Quitting Cable

[Ghoulish Delight]

We came very close to dumping cable ourselves. What eventually stopped us was sports. Literally everything else that we watch regularly was available in some form or another by other means, some paid some free all of which would total less than we were paying for cable. But the major sports leagues continue to be expert at protecting their broadcasters' right to exclusivity. So even if I WANTED to pay for another means of seeing live Dodger games, I could not.

You give up a certain level of immediacy and timeliness by dropping cable, but in the age of DVRs that's not much of a sacrifice anymore.

So as long as the numbers add up and there aren't specific live broadcasts that you can't get live elsewhere that you really can't do without, there's very little reason to not drop cable.