In some ways, cable can actually be cheaper — and less of a headache — than going without. For instance, if you watch a lot of different TV shows, your cable bill will be cheaper than using Internet TV to subscribe to the shows you want to watch.
If you quit cable and you and the kids want to watch Internet TV at the same time, good luck.
“Virtually nobody has enough bandwidth to do streaming to more than one device simultaneously,” points out David Wertheimer, CEO and executive director of the Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California. “The ‘cord-cutting’ hype is totally overblown.”