The State of the TV Nation - Sooke

I thought it would be a good idea to update where we are on our journey without cable TV, I did this three years ago on our Gibsons Nature Watch blog, and now that we are in Sooke, we should revisit the topic.

Graeme Wright, my buddy who lived in Ontario has now gone off to the left and retired in Nova Scotia, in a parallel world he has started his own blog, the South Shore Tidal Watch and it makes for fantastic reading (I have added a link over on the right of the screen).

Graeme, when he was still working, would often ask if there were any flaws in the financial plan, and our answer was always none. In December 2012 we had just "cut the cord" and gone off the cable TV mortgage, something that was costing about $85 a month, and we can say that over the four years we have saved something like $4000 and to be perfectly honest, we have a far better TV experience than we ever had with cable TV.

In the transition to Sooke, we changed our phone and Internet Service provider, at the moment it is Telus fibre and if we look at the package cost, we're paying $10 a month more now. Our yearly savings have reduced to something like $900 and we expect, as streaming becomes more popular, that these companies will continue to edge up the costs of their internet plans.

In Gibsons we could receive a few over the air HD channels, but here in Sooke we are surrounded by mountains and high ground which block the transmitters, so we have lost some live TV, but we have also found some IPTV channels that are live, and overall, our viewing choices continue to expand, not diminish.

If there are any flaws in this cord cutting plan, we have yet to find them.

Will update again in a few years time.