How to cancel cable TV and still watch your favorite shows. — CancelCable.com
Cable TV alternatives - one year update.
If you're like me you are tired of paying Comcast thousands of dollars a year for 15 good channels and 100+ channels of reality TV, infomercials and other garbage programming. As more media producers put their content online, I think we'll see a shift to watching TV over your internet connection and not the "TV" we think of today.
What is needed is the ability for me to choose my programming without having to pay for all the stuff I don't need. Right now I can almost do this by purchasing content off Apple TV and the iTunes store but they don't have everything I need just yet. Either my wife needs to stop watching reality TV or BRAVO needs to jump into the game. Rather than pay $100/month for TV, I could pay $20-40 for a season of my favorite shows. Add up 20 shows (seasons) and I'm still under $1000 for the year and I'm in control. Add in the fact that I can get 20+ HD channels over the air here in Chicago and I'm good to go.
This isn't for everyone yet. If you are one of the people paying a small fortune for all the movie channels, you can get Netflix, Amazon on Demand or Apple itunes Movies today. Sports fans you are probably stuck for now unless the program is aired on a major network and you get it over the air.
There have been some great hardware advancements in the last year that just need to get put into the right hardware platform and then apply the right software and we're home free - much easier said than done however.
I'm researching software and hardware solutions and I'll post more soon on my findings.
