I have finally cancelled Dish after 26 years!

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After picking up Dish in 1999, mainly because they had distant locals & super stations, I finally cancelled the service. Not unhappy with Dish, even though the pricing keeps going up, but what doesn't? I am keeping the Vip211k and Dish up. Who knows? I may re-subscribe, but at this point I doubt it. I haven't watched Dish for probably 1-2 years, so I had it on pause. I watch You Tube and Prime mostly, and occasionally OTA TV. I guess I can remove the outboard HDD and use it for something else now. The OTA tuner still works and the OTA guide, but there has been a lot of OTA channels without guides anyway. I have two Tablo's and a Recast, when I want to record OTA anyway. Again, I have no complaints with Dish. They have been great to me over the years. I guess, officially I am now a Cord Cutter. :-).
 
After picking up Dish in 1999, mainly because they had distant locals & super stations, I finally cancelled the service. Not unhappy with Dish, even though the pricing keeps going up, but what doesn't? I am keeping the Vip211k and Dish up. Who knows? I may re-subscribe, but at this point I doubt it. I haven't watched Dish for probably 1-2 years, so I had it on pause. I watch You Tube and Prime mostly, and occasionally OTA TV. I guess I can remove the outboard HDD and use it for something else now. The OTA tuner still works and the OTA guide, but there has been a lot of OTA channels without guides anyway. I have two Tablo's and a Recast, when I want to record OTA anyway. Again, I have no complaints with Dish. They have been great to me over the years. I guess, officially I am now a Cord Cutter. :-).

Totally understand, I'm probably going to be cancelling Dish when my $30/mo credits expire in 3 months too, nothing wrong with the service just the sad lack of content on cable and OTA TV. YouTube and Pluto are really all I need.
 
After picking up Dish in 1999, mainly because they had distant locals & super stations, I finally cancelled the service. Not unhappy with Dish, even though the pricing keeps going up, but what doesn't? I am keeping the Vip211k and Dish up. Who knows? I may re-subscribe, but at this point I doubt it. I haven't watched Dish for probably 1-2 years, so I had it on pause. I watch You Tube and Prime mostly, and occasionally OTA TV. I guess I can remove the outboard HDD and use it for something else now. The OTA tuner still works and the OTA guide, but there has been a lot of OTA channels without guides anyway. I have two Tablo's and a Recast, when I want to record OTA anyway. Again, I have no complaints with Dish. They have been great to me over the years. I guess, officially I am now a Cord Cutter. :-).
Congratulations! You lasted one year longer than I did. I started in January of 1997 and cut the cord at the end of January 2022. Now the real battle begins trying to keep the streaming costs down. But you have the ota networks covered using Tablo. I have the Next gen 4 tuner Tablo and it operates wonderfully. I also have the Air TV Anywhere 4 tuner Dvr, I use with Sling Tv and it actually has all my guide data for all my locals and sub channels. Even Tablo doesn't have all of them yet. You can always stream a service when something you want to watch is on and drop it to save money when not. Paramount plus is the one I use the least unless new episodes of Star Trek Strange Worlds is playing. But either way you will save more since you cut the cord. :biggrin
 
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Totally understand, I'm probably going to be cancelling Dish when my $30/mo credits expire in 3 months too, nothing wrong with the service just the sad lack of content on cable and OTA TV. YouTube and Pluto are really all I need.
I really need to explore Pluto and Xumo more.
I beat you all and dropped it before Covid
 
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