I am actually surprised they have not offered anything to try and keep us. Not even when we called to cancel. Our bill dropped about a hundred dollars so that is nice. I miss Bay News 9. Only because I have tried my best to get out on the kayak this year and they ran weather reports including marine forecasts every 10 minutes or so. But I have only managed twice so far to get out. As far as shows I thought I might miss a few but I do not. Vikings I can watch on History Channel's Roku App. But to be honest I forget about the show until the weekend when a friend comes over and I put it on while we talk.
I have been "watching" a lot of
Ted Talks. I put watching in quotes as it is often background noise while on the computer or working around the house. Right now as I type this I am listening to
The Celts which is on Hulu. I guess it is a BBC program. Seems to have their feel. Pretty good and I find myself replaying some of them as I miss stuff only half paying attention. If you sign up for Hulu let me know. We both could get a free extra two weeks.
I find myself putting on a lot of documentaries. If I cannot sleep I may put on a TV show or Movie to fall asleep to.
Hulu also has a lot of stuff for the kids. While I do try for stuff that teaches them a little like Dora the Explorer, they love their Spongebob. I think their TV watching has gone down some. But it could be the warmer weather helping.
I really do not use the antenna much. Often it is just in the mornings as I drink my coffee and do my morning thing on the computer. I will put on the news to try and catch the weather report. Most of my news has been from around the web otherwise. I was able to follow the progress of the Bundy Ranch pretty easily while not worrying about whatever celebrity is making the news for their stupidity.
Sports may be a problem for some. I rarely if ever sat down to just watch a sports event, so it does not bother me. You can get some channels and pay for them through Roku to watch sports, but from my reading things like Football are hard to find.
I am been trying, although not that hard, on getting a computer up and running. I have a hard drive with a copy of our DVD's on it. I would like to try and get
Plex running on it. This way I can stream the DVD's and I can keep them away from the kids and getting scratched. Plus the wife has some DVDs of stuff that other companies like netflix or amazon prime do not stream.
My reading went up by a book for the month. I just finished the second book in the
Iron Druid series. So it is not all serious reading but it beats TV, although the book does have some mythology built into it.
While I cannot say my productivity has sky rocketed I have seen a slight increase. I really do not miss the cable. The money may saved may not be a lot to some, but it helps. For the foreseeable future I see no reason to go back to cable.
Amazon just launched their own TV hardware similar to the Roku. And Google's ChromeCast has been open for developers. Never really hear much about AppleTV anymore. This could be interesting to watch as more people switch over.