Cutting Cords


Thanks to higher monthly rates, cable and satellite TV are quickly becoming a thing of the past. If you are obsessed with TV this probably isn't for you. But, by cord cutting many believe that they are saving hundreds of dollars a month. While this is true for some, for many other streaming platforms such as, YoutubeTV, and HuluTV are quickly making prices more expensive than ever. 

If you are going to “cut cords” you could purchase a Fire stick or other streaming sticks to use these services on. The downside for many of these sticks is that they require Wifi to run and after a few months they start to get bogged down by software updates and what not. Just to show how popular “cord cutting” is, nearly 40 million people have canceled Cable and Satellite subscriptions all together. 

On the other hand some cable companies are getting rid of the cable boxes all together. My family has used Comporium -- the only cable company in my city -- for years. Recently they have cut the cord themselves. Getting rid of cable boxes and coaxial cables all together. Rather they are changing their own service over to streaming. In my mind this made little sense. Why would you replace a perfectly good working cable box with an Amazon Fire stick so that all of our regular cable takes place on a streaming platform? Although I couldn't get a good response from the 60 year old man that was teaching me how to use a Fire Stick, he said this was the company's way of changing with the times. For someone like my 70 year old grandmother that lives alone, she will never be able to figure out a Fire Stick. 

Could this become something more common? Although I hope we never go away from cable boxes it now just seems as if it's a matter of time.



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