My Mom has Parkinsons for 12 years, 3 failed stints and is home for months on end she has seen every movie dozens of times and most TV series many times. If she does not have a LOT of channels she has no entertainment when her pain gets the most of her movies and TV are a distraction. We of course have 2 DVRs so we can time delay and watch things anytime and skip commercials. I work lonnnnnnnnnnnng hours and want to watch the two dozen shows I watch any time late at night whatever and skip commercials. I can afford it but I make more than most people. Most people Internet is $40-$60 + another $40-$140 to have a wide range of channels for whole family. She utilizes some very obscure channels to watch a LOT of TV when bedridden in pain. And a Kindle to read because of her bad eyes large print very helpful....
Granted I liked paying $19.95 in the 90s for dialup but I'm only paying $42 now for broadband almost 17 years later. Doesn't seem prohibitively expensive to me. But yea cable tv is over priced i'd suggest dropping it. I think I'm only paying $57 for 100megs down and 5 Meg's up at my other house. *i* think that's worth it. But again no pay tv. I refuse, strongly refuse to pay for tv!
