
The downstream impact of this attrition will be interesting – and in the case of efforts to kill net neutrality, horrifying – to watch, because the carriers for us are what they refuse to be: a dumb pipe. We’re not alone, obviously: more and more people are cutting the cord every year. It’s more the cost: we don’t really see the point of paying almost a hundred dollars a month for hundreds of channels we’ll never watch. It’s not really a question of content, exactly: there are several shows she watches regularly, and I’d love to have Red Sox games in the house.

Neither my wife nor myself had cable when we met, and even as a couple we never bothered to subscribe.


Update: For specific implementation details including recommended hardware and costs, see the follow up post here.
