is iffy, and we need the internet.
This annoys me a lot and I'm so ready for a solution to this that doesn't make me feel ripped off by my cable company.
I've been cable-free for two years. My rabbit ears pull in the network channels but the screen pixelates too much so I don't watch a lot of TV. I have Netflix (I'm old school and get the DVDs in the mail) and that's it. I listen to NPR a lot. I even listened to the Presidential debates on the radio.