So, as a recent cord cutter, I've come to realize paying my cable company a monthly service for so long was kinda stupid.

I'm a former self admitted "TV junkie" (I own a 6 tuner PVR box with 3.5TB of storage...) who still enjoys my shows but I don't find the need to be right up to date anymore. The vast majority of the shows I watch can be streamed online on the stations own website if not immediately after, within a few days. Some can be unlocked early by creating an account/paying but as mentioned, I'm not enough of a TV junkie anymore to be bothered.

I did sign up for Netflix as an alternative. (A fifth of the price of Cable of a "grandfathered price" cable package I had.)

One of my big gripes with cable TV is even paying (too much, another gripe) for a service, where I was still forced to watch commercials. Well, until I bought the above mentioned PVR. At least then I could skip through them.

A lot of services out there offer free service, but you have to watch their ads. Fair enough, but you can pay for the service, and not be annoyed with commercials. To me in this day and age it is much better model.

Here in Canada cable providers are seeing mass quarterly defections. People are fed up.

So any other cord cutters here? Are you happy with your decision?

I've never had cable TV, ever.

Am I happy with my decision? I think so. Most of what I have heard about cable TV over the decades has not impressed me.

I have cable and I only have it to watch my wrestling. I feel it's a rip off absolutely but I have watched wrestling for twenty years and I am addicted to it. It's really the only thing I watch on cable.

I cut the cord back circa 1990 and never regretted it. What good is 80+ channels when only a couple are worth watching with any regularity? I have an indoor antenna that lets me pick up the local ABC affiliate, which I tend to watch for updates during severe weather (until electricity goes out) and several PBS channels which I might watch once or twice every few months. For the time being everything I care about (mostly classical music, history and some gaming LPs, plus recently TYT) is available at YouTube.

I paid for Cable TV for a few months back in 1997, and that's it. Since then it's been very rare I use my TV to watch TV, it's mostly used for console games and DVDs/blu-ray.

That said, in the past year I've started to watch documentaries on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVT_Play more and more, which is free for all in Sweden (yay for public broadcasting) and without commercials. Just about to watch an episode of http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04hsz2v right now actually.

Cut the cord nearly five years ago. Haven't regretted it once.

No cable, no satellite dish. We abandoned cable back in 1993 and never regretted it.

We do have a tv antenna and Netflix.

oh, thx for reminder, i have cable, but my tv broke about a year ago, gotta cancel that... (the tv, not the cable, my internet comes through that)

BEFORE it broke anyway, whenever i watched, a giant thought bubble reading "why am i wasting my time on this [censored] with commercial breaks?" was constantly floating above my head...

and WHEN it broke, i kind of was like "phew..."

ever since, i watch the news on our public station's live stream, and that's it.

and for my tv freed spare time, creation kit's got a firm grip on that anyway, so got no time to waste on tv anyway

My wife and daughter watch it all the time. For me, just Netflix.

Yeah for me my local news broadcasts over the air/streams (I stream) so I don't miss it thankfully.

Seems to work just fine here in Canada too. Now if only I understood Swedish... Though in my testing I did stumble on one English program with Swedish subtitles. The rest were indeed Swedish however.

I would love to be able to cut the cord but the other half is more addicted to tv (usually the same four shows and he's asleep before the intro is over...) than breathing.

We have a digital antenna, Fire TV plus Netflix so virtually anything I'm interested in would be covered but change is hard to process so for now, cable it will be.

Meh parents and brother can't live without TV...

Soon though we shall get Google fiber, hopefully sometime before next year since our neighborhood qualified.