did I screw up this time ?

me too!

I don't have internet at home (just free wifi when I'm out places), no cell phone contract, no paid TV, no games. I don't want to waste that much money when it could be put to better use on the farm, on the mortgage or in savings. And I'm usually to busy to watch it, talk on it or play it anyway : )

Go here to see a. what channels you can get from your address and b. what type of antenna you would need:

http://www.antennaweb.org/

Our DirectTv is being shut off tomorrow, see ya' bye bye! We will be getting an antenna, plus I signed us up for Netflix snail mail dvd's. Yes they still do that. I had them before, and they were great! Now after a time the selection is not so good. For a stop-gap for now it will work fine.

Am still looking into streaming, we have to buy a device in order to stream Hoku/Roku, so that's in the works.

We can do this together. I did a recent thread which has lots of info:

Ok the tv will be shut off - now what do I do with myself?

Sounds like you just got a very nice raise in your spendable, after tax income.

I will be very honest with yall,Iam as dumb as can be with all of this computer-network-dish tv modern stuff,I struggle to even type or spell,I cant see to good,but I see a way more than I understand

Hmmmm....well, if you're that upset by NOT having TV available, maybe it is best if you wean yourself a bit. Perhaps, after a while you can add something else back in that is used for a different purpose than to take up a lot of time? Like education? True entertainment?

We also have a 'person' in our household that will watch TV all day and night with the remote - switching back and forth between channels murmuring all the time about the cost and actually having nothing to watch. Then he found NetFlix and it just got worse. Christmas vacation- 16 hrs a day watching many old TV series with the headphones in. Bleck!! Not how I want to spend my life.

We had Direct TV for 14 years . Every so often they'd offer to upgrade & ask us didn't we want to add this or that . We'd always say no , but couldn't you give us a few months of free Cinemax , HBO or something since we've been such good loyal customers all these years . They'd always say no , can't do that .
About a year & 1/2 ago we bought a second home & moved . Here our best deal was to get TV , Internet & Phone all in a bundle . The TV in the bundle is Dish Network so we canceled Direct TV .
About every two weeks we get offers from Direct TV offering us special deals & even money to buy out our contract with Dish if we'll only take them back . In the bundle we have now we are paying far less for the large package from Dish than we were paying for a smaller package from Direct .
I wouldn't be at all surprised that before long you'll start receiving all kinds of special offers from Dish if you'll sign back up .

Get Netflix $8 per month). If you have a dsl line get a Roku box ($50 or so) anx see what is available. Never watch cable anymore. Netflix, Amazon TV and a bunch of free channels.

I wish I could convince my wife to give up satellite.

You took a risk and lost. Either call them back and resubscribe or go on with your life.

From a full paying dishnetwork subscriber that has been paying for your discount.

Maybe you watch to much TV.

I get my weather at will from the net. My browser has a weather icon and I pick the location for the weather. I can get the weather in any medium city/town.

You had Dish AND Hughesnet? Why not just buy a hairshirt and put pebbles in your shoes?

A great use for your dish:

http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects...oker%20JSE.pdf

Cook something for your wife to smooooth things over.

We get hundreds of hours of viewing free from our library. Their section for DVDs is getting to be enormous. And then of course there are the books and those that are read aloud on tape or CD. And for $75 a month you can buy a lot of DVDs over time - of things that really interest you. If you are a sports fan you may have some serious withdrawal. News is available on the radio and the internet. We live in the Arctic with about 7 months of winter so we really like our TV but if I had to pay $75 a month ($900 a year) for it I would not hesitate to cut it off. We pay $40 and $480 a year is bad enough.

Since you have internet Google XBMC hub wizard. Pretty much has anything you'd ever want. We turned off cable years ago and have never looked back. Fairly ease even if you're not computer savvy.

Wasn't life nice and simple back in the good old days - had the radio and that's all - somehow we got along - now all we do is spend too much time watching TV when we could be doing something more useful and healthy - a bus crashes somewhere in the world and they got to tell us about it - who cares - as long as it wasn't local - what should happen with the TV - you should only pay for the stations that you want to watch and not all the others that you never watch - there are only about 5 stations that I would pay for -

no not that hooked on tv realy.If I got a local for news I be ok,wife likes givin me a rough time mostly,got plenty to do of the day,just at nite that some thing to look at besides eachother helps

what ?Im slow I reckin

After getting up with the roosters, splitting wood, cranking up a fire, making breakfast, plowing, weeding, feeding the animals, reading up on everything you need to know, and everything else that is involved with homesteading today, you must not have enough work if you still got the energy and effort to put into worrying about watching TV. I recommend that you volunteer for some local charity work. Maybe help out some of your older neighbors with their splitting wood, plowing, etc.

Nah, your services are slow. A religious penitent works to make the physical life as difficult and painful as possible. Dish and Hughesnet are the most difficult and painful satellite providers.

They are discussing doing this in Canada. No more cable and satellite packages being forced onto consumers. The consumer will get to pick the channels they want. Only the good channels will survive.

The problem with radio today is that it is now just news and music. In the good old days there were dramas and comedies and children's shows.