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Comment Love it (Score 1) 697

I cut off satellite about a year ago now and have been very happy. With HD content and 3 receivers I was paying Directv just under $100/mo without any premium services. My current setup is with a media center PC setup in my living room as our primary entertainment and a roku box in the bedroom. I use the NetFlix 1 DVD plan, but use streaming almost exclusively. I was already a member of Amazon Prime so that is basically a bonus. I expect Amazon will expand and get better with time, but there is a lot of content overlap with NetFlix and not nearly as many features, so it's a very distant second. I'm not a huge sports fan, but definitely wanted to be able to get college football/NFL. I have AT&T DSL so I have access to ESPN3 which I've found to be very satisfactory and between that and OTA network television I get enough live sports to keep me happy. The only actual channel I miss is the Science Channel, but so far enough of that type content (National Geographic, NOVA, etc) is available on NetFlix and Amazon to keep me entertained there as well. It's not perfect, but I'm much happier with my current setup than I was with satellite.

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