I meant to share this story around when Charlotte was born. It’s been sitting in my bookmarks ever since.
Make no mistake: The big cable, satellite, and telco carriers are still sitting pretty with more than 100 million TV subscribers. Nevertheless, a new report claims that more and more viewers are “cutting the cord” in favor of watching their favorite shows via over-the-air antennas (remember those?), Netflix, or the Web.
We don’t have cable and never have. We have a TV we bought in 2004 (a tube!) and a digital converter box. Nothing special. We do get two PBS stations, though, since going digital. Awesome.
We’ve never had cable either and people come in to our house and point and laugh at our TV. But I can trump that. We have a VHS recorder. We have a DVD player for watching movies, but to record things we still use the VHS. I didn’t know how weird that was until I went to buy some more blank video tapes. The kid working there actually didn’t know what I meant by video tapes. Actually. Really. Truly.