![]() ![]() It’s been years since I bought a TV just because I’ve been so fortunate to have vendors send me review units over the years. I talked about being annoyed with my 70″ Vizio TV and the problems got even worse so I finally took the plunge and purchased a new TV. It’s just a matter of remembering that we’re watching Show X and need to go to App Z to watch the latest episode if it doesn’t show up on the Apple TV’s row of shows to watch. But honestly, the Apple TV catches most of them so it’s not that big of a deal. Do I wish there was one interface that shows all those episodes on one screen? Sure. It has been a little over a month ago since I cut the cord with DirecTV and I wish I would have done it years ago! There was a short adjustment period but now it feels normal to find all the new episodes of our favorite shows in individual streaming apps. Now I just need to start researching for a new TV purchase! □ Update 2/24/22 I am not including my $40 T-Mobile Home Internet monthly internet bill because I would be paying for that regardless. That’s a savings of more than $100 per month. Paramount+ (free with my T-Mobile account)ĭiscovery+ $29.99 for 1 year ($2.50 per month)ĪppleTV+ $49.99 for 1 year ($4.17 per month) I was paying $147.84 per month for DirecTV service and now I’m paying about $35.65 per month if you break everything down as follows: Before cutting the cord and after cutting the cord payments Jeanne gave me the thumbs up to truly cut the cord and that’s exactly what I did yesterday. So I said ok and hung up.Ī couple of days ago I asked Jeanne what she thought about canceling DirecTV altogether instead of turning it back on in a few days. I couldn’t believe they didn’t want to unpause it back on so I could start paying them again. That it had to be off for a full 30 days. They told me that they COULD NOT turn the account back on. So the next day, I called DirecTV and explained the situation and that I wanted to take them up on their offer from the previous day, unpause the account, and take their offered $50 discount for the next year. DirecTV has crazy policies that make zero sense The rest of the night we went back and forth with “what do you want to watch?” met with “I don’t know, what do you want to watch?” Finally, I asked her if she wanted me to call DirecTV back the next day to take their $50 monthly discount and she said yes. I said we can’t, we don’t have DirecTV anymore… I asked Jeanne what she wanted to watch next and she said “put it on HGTV”. It was after that show ended that things felt different. ![]() Our typical nightly habit had been watching a pre-recorded show on the DirecTV DVR, so it felt normal to stream one of those same shows on Hulu. With our DirecTV account paused, we started our first evening of TV watching by streaming a show while we ate our dinner. ![]() This option is a great way to save money by not paying for something you’re not using so I thought it would be a good way to do the cord-cutting experiment. I’ve done this several times throughout the years when we’ve done home remodels and were unable to use the equipment for an extended period of time. I said I’d think about it but I wanted to go ahead pause my account. Let’s take a DirecTV breakĭuring that call with the DirecTV rep, they actually offered to give me a $50 discount on my bill for 1 year which would bring my monthly bill down to around $100. She said ok, so I made the call a couple of weeks ago to put a pause on my account. When I heard that DirecTV was planning to increases prices early this year, I told Jeanne it was time for us to do a trial run of cutting the cord. Then more recently, we’ve been annoyed by bugs in their DVR user interface and more importantly the fact that we have been paying almost $150 a month for programming that didn’t include any premium channels. We’ve been relatively happy with DirecTV over the years except when there were network channel outages due to contract disputes. ![]()
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