Is Now The Prime Time To Cancel Your Cable?
With the holidays looming and the credit crunch biting, is now the time to cancel your expensive telegraph subscriptions? afterwards many false starts, now seems to be the time you can seriously use the internet for TV viewing.
No longer do you have to use a laptop or pc in the corner of the room, you can now use your big flatscreen HD TV set . By using hardware and wireless services such as Roku, Boxee, Apple TV and Netflix. You can easily set yourself up and be watching the newest movies and hit Live Internet TV shows directly on your TV.
Cut Your Cable TV
Although millions are already watching television and video pullulates via the Internet, only now is it becoming accessible to everyone. Websites like Hulu show streams and catch up tv from NBC, ABC, and Fox with a viewing figure number of over 40 million every month, this is more viewers than every Time Warner canalize put collectively, including CNN, TBS, and TNT.
You can also by making use of your broadband tie, view the BBC, CNN amongst others. There are services such as Netflix, Amazon TV on indigence, Apple’s iTunes, and the coming Sony Online. There are many online websites where you can watch near hundreds of channels.
The real exciting development that opens internet tv to the mainstream are the new generation of Internet enabled TV sets complete with wireless Wi-Fi reinforced in. These new thingamabob enabled televisions come from all the big manufacturers such as Sony.
When you look at whats available for free, how long can you justify paid that expensive each month cable TV subscription?
Last month it was reported that Apple was looking for out the TV networks just about a subscription based service for tv shows at $30 per month. The idea was to base the subscription service around the iTunes service across a variety of hardware platforms.
iTunes Subscription Service
Analyst of Diffusion pigeonholing, Colin Dixon commented that if Apple comes to a Comcast-owned NBC looking for a content-related deal, he believes “they’ll just say no.”
In other words, this could present a potential scenario where Apple could offer a subscription TV deal lacking one of the four big US networks. And still, there is no batten that CBS, Fox and even ABC are willing to deal.
Through the NBC deal, Comcast will also gain control of a number of prominent cable channels that produce original content, including USA Network, SyFy and Bravo. Content from all three cable networks, along with broadcast NBC, is currently available on iTunes.
But in 2008, the allure of 65 million viewers at iTunes proved too much for NBC Universal to stay away. After a year of absence from iTunes, the network brought its content back.
What are your thoughts on the subject?
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