rebecca LANDO

mikehudack:

I canceled my cable a few months ago. I didn’t regret it for a moment… until I wanted to watch the Yankees in the ALCS. Justin suggested I get an antenna. It seemed silly. I got one. Over the air HDTV is fantastic. The picture — and even the sound — is much better than cable’s HDTV. It’s fantastic.

I kind of feel like I upgraded from 720p to 1080p. I didn’t. I just bought a $40 amplified antenna.

We’ve been talking about canceling our cable for over 18 months; it made sense for us from the start, since we have our 42” HDTV hooked up to a Mac Mini anyway, and could watch all our shows for free on Hulu, as if they were ‘real’ TV.

I’d been planning a whole big post in defense of Hulu’s announcement that they’re going to start charging. (for example, I’d rather pay $30/month to Hulu to have all my shows automatically queued, in HD, for download every week with their SD counterparts stored online indefinitely for my personal use and accessible just by logging into Hulu.com, than pay TWC $whatever a month for HD DVR.) But now…

Now that we’re moving - and therefore, canceling our cable plan anyway - it might make sense to just get an OTA antenna for our HDTV. And when Hulu’s pay plans go into effect, maybe supplement with that.

(Basically, FU TWC.)