120$ for an HD terminal with about 150 channels & high speed cable internet.
I’m having a hard time adjusting to the clarity of HD, in a good way.
20 mb/s from Comcast for $36 a month. One Magic Jack hooked up to a cordless phone system for virtually free phone calls. Netflix on Demand+DVD = $17 + Hulu Plus for $8 a month. Total cost of high speed internet/phone/streaming TV/DVD rentals = $60 a month. I just set it up as an experiment to see how much I could do off of one fast internet connection and and a fast wireless network. The answer was everything and it works well. I think people are insane for spending as much as they do on this stuff.
Cable internet 29.99 per month, claims speeds up to 18 Mbps, speedtest.net says I’m getting 21 Mbps
Netflix streaming 7.99 per month
MLB baseball online $160 covers April-September
NHL hockey online $160 covers October-mid April
Netflix, MLB, NHL are all hooked up to Apple tv connected to the plasma tv.
NFL football is watched over the air through rabbit ears.
I’ve got a DVD collection and the occasional Redbox rental to fill in the gaps.
Live alone in a studio apartment.
Comcast basic cable/internet - just went up to around $96 or so. No land line: Virgin Mobile month-to-month unlimited everything - $25 a month. (Phone itself was expensive though - Android - $200).
Basic cable: $15
DSL: $32
I dropped most of the channels when Time Warner went to $70 a month. That was a 25% increase in five years; my Verizon DSL had been $30 the same period.
Note: if net neutrality is repealed, your Internet bill will also increase at rates akin to cable.
We’re paying $170 to Comcast right now, for internet and TV, including HBO. However, I’m getting FIOS installed next week at $45 for 25Mbps up/down, and we’ll try to stick with just streaming for a while - we’ll see how the kids take it, since they watch more TV than we do. We’ll probably get them a Roku box for Christmas.
If we decide we cannot do without our True Blood and Game of Thrones by next year, I can get a basic package+HBO from Dish Network for $35, which will give me access to a bunch of streaming stuff from Dish Network’s online service, and also to HBO Go - I won’t even need to set up the butt-ugly satellite dish to get it, and I’ll still be paying less than half of what we pay to Comcast right now.
Any other shows we must see we like Walking Dead or Eureka (what’s left of it) we’ll be able to rent online for a couple bucks a pop.
All-in-1 from ziggo(cable Netherlands)
120Mbit down 10Mbit up
90 channels(12 HD channels)
Telephone line
67 euros a month (~$94)
Internet is AU$50 per month, and TV is free-to-air only.
I barely have time to watch everything as it is, I can’t imagine what my life would be like if I had even more choice.
i have advanced cable, some triple play deal with tv, internet 12-15 megs and home digital phone. Bill is 290ish or more depending if i use on demand services. It comes with every pay movie channel and HD but is overpriced for what you get. My other house one city over has Comcast and you get all 3 but slightly slower internet for about 240 total. i have 2 boxes one with dvr and HD.
Those of you on Comcast are all paying significantly more than me. You might want to try threatening to close your account and see what their retention department can offer you.
I pay $88.47/month for 22MBps Internet, Digital cable (but no HBO etc.), HD, DVR, sports package. I used to pay $167, but when I canceled one cable box and my cable modem rental, I was offered a two-year deal at the price quoted above. Actually, I think it goes up by about $10/month for the second year.
You just did.
Wow, the prices for these services in the US seem to be rather expensive compared to those in Germany. Here, I pay 25 € for 16 Mbit/s cable internet and free land line (could get 32 Mbit/s for 5 € more), and nothing for satellite TV (1000+ channels, but admittedly only about 50 of them useful), except for a 50 € yearly fee for additional HD channels.
I really hate comcast. They charge me $60.00 a month for cable. I pay direct tv $110.00 a month for a dvr with hd, all basic channels with added sports pack, but no movies.
That doesn’t even talk about phones.
When I called to set up comcast at our business, they offered me wifi, two phone lines and free web hosting for $110.00 a month and a $100.00 install. I even signed the contract they sent via the web, but then they called and are increasing the install by $50.00. And they are the only game in town, so I will have no choice but to let them do this. Bastards.
Too late to edit: Forgot one thing: in Germany, we still have public broadcasting which implies a mandatory monthly fee of 18 € that everybody with the technical means to receive TV and/or radio is obliged to pay. It’s just so self-evident here that I forgot to mention it above.
How are you guys getting off so cheap? I have basic cable and internet, no land line. It’s over 170 for me now.
Well, surprises never stop. Comcast called me the other day and offered a sweet deal if I agree to a 2-year contract. Right now, without premium channels, having HD and a DVR, and with taxes and fees, my bill is up near $200. New offer: nearly all premium channels (HBO, Starz, SHO, MAX) plus HD plus the DVR and no stacking fees for $$159/mo. Guess the competition is taking away customers.
That’s cool but it’s still a whole lot of money, and way too much stuff to watch.
$105 for internet because we need “Business FIOS” for my techie husband. He says they “block ports” or something unless we pay extra for the business version. We pay nothing for cable - dropped that about 6 months ago and we’re perfectly happy with the couple of networks we’re still getting, and the mini-computer we hooked up to the TV so we can watch Hulu and stuff. We also pay for streaming Netflix, not sure exactly how much that is, but our total monthly bill for internet and “TV” is less than $140.
We have 10 MBps broadband, landline, 175 channels , 23 HD channels (don’t know whether the 23 HD channels are included in the other 175 or on top of that) plus the Sky Sports channels and ESPN for £60 per month or about $94. BBC licence fee is £12/$18 per month.
Well, it’s cable, high-speed internet and phone in a bundle, and it’s $40 less per month. Even if I don’t watch a lot of HBO, etc. (which I don’t) it’s still $40/mo in my pocket.