Business Insider: “You're going to regret ditching cable in 5 years...”

go back to the big bundle which costs them $0.25 per viewer hour and gives them 300 channels to choose from at any time <- This seems like such a weird and creepy unit of measurement. Is that really how they see their product? Indistinguishable viewer-hours where it doesn't matter what's on so long as something's always playing?

My guess is, if this sort of "We're going to squeeze viewers" extraction happens, it'll lead to more people just not watching TV at all, rather than paying more and reminiscing about the good-ol'-days.

What a bunch of nonspecific unfounded hogwash used for fearmongering.

I'm 32 years old. I haven't ever had a cable subscription or equivalent.

I grew up in rural Canada. We had two channels (broadcast) because cable companies wouldn't service our area.

Once I moved out, I could barely afford to buy beer, let alone a cable package. With the internet providing endless amusement, it was a pretty easy choice: the beer won.

Today, I have a netflix account. The cable company is still getting their pound of flesh from me; my internet costs $80 a month. Oh how I miss the days of living downtown, where I could get cheap fibre...

I don't know why anyone would give a damn about having cable TV. It provides very little value for a very high price.

Well I will cry myself to sleep on the big pile of money that I have saved by dumping cable...

I totally will not. I have it now because my wife likes it, but I can't stand commercials in the shows. I'd much rather buy episodes from iTunes or anything really. Cable without ads, I'd pay for that.

I won't. I live in a Comcast monopoly area. "No cable" means "no dealing with Comcast". Lack of aggravation is a feature of cable cutting!

i just got cable after 5 years of just netflix, amazon prime & hulu. thought I'd never go back.

But it's nice having random channels to flip through and find something.

In the end, I've found that I like the additional viewing options and it's now my go to for immediate random watching.

Too often with netflix, amazon prime & hulu it was a pain to figure out what to watch.

However, I only got cable again after getting a better job. No better job, cable would be gone.