Is Now The Prime Time To Cancel Your Cable?
With the holidays looming and the credit crunch biting, is now the time to cancel your expensive cable subscriptions? After many false starts, now seems to be the time you can seriously use the internet for TV viewing.
No longer do you have to use a laptop or pc in the corner of the room, you can now use your big flatscreen HD TV set . By using hardware and wireless services such as Roku, Boxee, Apple TV and Netflix. You can easily set yourself up and be watching the latest movies and hit TV shows directly on your TV.
Cut Your Cable TV
Although millions are already watching television and video streams via the Internet, only now is it becoming accessible to everyone. Websites like Hulu show streams and catch up tv from NBC, ABC, and Fox with a viewing figure number of over 40 million every month, this is more viewers than every Time Warner channel put together, including CNN, TBS, and TNT.
You can also by making use of your broadband connection, view the BBC, CNN amongst others. There are services such as Netflix, Amazon TV on demand, Apple’s iTunes, and the coming Sony Online. There are many online websites where you can watch literally hundreds of channels.
If you look around the average house, you will have more and more devices that are internet enabled and capable of streaming tv and video. The next generation games consoles from Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are all internet enabled and ready to stream. Most have services available right now so you can start watching online today. Add to the mix the plethora of set-top boxes such as Roku and AppleTV systems.
The real exciting development that opens internet tv to the mainstream are the new generation of Internet enabled TV sets complete with wireless Wi-Fi built in. These new Widget enabled televisions come from all the big manufacturers such as Sony.
When you look at whats available for free, how long can you justify paying that expensive monthly cable TV subscription?
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So true! I canceled my cable 5 months ago and couldn’t be happier!! I love an extra $60 a month in MY pocket!!!