Shout Out: ‘Your Guide to Cutting the Cord to Cable TV’

By Brad Tuttle | @bradrtuttle | January 19, 2010 | +

The average digital cable TV bill was about $75 last year. By dropping cable, you’d eliminate $900 a year in bills.

A great post from PBS’s Mark Glaser explains how to cut the cord while still getting your share of entertainment via all sorts of gadgets and services like Netflix and Hulu.

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This is great information and I appreciate how clearly Mark Glasser explains things. We cut our ties to cable 3 years ago and have figured out some IT solutions on our own. Hulu in particular is great, and we have an old-ish projector hooked up to a laptop loaded with our favorite media tools including a dvd player for rented movies. We have more family time, more money and more shared fun than I ever would guess. Mindless TV is evil!

This savings, combined with a lot of other cutbacks, is giving us the chance for an epic journey through Europe. I am blogging the whole process if you want to pop in: http://ourrecessionadventure.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-little-family-is-heading-to-europe.html
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