nlgh

I, too, watch a lot of older shows because they are much better scripts than these newer shows. I don't like the reality shows either unless they are the music ones. I used to watch Dancing with the Stars, but their dance routines and costumes got so "sophisticated" that I didn't enjoy them. I have DISH basic, but half the channels are shopping programs and I only watch about about 15 or so channels and that is to see certain programs at certain times. There's not a channel I would put on and leave it on all day (or as long as I am home, that is).

The older shows I watch keep my interest from beginning to end, movies included. It seems no one knows how to do that anymore. I blame the education system for quite a lot of it. It seems they have watered down the standards we had when I was in school. I graduated high school in 1956. I may have been lucky to have the teacher I had, but she taught us the correct usage of certain words like effect and affect, the correct forms of verbs like when and how to use seen and saw, etc.

I have grandkids in the school system now, the youngest in 2nd grade. They are learning some things a little earlier than when I did, but the math being taught now, Common Core, is atrocious. I can't help when it comes to multiplication and division. The way they are taught to solve the problems is so much harder and less clear cut that I don't even understand it. Watch the way young people make change at the cash register. If they don't have the machine tell them how much to give you, some of them can't give you the right change. I could go on, but I won't.

fruitloop

I subscribe to Acorn TV. All British shows, series, and movies. I can get on Roku or on computer/tablet or smart tv. I think its $5 a month. The shows don't insult my intelligence even the comedies. I love love lover Ladies of Letters, funniest series I've seen in ages.

magpie

If you enjoy British shows like Masterpiece, Downton Abbey, Vera, and Doc Martin check out Acorntv.com. It's 4.99/month. There lots of variety.

madamekelly

We gave up cable and are considering giving up internet with the repeal of net neutrality. If they get to pick where I go on the ’net, I just have no further use for it. I will be sad to say good bye here, but I can not justify keeping them. They will probably not allow it anyway.

Stitchnripper

would be sorry to miss you. Who is "they" and what wouldn't they allow?

we have directv, Amazon prime and Netflix. Also added acorntv. We share several of these with the two sons. They have access to some things through our DIRECTV account so we all benefit.

madamekelly

If I understand it correctly, now that net neutrality has been repealed, the internet will be run like cable TV. They (cable and satellite providers) will control what sites you have access to, just like they do with television. I cancelled cable because of spending over $100 per month just for the slowest internet and the lowest tier of programming. Not worth it. I love how quiet my home is now.

happystitchermm

I dished my cable and got sling tv on internet. You can pick your channels I just got a box for local pickup.

SooBDo

Here's a great article about Net Neutrality by Kim Komando. It clears up quite a number of misconceptions:
https://www.komando.com/happening-no...y-do-you-agree

klswift

I recently dropped cable and signed up for SlingTV. It has options as low as $20 per month. But, if you purchase the 'orange and blue' options, it includes the local channels with all the cable channels I like (AMC, History, FX, TNT, TBS, Food, NATGeo, A&E, etc). This was the only reason I didn't leave cable, none of the other options offered the locals. The whole package costs me $44 per month (with 50 hours of DVR and use on 2 tvs) instead of the $125 cable was costing. I added Acorn for $5 per month and other than the local news, I pretty much binge watch Acorn programs while in my workroom. I love the British and Australian shows. Another thing we do is one of my kids pays for Netflix and has the rest of us listed as users, another pays for hulu and does the same and my kid who pretty much only shops on Amazon has Amazon prime and has listed us as users on her prime account. They don't care about local news so this is their only costs. I have a Roku, but we got them Chrome plug-ins for gifts so they can have access on their big tvs and their bedroom tvs (cost $30-one time fee, no monthly things). Cable has just priced themselves out of the market and you end up paying for 100 channels that you will never look at!

Rennie

I understand the need (and have the desire) to drop cable tv, but for those who do that, like Klswift, how do you get your internet in order to view sling tv?