Most cable quitters find they can get about 95 percent of the TV content they used to watch on cable via the various services below. You won’t need to get all of them but you can mix and match those that will get you what you need.
(Note: Broadcasters recently announced at CES that they would be offering “mobile DTV” so that people could pick up digital broadcast TV on laptops, smartphones and tablets.)īelow is a rundown of some of the more important elements to enjoying TV content via the web. To find out which digital channels you can get over the airwaves, input your location at the AntennaWeb site. Plus, some of the programming includes HD content. Many newer TVs only require an antenna to get local broadcast channels, while older TVs need a converter box, which runs from $40 to $80. In addition to what’s available online, you might be surprised at the quality of over-the-air broadcast channels since the digital switch-over last year. Many shows on pay channels such as HBO don’t appear until much later, and usually must be bought via a service such as iTunes. Next, do a little online research to find out whether those shows appear on the channel’s streaming sites (such as NBC.com, CBS.com, etc.) or on Hulu or YouTube. The first thing to do when cutting the cord is list the shows you watch regularly, and your favorite TV channels. But you’re sure to save a bundle of money. Depending on various living room setups and viewing habits, making the changeover from cable to online TV can be complex and maddening. While past experiments at bringing together the web and TV (such as WebTV) have failed, the recent recession has pushed people to pursue their own convergence projects that enable them to watch web content on their TV. Thanks to the rise of Netflix, Hulu and hardware like the Roku box and Apple TV, cutting the cord to cable TV doesn’t mean cutting yourself off from your favorite shows and channels. households were likely to cancel their pay TV in the third quarter of ’09, and nearly half of households contacted TV providers for discounts or cheaper packages.
Centris found in a separate report ( PDF) that due to the economic meltdown, eight percent of U.S. Unfortunately for the cable TV industry, they’ve picked a bad time to raise their rates. Like other traditional media, TV networks (both cable and broadcast) are being squeezed by lower advertising income, and think they can just keep raising the cable bills indefinitely. Time Warner is planning an upcoming rate hike. demanded carriage fees from Time Warner Cable, and settled before any channels were dropped. The most recent programming dustup happened when News Corp. What’s causing those bills to skyrocket? A lack of competition among cable and satellite providers, and the rising costs of programming.
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