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.
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