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2014: The year of living cable TV-free
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Monty Solomon
Jan 26, 2015, 10:51:19 AM1/26/15
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In April 2013, I quit being a cable customer after more than three
decades of paying monthly for TV. It's been more than 20
months since then, and 2014 marked my first full year as a cord
cutter.
And I'm not alone. While the number of people who have dropped
cable and rely solely on Internet streaming to watch TV shows and
on-demand movies remains a very small percentage of all TV watchers,
it's steadily growing. A May 2014 report by Experian Marketing
Services put the number of cord cutters at 6.5 percent of TV
households, up from 4.5 percent in 2010.
http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2015/01/2014-the-year-of-living-cable-tv-free/
***** Moderator's Note *****
In 2004, I told the Comcast sales department to stuff it, and after a
decade of not paying for TV, I can attest to the benefits of doing
without it.
Take it from me: it's all the same. I don't mean that the plots are
all the same, or that the outcomes are all the same: I mean it's *all*
the same. *All* the actors are tall and conservative, and *all* the
actresses wear tight sweaters, and *all* the problems are solved in 60
minutes with time out for commercials.
I'm actually looking forward to power outages in the comming blizzard:
you'd be amazed at how interesting your neighbors are when you all sit
down around a fire and talk to each other.
Bill Horne
Moderator
decades of paying monthly for TV. It's been more than 20
months since then, and 2014 marked my first full year as a cord
cutter.
And I'm not alone. While the number of people who have dropped
cable and rely solely on Internet streaming to watch TV shows and
on-demand movies remains a very small percentage of all TV watchers,
it's steadily growing. A May 2014 report by Experian Marketing
Services put the number of cord cutters at 6.5 percent of TV
households, up from 4.5 percent in 2010.
http://blog.chron.com/techblog/2015/01/2014-the-year-of-living-cable-tv-free/
***** Moderator's Note *****
In 2004, I told the Comcast sales department to stuff it, and after a
decade of not paying for TV, I can attest to the benefits of doing
without it.
Take it from me: it's all the same. I don't mean that the plots are
all the same, or that the outcomes are all the same: I mean it's *all*
the same. *All* the actors are tall and conservative, and *all* the
actresses wear tight sweaters, and *all* the problems are solved in 60
minutes with time out for commercials.
I'm actually looking forward to power outages in the comming blizzard:
you'd be amazed at how interesting your neighbors are when you all sit
down around a fire and talk to each other.
Bill Horne
Moderator
Julian Thomas
Jan 26, 2015, 7:25:48 PM1/26/15
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> On Jan 23, 2015, at 21:54, Monty Solomon <mo...@roscom.com> wrote:
>
> And I'm not alone. While the number of people who have dropped
> cable and rely solely on Internet streaming to watch TV shows and
> on-demand movies remains a very small percentage of all TV watchers,
> it's steadily growing.
Cable cutting isn't a very interesting option where DSL is slow and
>
> And I'm not alone. While the number of people who have dropped
> cable and rely solely on Internet streaming to watch TV shows and
> on-demand movies remains a very small percentage of all TV watchers,
> it's steadily growing.
undependable [no FioS] and the only other internet option is the cable
company.
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Garrett Wollman
Jan 26, 2015, 7:25:48 PM1/26/15
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In article <AD2F043C-9EA4-4F88...@roscom.com>,
description. In fact, I don't think I've ever watched anything of
that sort in my life.
Different strokes for different folks, you know. That's just about
the only thing the modern "cable TV bundle" has going for it.
-GAWollman
--
Garrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft
wol...@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program
Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption
my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993
Monty Solomon <mo...@roscom.com> wrote:
>Take it from me: it's all the same. I don't mean that the plots are
>all the same, or that the outcomes are all the same: I mean it's *all*
>the same. *All* the actors are tall and conservative, and *all* the
>actresses wear tight sweaters, and *all* the problems are solved in 60
>minutes with time out for commercials.
Funny, I don't think I'm paying for anything that matches that
>Take it from me: it's all the same. I don't mean that the plots are
>all the same, or that the outcomes are all the same: I mean it's *all*
>the same. *All* the actors are tall and conservative, and *all* the
>actresses wear tight sweaters, and *all* the problems are solved in 60
>minutes with time out for commercials.
description. In fact, I don't think I've ever watched anything of
that sort in my life.
Different strokes for different folks, you know. That's just about
the only thing the modern "cable TV bundle" has going for it.
-GAWollman
--
Garrett A. Wollman | What intellectual phenomenon can be older, or more oft
wol...@bimajority.org| repeated, than the story of a large research program
Opinions not shared by| that impaled itself upon a false central assumption
my employers. | accepted by all practitioners? - S.J. Gould, 1993
Pete Cresswell
Jan 26, 2015, 10:15:14 PM1/26/15
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Telecom Digest Moderator wrote:
>> Take it from me: it's all the same. I don't mean that the plots are
>> all the same, or that the outcomes are all the same: I mean it's
>> *all* the same. *All* the actors are tall and conservative, and
>> *all* the actresses wear tight sweaters, and *all* the problems are
>> solved in 60 minutes with time out for commercials.
Per Garrett Wollman:
>> Take it from me: it's all the same. I don't mean that the plots are
>> all the same, or that the outcomes are all the same: I mean it's
>> *all* the same. *All* the actors are tall and conservative, and
>> *all* the actresses wear tight sweaters, and *all* the problems are
>> solved in 60 minutes with time out for commercials.
> Funny, I don't think I'm paying for anything that matches that
> description. In fact, I don't think I've ever watched anything of
> that sort in my life.
While I wouldn't take it as far as what I perceive as [the Moderator's]
> description. In fact, I don't think I've ever watched anything of
> that sort in my life.
poetic license, I *would* say that when I go down to the #2 daughter's
house where they have cable my overwhelming impression is that the
stupidity compared to OTA is just multiplied by however more channels
they get.
I'll grant them CSPAN and History Channel and maybe a couple others, but
mostly I think it's just The Vast Wasteland writ larger.
OTOH, I think much of network "News" is flat-out moronic... so I may be
at the edge of the bell curve on that stuff.
- -
Pete Cresswell
***** Moderator's Note *****
Bill Horne
Moderator
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