Can those of you who have ditched cable help a guy out?

We use Apple TV and a digital antenna for CBS (we only watch college football on it). Then subscribe to Sling with the ESPN package and then swap out to HBO package after football season. We also subscribe to Netflix and Hulu and have Amazon Prime.

Of course, you have to pay for high speed Xfinity internet, unless AT&T or another provider has high speed fiber optic in your area.

Also, if family members have DirectTV or Comcast, you can use their credentials and log into Hulu, Netflix and ESPN apps.

We save over $100/month from our old Xfinity package. I believe Roku is about the same as Apple TV, so you can go either route there, probably.

We had AT&T, but moved a street over and had to get Xfinity due to the slower speed just literally 50 feet further away from the AT&T junction box.

If you stay with Xfinity, get your own modem and router. Don't rent theirs. Then check the bill each month and make sure they're not charging you to rent theirs. Seriously. They'll stick that shite on there.

I bought a Motorola MG7550 combined modem and router and it has been great. I think the newer version is the MG 7700.

(I always ran my own modem and router with AT&T, too.)

Just did this. Got roku and use directv now. 60 a month. Has all local and sec Espnu cbs sports. All of it.

I had Sling for a couple of years then came across Playstation Vue and never went back. Have everything they offer and pay about $75 a month.

I'm going to be doing this in another year. Building a house and we will have ATT fiber. I haven'r really researched yet, but currently have Dish Network, and would like to move to something else probably, maybe direct since I would get a discount with aTT.

I've been very happy with sling tv.

YoutubeTV. This is after having tried Sling and Directv Now.

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We switched to YoutubeTV and it’s been great so far. $43 a month. Unlimited DVR, local channels, ESPN and SEC Network, I watch tv on the app when I’m at work.

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I was watching sportscenter on my phone at work one afternoon , it was nice.

The problem now is that the cable companies with high speed internet have priced that so it's almost impossible to find internet fast enough for streaming and then something like youtube tv, hulu, sling, etc for a much better price than cable and internet.

I switched from Comcast to Uverse, instead of streaming, a few months ago only because going to AT&T fiber and their cable was basically the same price as either hi speed Comcast internet/AT&T fiber, and I get more channels than youtube tv, which is what I was going to go with. I was paying about $190 for Comcast and am paying $120 for Uverse. Internet and youtube tv would have been $120. It's hard to find internet fast enough for streaming for less than around $80/month.

I do have a 1 year deal with Uverse, so next year that price will go up, but when I unbundle from cable, they're going to try to raise their internet price. I had Uverse before Comcast and when I switched to Comast from Uverse and back to Uverse from Comcast, neither company would negotiate any kind of deal. Comcast said go ahead and leave and Uverse tried to get me to put up a satellite for Dish, which wasn't happening, but neither would make any concession for me to keep the same services for a better price.

I'm in Atlanta and we were supposed to have Google fiber by now, but I doubt it's ever going to happen at this point.

We do SlingTV with a couple of packages added on. Under $60 per month and we’re very happy.

We waited until we got fiber optic installed at the farm house btw.

Your bandwidth speed is very important especially if multiple TVs will be in use while you’re watching along with tablets, phones,etc.