Water Torture Now Has More Appeal Than Switching Back to Cable TV
Many cord cutters visiting family over the holidays may need to suffer through a cable TV flashback
This holiday season, you may stay with friends or family who have not yet cut the cord. This means it may force you to endure aimless channel surfing on cable TV. And probably end up with nothing decent to watch for your trouble.
As cord cutters, it has given us the chance to experience watching television entirely differently. With endless streaming TV viewing choices, you will never run out of interesting content to watch.
It May Not Be As Cheap as it Once Was But Heres Why Millions are Choosing To stream TV Over Cable
1. No long-term equipment box rentals. With cable TV and satellite, you never really own the equipment needed to receive and decrypt their signal. Instead, they charge you monthly rental fees for each TV you own. These fees add up, and can cost a lot more than purchasing a media streamer outright.
If you insist on keeping cable TV or satellite, only rent a single box. On the rest of your televisions, add an Apple TV, Android TV or Roku streamer and pocket the monthly rental fee. To watch cable channels you are already paying for. Just add cable anywhere channels like these onto your streaming device and simply sign in with your cable TV provider account login and password.
You can then watch much of the same live and on-demand content without needing to pay box rental fees for each TV you own.
2. Ads Sometimes Optional. Several streaming channels like Hulu, HBO Max, and a few others give you the option to pay a little extra and turn off the ads. There is no such option with cable or satellite TV. They charge a small fortune and still make you sit through what seems like never ending ads. With cable, a DVR is a must so you can record and watch content on your schedule. And also save time by fast forwarding through advertisements.
Cord cutters can also choose from many free streaming TV providers like iMDB and Tubby, which do have ads, but don't charge a monthly fee like Netflix or other top tier streaming channels do.
3. Cable still costs more than Streaming TV. While the cost of streaming TV has been growing. And it now requires multiple subscriptions to watch the same content that was once all available on Netflix. But streaming TV offers another enormous advantage over cable or satellite. There are no start-up or cancellation fees with streaming. So you can easily rotate between several subscription streaming channels throughout the year.
Another Alternative to Watching Cable TV
Once you become accustomed to binge watching episode after episode, season after season without ads, it's hard to go back. But if you are stuck at a cable only home for the holidays, you really don't have much choice. Unless, you take along an AppleTV or Roku and use PlayOn Cloud to download content to your phone or tablet from your favorite streaming channels. Then use Airplay to watch this content on their TV.
In the process, you may even help convert a few more on the benefits of TV streaming.
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