It’s given me a great deal of pleasure to
gleefully abandon my cable TV service, canning Time Warner for
greener pastures such as crystal-clear broadcast HDTV, Apple TV, downloads and Vudu without suffering at all. The best news is, it looks like I’m not alone, according to a study by ad agency Mediaedge:cia. “An awful lot of this small sample are pulling the plug on cable television,” says Mediaedge:cia CEO Lee Doyle.
Historically, people with low incomes hang onto cable TV even when they’re nearly broke. Not any more. The study showed that peoples’ priorities have changed with gas, Internet connections and a cell phones ahead of cable TV service in the spend-o-rama pecking order. It’s not surprising, especially since there’s such a plethora of great content available elsewhere. At the same time, cable TV looks grainy compared to the pristine,
less-compressed digital broadcast HDTV signal. Save your money — dump cable!
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06-27-2008, 05:50 PM
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