I haven't read any contrarian arguments from you.
Then you haven't bothered to read my preceding posts in this forum.
I'm all for you and everyone else including myself finding the best deal for the content they watch. IF that includes or only includes OTA and streaming then I'm all for it.
All I did was point out that your (and many others) generalization about cable costing you more because you pay for channels you don't watch is one massive assumption.
YOur reply is......zzzzz.. Nothing.
I was at least hoping to hear more about what you watch that add up to 30 hrs a week. And if that includes your wife too or not or ?
I also pointed how cable/satellite to OTA/streaming comparisons are usually absurd and yours proved to be no exception. I said why.
I was hoping you would have something to say when I pointed this out, but ....crickets.
I'm sorry if you think pointing these things out is antiquated thinking. As far I know the math I'm using still works in 2014 even though it was developed many hundreds and thousands of years ago.
You want math, here it is.
Here is what I pay for video content now per month (on average):
Dish: $103 (AT200, 1 Hopper, 1 Joey)
Netflix: $9
Amazon: $8
iTunes: $15 (to rent movies)
Total:
$135
If I switch to OTA + Streaming, this is what expect to pay:
Tivo: $21 (worst case, or I could get lifetime)
Netflix: $9
Amazon: $8
Hulu Plus: $8
iTunes: $15
Total:
$61
Savings:
$74 or
$95 with lifetime.
If I buy a Roamio and a Mini to replace my Hopper and Joey, it would cost me $989.95 worst case, with lifetime and 3 year warranties. Throw in a really nice antenna for $137.20, and the total is $1127.15. If I am saving $95/month, I would recover my sunk costs in less than a year, and then I am only paying $40/month for content.
Here are the shows my wife and I currently record on our DVR and where we would get them with OTA + Streaming:
NOVA: OTA
Nature: OTA
Frontline: OTA
NBC Nightly News: OTA
Modern Family: OTA
Big Bang Theory: OTA
Saturday Night Live: OTA
Castle: OTA
60 Minutes: OTA
Falling Skies: Amazon Prime
Suze Orman: iTunes Audio Podcast (this is the only one where we'd lose out)
The Daily Show: Hulu Plus
Meet the Press: OTA
CBS News Sunday Morning: OTA
The Good Wife: Amazon Prime
Masterpiece Classic: OTA
Arrow: OTA
The Colbert Report: Hulu Plus
Mad Men: Netflix
Orphan Black: Amazon Prime
Doctor Who: Amazon Prime
Survivor: OTA
Today: OTA
The Walking Dead: Netflix
Bones: OTA
Grey's Anatomy: OTA
Reign: OTA
Nashville: OTA
Revenge: OTA
Pretty Little Liars: Netflix
Twisted: Netflix
The Amazing Race: OTA
There are also more and more other shows we watch already on Netflix and Amazon prime, like Orange is the New Black, House of Cards, Weeds, Stargate SG-1 (finally got around to watching this just recently), etc.
We could watch 50 hours a week and still have more to watch than we have time for, and we don't even watch sports except some of the Olympics every couple of years. There are tradeoffs. We would have to wait for shows to get populated on the streaming services, but we have too much to watch now, so waiting isn't a big deal for us.
On-demand streaming is the future. Paying for cable is the past. Everyone just hasn't realized it yet.