Couch Potato Report predicts half of Canada will be without traditional TV by 2026
Sigh. Should we, should we tell them?
Do you guys not have to pay for cable in order to get internet? Must be nice…
Wait, you guys have to pay for cable in order to get internet? I’ve never paid for cable in my life, just internet.
It depends on the company, at least here in the United States. I can most of the time pay for internet without cable of any kind, but I know some companies that don’t allow that.
Monopolies.
A lot of the time you can theoretically do it without the bundle, but the promo prices that are the only way pricing is remotely in the neighborhood of reasonable only apply to the bundle.
No. It’s an option some companies sell as a bundle. I have gotten free cable box with free channels in order for me to get me hooked but I never plugged them in.
Haven’t had cable for like 20 years now. Shop around, don’t pay for things you don’t use.
“Shop around” <- found the non-USA-liver
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Most of us do. Rogers and Bell (the only companies we can get internet infrastructure from) don’t often sell internet on its own. You usually have to get a cable or home phone package with it.
If you’re lucky and some third party company is leasing some bandwidth from the existing fibre or cable infrastructure, you can pay a bit cheaper and just have an internet plan on its own (like with Start or Teksavvy or the others).
Or if you’re in Toronto you get access to amazing ISPs like Benfield and fibrestream. $50 for 1Gb/s symmetric. Glorious
That’s not true, I’ve been with Bell for 10+ years and they’ve always had an internet only option. In fact, I know they still do. So does East Link.
I guess it depends where you live. I’m in Atlantic Canada and there aren’t any Bell or Rogers plans that have internet as standalone. Always in a bundle.
No I don’t use a big telecom. I just get internet. Even if cable tv was free I wouldn’t use that trash. I have never paid for cable in my life.
I’m surprised this number isn’t lower than half already. I figured by now, any shows airing regularly could simply be streamed right from the source rather than waiting for a timeslot and ads.
Or is there a reason to keep using cable over streaming?
Traditional TV is dead, I was visiting someone who still has it. There was more commercial than show per slot and they had banner ads during the show. I wouldn’t even tolerate that crap if you paid me to watch your tv station.
its better in estonia, and i don’t own a television station. also i was a bit busy because of an issue with a community on lemmy.wtf
