Comments on: Cutting Yourself Off From Cable http://www.cabletechtalk.com/broadband/2009/12/11/cutting-yourself-off-from-cable/ Technology & Telecommunications Policy Discussion Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:14:00 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: CableTechTalk » Blog Archive » Cable TV – Doomed Like Dinosaurs http://www.cabletechtalk.com/broadband/2009/12/11/cutting-yourself-off-from-cable/comment-page-1/#comment-4053 CableTechTalk » Blog Archive » Cable TV – Doomed Like Dinosaurs Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:58:58 +0000 http://www.cabletechtalk.com/?p=728#comment-4053 [...] company has already indicated it is considering moving to a subscription model. And as for iTunes, I recently pointed out on this blog, that you might pay $40 for a season of a single cable program. Fisher buries down in a footnote [...] [...] company has already indicated it is considering moving to a subscription model. And as for iTunes, I recently pointed out on this blog, that you might pay $40 for a season of a single cable program. Fisher buries down in a footnote [...]

]]> By: CableTechTalk » Blog Archive » Lessons from Vegas: The Realities of Online Video http://www.cabletechtalk.com/broadband/2009/12/11/cutting-yourself-off-from-cable/comment-page-1/#comment-3590 CableTechTalk » Blog Archive » Lessons from Vegas: The Realities of Online Video Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:29:52 +0000 http://www.cabletechtalk.com/?p=728#comment-3590 [...] him, because he’s a nice guy, but when I last wrote about cord-cutting in December, he posted this comment: For the most part I agree with the premise of your post, the notion that more than a small [...] [...] him, because he’s a nice guy, but when I last wrote about cord-cutting in December, he posted this comment: For the most part I agree with the premise of your post, the notion that more than a small [...]

]]> By: Ben http://www.cabletechtalk.com/broadband/2009/12/11/cutting-yourself-off-from-cable/comment-page-1/#comment-2912 Ben Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:30:02 +0000 http://www.cabletechtalk.com/?p=728#comment-2912 For the most part I agree with the premise of your post, the notion that more than a small percentage of people will cut the cord and use legit streaming services is just crazy. That being said, I do cancel my cable service in January and don't feel the need to add it back until August. So yes, I pay $50 a month to Verizon to watch ESPN and the NFL Network -- because college and pro football is worth $50 a month to me -- but the rest of the crap on cable can wait. What I mean is that instead I subscribe to Netflix and wait another 5 months for Netflix to mail the first <em>Burn Notice</em> Disc to me. So in other words, Discs and OTA HD have everything I need for much less money. For the most part I agree with the premise of your post, the notion that more than a small percentage of people will cut the cord and use legit streaming services is just crazy.

That being said, I do cancel my cable service in January and don’t feel the need to add it back until August. So yes, I pay $50 a month to Verizon to watch ESPN and the NFL Network — because college and pro football is worth $50 a month to me — but the rest of the crap on cable can wait. What I mean is that instead I subscribe to Netflix and wait another 5 months for Netflix to mail the first Burn Notice Disc to me. So in other words, Discs and OTA HD have everything I need for much less money.

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