So...it is midnight oh one here in Spotsylvania, VA. WUSA9 is still on the air via Dish, but I am betting that during my 1:30AM update, it will go bye-bye, since the dispute is still not resolved. I am actually with Dish on this, BUT, here is what this has got me thinking about. I pay somewhere around $140 per month, give or take a few bucks, for Dish programming. Out of all the channels available, we watch only twenty to thirty shows throughout all seasons consistently enough to call them must haves. Out of those shows, only three or four cannot be watched via Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, or some other online medium. Even paying for full seasons of those shows, I would come nowhere close annually, to paying as much a la carte, as I do currently paying for Dish, or than I would for ANY OTHER provider's services. I have Dish, because after trying Comcast and Direct TV, Dish's hardware and software showed as vastly superior. But, and here is the thing....I just do not need the all too frequent headaches of carriage disputes or whatever they are...from any provider. Especially if I can spend so much less money by paying for and watching only the shows in which I am truly interested. I just signed another two year contract for the privilege of using Hoppers, but, if there is any way to get out of this contract without losing my ass, I am seriously considering it. And, in two years when my husband retires from the military and we have to drastically reduce our bills, we will definitely be cutting Dish. We will have to at that point. We will need every dollar back into our pockets just to pay for retiree healthcare. So, if anyone here knows how to get OTA started, or can point me in the right direction to learn, I am curious. I am old enough to remember growing up with a roof antenna, but young enough to have had cable ever since I joined the military and moved out on my own. Will those flat indoor antennas that I sometimes see advertised on Daily Steals work? Does an indoor antenna have to have an outdoor component? And finally, anyone know how to cancel a two to three month old Dish contract and not pay a whopping fee?
