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About 800,000 U.S. households have dropped cable, satellite or telco TV in favor of Web-based videos, downloadable shows, mail subscription movie services and even over-the-air antennas to receive digital TV multicasts, a report from the Convergence Consulting Group says.
The report concedes this is only about 1 percent of the U.S. households that connect to entertainment via some sort of cord but suggests that the trend could reach about 1.6 million households by the end of 2011. Of course while the cable TV cord may be sliced, the cord to the cable operator is not. Getting to Web sites requires a broadband connection, and cable and telco lines are the best way to make that connection.
Blogger Marty McPadden is one of those who has dropped his cable and "so far it's worked quite well for me." He said he doesn't miss all the choices cable has to offer, and, apparently is not a sports fan. "If you're a hardcore sports fan, your options are more limited," he pointed out.
For more:
- see this story
- and this blog
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Comments
Posted by Marty McPadden | April 14, 2010 - 1:46pm
Thanks guys for mentioning my blog post and website. So far, my "cutting the cable" experiment has been working out quite well. I expect to up the ante when my 3G iPad arrives later this month. I'll be posting a review at that time. Thanks again for mentioning my post. It quite encouraging to me to keep on producing content. I really appreciate it.
Posted by Rick Yuzzi | April 14, 2010 - 4:39pm
This type of "cord cutting" will be accelerated as more Internet-ready TVs and other devices hit the market that make it easy for a non-technical user to stream content from the Web to their big screen. As you say, though, people will still need a broadband connection from some provider. I wrote about this trend recently here: http://blog.zcorum.com/2010/02/the-changing-face-of-video/
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