Thinking of cutting the cord

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The wife and I are thinking of cutting ties from the evil empire of cable television. Our main alternative choices are either SlingTV or Playstation Vue. Anybody have experiences with either/both, good or bad?
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I use SlingTV. As mentioned above sometimes I have buffering issues despite having a really good internet connection (I work from home so I pay for the second highest package).
Sling recently came out with a Beta version so they have two packages. While I like sports, ESPN wasn't going to force my final decision. I went with regular Sling until a month ago and now after the switch to their Beta package I have just about every channel I watched when I had DirecTV.
Sling also has a bit of a On Demand section that I use. For instance I use USA's (MR Robot + Suits), AMC's (Walking dead + Better Call Saul), FX's (The Americans, eventually Fargo).
One downside I have noticed to cutting the cord is that I have lost CBS because they don't put their shows on Hulu, and their streaming service is too expensive to justify for only getting one channel. It sounds like the CW is going away from Hulu too and has an agreement with Netflix that their show's seasons will be available 8 days after the season finale (The Flash is the only show I watch on that network).
Hope that helps.
My wife and I cut the chord several years ago and used a couple of Roku boxes with Amazon, Hulu and Netflix and it worked out really nicely. Eventually, I wanted to mix in some sports and my wife wanted the local morning news so we went back. I guess we have mixed feelings about it. We never regretted anything when we cut the chord, and we kind of want to again, but there are blind spots for watching things as they happen that aren't covered. For instance, there are shows like Better Call Saul and Fargo and the Walking Dead that I want to keep up with in real time. I know you can get season passes, but that comes in as an added expense, working against your savings. Which brings me to the other thing we realized when we considered cutting the chord again. The cable companies have now stacked it to where about 80% of our cost (granted this is using a promotion, but one that I am apparently able to call in and re-up ever year) is the internet portion of the bill. So our cable package which is basically everything except some of the expanded sports channels and the premium HBO, Showtime, etc. stuff is basically only $35/month or so. Figure, that only allows one season pass every month or two before we're not actually saving any money. Back when we did it 5-7 years ago I'm pretty sure it was stacked differently and we were saving significantly more, and the overall bill is around the same. Basically, I think this is the push-back from the cable companies due to the effect of chord cutting on their business.
I still think it's definitely worth looking into for many households, but it just doesn't seem to be a good fit with ours in the moment.
For me, it all comes down to sports and how much I'm willing to spend for it.
Drama? Amazon prime, Netflix, and HBO Now (totaling about $39 per month) provide me as much quality scripted drama as I can realistically consume with the time I have for tv watching.
News? I prefer getting it from a selection of Internet sites than from tv.
Comedy? I don't have a sense of humor.
Sports?
Yeah I miss watching my Texas Rangers and Dallas Mavericks, but it's not worth paying an extra $100 bucks a month. I can follow them online, listen to the radio, read post-game reports, and attend some games.
If the major sports leagues could cut ties to cable, the cable companies would be dead in the water. But the leagues get so much revenue from these guys, they just can't do it right now. New technology will force a change at some point, but it may take another decade.
Yeah, good point. I do get some of the local sports games through those channels.
I think Roku with Netflix/Amazon Prime (sorry guys)/SlingTV/HBOGo/Fox Sports pretty much covers it. I'm just not sure how to approach live programming or if that's going to be a thing of the past.