I am sure they know it’s coming. I doubt customers are dropping like flies yet, because they are already paying for internet access and it’s not at the tipping point yet.
Thing is, I am quite sure, I am not the only customer that has woken up and realized how little I actually need cable TV.
Of course there are the sticky issues of sports, news and Dexter of course (literally the only reason we paid for Showtime) but that list is going to continue to shrink and you can bet that Comcast, Time Warner and the rest of those clowns don’t want to end up being a low-rent Internet Service Provider. So what to do?
Personally, we just bought a new house and I only wired two rooms for Cable TV. The rest of the house has TVs with Xbox 360s connected via Ethernet. Between Zune, Netflix and our Home Server (and soon Hulu plus) there is no logical reason to be paying for a cable box for those TVs. I am sure the other two will drop soon enough and I’ll be buying a couple more Xboxes.
So where are you? Do you find your use of cable diminishing? Do you already watch Internet based video on your Television? Do you still watch most of it on a laptop or desktop computer? I am curious what everyone’s usage patterns are.
Cable is going to pasture for me pretty soon.