cancelled it already! Between Hulu & Netflix I get all the entertainment I need. The only thing I miss really is the Food Network, but for I can live with it considering how much I save.

I cancelled mine about a month ago and have not regretted it. I only watch a few shows and they are all available online. Hulu is wonderful. Yidio is another great site for anything not on Hulu and for those outside the US. Time Warner was charging around $45 a month!

Even if you do not want to cancel, I would recommend calling and suggesting you do. Mention that you can just watch TV online. Before Time Warner would process my cancellation, they offered to decrease my cost by about $10 per month. These companies will do anything to keep you on their customer list because they know the internet TV market is gaining momentum.

we got rid of cable two years ago and have never looked back. We saved a ton of money, and Hulu Netflix give us plenty of great stuff to watch. Another benefit: we now watch a lot less TV than we used to... more time for real life.

Yes, sometimes it's mildly annoying to miss a show you really want to see, but 99% of the time, I really don't care.

I have not had cable TV in 8 years, ever since I left home for college. So I have never paid for cable, and even if I could afford it, I wouldn't!

Cancelled ours about 2 years ago. Hulu and Netflix cover almost everything, and several of the networks host their content directly on their sites, as well. We watch a lot of shows and movies, and we appreciate that we have more control over the time we watch, as well as being able to access content (e.g. international films) that are less available on traditional cable service.

I want to cancel it but I haven't been able to convince the boyfriend. Actually, we just got locked into a FIOS contract for 2 years but thankfully it's a decent deal. I watch mostly FOX and ABC so I can watch it all over the air in HD for free, and everything else can be found online pretty easily.

Already cancelled. I think it has been about a year now and we love it. We watch movies and TV series via Netflix instant on our PS3. We watch shows we would have otherwise never discovered and the stories tend to have
more substance. And we get to choose what we watch sans advertising and a $150 cable bill.

No paid TV here either. It seems cable is mostly for sports. Between Hulu and the other offerings, no need to pay for content.

We've never had it. My husband had it before we moved in together because it was part of his apartment "package" (although, I am sure he would have paid for it anyway), but we never got around to getting it at our house and we didn't miss it at all. I think it has been nine years now. We do watch some things online or on DVD, but there just isn't much we like to watch these days, and we don't really have the time anyway.

We cancelled 2 years ago and haven't looked back. We have an HD antenna, Netflix, and are building our home entertainment PC. The HD antenna picks up A LOT of channels, including 6 PBSes and all day PBSKids, so little sugarbakers never even misses Elmo.

The only bummer is no ESPN, so we hang at our local pub to watch college basketball.

Do it, people.

We haven't had cable or any tv for 2 years. Netflix, DVD's and Hulu take care of us.
We have tv's at work and if there is something that I really want to see, we'll go to our parents or a friends.
Don't even miss it. Get much more accomplished when I'm not sucked in to a "Hoarders" marathon!!

I used to pay for cable as part of a package deal. But it was also only $35 and the bill was split between my roommate and I.

I wouldn't subscribe to it now because there's no point. Between downloading and everything else, I don't need it.

I don't have a TV, so I don't have cable either.

Cancelled mine 5 years ago in a trade-off for DSL. I miss C-Span and ESPN for college basketball and tennis, but not the rest of the 100 nothing's-on-tv-channels. Even when I'm at my parents' or sister's house and have it available, I end up watching PBS.

Yep no TV/no cable either! I have a quality projector, which projects a huge image on my wall, bigger than a flat screen! I use the library to get movies and I actually have a good neighborhood "video" store. The only channel i miss is TCM! I wish there was a way to just sign up for that one channel on the internet. i love old movies and they are getting harder and harder to find.

For two years I've used my TV just to play Netflix Instant and DVDs, etc., from the library, local renters, and my own collection. It costs less and there are no commercials. I watch it less and am more active. I choose when and how long to watch a feature film or whatever I want, and only what I want. I decide how many episodes of a TV series to watch in a row--no wait required to see a cliffhanger resolved. I never watched sports. I'd stopped watching TV news decades ago, aside from 9/11 and hurricane coverage. I read news since it's less upsetting in print. My husband reads it and also listens to radio news while multitasking. I had stopped watching non-cable stations much earlier, and never missed cable.

Cancelled since New Year. No regrets at all.

I'm glad AT covered this topic. From time to time I think about what it would be like to have no cable. Reading all these comments, I feel tempted to cancel. But alas, I have a two-year price lock with Time Warner! When it expires in September I will call them. Can anyone tell me how much it is just to have Internet? Which provider should I go for - Verizon or Time Warner? Thanks.

I was a non-cable person for years, but I finally broke down and ordered cable in 2007. Now, I do not know what I would do without the Food Network and the International History Channel. But, money is tight, and I have been seriously considering cutting service.

It's been almost two years and we don't miss it and the $100 monthly bill at all! We love Netflix, Hulu, and our three PBS stations, which our digital antenna allows us to receive.

No cable for several years now. Apart from a lower bill, I also end up spending less time on the couch in the evening, or late at night. Spend more time playing tennis, going outside, or just reading a book.
Couldn't be happier.

I haven't had cable since the late 80's, and only then because there was no reception without it. The way cable could make me sign up is if it were like a menu, where you could pick your shows from different column prices and just get those only and pay for those accordingly. They could try to tempt me with new fare and maybe I would add it on depending on the price.
No one needs bundled cable with 500 channels.

cancelled comcast a month ago. that felt so good.

in addition to the over-the-air channels i get, i've been using boxee and plex (both free and highly recommended, will be even better when they work out a few kinks) to watch hulu, netflix, etc. it's been a slight adjustment in terms of logistics and the availability of some shows, but that's only a minor complaint. totally worth it.

if you aren't familiar, give these programs a try. they mainly function as a way to consolidate your media library, but they also have plugins (eg, netflix, hulu, college humor, etc) that allow for an easily searchable way to access your stuff and online sources from your couch (i use my apple remote, but plex at least is reportedly assignable on harmony remotes and the like).

i could say a lot more about them, but anyway, linkee:

www.boxee.tv/
www.plexapp.com

For a long time my cable was free, but when it went on the blink I switched to DirecTV for $50 a month (split with a roommate) and wouldn't give it up, especially the Tivo/DVR option. I'd go crazy if I couldn't watch Giants baseball games on tv. I don't want to watch shows on a laptop or computer or subscribe to Neflix.