On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Trevor Tymchuk <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2013/04/08/business-nielsen-ratings.html > > Some people have had it with TV. They've had enough of the 100-plus > channel universe. They don't like timing their lives around network show > schedules. They're tired of $100-plus monthly bills. > > A growing number of them have stopped paying for cable and satellite TV > service, and don't even use an antenna to get free signals over the air. > These people are watching shows and movies on the internet, sometimes via > cellphone connections. Last month, the Nielsen Co. started labelling people > in this group "Zero TV" households, because they fall outside the > traditional definition of a TV home. There are 5 million of these > residences in the U.S., up from 2 million in 2007. > I understand the point about wanting free content (I like free stuff too). I don't get the point about being tired of the 100+ channel universe (doesn't the online universe consist of many more than 100 channels?) or the point about timing their lives around network show schedules (a DVR costs the same as monthly access to Hulu+ or whatever, and frees you entirely from network schedules. I have not worried about what time a television show is scheduled in more than a decade). If you don't mind watching hot new shows a year or so after they first air (I often don't mind that) and don't watch much live sports (I do a lot of that) then I guess you could save money subscribing to Netflix+Amazon+Hulu (I guess that is around $30/month) and then pay for maybe $10/month of shows on I-Tunes to fill things out - you would still be under half of a premium package cable bill. And I know there are ways to watch many of these shows for free. So it makes sense from the perspective of wanting as much as possible for as little as possible. But the rest seems like a smoke screen to me. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
